Howard Junior School

Wow, what another busy week we've had!!

In Maths, we have been working on arrays and how numbers are shown through these. We have been getting used to columns and rows and how these are collections of numbers and counters in different directions.  The children used coloured pencils to colour the groupings of counters and the direction they were gathered in to support their learning. They have also been discussing various reasoning and problem-solving questions throughout the week.

In English, we have been working on our sentence stacking lessons, where we have focused on questions, similes and adjectives to describe the woodland and various creatures. 

In Religious Education, we have been continuing our learning about Hinduism. The children matched up the different Gods or Goddesses that Hindus believe in and drew pictures to represent these.

In Geography, we have been identifying rivers in Europe. We have discussed different facts about these rivers and how rivers sometimes flow through more than one place or even multiple countries.

In Spanish, we began looking at animals and learnt how to say lion, pig, rabbit, horse and duck. 

In PSHE, we looked at our own dreams and goals, identifying what they are and why it is important to have dreams and goals. The children discussed what they wanted to be when they were older and set themselves some challenges for the future.

As we head into the last week of school before Christmas, it has been such a busy one! We have had many wonderful events happening, like our Christmas performances, Christmas parties, and Christmas end of term assembly. 

We have also had an exciting opportunity to attend the Kings Lynn Museum and continue with our learning about the Ancient Egyptians. We played some Ancient Egyptian games, wrote in hieroglyphics, learnt about Ancient myths where we had the opportunity to act these out and created our own Ancient Egyptian sweet. It was a wonderful experience for all.

We also completed our D.T. project where we made our own keyrings. Pupils designed their own keyring, chose felt, designed it and used stitching to sew their keyring together. 

We finished off on the Friday before Christmas with a class party! The children had a Christmas film, and we shared snacks and music and played some games!

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 3/4C!! 

We welcomed the start of Christmas this week in 3/4C. As a class we decorated the classroom and our class tree. The children decorated stockings and began to think about a few ideas for Christmas cards for their families, and we also started to colour our placemats for the Christmas lunch. 

In Maths, we have continued our learning with subtraction, where we have subtracted 3 and 4 digit numbers across a 10 and then looked into numbers across a 100. We have engaged in lots of whiteboard work to solidify this and gain confidence in subtracting!

In English, we have been recapping nouns, adjectives and verbs, and 

In Geography, we examined population density.

In History, we continued looking at the Ancient Egyptians, where we learnt that Howard Carter was an archeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun.

In PSHE, we looked at witnesses to bullying, how people feel when they are bullied, what bullying is and examples of bullying.

In R.E, we continued our learning with Christianity, where we designed a Christmas card for Jesus and used descriptors for Jesus such as; The Saviour of us all, Lord of Love, Prince of Glory.

In Science, we looked at the life cycle of a frog.

In History, we have been continuing our learning about Ancient Egyptians and learning about the life Ancient Egyptian people had depending on whether they were rich or poor.

In English, we have continued our sentence stacking lessons focusing on how to promote a Christmas dessert. The children have been excited and talking about the kinds of desserts they enjoy at home and also the favourites of their family. 

In Geography, we compared different settlements including; towns, cities, villages and hamlets. The children were able to build on the last lessons learning describing what places may or may not have depending on the type of settlement it is. 

In PSHE, we looked at conflict. The children were given a scenario and in groups were asked to come up with ideas on how some issues may be solved and have a happy outcome.

What a week we've had so far! 

In Maths, we have looked at Roman Numerals. The children were excited about writing the numbers in different forms.

We also took part in the Number Confidence Life Assembly through Barclays Life Skills and National Numeracy. Children had questions to answer throughout the assembly and learnt how numbers are used lots in daily life. At the end of the assembly, children received a certificate for taking part.

In English, we have started looking at our next unit of writing, which is focused on a persuasive social media post looking at a Chocolate Yule Log. This week, we have looked at identifying the shapes throughout the text, which are; the photo/caption, hook questions, unique selling point, hard-hitting statistics, price/economics and call to action. We then looked at adverts and discussed the vocabulary used in them. The words the children used to describe the taste, look and smell of the food within the adverts were amazing!

In Science, we looked at the seasonal cycles; Autumn, Winter, Summer and Spring. We discussed how the Earth tilts, the Southern Hemisphere, Northern Hemisphere and the changes that happen throughout the cycles, including the temperature, animals and sunlight. The children labelled the diagram, and then wrote information about each cycle in their books.

In PSHE, we discussed how all families are different but that families have things in common, such as loving one another and caring for one another, and some with siblings. The children were then tasked with drawing their families and writing what their family means to them.

In Art, we looked at Still Life and Form, where we learnt about the Still Life with Peaches and Water Jar in the House of the Stags in Herculaneum. The children really enjoyed learning about the history behind the art and who created it.

In R. E, we looked at our Enquiry Question 'Has Christmas lost its true meaning?' We discussed how Christmas/holidays are celebrated and traditions that happen in families. A common theme and tradition in most households was playing board games with our family and all eating Christmas dinner together.

In Maths, we have been continuing our learning on place value, where we have focused on rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, learning the rules of rounding up or down.

In PSHE, we looked at a letter from Sam, who had never been to school. We discussed why he might be scared to start, the responsible actions and choices we could make to help him and how he might feel once he is settled in. Pupils come up with ideas about our school values, such as diversity and celebrating everyone's differences. Pupils also shared how they would respect him and look after his wellbeing, as well as getting to know him and show him around the school. 

In Art, we decorated our own feathers as part of a project.

In Geography, we looked at a comparison of Kings Lynn and San Francisco and compared the physical features of both places, and how people may travel.  The children identified how King's Lynn is very flat, whereas as San Francisco has steep hills, this is why they use cable cars.

We had a special visit this week from PC James Smith. In year groups, we listened to internet safety tips, and how to stay safe while online. We then had a chance to try on some of his gear!