We had a lovely start to the week celebrating our grandparents.  It was wonderful to welcome so many special family members into our class and share our learning with them.

In maths we have been learning to tell the time – I have been really impressed with the children’s focus during this topic. Please encourage the children over the holidays to read the time and estimate how long journeys or tasks might take.

We have been inspired by our art lessons to start planning non chronological reports in English about dragons – what imaginations the children have! In science we have been learning about flowering plants. It was brilliant to see so many children walk to school on Tuesday in their ‘happy shoes’ – well done Year 3.

Spirituality week has given the children to reflect and say thank you for the love of their families. The children really enjoyed taking part in the prayer stations with year 6 and writing prayers with their parents in class at celebration morning.

Home learning

There will not be any formal home learning set across the school for the break but please practise your timetables (4, 5, 8, 9, 12 depending on your child’s targets) read and practise your spellings.

Here are the class spellings for the next 4 weeks (please read from left to right)

Have a restful break,

Miss Pringle

This week we have been learning about The Ascension – the children sang beautifully at Church on Thursday and those who had made their Holy Communion were very excited to receive the body and blood of Jesus again during the Mass.

In science we have been learning about our organs and what they do. We have made life size, ‘working’ models.

We made the most of the sunshine in our maths lesson, where we tested our measuring skills by taking hourly measurements of our shadows! After rounding our measurements to the nearest 10 we plotted them on a graph. These lessons also sparked lots of discussions about the movement of the sun – which was great!

We have had another great week in Year 1! In maths we have been learning about measures and engaged with a range of measuring equiment. In English we focused on the story ‘The tiger who came to tea’. The children adapted the story to include new characters and story events. They are now confident with using adjectives, question marks and exclamation marks in their stories. Next week, they will be writing their final piece for our classroom display. In science they planted beans and carried out an investigation to see which bean will grow in different conditions where they will be observing over time. On Friday, to celebrate the royal wedding, the children wore suits and princesses outfits. They enjoyed a special treat; ice-cream! I wonder who ate the chocolate ones?