Friday 4th July

This week we have made great progress in writing our innovated stories. They are sounding really exciting. We are making them into books like a real author, and hopefully you can have a look at open evening on 10^th July.  We have enjoyed practising our cutting skills in DT using playdough to learn different techniques: the claw, the bridge and the fork.  We will be using these skills when we make our fruit kebab next week. 

On Wednesday we learnt about researching information on the internet and how we know facts are true and reliable. The children had lots of ideas about how images could be faked. 

Friday 27th June 

We are really enjoying our new text - Tadpole's Promise. In English and have been planning a new version of the story and describing new settings  by expanding our sentences with exciting adjectives.  

In Computing we had a lesson on internet safety and enjoyed working with a partner to look at scenarios where we might give or deny permission to share content online; there was lots of discussion and opinions shared. 

Friday 20th June

This week we have embraced 'Sports week' with lots of different sports activities.  Every day this week we have learnt about different sports stars, including Chris Hoy, Serena Williams and Ellie Challis. On Monday we had a go at kick rounders, it was great fun to play as a team and learn a new game.  On Tuesday we learnt how to skip with a skipping rope. It was harder than we thought, but we kept on going and after a fun afternoon, some of us were actually quite good.  We have also enjoyed a Joe Wickes workout and several yoga sessions.  Wednesday was an epic sports day with a fun-filled carousel of team activities in the morning and class races in the afternoon. All the children were amazing and tried so hard in all the races, even in the scorching sun. Thank you to the parents that came to cheer us on. We hope you are proud of us.

Friday 13th June

This week we have been looking at position and direction in Maths. We enjoyed lots of different activities to practise using and understanding directions and position. Why not see if we know our left and right? We have spent a couple of afternoons practising for sports day next week; the hurdles were great fun. On Wednesday we talked about staying safe when posting online and what personal information means. In Science, we have been looking at microhabitats and investigating the type of conditions in them.

Friday 6th May

This week the children have worked hard completing their SATS reading tests during their English lessons. In Maths, they have been recapping telling the time and working out how much time has passed. The children have also started their new DT topic: their design brief for the term is to design a fruit kebab. In the first lesson, the children matched up pictures of fruit and found out where it came from in the world. During their RE lesson, the children learnt what different religions believe about the idea of God. They worked in groups to match up the religion to the belief.

Friday 23rd May

This week we have been comparing lengths of time and plotting out how long we spend doing daily activities in our 24-hour day.  In English, we have become experts at talking about the chicken life cycle and enjoyed using the Chromebooks to create a diagram of the life cycle.  In History we were fascinated to find out about the first moon landing. We wrote news reports using the facts we had learnt.  On Wednesday, we enjoyed using our coding skills to make a mini-movie. They were so good and funny when we discovered we could record our own sound. We are very proud of our final art pieces, which look colourful and bright. In Science, we made eco-friendly plant pots from newspaper and planted sunflower seeds.   Finally, we needed some much-needed quiet time, so we relaxed at the end of the day by reading our reading books and completing reading quizzes.

 

Friday 16th May

 This week we have been looking at explanation texts in English and have started to find out information about the life cycle of a chicken. We learnt lots of new scientific words. We completed our final piece in art and really enjoyed creating our own colourful composition in the African art style. Maths has focused more on telling the time - please seek any opportunity to look at an analogue clock and talk about the minutes and hours; it's been tricky to grasp but we have been working very hard. 

Friday 9th May

This week we have been learning to tell the time. On Tuesday, we played a sorting game to help us recognise quarter past and quarter to. We enjoyed creating geometric patterns inspired by the artist Esther Mahlangu during our Art lesson. We used bright bold contrasting colours and symmetrical patterns. In English, we were authors of our own version of 'Jim and the Beanstalk.' We have used lots of new vocabulary and exciting story language. 

 

Friday 2nd May

This week we have recapped adding 2-digit number by exchanging; we practised using Base Ten as a practical tool during our maths lessons. In English lessons, we have continued to look at the story Jim and the Beanstalk including sequencing the story. We have begun learning about an artist, Esther Mahlangu who paints bright bold shapes and symmetrical patterns. In our lesson we learnt to mix primary colours to make secondary colours and how to make them darker and lighter. On Wednesday we loved tinkering on Scratch Jr to explore creating algorithms to make our character move. The highlight of the week was burning our model houses to see just how quickly the fire spread in 1666 during the Great Fire of London.