English: This week we have continued to look at the features of persuasive writing. The children have been looking at slogans, logos and rhetorical questions and have been challenged to come up with some of their own for a variety of different products as a way of preparing them to create their own for their chocolate bar design. They have also written a description of a holiday destination as a way of trying to persuade me to visit there. They were focusing on using exaggerated adjectives and personal features.
Maths: We have moved onto division this week. The Year 2’s have been focusing on dividing by 2 and have been solving a variety of reasoning problems related to this. The Year 3’s have been learning how to partition two digit numbers to help them divide and then moved onto the simple bus stop method. At the end of the week we discussed remainders and this is something we will continue to focus on next week.
History: The children had great fun this week pretending to be Roman soldiers. They had to march in a Roman soldier formation and create other formations such as ‘the tortoise’ and ‘the wedge’. They have also been learning about Roman shields this week and the significance of the symbols on them.
Art: Our Roman helmets are coming along nicely, the children have done a layer of white paper on them this week so they will be ready to paint next week.
PE: The children have enjoyed their tennis and swimming lessons this week. We have also spent some time practising for sports day.
RE: The children have begun their new topic on creation.
