Our attendance this fortnight is that 15 students are attending 100% of the time. It is an improvement from last week and not unsurprising with the sickness virus going around. Please let myself and the office know of any absences if they arise.

We have started looking at the exploration of the First Fleet in our history and writing lessons. The students have been learning about the conditions in England that led to the 8 month sea journey. We have been imagining the hardships faced by children in this era and the decisions they had to make to survive. We discussed a list of the food the convicts and free people had to eat for long journey and come up with some interesting menus:

• Breakfast: Beef and cheese, hard tack or oatmeal
• Lunch: dried peas, vinegar, beef with vinegar and ships biscuit
• Dinner: salted pork and beef, beef with oatmeal and dried peas, whatever scraps left for the convicts

I think we can all thank the lucky stars we were born in a different time!

We have continued on from looking at measurement in maths to looking at shapes. We have been developing definitions for shapes by looking at their properties like sides, angles and vertices (see below). We also know that shapes can be combined together to make new shapes. We can do this by using our imagination, drawing pictures or using games like the one below.

We have been practising our phonograms every morning . each day we focus on a different phonogram and when we find words with the phonogram in our books, we record it.