Our Active Planet

Middle Primary's curiosity is flowing with our new IPC Unit 'Active Planet'. The children are exploring the earth with great intrigue. It is wonderful to see such enthusiasm, so much so that the children are regularly researching at home about our planet and sharing with the class their new found knowledge. Shubhan has made a paper volcano, a paper earthquake and a globe. IIvan spent last weekend working on a volcano and showed the class what happens when a volcano erupts. His experiment was a great success and some of the other children shared information about volcanoes around the world. Thank you for sharing! We have also been locating volcanoes on a large map of the world and learning about latitudes and longitudes and of course learning all about volcanoes and earthquakes. Thursday afternoon we spent at the Nature Museum in Ghent, where the children were able to see many fossils and different types of rocks. They just loved this excursion!

In numeracy there is lots of new learning going on. We have been working on graphs, and are now focusing on measurements and converting minutes to seconds, hours to days etc.

The children continue with their weekly book review and with their twice weekly ´guided reading´ with Miss Ana. There is a significant improvement in Middle Primary´s reading skills, we are so happy about this.

Anika received ´The Headmaster award´ last week as she is a hard working and thorough student. She always makes an effort to do her best and tries to learn from her mistakes. She also has an enquiring mind and is very thoughtful and respectful. Well done Anika, we are very proud of you.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.