Week commencinging 13th October 2025

Dear Families,

This week in English, we have been writing our instructions on how to wash a prehistoric beast. We have been inventive with our equipment lists and have carefully used time conjunctions, adverbs, and imperative verbs to make our writing clear, engaging and easy to follow for our reader.

In maths this week, we've been practising column addition with bridging 10. We're getting used to the process and learning to remember to exchange correctly as well as add our exchange on afterwards to get the right answer. Below is an example of our method.

In PE, we've been learning to pivot in netball. Although it's tricky to apply during a game, we're now much better at stopping with the ball and are improving every session. We really enjoy playing a match.

Week Commencing 6th October

Dear Families,

This week in English, we've been exploring how instructions are structured and the specific language they use. We've used this knowledge to gather different sets of vocabulary like time conjunctions, adverbs and imperative (bossy) verbs that will  support our writing next week, when we will be creating our own set of instructions on how to wash a prehistoric beast of our choosing!

In Maths this week, we have moved on to addition and subtraction. We have been adding 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s, including across boundaries. To support our understanding, we've been using place value counters, Base Ten, and a place value grid. We're developing our awareness of which place value is likely to change, for example, when adding to the ones, we know the ones column and possibly the tens will be affected.

We put on our scientist hats this week to closely observe different animal scat! Using tweezers, we carefully analysed the contents to work out whether the animal was a herbivore, omnivore or carnivore. We then used clues from what we found to try and identify which animal the scat belonged to, some of our guesses were surprisingly accurate!

Week Commencing 22 September 2025

This week in English we have started a new text 'Stone Age Boy'. We are getting to know the book at the moment before writing it in our own words. We enjoyed acting out different scenes from the story.

In maths we are learning to round numbers to ten, one hundered and one thousand. We have found a great song on the internet called the Rounding Song we have also been trying to remember the rounding rhyme to help us. You can help your child by giving them different numbers to round up or down.

In science, we have been learning about tooth decay. We are currently carrying out an 'eggperiment' using different liquids and how they may affect the enamel on our teeth. We also had a go at making our own toothpaste which smelled nice but felt quite grainy.

Week Commencing 1 September 2025

Dear Families,

The children have settled in brilliantly during the first week of term. Their enthusiasm, curiosity, and positive attitude have made for a fantastic start, and it’s clear they are ready and eager to learn.