Wow, what a week in Year 3! Our feeling of the week was interesting and I think all the children and staff in Year 3 found our learning very interesting this week. Early in the week we investigated which materials make good shadows. We learnt that opaque materials make the best shadows and we were …
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Jan 24 2025
Pizza, sunglasses and using our 4 times table.
We have had an exciting week full of interesting discoveries, in DT we surveyed our classes and discovered that while Amber class prefer pepperoni pizza and ham and pineapple pizza, Vermillion like BBQ chicken! Everyone recorded the data in a tally chart and they drew a graph to show our findings. We also found out …
Dec 19 2024
HAPPY CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS!
Wow, what a lovely busy term we have had in Year 2. There are so many fun things to look back at throughout this term from the visit of Animal Man, raising money to support environmental issues to proudly performing in front of families. Everyone has worked so hard and we hope that you all …
Dec 13 2024
Measuring, meerkats, micro-habitats and merriment!
Christmas has arrived and it is looking particularly festive in the Year 2 classrooms. To continue with the festive theme, we have started to look at Meerkat Christmas. The children will be using the adventures of Sunny to write diary entries. The children’s writing has got better and better as the week has progressed. In …
Dec 06 2024
Shoe box habitats, suffixes and the Salvation Army
This week in English, we have been exploring root words and the -er, -est suffixes in more detail. We learnt rules that involve listening out for long vowel sounds and short vowel sounds in the root word to help us decide if we need to just add the suffix or change something before adding it …
Nov 29 2024
A week of impressive story writing!
This week, in English, we have been changing parts of the familiar story Rapunzel to create our own version i.e. changing Rapunzel into a snake, the tower into a clock tower and the witch into a wizard. We thought carefully about our sentence structures, adding in adjectives to help create noun phrases. We have been …
Nov 25 2024
Sequencing, snakes and strategies!
Our English lessons have been fun this week as we absorbed ourselves in Bethan Woolvin’s version of Rapunzel. We have designed ‘wanted’ posters to find the evil witch, sequenced the story onto a story mountain, created a visual story map and retold the story by using actions. We feel ready to write our own version …
Nov 22 2024
Week 3 = complete
What a busy week! Practise for sharing assemblies are well underway and we look forward to presenting them in a few weeks time. In art we have been looking at landscapes using different media. This week we focused on using charcoal and pastels to created coastal scenes. Lots of creativity going on! Our English suspense …
Nov 15 2024
Rapunzel, regrouping and relaxing in our PJs!
Today has felt like a very cosy type of day and we have all loved wearing our PJs and lounge wear. Thank you for supporting Children in Need. Fairy Tales is the focus in English for the next three weeks. We have started the unit exploring the original version of Rapunzel as well as reading …
Nov 08 2024
Living or dead?
It has been great to see everyone back and eager to learn after the half term break. In Science, we have started the unit Living Things and their Habitats. This week, we identified a specific criteria that allowed us to scientifically identify if something is living, dead or never alive. We now know that for …