The pupils adapted well to this situation and made some great progress. In maths the children have been learning about decimals, and how to add and subtract them - I have been really impressed with how well their understanding grew and grew around this sometimes tricky concept. Year 5 are also smashing their ability to edit their own work for punctuation, and have become pretty adept at using commas, brackets and dashes for parenthesis.

The photos depict my two favourite lessons of the week:

In science, we dropped items of different mass into a cocoa-sprinkled tray of flour to investigate how the weight of an object affects the depth and size of the crater produced. This was a fun lesson, and in general, our hypothesis that heavier objects created deeper craters was proven to be correct. Measuring the depth of the craters in centimeters also helped us consolidate the understanding of decimals that we gleaned in maths.

On Thursday, we were pleased that the morning rain cleared for us to have our PE lesson on the field. We learned the less-than-straightforward technique for the triple-jump (hop, step, jump). We also watched a clip of Jonathon Edwards jump an amazing distance of 18.29m - a world record that still stands nearly 30 years later. We measured out the distance and saw how many jumps we would need to reach that total; for most of us (including me) it was three, four or five!

We are now looking forward to our last week before the half-term break, where we will be back in our classroom and eager to learn even more!