English: The children have been doing work linked to the General Election. They began the week with a reading activity, learning what the General Election is and what some of the parties manifestos were. They then formed their own parties and came up with a name, logo, slogan and manifesto. They used these to create posters and write some speeches for their campaign (please see post below for photos).

Maths: We began the week by revising the grid method for multiplication with some children progressing onto learning the column method for short multiplication. We have now moved on to learning the bus stop method for division, first with no remainders, then with remainders and finally when carrying is involved. We have been so impressed with how well the children have picked this up – well done Class 3!

D&T: The children have begun to  make their packaging – this will be finished off over the next couple of weeks.

Geography: We have started a new geography topic called ‘Settlements’. We have thought about what early settlers would have needed and looked for when deciding on a place to live.

RE: We have finished off our work on ‘salvation’ and will be starting a new topic of ‘creation’ next week.

Other things that the children have done this week include filling out a pupil survey about our school and practising for the Concord College Choir competition next week.

Have a lovely weekend all!

English: As you are aware from previous posts below, the children have had a great week doing some work linked to the borrowers. They have planned, designed and made a house for the Borrowers to live in outside and have written a letter to Arietty to try to persuade her to choose their house to live in. If you haven’t seen the photographs yet, do scroll below to previous posts to see how much the children were enjoying themselves. Next week we will continue to read some more of the Borrowers story and do some independent writing linked to this.

Maths: We have been revising lots of different skills and concepts in maths this week. We began the week by revising our knowledge of how to give directions – linking it to right angles and degrees in a turn. We have also played some games where we have had to apply our column methods. To end the week we have re-visited multiplication. We have gone over how to do a sum such as 40 x 4 by doing 4 x 4 then making our answer 10 times bigger. Next week we will continue with multiplication, going over the grid method and we will be doing some work on the bus stop method for division as well.

Please continue to support your child with learning their times tables as this will help them in our lessons. 

Science: This week we have learned about the water cycle. We have described the different stages and have been using the scientific terms to describe this process.

D&T: The children have been finalising their designs for their packaging which we will hopefully begin creating next week.

Music: The children have continued to learn about singing games, linking it to rhythm and pattern.

PSHE: The children have continued to discuss feelings and how people feel in different situations. They have discussed how to deal with feelings of frustration and disappointment.

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

Have a lovely weekend!