Class 3 have been working hard this week:

English:  We are currently reading the story ‘The Twits’ and are linking lots of grammar and punctuation work to this. This week the children have been learning how to use inverted commas correctly and have been practising this within their work. They have also learned about when to use ‘an’ in a sentence.

Maths: Children have been adding and subtracting in the context of money. We revised our mental subtraction skills and learned how to count on using a number line to subtract.

Science: We carried out an investigation to test the strength of magnets this week. We learned how to record our results accurately and then presented them in a bar chart.

Geography: We continued to learn about counties this week, especially Shropshire. We were finding out about rivers in Shropshire, landmarks, towns and villages as well as famous people who have lived here.

Computing: The children are using an app called videolicious where they are creating a film about the things they love about Bicton School.

PE: The children have continued to practise key skills as well as developing their understanding of the game of hockey.

RE: We have begun to think about what we already know about the Christmas story and the names and importance of key people.

Homework: Your child has been set homework this week, please see post above for details.

Class 3 have been working very hard this week again.

English – We have finished our work on George’s Marvellous Medicine this week and the children were very excited to learn what happened to Grandma in the end! The children really enjoyed discussing their favourite parts and wrote a book review to explain these in more detail. We have also continued to learn about writing sentences with a subordinate clause which the children are becoming much more confident with – hopefully we will be remembering to write these types of sentences in our independent writing after half term!

Maths – We have moved onto learning the column method for subtraction, All children have been practising this with no taking from the next column, whereas some children have just begun to move onto this. We have modelled it with lots of equipment and have worked together. After half term the children will aim to work more independently with this method.

Science – We have learned about magnets this week and have used them to sort materials and describe the qualities of magnetic and non-magnetic materials.

Geography – We have just begun to learn about counties and what a county is. We have focused on Shropshire this week and will continue to learn about the features of our county after half term.

RE – The children have been thinking of lots of ways in which they can be a good neighbour to someone in their day to day lives.

PE – The children have continued to enjoy learning how to play hockey.

Well done Class 3 for all your hard work for this whole half term. I hope you all have a lovely break and I will see you after half term.

Class 3 have been working hard this week!

English: We have continued our work on George’s Marvellous medicine. The children have planned and written a diary entry in character as George. They have also written their own part of the story, imagining what would happen to Grandma if they gave her their medicine which they each created last week. We have looked at conjunctions and adverbs this week and will be having a more in depth focus on conjunctions next week.

Maths: We have been learning mental methods for addition this week. We have revised adding two 2 digit numbers mentally and have learned how to add 10s and 100s to three digit numbers by using our knowledge of place value to help us.

Science: We carried out our investigations which we had planned last week. We were very good at making sure our test was fair and our results were accurate.

RE: We have been thinking about how we can be a good neighbour to each other and have created our own recipes to explain what you will need.

PE: We have continued our gymnastic work and games work this week.

Computing: The children have learned how to log into and use purple mash this week. Please look out for homework being set on this.