Feels like time is flying past at the moment in Dragonflies: we are so busy with our learning! In our maths we have been focusing on two related areas: shape and direction. We have identified both 2-D and 3-D shapes using their mathematical properties, we have honed our skills in using protractors through measuring and drawing angles accurately and using knowledge of angles on a straight line and around a point; we have been able to calculate missing angles and we have revisited and used our knowledge of coordinates to reflect and translate shapes on a grid.

In English, we have just completed our independent writes, linked to creating a detailed setting description. Our writing is really impressive and we even had a visitor from one of the Rutland schools comment to the children about how impressed she was at the vocabulary choices and sentence structures she had read in our work.

In science we continue our investigations into different life cycles and can now compare those of mammals, birds, insects, amphibians and even plants! Our topic work is taking us deeper into the Shang dynasty, looking at their religious beliefs and how they develop writing based on symbols to reflect whole words instead of single letters and we have then used this to understand how the Shang people asked questions to their ancestors and gods using Oracle bones - which is really lucky for us otherwise we may have never known that the Shang dynasty existed as most of the other evidence has since long been destroyed or lost.

On 10th May, World Lupus Day the children were privileged to have a talk from courageous Ella who shared her perspective of Lupus. Thank you, Ella, for all our purple stickers, ribbons and enamel badges. We wear them with pride and will share our new knowledge with others.

With so much learning happening it seems unbelievable that we have also been able to fit in PE, Computing, RE, Music and Latin in too, but we have! Phew!