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 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. 

In Maths, we have been multiplying using the column method. We have looked at multiplying 2 digits by 1 digit and 3 digits by 1 digit.  

In Science, we looked at how different plants need different things in order to thrive.​

In Geography, we looked at erosion, what it is and how it has caused natural features to occur. 

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.

In English, we completed our independent writing, which focused on writing a poem using an AABB rhyming scheme. Pupils had to use adjectives and smilies to compare.

In Maths, we continued learning various timetables, complete reasoning and problem-solving questions to develop our thinking.

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. 

In Geography, we looked at the importance of the River Indus in modern and past times. We labelled the 5 major rivers in Asia on a map.

In History, we looked at what the Anglo-Saxons believed in and what they did for fun. We discussed what a life of a child was like and how Anglo-Saxons were unable to read or write.

In Science, we completed a Science experiment where we looked at objects that were either translucent, transparent or opaque. 

In Guided reading, we focused a story called Isadora Moon Goes to School. We looked at inference, retrieval and learning new vocabulary based on this text.

In Religious Education, we continued our learning about Hinduism and looked at how Hindus worship, looking inside a Mandir and labelling the things inside of it. We also listened to a story of a young boy who follows Hinduism.

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.

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 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 county or even multiple countries. 

In History, we have been learning about the Picts and Scots, identifying their similarities and differences.

In Science, we have been looking at light, identifying natural and artifical lighting, discussing why people, plants and animals need light.

In PSHE, we looked at our own dreams and goals, identifying what they are and why it is important to have dreams and goals.

In Spanish, we looked at learning 5 more animals, pronouncing and writing the words down.

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.

We have also had an exciting opportunity to attend a 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 started 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. 

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In Science, we completed an assessment piece focussing on the life cycle of a plant where we had to use scientific vocabulary such as germination, seed dispersal and pollination. 

In Geography, we looked at identifying reasons for the location of settlements where children designed their own and gave reasons as to why they had chosen that settlement.

In Maths, we continued looking at addition and subtracting, reminding ourselves how to use the column method and ensuring that we exchange when needed.

In Maths, we have continued our learning with subtraction, where we have subtracted numbers with a different number of digits, looked at complements to 100 and 1000. We have looked at reasoning and problem-solving and discussed how we have reached answers using mathematical vocabulary.

In English, we have been working on grammar concepts, particularly focussing on nouns, adjectives and verbs. We have been identifying nouns, adjectives and verbs in sentences, creating our own sentences and discussing exactly what they are.

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.

We have been continuing our learning in addition and subtraction. This week, our focus has been on subtraction and exchanging. We have also been looking at reasoning and problem-solving questions, to develop our reasoning skills using the think, prepare, discuss and share method. 

In English, we have planned and written our first draft of a persuasive post focussing on promoting a toy. 

In Geography, we have looked at urban and rural areas, deciding on the things that we would find in each of these areas.

In History, we have continued our learning about the Ancient Egyptians, where we have looked at their beliefs and how they believed in various gods and goddesses alongside the afterlife. As well as this, we discussed vocabulary such as mummification.

In Science, we looked at animal migration. We discussed how some animals do not always migrate. Instead, they hibernate. We discussed the reasons as to why animals migrate, including food, warmer places and to reproduce.

We had an inter-house competition where all pupils used their skills in hockey to compete against one another. 

In Art, we used oil pastels to create a drawing of a still-life pear. We discussed shades, tints, for m and how to create a cast shadow.

In Maths, we have been looking at making connections with numbers where pupils have been learning to identify how many ones there are in tens, how many tens there are in hundreds, how many hundreds there are in thousands. We have also started learning how to add by exchanging using the column method.

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. 

In Geography, we compared different settlements including; towns, cities, villages and hamlets.

In PSHE, we looked at conflict and how this can be solved. 

In Music, we continued with the song Love What We Do, where we spoke about the song together, explored its musical style through the style indicators of this music and its performers, and we also used the glockenspiel to practise the song.

In R.E, we looked at symbols and their meanings to Christians. We looked at the stars, candles, holly and other symbols and identified what they represented. We discussed the three wise men, Jesus and where he was born.  In pairs, children worked together to fill in the missing words all about Jesus, where he was born and whose son he was.

In Maths, we have been looking at subtracting 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s across a boundary. We have looked at partitioning numbers, using our knowledge of number bonds to support this.

In Science, we looked at how plants change through the seasonal cycle. We discussed how temperature impacts plants and how some plants are known as dormant.

In Handwriting, we practised our ascending letters.

In History, we started our unit on the Ancient Egyptians where we located where Egypt is and which continent it is on. We also learnt and discussed the importance of the River Nile.

In Geography, we started looking at settlements and the difference between a village and a city.

In Maths, we have looked at Roman Numerals, adding  and subtracting 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s. 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. 

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. The children were then tasked with drawing their families and writing what their family means to them. We also discussed the different things families do for one another, such as helping each other when they need it.

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.

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 and Campbell’s Soup I’ (1968), which was an example of pop art. 

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. 

We have been working hard on creating our draft version of our alternative version of fairytail story where pupils continued with the plot and the wolf escaping jail. Pupils used incredible adjectives to add description to their writing. We then editied and rewrote our story.

In Guided reading, we focused on vocabulary where pupils used dictionaries and thesaruses to find definitions, synonyms and antoyms for words. We also looked at inference skills.

We also revisited rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. 

In Science, History and Geography we completed multiple choice quizzes as part of our assessments and discussed what we had learnt from each of our topics.

In Computing, we have started our learning on e-safety discussing what we should and shouldn't share online. We also discussed how we can stay safe online. In this lessons, children worked in groups to identify vocabulary and the definition for each word including; hacker, social media, virus, attachment and more. Children then completed a poster on online safety. 

In PSHE, we looked at Sam and his feelings. We created mood cards on our whiteboards and discussed how our actions would impact on Sam and what he might be feeling once these actions have taken place.

In Science, we completed an assessment looking at identifying key words that we have used throughout the unit of work and completing a multiple choice quiz.

In Geography, we compared the human features between San Francisco and Kings Lynn. We discussed modes of transport and completed venn diagram of transport that both San Francisco and Kings Lynn use and ones either of them use.

In Religious Education, we discussed clubs and groups that we are part of and designed a symbol of what is important to us.

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

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. Pupils came up with amazing ideas and there were really lovely discussions.

In Geography, we looked at Kings Lynn and San Francisco and compared physical features, where we identified Kings Lynn was flat, and San Francisco is built more on hills. We also compared the temperature and rainfall using graphs to support this. We identified peninsulas, the strait and a bay.

In Science, we looked at how the brain and mouth start the digestive process. We also look at the importance of our teeth and the type of teeth that we have in our mouths. We looked at the different roles of the different types of teeth.

In English, we continued with our sentence stacking lessons, where pupils used adjectives to describe the pigs' eyes and frown. The children also used feelings to describe how the wolf was feeling, knocking on the last pig's door. Children also used thesauruses to find synonyms for said and created dialogue where the pig was feisty and had an angry reply.

In Maths, we have continued with our place value learning, where pupils have looked at comparing numbers using key vocabulary such as greater than, less than and equal to. They also have ordered numbers in ascending and descending order, identifying the meaning of both words.

In Art, we have been printing our flowers, using ink paint. 

In R. E, we continued with our learning on Sikhism, where pupils looked and learnt about the 5K's and linked these to wearing a school uniform. Pupils worked in groups to match the images to the definition of each of the 5 K's.

In PSHE, we looked at rights and responsibilities, where we discussed a scenario and discussed the responsible, irresponsible choices, the rewards and consequences of the actions taken.

In History, we looked at the Stonehenge monument where 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 Guided reading, we have looked at retrieval questions and developed our vocabulary by finding out the word class, dictionary definition, a synonym, an antonym and writing the word in a sentence. We have been developing our skills by using dictionaries and thesauruses. 

In Maths, we have been focussing on using concrete resources to help us understand the concept of 1, 10, 100 or 1000 more or less. We have also worked on our arithmetic skills.

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.

In Science, we looked at the skeletal system, identifying the different bones in our body, understanding the importance of our bodies and how they protect some parts of our bodies.

In Geography, we looked at grid references and how they help us to locate places on a map. We learnt how grid references are sets of numbers but also sometimes they are letters. Pupils learnt that in order to find a grid reference they need to use vertical and horizontal lines.

In English, we have focused our learning on grammar objectives, looking at using an or a correctly, inverted commas, using end punctuation correctly, including full stops, exclamation marks and question marks.

In Science, we looked at involuntary muscles being the muscles that we cannot control, including our heart. We also looked at voluntary muscles, the muscles that we can control. Pupils had to write about what a voluntary and involuntary muscle was and then organise the muscles into either voluntary or involuntary.

In Geography, we looked at what a compass was and how these are used to support navigation. Pupils had to label a compass with all 8 points.

In English, we have been continuing our sentence stacking lessons where we have looked at what the wolf's inner thoughts might be when he realises that he has no sugar. Pupils have had to use complex sentences to show how the wolf was walking to the straw house and repetition in sentences for effect.

In R.E, we have started our learning on the following enquiry question: Does joining the Khalsa make someone a better Sikh?  The pupils discussed clubs they belong to and what it feels like to belong to a group/community. Pupils discussed what they had to do to be part of their chosen club, how they have a sense of belonging and the feelings they felt throughout, such as; proud, happy, excited, respected. Pupils had the opportunity to watch a video where a child went to a martial arts club and shared the feelings she felt before joining and when she had joined. As well as this, the child shared how they represent their club, the uniform they wear and how they feel wearing the uniform.

In Art, pupils learnt about lines and sketches. The pupils had opportunities to use different thickness pencils and create sketches using different lines. Pupils learnt the importance of lines and how they create sketches as well as how these can be created in a range of materials.

In Maths, we have started our unit of learning on place value, recognising the value of digits in numbers and using a place value chart alongside place counters and Base 10.

In English, we have started our unit of writing on 'The True Story of the Three Little Pigs'. In our first lesson, the pupils had to work together in a group to come up with questions to ask the wolf. They wanted to know what had happened, how come the houses had fallen down. The wolf responded with it was an accident, and he had a terrible, powerful sneeze. As we continued with the learning, pupils have created some wonderful sentences where they have used feelings, complex sentences, adjectives, time/place adverbials and have had to remember basic punctuation (capital letters and full stops).

In History, we have started our unit of work on the Stone Age to Iron Age, where we looked at how people lived in Britain during the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ages. Pupils looked at what they ate in these times, the resources they had, and the discoveries made by archeologists.