It was lovely to meet with so many of you at Parent Consultations this week and celebrate your child’s achievements in all areas of their learning. For those parents who were not able to attend, we will be in touch after half-term to arrange a time with you. This week the children have continued […]
Maths Learning Primary Maths Challenge – Bonus Round Division SATs click here for reasoning questions on division RE: The Beatitudes WALT: research the life of a Beatitudes person. Focus on: St Teresa of Calcutta Activity: Read over the Life of St Teresa of Calcutta and record in your own words about her […]
In Year 6, We have continued our learning based on Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide. This week we emulated the author to describe field piskies and used subordinate clause sentence starters to tell our reader about sprites. In maths the children have been improving their long division. Our Geography learning focused on our mapping skills. We […]
We have written letters of apology in English using contractions, conjunctions and expanded noun phrases. In Maths we have used our number bonds to 10 to add two and one digit numbers. We have also been using beadstrings to help us with addition and subtraction. We have enjoyed sharing our habitat home learning with each […]
In English, the children have been learning about non-chronological reports. They have looked at many different non-fiction texts and identified the features. Then they looked at animal books and organised information into subheadings. Next week, they will be writing their own non-chronological reports. In Maths, the children have been learning column subtraction with and without […]
The children, this week, completed some shared writing before planning and writing their final extended narratives based on our class story, ‘The Spider and the Fly. In Maths, they spent the week converting between units of length, mass and capacity before extending that towards converting between units of time. In Computing, the class completed practical […]
This week in Maths, Y5 have been learning how to do short division; in English, the children have started writing narratives with a cyclical structure; in RE, the focus has been on the meaning of the Beatitudes; in Science, we were investigating friction by timing how long a car takes to come to a halt […]
Home learning for this week: Maths Mathletics assignments: · Multi-step addition and subtraction problems · Multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000 SPaG Please complete the assignment set on spag.com: · Direct speech punctuation (A) Reading 5 tests on Readtheory OR a daily updating of your reading record. Spelling Log on to Spelling Shed using your […]
Another busy week has flown by in Year 6. In English we have discovered more creatures from Artur Spiderwick’s Field Guide, and today we read about changelings. These faeries take human children and replace them with their own young. After hearing about their qualities, we began to suspect each other of being changelings and wrote […]
Year 3 have had a busy week of learning. In English, the children planned and wrote an alternative version to the story The Finger Eater. Their writing showed their enjoyment of the story as they were able to use words and phrases that the author had used. This term, we have focused on using adverbs […]
