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!

Last week we had a special visitor in the classroom. PC James Smith came to classes to talk to the children about being safe, about his uniform and about his job role within the community. The children in the class came up with questions to ask him.  This sparked our morning conversation within class about how we stayed safe over the weekend!

In maths, we carried on with our number lines, this time, estimating on them. Children came up to use the main whiteboard and draw lines to show their estimations. 

In History, we looked at the Stonehenge monument, we did a virtual tour looking around the monument. Through this, pupils discovered what it was used for, the types of stones that it was created from and the history behind it. Pupils had to draw their own picture of Stonehenge and label the different stones.

In English, we have been continuing with our sentence stacking lessons based on 'The True Story of the Three Little Pigs'. This week we have focused on creating sentences with similes, using adverbial phrases, adjectives, complex sentences and onomatopoeia.

In Geography, we looked at map scales where pupils had to then use the scale to work out the distance between 2 places on the map. 

In R.E, we continued our learning of Sikhism and developed our knowledge of the Amrit Ceremony and the Guru who created the first celebration and what this celebration entailed.