Year 3
This week the children showed kindness and compassion with their behaviour and kind words when I lost my voice for two days. They have also been working hard!
In English, completing their persuasive writing and editing about marvellous Moulton village and writing sentences using prepositions of time, cause and place. In maths, we began to use the expanded column method to exchange, using dienes to support and learning about what angles are and how we describe them using turns and direction.
In science, we wrote up the findings of our forces investigation and explained why the car travelled furthest along a smooth surface and least along a rough surface due to friction.
In DT, the children designed their cushions. In PSHE, they looked at more ways to pay. In RE, we explored how to make the world a better place. In French, the children learned how to ask and give their age (Quel âge as-tu? J’ai sept/huit ans).
We saw the week out with a review of this half-term’s topic about our local area and some sunshine and singing! Have a lovely weekend. The year 3 team.
Year 4
‘This week, we have been focusing on calculations in Maths and showing great progress with multiple exchanges or when dividing into equal groups.
In English, we’ve been writing our own invent texts around a personal tale called ‘Cloud Busting’. This has really made us thinking about the themes of belonging, friendship and bullying. We are very proud of our writing.
To finish our Titanic topic, we’ve been beginning to create PowerPoint presentations detailing who we believe is responsible for its sinking. Other than this, we’ve built our skills with Samba music ( check out the website for photos), developed our ability to collage and, learnt about the different parts of the World Wide Web.
Finally, we’ve explored mental health as it is National Mental Health Awareness Week.
Do continue to talk to your child about their mental health and overall wellbeing. They will have the school conversations to support their understanding and vocabulary. Thank you for all of the ongoing home learning that you are doing with your child. Have a restful weekend!’
Year 5
We have survived our most challenging week! Even though Y5 weren’t sitting the SATs, they had to donate their classroom and their teacher for most mornings this week! It was nice to be able to go back to all our usual routines this morning! A big thank you to Mrs Marsh and Mr Coldwell for holding the fort so beautifully while I was otherwise occupied.
In English this week we have thought about how Oliver would feel when meeting Bill Sikes. We have watched some of the film for inspiration and have planned out a descriptive scene. We will write these next week. If the writing is as good as the plans, I am in for a treat when I read them! In Maths, we have begun to learn about percentages. We’ve learnt that 100% is the whole and this will change from question to question. We’ve also been introduced to the ‘bubble method’ – a favourite of Mrs Gilmore. This is a way of calculating every percentage you could ever need! It was lovely to see Y6 use the bubble method to great effect this week.
We are still working hard in our swimming sessions. Our confidence is growing, our strokes are being refined, we’re getting better at putting swimming hats on! Congratulations to our first set of children who completed and passed the Gold Award for personal safety this week. We also have someone the instructors have highlighted as being an incredibly natural breast stroker. Watch out Adam Peaty!
Have a great weekend!
Miss Rutter, Mrs Marsh and Mr Coldwell
Year 6
Well done, Year 6 - you did so well with SATs this week - take a well-earned rest over the weekend!
