English: We have written a letter to Willy Wonka this week in character as Charlie Bucket saying thank you for our visit to the chocolate factory.

We have also done our history lesson through English where we learned about Boudicca and her rebellion against the Roman army. The children wrote some fantastic speeches in character as Boudicca trying to persuade her tribe to join her in fighting the Romans.

Maths: The children have been practising their subtraction skills this week and have moved onto solving missing number problems. The Year 2’s have been solving worded problems linked to this and have been introduced to the pictorial column method. The Year 3 children have been practising the column method when re-grouping is required.

Science: We carried out an investigation this week. We wanted to see if a shadow would change size when we moved the light source further away and how this would affect it.

Art: We are getting close to finishing our Roman helmets! We have painted everything and now they just need to be assembled!

Other highlights of this week include transition day and practising for celebration assembly.

Just to note, the children have not been set any spellings or homework this week. They have been given a copy of the song we are going to sing in celebration assembly to practise at home. We are using an oompa loompa backing track from youtube which can be found here – https://youtu.be/XfUxxQ11EWY

English: The children created their own persuasive poster advertising their chocolate bar for Willy Wonka this week. They used lots of persuasive features such as a slogan, exaggerated adjectives and personalised language. They also wrote a recount of our class trip to Chester.

Maths: We have been revising addition this week. The Year 2 children have been solving puzzles using their mental addition skills and the Year 3’s have been going over the column method for addition. We have also been practising our times tables and have done an arithmetic test.

History: The children spent some time researching what life was like in Britain before the Roman’s invaded – finding out about how the Celts lived, what they wore, what they ate etc.

PE: The children have continued to enjoy their swimming and tennis lessons this week. They Year 2 children have been learning how to play bench ball. Please note, that the last swimming lesson for the Year 3’s is next week. 

Other highlights of this week include sports day and our Class trip to Chester!

Have a great weekend!

English: We have continued learning about persuasive writing this week. The children have been learning how to write exaggerated sentences with powerful adjectives and have been planning their own advert for their chocolate bar design for Willy Wonka’s factory.

Maths: We have continued our work on division this week. The Year 2 children have been dividing by 5 and 10 and have been working mentally to solve a variety of different reasoning problems. The Year 3 children have been learning the bus stop method with remainders and carrying.

Science: The children have been learning about the good and bad things about the sun and how we can protect ourselves from its dangers. They created a poster explaining this.

History: We have done some role play about what it was like for the Celts when the Romans invaded Britain and we then wrote a diary as a Celt explaining what happened and how we felt.

Art: We have started to make the side pieces for our helmet and will attach and paint these next week.

PE: We have continued with our tennis and swimming lessons this week as well as practising for sports day.

Well done Class 3 for another great week!