This week Explorers have started practicing long distance running. We have learnt strategies to help us to be able to jog for a mile or more! In Maths we participated in the Primary Maths Challenge to help develop our problem solving skills. In design and Technology we designed, built, reviewed and improved arch structures, so they could hold weight. We also learnt to make pasta from scratch and a bolognese sauce to go with it. Thank you Donna for all your help with the cooking! We joined a coding workshop which helped us to use the app Scratch to develop our own game using code. Our coding was used to make a shark chase fish to try to win points. We have also been developing our resilience and problems solving by coding using Spike Lego. Following coding instructions to get our robots to move, make noises and light up.

Next Week

Swimming resumes on Monday

Oxford Lieder is coming in to help students to prepare fro their concert at the Sheldonian (7th December 1:15p.m.)

Explorers get to participate in a Shakespeare Workshop run by the Oxford Playhouse on Thursday.

It is anti-bullying and road safety week.

In Maths we will be focusing on improving our calculation, particularly when questions are asked as a word problem. In English we will be exploring Shakespeare and begin to look at scripts and monologues. In Topic, we will continue to develop our understanding of volcanoes and historical volcanic eruptions such as Pompeii.