The House Points Winners for last week are:
Congratulations Phoenixes!
The House Points chart for Ospreys’ currently looks like this:
Unicorns: 2
Griffins: 0
Phoenixes: 5
Dragons: 0
Remember more home-learning and blog engagement earns more house points!
Please add your P4C questions using the above image as stimulus.
A winning question will be chosen later in the week.
Thank you to all the children who have been sending copies/pictures of their home learning to the school. Please continue to do so by using the following email address:
homelearning@pelham.merton.sch.uk
Let’s take a look at Taha’s history project where he has been researching the Viking Social Structure. What do we think of his work? Be constructive!
Thank you Taha for sending this in; you have clearly put a lot of work into this. 🙂
Thank you for your feedback about House points and your enthusiasm for keeping the system alive. We all love a healthy competitive spirit at Pelham! I have decided to award house points to children who engage with their learning through the blog. I will publish house points at the end of every week and keep a running total.
The house with the most house points by the time we return to school will get a special prize at our end of year party!Â
Thank you again Ethan for sending in your Banana Cake Recipe!
Follow my baking journey below:
Getting my ingredients sorted (I didn’t have all the items in Ethan’s recipe but I used my growth mindset/problem solving skills and compromised.)
Baking is fundamentally a science so we must have the correct measuring equipment. I used my digital scales and a precise measuring jug.
Checking Ethan’s recipe on my laptop.
I couldn’t resist sticking my (clean) finger into the mixture for a taste!
I didn’t have any baking parchment so I used tin-foil instead. We know from our Skills-Builders lessons that there are often multiple solutions to a problem.
I was super nervous while my cake was in the oven. I didn’t want a soggy bottom!
Yay! It did rise! (I was worried that it wouldn’t fully rise as I only had plain flour and not self-raising flour like Ethan recommended in his instructions.) You may notice that I left it in the oven for just a fraction too long as it is a little darker than it should be.
I decided to mask this by covering it with drizzle!
The best part was tasting the finished product! I can confirm that it was really delicious!
Thank you for the recipe Ethan. Your instructions were very clear, well written and easy to follow.Â
As with all D&T projects, I evaluated my outcome when finished. I feel that I followed Ethan’s instructions well and was very careful in measuring my ingredients. Although I was proud of my problem solving skills, in the future I would be more prepared and purchase the correct ingredients in advance. I feel that the texture of the cake would be lighter if I had used self-raising flour or more baking powder. I would definitely leave it in the oven for a few minutes less.
Have you guys been applying your D&T skills at home and incorporating your maths and science skills to help you to succeed? Let me know in the comments.Â
Jake’s mum asked me for some Year 6 book recommendations and I remembered these two awesome book lists that I have.
The first is:
ONE HUNDRED BOOKS TO TRY TO READ BEFORE YOU LEAVE YEAR SIX!
How many of these books have you read? Which ones would you highly recommend? Are any on your wish-list?
My second list is a selection of books organised by genre.
Which is your favourite genre? Are there any genres that you read less of and should possibly explore more? Let us know in the comments!
Happy reading! 🙂
Hi everybody,
There appears to be a problem with the Bookscool website at the moment which is frustrating as I know you need to access this to read Skellig online in order to answer your comprehension questions. We don’t know for how long this website will be down for so in the meantime, use that session to focus on your home reading instead. Choose a selection of questions from the Guided Reading question cards and write them and the answers in your home learning books. Please give detailed answers and reference the text where appropriate.
Guided reading question cards fiction
Guided reading question cards non-fiction
Thank you!
Thank you to all the children who have been sending copies/pictures of their home learning to the school. Please continue to do so by using the following email address:
homelearning@pelham.merton.sch.uk
A big thank you to Ethan who has been very busy at home baking and revising his Instructions Writing and has sent in the following recipe that he has written and typed himself:
Well-done Ethan for your motivation and commitment to your learning whilst at home isolating.
See the full recipe by clicking this link:
What features of instruction writing can you spot in Ethan’s recipe?
P.S. I am going to follow Ethan’s recipe today and will post some pics tomorrow.
Wish me luck! 🙂
How exciting that we now have some letters from our penpals for the blog!
If you click on the link below each letter, you can access a PDF which is larger and easier to read. If you have received a letter form your penpal, please reply and send to the home learning email address and Mr Woolton will send it to Madame Sharkey who will in turn forward it to your penpal. Thank you!
To Ariel from Rouse
To Max from Lurshai
To Ilaria from Lilia Gil
Picture Ilaria
Year 5 now have a blog.
Please support and encourage them by commenting and engaging with their learning!
https://pelham-primary-school.j2bloggy.com/Doves/
P.S. THEY HAVE AN IRRELEVANT INFORMATION SECTION 🙂
