5.9.16

We enjoyed making our Wesak Lanterns and learning all about the most important Buddhist festival- Troy

We have been finding out a lot about Roald Dahl and we celebrated his 100^th birthday by making him cards- Nicolas

We also completed a Roald Dahl quiz during ICT time using the computer- Hannah

Pupil Comments:

We really enjoy reading James and the Giant Peach and we were very happy to make Roald Dahl Birthday cards, we think he would really like them!

We are learning a lot of new skills in PE like how to hit a ball using a tennis racquet.

12.9.16

We enjoyed learning a bit about Dazzle Ships and we loved designing our own ship

We are working hard in Maths:

As a class we have been working on addition using the Empty Number Line (ENL) and we have also been spending a lot of time revising our 3 and 5 times tables.

Pupils comments:

Learning about the Dazzle Ship was very interesting. We are really looking forward to doing a lot more work on our topic and finding out as much as we can about Dazzle Ships and WW1 and WW2.

Stay tuned….

14.9.16

At Read, Write, Ink this week we did really well mathcing letter sounds to the appropriate letter- Ava

We made super posters to encourgae others to walk to school- Ella

We worked really well on our reading comprehension this week and the whole class was awarded a house point each for working so hard- Luke

Pupil Comments:

I think our French is really improving. We are all able to write the day on the aord eveyr morning. This week were talking about the members in our family and we then got to draw them. I think we could learn even more French! -Shakira

23.9.16

We have been working very hard on our subtraction facts this week

We have been using the empty number line to support our mental strategies when working out subtraction facts

We made amazing Christmas Cards for the Cauliflower Christmas Card challenge- that was really fun!

Pupil Comments:

We now know how to say ‘today is’ in French. In the mornings our teacher chooses somebody to write the day in French on the blackboard. It helps us remember hat we have learnt!

30.9.16

We have really enjoyed learning all about optical illusion when we do our Dazzle Ship. We learnt about Op Art and we have started drawing and designing our own piece of op art- Abi

We have started learning some division in maths. I really enjoy that as I find it more challenging- Josh

I think our cursive is really improving. I can see mine getting better already- Emma

Pupil Comments:

We would love to do more art work based on our Dazzle Ship topic. Learning about optical illusions is really interesting- Josh and Emma

I think we are working towards having good friendships in the class. This week our skill was ‘Working Together’. Maybe we could keep this skill for next week too? Josef