English – This week’s focus has been on play scripts. The children have been role playing a scene from the book, ‘The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe’, thinking of ways to develop their ideas. Then they looked at the main features of a play script and explored the layout conventions. They used an extract from the chapter and changed the text into a play script and used this as a basis to draft, edit and improve their own ideas.
Maths – They have been focusing on number this week – decimals and fractions. They have used a place value grid to make numbers with up to 2 and 3 decimal places and understanding the value of each digit. Then they have been looking at decimals as fractions, concentrating on more complex decimal numbers (0.96, 0.03, 0.27) and numbers greater than 1. Some children have had a go at recording the numbers in multiple representations, including expanded form and in words.
Science – The children completed an investigation about parachutes and tested a range of materials, size of materials and length of parachute string to find out which key features made the most effective parachute. They had lots of good ideas about gravity and air resistance to support their ideas and findings.
Computing – They have been looking at multimedia and have started exploring multimedia.
Art – They have been looking at structures of a range of buildings.
Everyone made a fantastic effort dressing up for World Book Day and it was wonderful to see all their outfits. Thank you for all your efforts with this. We spent some time looking at and talking about our favourite books which was lovely to hear.
I hope you all have a great weekend and stay safe in the snow!
Mrs Thomas & Mrs Lupton