English: This week the children have done some creative writing, imagining what it would be like to return home after a long mission in space. All the children were focusing on using descriptive language and conjunctions in their work. The Year 3 children have also continued their learning on paragraphs this week and the Year 2 children have continued their work on conjunctions.

Maths: We have been learning about division this week in Class 3. The children have been solving a variety of different problems using equipment and pictures to help them and some of the Year 3’s have been challenge to use their times table knowledge to help them.

History: This week we have learned about Robert Falcon Scott and his expedition to the South Pole.

Art: The children have been doing some lovely art work on planets again this week.

RE: We have been thinking about how Christian’s remember the nativity story in their own celebrations and have looked at a number of different Christmas Carols and have been looking for parts where they mention the nativity story.

PE: The children have continued their games lessons this week.

Well done Class 3 for another hard working week!

English: We started off the week with some creative writing where the children were imagining they were astronauts travelling into space. We spent some time watching video clips and discussing what it would be like to go to space, ensuring we were using lots of powerful description to explain our experience. We then spent some time improving our work by choosing a sentence we thought we could edit and improve to sound even better.

For the rest of the week the Year 3 children have been learning what paragraphs are and the Year 2 children have been practising using the conjunctions ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘or’ and ‘so’.

Maths: We have continued our work on multiplication and division.

The Year 2 children have been learning how multiplication is commutative, so when you see an array that is 2 x 4 you can also see 4 x 2. We have spent some time recognising this within pictures and practising writing the sums to show what we can see.

The Year 3 children have been learning about multiplication and the related division facts. They have used arrays to help them find these and then towards the end of the week they have been challenged to use their times table knowledge to help them and therefore work mentally.

Science/Art: The children have really enjoyed carrying out our investigation which we started last week. The children completed their wax crayon drawings and this week were told to cover the whole thing with watered down paint to see what happened. They were good at explaining how ‘the wax is waterproof so acts as a barrier to the watered down paint, making it sit on top instead of sinking in. ‘

History: The children were given a scenario to imagine they were explorers going on an expedition. They had to choose the items they would take with them and explain why they had chosen them. This will link into next week’s work on looking at the expeditions of Columbus and Armstrong.

RE: The children have continued with our incarnation unit and have been deepening their understanding of the different characters within the story, the part they played and why they are important.

PE: The children completed their NSPCC challenge this week (photos to follow) and had a football lesson too. Please can children ensure they are collecting sponsorship over the weekend. Thank you!

Well done for another great week Class 3!

English: This week the Year 2’s have been focusing on command sentences. They have learned that these are sentences which tell someone to do something. We have practised saying these, spotting them and writing them.

The Year 3’s have been practising using inverted commas in their writing this week. They have also been thinking about other words they can use for said and applying these to their writing.

Towards the end of the week we started to learn about the coordinating conjunctions ‘and’ ‘but’ and ‘or’ and practised applying these to sentences to join them together.

Maths: The children have continued their work on multiplication this week. The Year 2 children have been practising making arrays with counters, matching pictures of arrays to a written multiplication sum and have begun to draw their own arrays to represent a multiplication problem.

The Year 3 children have revised work on arrays and have begun to apply this to solving different worded problems. They have also been given a wider variety of problem solving activities where they have been expected to explain their answers. We have just moved on today to learning about related multiplication and division facts.

Science/Art: This week we have been learning about waterproof materials through our art work. We have just started the art work this week and will finish it off next week – the children have used wax crayons to create a picture of space and next week they will see what happens when we do the background with watered down paint and cover the whole picture with it…!

RE: We have been revising our understanding of the Christmas Story this week and the children have been reminded of the parts of the story where Joseph has a dream and the part where the wise men come. The children role played the various parts and the rest of the class had to guess the part of the story they were acting out.

History: The children have been learning about Neil Armstrong this week – they have been finding out about his life and learning about why he is famous. This will help us with some very exciting English work next week….

PE: The children have continued with their games lessons this week.

PSHE: The children have been thinking about what makes a good friend.

Well done for working hard this week Class 3!