In English, we have been completing our independent writing based on a clip of Tadeo Jones exploring the pyramids.

In Maths, we completed some arithmetic practice. 

In Science, we looked at how seeds disperse.

In Geography, we looked at food from the South-West and how the climate helps farmers to grow their crops.

In History, we looked at the Viking gods and goddesses and create a fact file.

We have had a wonderful, busy week with lots of activities going on.

We have the pleasure of having Rock Kidz back in school sharing a wonderful song all about kindness through music. We also have had a Road Safety Magic show where pupils have identified how to stay safe on the road.

In Maths, we have been looking at the bus stop method to divide numbers using counters to support our learning.

In English, we have been continuing with our sentence stacking lessons where we have focused on noticing, adjectives, adverbs and questions.

In Art, we have been learning about the Bayeux Tapestry, where we have then recreated one of the ships using tissue paper. 

It has been a busy first week back to the term.

In English, we have started our sentence stacking lessons where they have focused on a clip of Tad who is exploring the Ancient Egyptian pyramids. Pupils have had to identify what they have heard and seen using adjectives to describe their writing.

In Maths, we have been focusing on using the column method to multiply 2 digits by 1 digit and 3 digits by 1 digit. Some pupils have explored reasoning and problem-solving questions.

In Art, we have been looking at Anglo-Saxon Art, where we have drawn our own initials, drawn patterns to resemble Anglo-Saxon Art and used paint.

In History, we have continued looking at our unit of work on the Anglo-Saxons, Scots and Vikings, where this week's lesson focused on the Vikings invading Britain.

In Geography, we started a new unit of work based in the South West of England, where pupils had to identify the counties. We looked at some of the World Heritage Sites, the protected coastlines, areas of outstanding beauty and food produced in the South West of England.

In Music, we answered questions based on a piece of music, we learnt the lyrics to a song and practised our singing to the song.

We have had a busy week completing our assessments.

In Maths, we have been continuing our learning with timestables, where we have also completed some reasoning and problem-solving questions to develop and explain our thinking. 

In Art, we have continued our learning about Ancient Egypt, where we have focused on the different Ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. The children then chose a god or goddess to draw, colour and find out facts.

In Geography, we looked at the major rivers in North America, learning about the sources, the mouth of the Mississippi and the Amazon, alongside the importance of these rivers and why they have dams.

In Spanish, we looked at how to say I am and an animal as a full sentence. 

In Guided reading, we continued practising our retrieval and inference skills alongside learning new vocabulary. 

It has been another busy week in 3/4M.

In Maths, we have been focussing on our times tables, learning the 3, 6 and 9s. We have been using counters to support our learning and using arrays to find multiplication and division number sentences.

In English, we have been continuing our sentence stacking lessons where we have been looking at using adjectives, similes and questions to create verses of a poem about a tree.

We had a wonderful day at our Viking workshop where children were able to explore artefacts from this period of time, learn about the culture, what they ate and how they wrote. Children were able to explore clothing and discussed who would wear what depending on the financial status.

In Geography, we continued our learning on rivers, where we looked at rivers in Africa, focusing on the Nile and Niger. The children had to locate these rivers, draw them on a map and write some facts about them.

In Religious Education, we continued our learning about Hinduism by looking at their beliefs.

It has been a very busy first week back with lots of wonderful learning opportunities taking place.

In English, we have started looking at our unit on poetry where we have had to identify the shapes/features of the poem. In groups, children worked together to identify these, and then we discussed shape poems where children listened to a reading of them where they then had to draw the shape of the poem.

In Maths, we have revisited column addition and subtracting. After this, we then moved on to multiplication where we looked at arrays.

In Guided reading, we have been looking at 'Here We Are, up to' where we have answered some retrieval questions and inference questions. 

In Spanish, we have been looking at Los animals where children have been learning how to say horse, pig, duck, rabbit and lion in Spanish alongside learning the spelling.

In Religious Education, we have started our new unit of work where we have looked at Hinduism and discovered key facts about the religion.

In Geography, we have started our unit on rivers where we discovered how a river starts and labelled a river.

In History, we have begun our learning about the Anglo-Saxons, where we looked at how the Anglo-Saxons took over, what they did and labelled the kingdoms created.