Week commencing 11th September 2023

Dear Families,

This week in maths, we have been learning to partition numbers up to 10,000. Try giving your child a number and ask them to partition it.

In English, we are writing a non-chronological report on Stone Age beasts. This week we have been identifying the features of non-chronological report and conducting research.

In PE, we have been learning catching and throwing skills to play netball.

Homework this week, is reading comprehension. The children are to complete the activity on Page 2 and return to school no later than Wednesday 20th September. As per our school policy, homework not completed will be done in Golden Time.

Week commencing 5 September 2023

Dear Families,

The children have returned to school this week with lots of energy and enthusiasm. We have been focusing on the Colour Monster and have spoken a lot about our emotions.  In Art the children have been creating their own colours, naming them and assigning them emotion. They had a lot of fun.

In Maths, we are learning about Place Value. Place value is the value of each digit in a number. For example, the 5 in 350 represents 5 tens, or 50; however, the 5 in 5,006 represents 5 thousands, or 5,000. It is important that children understand that while a digit can be the same, its value depends on where it is in the number. We were also reminding ourselves that zero is used as a "placeholder": it shows "there is no number at this place", like this: 602 - This means 6 hundred, no tens, and 2 ones.

In English, we have been learning to infer emotions from what we read; think of ways to keep ourselves calm when we are feeling angry and make our very own colour monster.

This Term in science, we are learning about sound. In our lesson, we conducted a sound survey in and around the school. we visited different places and listened to what we could hear. We then graded the sounds on how loud they were.  We were lucky enough to hear a plane and a helicopter.