English: We began the week by planning all the persuasive language features we were going to include in our advert for our sweet/chocolate product. We have spent the rest of the week creating our poster advert on the laptops – this has been a great opportunity for the children to not only improve their persuasive writing skills but also their computing skills as they have been revising how to insert images, shapes, text boxes etc in their work.

Maths: This week we have revised the column method for addition and subtraction. I have been so impressed with how the children have progressed each day with learning a new step in these methods.In addition, all children have been practising carrying from at least one column, with some children practising it from two columns and then applying it to problems. With subtraction all children have been practising moving a ten into the ones column when you can’t do the sum with some children also learning what to do when you need to take a 10 but there is a 0 in that column. The children have worked so hard on these tricky methods and we are very impressed with their efforts! If you would like to support your child at home I would suggest that practising the column method for subtraction would benefit them most.

Science: This week we completed our water investigation where we have been learning about the processes of evaporation, condensation, melting and freezing.

D&T: The children have begun to design their packaging for their chocolate/sweet product – they will finalise these next week.

Music: The children have enjoyed practising singing games this week, relating it to rhythm and pattern.

PSHE: We have spent time discussing our feelings in different scenarios and how to cope with these feelings when we find it difficult.

RE: We have continued our work on the Easter story, focusing this week on discussing what Christians feel at different parts of the story and what this means for them today.

PE: The children have continued to enjoy their swimming and tennis lessons this week.

Just to let you know, towards the end of next week we will be going over multiplication in maths. Please can you continue to practise times tables with your child at home as this will help them in class. 

Have a lovely weekend!

Today the children have been designing their packaging for their chocolate or sweet product. I showed the children the programme we will be using on purplemash to create our final product and have told them if they want to have a go on it at home to become familiar with it they are very welcome to do so.

The children will need to log in to their personal purplemash account and then type into the search programme ‘nets’. The programme is called ‘2Design and Make’ so children just need to click on this and launch the app when it appears. They can then spend some time exploring and trying out the programme.

I have explained to the children that this is not formal homework, it is just something they can do if they want to. Children will not be disadvantaged if they don’t have a go on it as we will be spending time in class becoming familiar with it too.