Last Friday, we launched our new topic ‘Into Africa’ with a visit from the Iroko Theatre Company. We began the morning by watching a performance and then we participated in two different workshops which helped us with African dancing and how to use our voices to tell African stories.

In English, we are using a story called ‘Flotsam’. It is a wordless book and we have been learning writing techniques, such as writing an effective opening and changing pace, and applying the skills taught to write different parts of the story. We have also being trying to show not tell.

In Maths, we have been using our knowledge of the number and place value to represent numbers in different ways and to also find multiples of 10, 100 and 1000 more or less than any 4 digit number.

In Geography, we have been using an atlas to locate and label the 54 countries in Africa. We have also learned that there are many different landscapes in Africa because there are so many climate diomes which are regions with similar climates. Did you know that it is much cooler on the East coast of Africa, such as Kenya and Uganda.