English: We have continued to use the book ‘Tuesday’ to inspire our writing and have been focusing on recounts this week. The children have been finding out about the features of a recount and have been writing some of their own in the form of a police report.

The Year 2 children have been practising their handwriting, spelling and punctuation in some focused sessions and the year 3 children have been learning about writing in different tenses.

Maths: We have been working with money this week which the children have really enjoyed and have been really good at! We have been identifying coins and notes, adding combinations of coins and notes and been finding different ways to make an amount of money.

Science: We has a visit from Mr Burston this week to help us learn about our bones and muscles. Please see below post for photographs!

RE: The children have been learning about how and why Christians pray.

Geography: The children have spent some time exploring landmarks in London through Google Earth this week.

Well done Class 3 for working hard this week!

We have also welcomed two student teachers from Chester University to our class – Miss McCormick and Miss Roberts – they have sent home a letter introducing themselves.

As part of our geography lesson today, the children were introduced to Google Earth. They were very excited to find out that you can use it to go anywhere you want to in the world and we had a great time exploring some famous landmarks in London. Please feel free to encourage your child to keep exploring Google Earth at home if this is possible. Some other ideas of places the children could find which link to our UK topic could be the other capital cities of the UK or any other cities the children know of or have heard about.

It was lovely to see the children so enthusiastic about their geography learning today!

English: The children have continued their work on the book  ‘Tuesday’ and took part in some role play this week – they worked in partners with one being a police officer investigating what has happened and the other being a witness to the chaos the frogs have been causing!

The children have also continued working on their grammar with the Year 2’s revising areas already covered this year and the Year 3’s learning about the past and present tense.

Maths: The children have continued their work on subtraction this week. They have been demonstrating their understanding through using equipment, representing problems in images and working mentally. They have also spent some time applying their knowledge to problems.

Science: The children have been learning about skeletons this week and have been sorting animals into vertebrates and invertebrates.

PE: The children have continued with their fitness and gym lessons this week.

RE: The children have been introduced to our new topic ‘The Gospel – What is the good news Jesus brings?’ They spent some time learning how Christians believe the good news is being loved by God.

Computing: The children have continued to develop their programming skills through using the programme ‘Scratch’.

Art: The children have begun work on their new topic of landscapes and cityscapes this week and have done some painting for their first lesson.

French: The children were practising the numbers 1-10 this week.

Well done Class 3 for working hard this week!

19.01.18

English: The Year 2 children this week have started their new scheme of work called ‘Read, Write, Inc’ which is something they will be doing every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from now on. This involves daily reading, daily phonic practice and different types of writing activities.They have really enjoyed this so far and have been working very hard!

The Year 3 children have been continuing to learn about prepositions and have moved onto learning about prepositions of time. They have been practising using these within their writing. They also completed a reading activity this week where they were asked to read some information and answer questions about it.

Maths: We have moved onto column addition this week. This has been very practical with the children using base 10 and counters in place value columns to help them add together two 2 digit numbers (year 2) or 2 three digit numbers (year 3). Children who have shown a good understanding of the column method for addition (no re-grouping yet) have been challenged to prove and explain their answers using pictures and verbal explanations and they have also done missing number problems and problem solving activities.

Geography: The children were introduced to our new topic of ‘Our Kingdom’. We did a number of different game type activities to find out what we already know and what we would like to find out. We found out the names of the four countries that make up the UK.

PE: The children continued with their gym lessons this week.

Computing: The children had a revision lesson on scratch this week using the ipads. They will progress onto using the laptop version next week.

The children have not been set homework this week due to next week being a busy week with the Christmas Concert performances. The children are still expected to practice their spellings and do their spelling sentences though.

Well done Class 3 for making a good start to the term!

Dear Parents/Carers,

Attached below is an overview of what Class 3 will be learning about this term. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to pop in and see me.

Thank you,

Miss Barratt

spring CUrriculum Letter