Walking the labyrinth

This week we were able to borrow a labyrinth which the pupils from Uyeasound School on Unst in Shetland made. We used it in Drama and we also explored other ways of using it. We had great fun!

Here we are, acting out scenes from Theseus and the Minotaur. Theseus has killed the minotaur and is making his way out of the labyrinth. Can you see Ariadne and King Minos waiting for him?

Another minotaur is killed after a fight with another Theseus!

Here we are walking the labyrinth.

We walked it to music.

We were all allowed to write our initials beside the labyrinth to show that we had walked it.

Here we are thinking of other ways of using the labyrinth. We think it could be used to have fun, keep healthy, show respect, ask for help, have quiet time, have thinking time - or even for sacrifices.

We used the labyrinth for maths as well - we estimated how long it was and then measured it to see if anyone's estimate was close. Some people got it nearly right.

Here are some of us showing last week's spelling strategy of the week - writing our spelling words in alphabetical order.

This week's spelling strategy of the week is to make a word pyramid by writing the easiest word once at the top, then the next easiest twice below that, then the next 3 times, and so on. It might look a bit like this:

april

large large

giant giant giant

magic magic magic

orange orange orange orange

vegetable vegetable vegetable vegetable vegetable

This is us in art.

Can you guess which person from a Greek myth this is?

In PE we started our Boccia competition. We have already managed to play quite a few matches and the semi-finals will be next week. We really enjoyed it. Mrs MacNab said we have already improved a lot and we can throw the balls a lot more accurately.

Here we are in maths. P3 were still working on time but P4 were doing length. We were estimating whether things like string, scarves and belts were about a metre, longer than a metre or shorter than a metre.

P3 will be starting doing length next week.

We had to measure lots of things - even the classroom and dinner hall.

Some people even practised maths at lunchtime!

This is us doing health. We have been thinking about what helps keep us healthy and this week we thought about healthy bodies and the food we eat and exercise we do. We have started keeping health diaries for a week, and we designed healthy meals. P3 let us play in their healthy cafe too so we served healthy meals to each other.

The Pupil Council had a meeting this week. Here are our representatives reporting back to the class.

Lots of people are looking forward to the Greek food tasting next week - and lots of people aren't because they don't want to try octopus! Mrs MacNab said that they don't have to try everything - they can choose what to try.