Presentation of Projects

It's been another lovely week with lots of exciting activities. In English, we continued rehearsing for our presentation using Talk for Writing techniques. In Phonics we have been learning a number of tricky words. A tricky word is a word that you can't sound out so unfortunately, you just have to remember it! We have practised reading and writing them, played tricky word bingo and completed word searches to help us. At home, please help us to learn the following words: 

I 
Go
Into 
To 
The
Be
We
She
He

In Maths, we have been learning how to add and subtract using a variety of methods including concrete resources, pictorial representations (e.g. Crossing out to subtract) and counting forwards and backwards. We still need to practise this to ensure our methods give us the correct answer in the quickest time. 

We performed brilliantly in the presentation on Friday and did our parents and teachers proud! We can't wait to share our learning with you again next month!

In our Key Stage 2/3 group we worked hard to complete our Greek Myths Newspaper Reports, using  laptops to type up our final drafts as well as adding a headline and pictures. 

In Maths we did some very challenging work, focusing on square numbers and cube numbers, as well as square root and cube root. Despite the difficulty and concentration required for this, the children definitely enjoyed the challenge of solving their various Maths problems. 

We rounded off our Science unit by creating Food Webs, which studies how different animals rely on other animals and organisms for survival. I was so impressed by the teamwork the students displayed in completing these! 

In PE we focused on Basketball, mainly passing, ball control and dribbling. The students had a lot of fun playing a game of tag while simultaneously trying to bounce their basketballs. 

We have recently been playing Kahoot! in class to revise previous learning. The children in the class have been loving it. Feel free to play along at home by visiting the website kahoot.com. 

Finally, let me also congratulate all the children on their fantastic performances at the end of month presentations to parents. The result of many weeks of hard work and enjoyable learning!

Writing strategies

Last week was only a three day week. We continued our learning in all areas of the curriculum and we went on our first trip to the swimming pool! We were very excited to start swimming lessons and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. 

This week, we welcomed three new members to our class: Leah, Eva and Elias. In English, We have been writing a recount about our swimming lesson and using Talk for Writing strategies including pictures and actions to help us recite it. In Maths, we continued learning how to add using pictures to help us and we looked at different ways to subtract. We used concrete resources to subtract then moved on to pictorial representations and we also looked at counting backwards to subtract. In Phonics, we have been learning phase two tricky words: 

The, I, no, go, to, into 

We have also learnt the following sounds: 

s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, o, g, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss  

We learnt about magnets, making predictions and discussing why certain objects were attracted to the magnet. we also discussed how magnets can repel as well as attract. We used words such as: attract, repel, magnet, metal and magnetic. For fun, we created pictures and used paper clips to make kites fly across the page and fish swim. We took them home so please have a look for a magnet in the house so we can show you our 'magic' trick!

The older children revised their knowledge of multiples and prime numbers in Maths via the use of hundred squares. We were able to identify lots of different patterns in multiplication. 

In Literacy we played speaking games to develop our use of time connectives and conjunctions in preparation for our Newspaper Reports. 

In PE we competed in our Olympic Games events whilst developing different techniques in sprinting, jumping and throwing. Congratulations to all the competitors for their various victories! 

And in Art, we took advantage of the Autumn weather by making beautiful underwater collages using leaves and twigs collected from the garden.