Welcome all back to the final term of 2019! We finished term 3 with a class sleep over where the children participated in a navigation course around the school, prepared all their own meals (including making dough for pizza and bread) and had the one of the wildest dance parties I’ve ever seen. It was so much fun and an excellent warm up for our upcoming camp in week 5.

This term began with the Art, History and Science of Writing main lesson. The class travelled back in time to discover the origins of writing, also learning about the evolution of paper and the pen. We all made paper for the first time as well as a clay ink-pot. The children have finally been given their fountain pen and it has been wonderful to see such care put in to imitating intricate calligraphy and to watch the children begin to develop their own, unique style of writing.

We have just begun the last fraction main lesson for the year – multiplying and dividing fractions. The class are following the story of “Ewen Hemlock”, the Lumberjack of Fraction Land, as he helps the people of Fraction Land, as well as the animals of the forest he lumbers from.