Spellings - homophone, telephone, phonics ,microphone ,megaphone, sign ,signature, assign, design, signal who’s (who is or who has)

TT Rockstars and 2Type of Purplemash

Tallk homework - tell your family or carers about maps and how the compass and the 'key' helps to understand a map.

We have been learning about tenths in Maths and how to write this as decimal as well as a fraction.

In History, we looked at the timeline of Ancient Benin and what was happening in Britain during this time.

We had a fabulous Friday afternoon as we celebrated the King's coronation by singing both the Coronation song and National Anthem; there was dancing from the Reception and Year 2 classes whilst the rest of the year groups had stalls painting rocks, decorating crowns and painting faces.

Have a lovely, long restful weekend.

Talk Homework - Next week will be Earth Day, talk to your family about how we can all individually help the environment.

Spellings - solution, soluble, insoluble, dissolve, real, reality, realistic, unreal, realisation, solve and whose (who does it belong to)

Our Grafham trip was a success! 

Thank you to all parents and carers who supported the children with their packing and preparation for the trip.

The accomodation was fantastic, and the children have grown in their independence as they helped tidy and organise their rooms and helped clear the tables after their meals.

We exhausted ourselves with some exciting experiences and had opportunities to use our Skills Builder skills; we used our listening skills to learn how to use the canoes on the beautiful reservoir, our perseverance skills to climb up the 10 metre high climbing wall and our team-working skills to create a crate stack that almost reached the top of the building!  We came away from our wonderful trip will lots of happy memories. 

Talk homework - inform your adults at home / family members about what you have learnt in Geography - Migration.

Spellings - caught, woman, potatoes, surprise, separate, group, height, through, particular, though.

TT Rockstars - Soundchecks

We have advanced in our Maths work and we are now adding and subtracting mixed numbers and improper fractions.

In English, we have learnt about past progressive tense and some subordinating conjunctions.  

In Science, we talked about echo location and how some animals use it to find food.

Have a great weekend.

Remember to practise the following:

Spelling: expression confession permission omission admission concussion discussion procession impression obsession

TT Rockstars and BOOM reader.

Please remind your child that the following stationery items are needed for school: pencils, ruler, glue stick, orange and purple fine marker or colouring pencil, pen - if they have a pen pass and colouring pencils (for occasional use).

Alfie thought indoors PE with Miss Harris was fun and Beau enjoyed jumping on/off the apparatus.

Omar and Alfie enjoyed coding using Purplemash, in our Computing lesson.

Ethan A. and James liked all the different names of the exercises in our session with Olympic athlete, Sean Rose.

Mrs Wall loved the first week at school and seeing our fantastic, lovely people in class.

Liv is keen to find out the name of the new boy in our new Power of Reading book.

Ethan H. enjoyed going home-time.

Jax enjoyed learning about fractions in Maths, we learnt that fractus is Latin means broken.

Hollie enjoyed learning the different foot work required in tennis.

Carys enjoying learning about modroc in DT.

Spellings: breath, business, caught, different, exercise, extreme, medicine, possession, although, thought.

Boom reader and TT Rockstars

Talk homework - explain what the 'left over' part is in a division - what is it called? how can you show it using match sticks?

In maths, Dylan enjoyed learning about different methods of division and Lucas said he was struggling with division but found the part/ whole a useful tool to help solve the calculation. James learnt about multiplication and applying different methods and deciding upon the quickest way.

Harrison thought that English was fun as we had to use our imagination to draw the descriptive setting from our Power of Reading book.  Liv is enjoying meeting new characters and finding out what the new island holds. Ethan H is excited to find out what will happen next.

Omar enjoyed Geography this week as we learnt about water pollution and Arya said that the visitor from Anglian Water provided for an eventful day, and we learnt some fun facts, e.g., it takes1300 litres to make a single loaf of bread!

On field, Ethan A enjoyed learning new skills in hockey.  This week, we practised running with the ball and how to keep each other safe.

Emily- Rose loved History this week as we looked back at Roman innovations, she particularly likes finding out about what happened in Britain before our time.  Whilst Bohdan enjoyed learning about the different Roman baths - Caldarium, Tepidarium, Frigidarium.

Spelling – merriment, happiness, plentiful, penniless, happily, prettiest, nastiness, beautiful, pitiful, silliness, hole

Talk homework – tell your family about the states of matter and give them some examples.

TT – Rockstars practice

Boomreader – log in your reading details – pages number / unknown words / comments

Alfie enjoyed Maths, where we learnt how to multiply and divide by 10 and 100.

In PE, we learnt how to pass and receive the ball in hockey which Harrison found interesting.

We have been introduced to some new characters in our Power of Reading book which Arya thought was fun and interesting.

Imogen relaxed into our Art lessons where we learned how the tone and colours can affect emotions.

Ethan A. thought handwriting practice was both useful and pleasant.

In Science, we have been grouping our different states of matter and Liv believed this was a worthwhile and amusing lesson.

Jax summed the whole week up by saying he enjoyed everything this week.