Friday 28th June

We started This week’s P.S.H.E. lesson as we do each P.S.H.E. lesson, by looking at the Jigsaw Charter (a set of rules outlining how we must behave during P.S.H.E. lessons), trying to get a new best score in our ‘Pass The Ball Game’ (where we’re not allowed to use our hands to pass the ball round everyone in the circle) and using the ‘Calm Me’ script to make ourselves feel calm and ready to learn.

We then moved on to talk about how our actions have consequences and these can be positive or negative. We thought of some examples of some scenarios and what we thought the positive consequences (rewards) or negative consequences (punishments) might be of these. Sitting in a circle, we then discussed (by handing around Jigsaw Jazz as our talking object) whether any of us had and examples of when we’d done the right thing just because we knew it was the right thing to do rather than because we were looking to be rewarded.

In the final part of the lesson we did some acting. We got into groups of 3 and each group was given a scenario to act out. Each group went off to rehearse their scenarios and they were also told to be prepared to act out the consequence, or what they thought the consequence would be, of that scenario as well. We then saw each group’s scenario and had to guess what the scenario was and this would then be revealed by the group reading off their piece of paper. We then had to say what we thought the consequence of that scenario would be before the group acted out what they thought the consequence would be.

Friday 21st June

On Monday we built electric circuits, starting with a simple battery, wires and light bulb circuit and then building up to more complicated ones, but all the while realising that the circuit most be complete in order for electricity to flow around it.

Friday 14th June

On Wednesday of this week, we all rode in a boat along the River Blyth. While on the boat, our tour guide told us many interesting facts about the river and its history. Below are some of those facts with accompanying pictures, plus all of the other pictures from our trip.

In 1953, the river flooded and on the side of The Harbour Inn, there is a line drawn to show the height the floods reached.

The bridge, connecting the Southwold and Walberswick sides of the river, used to be a railway track but is now a walkway.

We learnt about all of the different birds that can be spotted around the river including this little egrit we saw perched on the bank. We also saw some herring gulls, black-headed gulls and a cormorant.

We also learnt that smugglers used to use the river to illegally transport goods to England from other countries. One of these smugglers was called ‘Granny Cox’ and we got to hold her old pistol.