This week has been assessment week, but we also wanted to share some of the strategies we've been practising over the past few weeks to help us with our learning.

Miss Pritchard taught us how to make a “chocolate bar” to collect key pieces of knowledge. We’ve been filling it with information we know, such as facts about the plague and the different coins and notes we use in money work.

In English, we have been reading poems by Elli Woollard from her collection Perfectly Peculiar Pets. We explored lots of unusual animals laid out on the tables and moved around the room collecting adjectives, verbs, and alliterative words to describe them. The children enjoyed building creative word banks to help inspire their own poetry.

In maths, we took part in a team competition with different layers of money questions. We worked together to solve as many as we could, using our reasoning strategies to help us. We also enjoyed a “rounders” style activity, moving around the room and suggesting different ways to make specific amounts of money.

As part of our history learning, we have been collaborating to create timelines showing the main events of the plague arriving in Eyam. We discussed the order of events and used our knowledge to build accurate, detailed timelines together.

It has been a busy and productive few weeks, and we’re proud of the strategies we’ve been developing to support our learning.