Autumn 2, Week 1

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We have had a busy week, learning about and planning our our Willow Pattern fables in English. We have also completed online adverb activities using spag.com and explored when to use the words a or an. The children all did very well in their adverb spelling tests – thank you for supporting their learning at home.

In maths we have been estimating and exploring measurement and mass. We have been working hard to read and interpret scales. Next week, we will be regrouping using cherry models to add and subtract. Please click on the link below to see and example of the activities we will be doing.

year 3 maths

Year 5 visited us on Thursday to discuss parliament and the snap election that is taking place in December – next week we will be making information posters to share with year 5.

In science we have made our our fossils, using shells and clay. We also investigated how fossils are formed.

During art, we have learnt to use water colours and created remembrance day collages.

Home learning:

Mathletics and spag.com activities have been set.

Please read and sign reading records.

spelling: creating adverbs using the suffix ly. When the root word ends in y we change it to an i and add ly e.g. happy becomes happily

happily, angrily, lazily, easily, busily, greedily, messily, wearily, cheekily, clumsily.

 

Autumn 1, Week 7

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What a week!

We have been learning about India as part of one world week, which has been amazing. The children have located continents, countries and oceans using various types of maps and have also identified physical and human characteristics in both India and the UK.

They have developed their chopping and weighing skills and baked some healthy onion bhajis, which were a real hit! As part of our RE focus this week, the children learnt about Mother Teresa and her wonderful work with the people of Calcutta and have also examined the similarities and differences between Diwali and Christmas.

During our PE lessons, we played the popular Indian invasion games Kabaddi and Hockey, which the children enjoyed.

It has been wonderful to see the children so enthused about learning and share their experiences, special clothing or Indian home learning with each other.

Our Stone Age experience on Thursday was AMAZING! We were visited by two Paleolithic Age people, Mema and Twig, who set up their Stone Age camp in the school field! Throughout the day the children were taught about the different stages of The Stone Age. They learnt how to make a fire using sticks and had the opportunity to gut and cook fish. Making clothing was a particular highlight as was  making string from horseradish stems, that could be used to make fishing nets.  Mema and Twig even joined us for lunch!

Autumn 1, Week 6

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Firstly, I would like to congratulate all of Y3 on leading the assembly this morning about the extraordinary month of mission, you were fantastic!

They have worked very hard this week to master rounding and estimating 2 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100 in maths. Next week we will be focusing on counting in 3s.

In English, the children have also been busy writing their final non-chronological reports about Joan Procter, well done, they are brilliant.

In art we have created Autumnal collages and used water colours to paint snakes.

During One World Week (next week) we are focusing on India – a whole school email has been sent out regarding this – if you have any pictures, artifacts or books about this country that your child might like to share please bring them in on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

Home Learning:

One World Week:

Please research the country India and create either an information poster, picture, painting or PowerPoint. Please ensure any handwriting is completed in a handwriting pencil.

No mathletics or spag.com activities have been set, due to the world world week home learning focus but please visit mathletics or hit the button and revise the 3 times tables.

Next weeks spelling lessons and test will be based around the revision and testing of this half terms spelling already learnt.

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Pringle

Autumn 1, Week 6

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This week we had a special visitor – Beardy – Alfie’s beaded dragon! We learnt that he loves spinach, crickets and sun bathing under his heat lamp. Thank you Alfie for teaching us about your wonderful cold blooded pet.

Mrs McNamara, has taught us to play hot cross bun on the recorder and we had an act of worship lead by Y6 based on the Wednesday word theme; being thankful.

We have been learning to round 2 and 3-digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100 in maths, please practise this with your child at home.

In P.E. we have been developing our invasion game knowledge and skills to create our own games. This afternoon, we had the pleasure of using the new KS2 climbing frame, which was great fun! Thank you FOPPS.

Home Learning

Spelling: berry, bury, brake, break, ball, bawl, fair, fare, meet, meat.

Mathletics – Place value test.

Spag.com – verb tenses

 

Autumn 1, Week 5

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This week has been action packed. We started the week with a skipping workshop, where we learnt difficult individual and paired skipping techniques. The playground has been full of ropes this week – don’t forget to bring your ropes in next week.

Later in the week we were visited by a reptile roadshow, where we met and learnt about different snakes, lizards and bearded dragons. This really brought our class book, Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor to life. Did you know that reptiles smell with their tongues and that snakes have hundreds of ribs!?

In science this week we have been testing the permeability of rocks. The children made careful observations and recorded their findings.

Your RE home learning was wonderful, well done. I have enjoyed learning which Bible stories are the children’s favourites. We have started to learn about Psalms this week.

Home learning:

Spelling – homophones and near homophones.

here, hear, heel, heal, main, mane, mail, male, knot, not.

Please discuss the meaning of these words.

Science:

Research Mary Anning and create an A4 learning poster to share with the class on Wednesday during science. This website is useful

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd8fv9q/articles/zf6vb82

Maths: Next week we are moving on to estimation and rounding. To support this learning please follow the link below and complete the estimation and rounding tasks M1 – M5.

https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-3

Reading: Please read for 10 minutes daily and ensure records are signed.

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Pringle

 

Summer 2 Week 6

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Congratulations to all the children for their efforts on sports day and thank you for coming along to support and enjoy a picnic with us on the day.

We have been busy in the vegetable gardens this week, harvesting our potatoes and onions. They were delicious!

There will not be any more home learning set this year but please note that reading scheme and library books must be returned next week.

Miss Pringle

Summer 2 Week 5

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We have been keen gardeners this week, ensuring our potatoes and sunflowers are watered and weeded. We have also created Bible Story Boxes in D&t and used them to retell the parable of the Good Samaritan. Sadly we said goodbye to Miss Rolle on Wednesday but we wish her well in her first teaching post this September.

No home learning has been set across the school this week – we hope you enjoy the Strawberry Fayre.

Summer 2, Week 4

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This week has been full of investigations, starting with two detectives visiting our school to help us investigate and solve a crime. We learnt how to take and analyse fingerprints. We also learnt about graphology (handwriting analysis) and that the police have the sole of every shoe made in the UK. The class worked brilliantly together and used the evidence to successfully convict Mrs McNamara!

We have also estimated and  investigated weight – converting grams and kilograms. In science we have been learning about our skeleton and muscles. Today we made predictions about the relationship between our height and the distance we can jump,we then investigated this and will be analyzing the results on a graph next week.

Thank you for the junk modelling materials, we will start our models next week so please keep sending the donations coming in.

We are also enjoying reading to reception and are looking forward to planting our sunflower seeds in our class garden.

Home Learning:

spelling – experience, famous, favourite, guard, guide, height, imagine, knowledge, library, material, medicine, mention.

Reading – Please read with your child and ask them to write their own reflections about what they have read in their reading records.

Maths – We are ng about grams and kilograms at the moment and it would be great if you could estimate, weigh or cook with your child to apply these skills.

 

 

Summer 2 Week 3

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This week the children have written and illustrated wonderful poems about The Iron Man.

We have explored food types and how to keep healthy in Science and in Topic we have learnt about and created our own Egyptian Cartouche’s.

The children have also been learning what it means to be virtuous in RE and have carried out good deeds in other classes, including reading to reception and making book marks for everyone in year 4.

It was lovely to see so many people at the Adoration Mass on Friday, the children were very reverent.

Next week we will be making models and collages of The Iron Man – if possible please could your child bring in a cardboard box or tube as well as some newspaper. Thank you in advance.

Have a restful weekend,

Miss Pringle

 

Home Learning:

Spelling – Homophones

heel, heal, he’ll, pane, pain, reign, rain, rein, plain, plane, grown, groan.

Reading 

Please hear your child read and sign their reading records.

Spag.com 

Please complete the task set online by Wednesday

 

 

Summer 2 Week 2

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It was wonderful to see so many of you at our Thanks Giving Mass and at the Potters Bar Carnival. The children lead the Mass beautifully and looked great in their NHS costumes.

We have focused on calculating the perimeter of shapes in maths this week and in English we have been reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Next week we will be writing poems about The Iron Man using adjectives and similes.

Home Learning: 

Mathletics activities have been set on measurement.

Science :

Sleep survey made by Y6 sent home today.

Spelling:

actual, actually, accident, accidentally, business, caught, centre, century, certain, certainly, circle, disappear