English: The children created their own persuasive poster advertising their chocolate bar for Willy Wonka this week. They used lots of persuasive features such as a slogan, exaggerated adjectives and personalised language. They also wrote a recount of our class trip to Chester.

Maths: We have been revising addition this week. The Year 2 children have been solving puzzles using their mental addition skills and the Year 3’s have been going over the column method for addition. We have also been practising our times tables and have done an arithmetic test.

History: The children spent some time researching what life was like in Britain before the Roman’s invaded – finding out about how the Celts lived, what they wore, what they ate etc.

PE: The children have continued to enjoy their swimming and tennis lessons this week. They Year 2 children have been learning how to play bench ball. Please note, that the last swimming lesson for the Year 3’s is next week. 

Other highlights of this week include sports day and our Class trip to Chester!

Have a great weekend!

English: We have continued learning about persuasive writing this week. The children have been learning how to write exaggerated sentences with powerful adjectives and have been planning their own advert for their chocolate bar design for Willy Wonka’s factory.

Maths: We have continued our work on division this week. The Year 2 children have been dividing by 5 and 10 and have been working mentally to solve a variety of different reasoning problems. The Year 3 children have been learning the bus stop method with remainders and carrying.

Science: The children have been learning about the good and bad things about the sun and how we can protect ourselves from its dangers. They created a poster explaining this.

History: We have done some role play about what it was like for the Celts when the Romans invaded Britain and we then wrote a diary as a Celt explaining what happened and how we felt.

Art: We have started to make the side pieces for our helmet and will attach and paint these next week.

PE: We have continued with our tennis and swimming lessons this week as well as practising for sports day.

Well done Class 3 for another great week!

English: This week we have continued to look at the features of persuasive writing. The children have been looking at slogans, logos and rhetorical questions and have been challenged to come up with some of their own for a variety of different products as a way of preparing them to create their own for their chocolate bar design. They have also written a description of a holiday destination as a way of trying to persuade me to visit there. They were focusing on using exaggerated adjectives and personal features.

Maths: We have moved onto division this week. The Year 2’s have been focusing on dividing by 2 and have been solving a variety of reasoning problems related to this. The Year 3’s have been learning how to partition two digit numbers to help them divide and then moved onto the simple bus stop method. At the end of the week we discussed remainders and this is something we will continue to focus on next week.

History: The children had great fun this week pretending to be Roman soldiers. They had to march in a Roman soldier formation and create other formations such as ‘the tortoise’ and ‘the wedge’. They have also been learning about Roman shields this week and the significance of the symbols on them.

Art: Our Roman helmets are coming along nicely, the children have done a layer of white paper on them this week so they will be ready to paint next week.

PE: The children have enjoyed their tennis and swimming lessons this week. We have also spent some time practising for sports day.

RE: The children have begun their new topic on creation.