Perfect Penguins- Autumn 2 Week 4

Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 10:31am

Maths
This week in Maths, we have been looking at place value and decimals. At the start of the week, we looked at rounding decimals, looking at whether the number ends in a 5 or more and rounding this up, or 4 or less and rounding this down. At the end of the week we have been testing all of our fluency skills.

English
In English this week, we have started our new unit learning how to write a setting description. We are going to be writing this for the author Mark Haddon, who wrote the book ’The Sea of Tranquillity’ that we will read next week. After looking at the features of a Setting Description, we looked in detail at what similes were and also how we can use expanded noun phrases properly. Penguins have loved listening to this similes song today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89iv4Y2Ulh8

Other Subjects

This week in Topic, we started our new mini project ‘Forces and Mechanisms’. We had a wonderful morning on Thursday exploring Friction, Air Resistance and Water Resistance. Penguins really enjoyed the friction experiment: they had to work out which surface make the most and the least friction for the toy car and found out that carpet had the most friction as the car was slower and the tile had the least amount of friction.

Penguins Achievements!

Star of the Week: Morgan- for trying  her best in all lessons and using super scientific vocabulary in Science lessons.

Star Writer: Olivia- for a beautifully written non-chronological report all about Space.  

Class Attendance: 90%

Thank you Perfect Penguins for another amazing week!