Well, what a busy week!

On Monday, the children worked alongside the Reception Class and designed their own religious artefacts.  They worked fabulously together and were very proud of the designs they created.

As our focus has been St Paul VI, the children have been doing a lot of work based on his life.  The children wrote up their lovely Pope Paul VI prayers and they will be added to a special class prayer book.

In Maths the children carried out a number investigation using their number skills with competence.  They had such fun doing it.

Today we have been celebrating the canonization of Pope Paul VI and the day began with a special assembly in which all the children, teachers and parents were presented with St Paul VI prayer cards.  Afterwards, we joined the rest of the school in the large playground, where we had some juice and chocolate!

This afternoon, we witnessed the release of a dozen doves and flew our flags with pride.  The children created their own ‘peace’ flags.

Next week is One World Week and we will be looking at the USA.  The children have their home learning in their books.

There will be Homework Club for anyone who needs it.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McNamara and Ms Varga

Year 3 have been working hard to edit and improve their Stone Age adventure stories. Next week, they will be sharing them with each other and Y4. In maths they have been rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 as well as using their adding skills in PE.

During topic we’ve investigated how archaeologists identify prehistoric skeletons and how male and female skeletons differ and in Science we are looking closely at soil and its properties. We have also used our mapping skills to locate some of the Stone Age archaeologist sites in Sussex and Kent.

We have really enjoyed learning about Pope Paul VI and how someone becomes a saint. His canonization this weekend, along with Oscar Romero’s is a very special time for our Church and school community.

Home learning:

Spelling : Homophones (week 5) please find an electronic copy of these spellings under the resources section on our class page.

RE : The children have been given a sheet, which asks them to write a prayer to Saint Paul VI.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

This week, we have been preparing for the canonisation of Pope Paul VI by learning about his life and what steps are involved in being declared a saint. We have also begun creating portraits of him and will complete these on Monday.

We combined our history and geography skills this week to read OS maps and locate places in Hertfordshire with Saxon names to see where they settled.

In maths, we have been learning Roman numerals up to M and using them in different combinations to create different dates. We also investigated which years would have more numerals than others and explained why.

Unfortunately, there were some photocopier issues this week. This means I was unable to print out a breakdown of the home learning. There is a whole school task provided to write a prayer to St Paul VI. Sheets for this were given with the home learning folders. Weekly spelling sentences should be completed as usual.

I have signed the children up to another site that provides maths learning by using games. They have the password for this in their home learning books. This is not compulsory part of home learning but a dojo prize will be awarded every Friday for the top 3 players! 20 mins on readtheory.org  should also be completed this week.

Have a great weekend

This week’s home learning (due Tuesday 16^th October) is as follows: