Year 3
It’s been another busy week in Year 3 and the children will need a good rest over the weekend, as we still have four weeks to go!
Thank you for supporting the children at home. We are seeing more home learning being completed and, consequently, notable progress in reading book bands, times tables and maths targets. We came third in star reader this week – another improvement!
The children have taken home a copy of their current times tables sheet in their reading records. This sheet is completed in one minute, three times a week in school. Any practise you can do to support the children to increase speed and accuracy would be fantastic!
In English, the volume of writing has stepped up, with the children imitating and innovating a non-chronological report about tigers and elephants respectively in fairly quick succession. We also read an extract as a whole class from The Wild Way Home (our class reader) and answered comprehension questions based on the text. Our maths topic is multiplication and division. This week has focussed on the 3 and 4 times tables. We have also discussed what multiples are (the product of two whole numbers), what the product is (e.g., the product of 5 and 3 is 15) and what the dividend and divisor are in a division number sentence.
The children drew some delightful foxes, using charcoal, in the prehistoric style in Art. They explained the process of fossilisation in detail in science and described how Stone Age shelters changed through the three periods (Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic).
Miss Rutter made a guest appearance to teach PE – she would like to see the children improve their listening and participation in this area. Miss Spinks reports that the children made some great contributions when creating a soundscape for an animation. Mrs Chittock explored how Muslims obey Allah, including through the Adhan (call to prayer), and we finished the week focussing on memorisation techniques for the names of animals in French.
Have a super weekend!
The Year 3 Team
Year 4
Well we can tell we are creeping towards C*********s, with the cold weather too the children have been very excitable (already!).
In our learning this week;-
English - we have picture mapped and added actions to our text and written a character description with lots of great description.
Maths - Continuing with multiplication and division using 7 and 9 times tables and perimeter work with Mrs Harper.
Topic - we started to look at King Alfred, Alfred the Great. We looked at his family tree and talked why there had been so many kings in such a short period of time.
Computing - the children designed a house using SketchUp.
Music - The children perfected then performed to one another the music they had been working on 'Walking the Bass'. They have done a great job.
DT - The children were planning their book/tablet sleeve.
RE - This week we were talking about The Prophet Muhammed and why he was called the 'seal'.
It was lovely seeing some of you on Tuesday evening at Parent's evening.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Chittock and the team
Year 5
We won Bookster again! I think there have only been 3 weeks so far this year we haven't won which is quite the record.
In English this week, we have been looking at a letter Tostig Godwinson wrote to his big brother to let him know how angry he was about his exile. We read it carefully, really focusing on the letter's tone and inferring things that are hidden between the lines..... In Maths, we have been learning how to short multiply and we have been brilliant. It's been great for this children to see how they can use their times table knowledge.
In History, we arrived at the first battle of 1066 - The Battle of Fulford Gate. This was the battle between Harald Hardrada, Tostig Godwinson and the Northern Earls, Edwin and Morcar. It was a resounding win for the Viking forces, but this isn't the end of the story. In Science, we conducted an experiment testing the absorbency of different materials. Next week, we will tweak our independent variable and have another go at this experiment. In Computing, the children used the laptops to create their pixel picture that they designed last week. They looked really good!
Next Friday, our JRSOs are holding a cake sale. We would love it if you could support us by baking or supplying a cake for them to sell back to you!
Have a super weekend,
Miss Rutter, Mrs Marsh and Mrs Nichols
Year 6
It's been another productive week in Year 6.
In maths, we have been consolidating our understanding of adding and subtracting fractions, including really challenging ourselves with converting fractions and trying really tricky reasons problems.
In English, we are imitating our new text: flashbacks, and we have been revising our understanding of compound sentences, as well as learning and revising new sentence types. We have also been revising the spelling patterns cial andtial and ~ous suffixes. On Spelling Shed, the children have been set prefixes spellings to practise.
In RE, we have been learning about what Tawhid means to Muslims.
In PSHE, we have continued to think about what mental health means and how sometimes, our problems are too big to deal with alone.
In history, we were learning about Chamberlain's appeasement policy and whether or not the children thought that this was a good idea.
Home learning this week is a grammar task and a maths task: the maths task is a consolidation of this week's learning. Both tasks should not take in excess of an hour combined.
Nuala Gilmore
