Another busy week for Beech Class! In Literacy we have been describing feelings, sequencing key events and learning how to write multi-clause sentences. In grammar, we have been using the suffix -ness and -y. We have continued to learn more about place value particularly with 3-digit numbers. Our topic work this week has included looking at Roman culture and how they used mosaics. We have started to make our own mosaics! In PE we have linked our learning to the Rugby World Cup and have been learning how to plat Tag Rugby. We have explored the different diets of a variety of animals in Science. To help consolidate our learning of Spanish numbers, we played bingo. We have just started coding in Computing.

We had our first Forest School session this week. It was an orientation session so that the children could see the changes that have taken place since they were last there. My camera decided not to work but photos will follow in the  next session. In Maths we have been adding and subtracting with money. In literacy,  we have been learning to create multi-clause sentences with conjunctions, plan a story with a dilemma, use verbs and change the tense, use adverbs and write captions. In art, we have completed our mosaics and in Science we were testing our reaction times and drawing conclusions from our results. For our Roman topic, we studied the Roman Empire and used maps and atlases to compare and see what the countries are called now. For example we found out that 'Gaul' is now called France.

In Literacy this week,  we have been writing about dilemmas, finding and using better nouns, adverbs and adjectives to improve sentences. We have also been improving our writing through editing. In Maths we have been finding missing numbers, learning to balance number sentences, adding and subtracting a 1 digit number and learning to add 3 or more numbers in an efficient manner. For our topic, we discovered how the Celts built their round houses. We were learning to work scientifically this week with using fair testing and drawing conclusions from our findings. We also learnt about the rituals and preparations of worship and the main features of a Mandir. This helped us to understand that a Mandir is a place where Hindus worship.         

In Literacy, we have started studying historical fiction. We have learnt how to write noun phrases, identify proper nouns and use prepositions. In Maths, we have been subtracting using efficient strategies. In RE, we listened to and sequenced the story of Rama and Sita and how it gave rise to the festival of Diwali. In Forest School, we built walls like the Celts. In our topic, we learnt that the Celtic tribes had settled in Britain and Britain was then invaded by the Romans. The Celts build round houses and we attempted to use the same building method in Forest School using Willow. In computing , we continued learning coding. We have enjoyed two sessions of PE this week and this will continue every other week.

In Literacy this week, we have been learning to ask questions that accurately search for information and learning to use statements to write a report. We had an exciting trip to Crofton Roman Villa ( see the photos) and learnt a lot of new facts about Romans. In Maths, we were learning to write number sentences for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We wrote multiplication and division sentences and become to explore the commutivity. We learnt a new song about Romans for the Grandparents Tea Party. For Black History Month, we discovered that there were black Roman soldiers and discussed why we hadn't seen any on our text books. For our topic, we designed our own Roman shields in preparation for making them.

We started our week in spectacular style with a visit to the Museum of London. We explored the Roman Galleries and then had a 'hands-on' workshop where we handled 'real' Roman artefacts! These artefacts included a Roman sandal - imagine a Roman wore it over 2000 years ago! In RE, we explored how Hindus celebrate Diwali. As it is the Festival of Lights, we made Divas for our lights. We also took part in an Indian Dance workshop! In Maths, we have been learning how to use a multiplication grid to help us with division. In Literacy, we have been learning the rules associated speech marks.We have just finished our Science topic of Animals including humans and are looking forward to our new topic.

This week we have been busy rehearsing for our Year 3 assembly which was all about the Romans. We loved learning the songs, dances and drama performances for the assembly, we really enjoyed it. In maths, we have been learning how to add and subtract using number lines. This has helped us subtract numbers from 100 which can be tricky when crossing the tens boundary. In literacy, we started our new book which is called "The Tear Thief", so far we found out the Tear Thief is invisible and has magical powers. She steals tears from children but we are unsure why she needs them. We hope to find out next week! We created Laurel Wreaths in topic which represented the headpiece powerful Romans would wear.

This week has been a week of assessments to see how well the students have progressed.  We also had a fantastic day on Wednesday - the while school was involved in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) day.  Children in years three and four were split into three different groups.  Eah group participated in three different sessions throughout the day - Computer science, Makedo and K'nex.  A great day was had by all.  On Friday it was the KS2 sports day.  The weather was perfect as was the attitude and participation of the children.  We also said goodbye to Mr Wilson, whose practical finished this week.  He will however be back for our trip to Pizza Express on Wednesday 3rd July.

This week we had our second session of swimming.  We also continued looking at plants in science while the country we looked at this week for Topic was Spain with Mr Wilson.  In maths we have been doing lots of revision in preparation for our tests next week while in PE with Mr Duffin we practiced our events for Sports Day next Friday.

This week saw our first swimming lesson at Darrick Wood swimming centre.  The first of 4 lessons saw the children see what standard they are.  At the end of the week, quite a few children took part in Poverest's Got Talent.  In science, we conducted an experiment whereby we wanted to prove that water does in fact go up the stem of a plant.  We put a white flower in a jar of coloured water and will observe over the next few days to see what will happen.  In maths, we did a lot of work on fractions, revised telling the time and looked at the written method for division.  Finally, we celebrated Eid, the end of Ramadan, by having a colouring competition and looking at a powerpoint about this special celebration (the end of Ramadan).  

The highlight of the week was our trip to Kew Gardens on Tuesday.  It was a great day - the weather was beautiful and the way the children conducted themselves (we received 4 complementary comments from the general public) was excellent. Thanks to those parents who helped on the day.   In maths, we revised some fraction work and alo looked at solving one and two step money word problems.  In science we studied the pollination process while in English we continued activities on our book "Ice Palace"  Have a great half term break and we look forward to seeing everyone on Monday 3rd June.

Another busy week in Beech class.  In topic, we looked at the country of Germany and completed our fact file as well as tasting a frankfurter.  We alo found out what countries border Germany.  In maths, we went outside with Mr Wilson to find out how many balls we could get in a hoop out of 10 shots.  We tallied these results and then completed a bar chart.  We also looked at a variety of work to do with fractions.  In ICT we continued to do a project about a country on powerpoint while in Spanish we looked at how to say the various wild animals.

Despite this being a short week, it was still a busy one in Beech Class.  In maths we looked at money problems and activities related to fractions while in English Mr Wilson, our student teacher, continued to do activities related to our class book ' Ice Palace'.  We studied Mexico this week for our Topic work and got to try tortilla chips and salsa.  In PE we practised ball skills activities related to netball while in science we began to get our plant investigation ready for the next two weeks.

The highlight of the week for Beech Class was our trip to Chislehurst Caves on Thursday.  Our guide Jack shared lots of interesting information about the caves and how they have been used.  In English with Mr Wilson we have been looking at the book 'Ice Palace' and doing a variety of activities about this book while in Maths we have been doing more work on time.  Our country of study this week in Topic has been Italy where we also tried pizza.  We looked at the various parts of a plant in science along with the jobs of each of those parts.

The start of the summer term has seen Beech class start some new topics.  In science we have begun to look at plants in science while in our topic work, 'What's on the Menu' is our theme.  In English, we spent the week planning, writing and typing up a recount about our Easter holiday while in PE we did a variety of ball skills activities.  As part of our 'What's on the Menu ' topic, we looked at the country of England and completed a fact file.  We also tried one of the most popular English foods - scones and jam.  

A reminder that next Thursday is our trip to Chislehurst Caves.

The first week of April was a busy one in Beech Class.  It was also great to see Mrs Holden return after a quite a long absence. On Tuesday afternoon we took part in our Spring Concert, performing a song on the violin and singing two songs - Try Everything and Rather Be.  We also had a visit form a photographer from Tate Britain, who took a class photo as part of a London wide project to display all Year 3 classes at Tate Britain from November.  We did a variety of Easter activities in the lead up to Easter, including our Easter bonnet parade and easter egg hunt.  We also had our final session of cricket with James in PE while in science we did a variety of activities involving magnets.  On behalf of Mrs Davis, Mrs Holden, Mrs Marsh and Mr Wilson, I would like to wish everyone a happy and safe Easter break and look forward to seeing you all back on Tuesday 23rd April. 

In our reading this week we looked at Mothers Day and the meaning behind it.  We also wrote a class poem about our mothers to put in our own mothers day card, plus a bunch of flowers!!  In maths we looked at one of the written methods for multiplication while in PE we continued to work on our cricketing skills.  We had two lessons of cricket with James - one in the outside court and the other in the classroom where we looked at the various fielding positions and completed a coordinates activity.  We also welcomed to our class, Mr Wilson, a student teacher from Greenwich University.  He will be with us for the next nine weeks.

Another busy week for Beech Class.  Unfortunately, Mrs Holden has been off for the last two weeks with bruised ribs but should be back next week.  Maths this week has mostly taken place outside where the children took part in two timing activities using stop watches.  In groups of three, one child was the timer, another a counter while the third child did the particular activity (bouncing and catching a ball, star jumps, step ups, running up and down and throwing a ball in the air and catching it).  The children had to record their results in a table.  We then typed up these results in our ICT session.  We also looked at 2D shapes in maths as well - polygons, quadrilaterals etc and different types of lines such as vertical, horizontal, parallel and perpendicular.  In English we wrote a different ending to Black Beauty and also a fictional recount of our weekend.  The religious festival Holi, or the festival of colour, took place on Friday.  We looked at what this festival was all about and also designed our own elephant and coloured in a Happy Holi poster.

Congratulations to Teya for winning student of the week.

This week Beech class have been doing quite a few assessments - maths, reading and Grammar and punctuation.  We have also been looking at shadows in science while in ICT we typed out some information about St Patrick's Day.  We had another cricket lesson with James on Tuesday, concentrating on bowling and catching.  

Congratulations to Charlotte for winning student of the week.

This week it was English Week.  We read the fairy tale Alice in Wonderland and wrote a different beginning.  We also took part in a spelling bee on Tuesday against the two year 4 classes.  Quite a few students made it to the final 10!!  I was really impressed with our costumes for World Book Day.  Congratulations to Rebecca for winning best dressed in our class.  And of course we had our assembly on Friday - thanks for your support and well done to the children for their efforts.  We had another visit from James, the cricket coach, who showed us how to bowl in cricket while in ICT we typed up our book character write-ups.

Congratulations to Tyler for winning student of the week.

This week saw the first of six cricket sessions led by James for our PE sessions.  The children really enjoyed the various activities and games to practice throwing and catching.  In Maths, we have been working on fractions - adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator and finding fractions that make a whole number.  We also started looking at the written subtraction method where we need to regroup.  The children are really improving their ability to tell the time - this week we started looking at telling the time in minutes to.  In English, we researched the internet for information on an Australian animal (our table group), wrote this up in our own words using headings and sub-headings and then typed it up using text boxes in a word document.  We also looked at expanded noun phrases and wrote about our half term holiday as well as a fictional story based in a spooky house in the middle of a lake.  A reminder that it is English Week next week. World Book Day is on Thursday so please come dressed as your favourite book character.

Congratulations to Alexis for winning student of the week.

The last week before the half term break was another busy one in Beech Class.  The highlight was our visit to the Metro Bank at the Nugent.  We were shown through the bank by Hollie and Carolyn, including the vault which contained many security boxes.  We were also shown how the ATM's work and were able to touch some Euro and US Dollar notes.  Finally, we were given a fantastic goody bag and met Metro Man.  When we arrived back at school, we wrote a recount about our trip.  Other writing in English included a write up about Valentines Day and how it came about as well as a fictional story that took place in a bank that had to include direct speech.  We looked at the Richter and Mercalli scales used to measure earthquakes in Topic as well as create a poster on how to keep safe in earthquakes (in pairs). On Friday, a group of children again went cooking while the rest of the class had the opportunity to play a variety of maths games.  Have a great half term and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday 25th February.

Congratulations to Olivia for winning student of the week.

It has been another busy week in Beech Class.  In English, the children have been learning how to write non-fiction reports about a country.  We looked at headings, sub headings and how to set out our report.  In maths, we have continued to use the written method to solve addition and subtraction sums as well as fining fractions of an amount.  Also, we have been working really hard at telling the time in our mental maths sessions.  Four children - Teya, Charlotte, Jed and Kenzo - were the first in the class to receive pen licences while the top three children to earn coins on TT Rock stars last week was Lucas, Ronny and Mia.  In topic work, we looked at the parts of a volcano and used the internet to find definitions of these terms.  It was Safer Internet Day this week and as such we played a game of Kahoot to see what we need to do to stay safe online.  A reminder that next Tuesday we have our trip to Metro Bank at the Nugent.  We will be leaving at about 9:30am and will return around 11am.

Congratulations to ________________________ for winning student of the week.

This week we have celebrated Multicultural Week - an opportunity to look at a variety of countries and cultures with other teachers. We learnt about Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia, Mexico and the traveller community and did a variety of interesting activities.  We also enjoyed taking part in the Chinese Dance Workshop while we had a final visit from the ladies from Metro Bank.  In Maths, we continued to look at written methods for addition and subtraction while in writing we wrote our own poems called 'What can we do?' We also wrote up a recount about Multicultural  Week using a variety of fronted adverbials.

Congratulations to Lucas for winning student of the week.

This week has been Health Week and as a result Beech Class took part in a nation wide HIIT Class organised by fitness guru Joe Wicks through a live Youtube feed. The children did really well during the two twenty minute sessions. We also played some health related games in ICT.  In maths we have been looking at placing numbers on a number line and comparing numbers using the greater than and less than sign while in English we began our class book Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish by writing a descriptive paragraph about what the main characters paradise would look like.  We had a go at drawing our own dinosaurs, by following a set of instructions, in our sketch book while we also set up title pages for our topic and Spanish subjects.

Congratulations to Jed for reading his home reading book every night of the week and also for having it signed.  Homework was also set on Thursday which is due in on Wednesday.

Well done to Jed for winning Student of the Week.

A big welcome to Year 3!!  Despite the shortened week, the children have had a busy week.  We began to write our pen pal letters to students at a school in Hong Kong.  Before this, we looked at a powerpoint about life in Hong Kong.  In maths we completed a data and graphing activity and also learnt some new games in order to practice our number facts.  We also began our topic work about dinosaurs by completing a KWL activity sheet (what we know about dinosaurs; what we want to know and later we will complete the learning part which is what we have learnt). A reminder that we will have our Meet the Teacher afternoon on Tuesday 11th September from 2:30pm to 3:15pm where Miss Bowley and myself will go through the curriculum, school trips, homework, expectations etc for the year.

We have had Art and Science week in year 3! We have been looking at magnetic forces and have been doing lots of fun experiments. We learned that only metals containing iron, cobalt and nickel are magnetic which was very surprising. Also, we discovered that a magnetic force can act at a distance by conducting our own experiments. We have also been designing and painting our own Roman shields and have been looking at how powerful the Roman army was.

Beech class continued to learn about the Romans this week.  We created a leaflet explaining how the Roman Baths worked and how the Romans improved hygiene in Britain at the time.  We also looked at a Roman soldier and what armour and clothing they wore.  In maths we have been looking at fractions - counting in fractional amounts such as quarters and thirds and decimal fractions such as 0.1 and 0.2.  We used the new ICT suite for the first time and looked at how to create a powerpoint while in PE we continued to practise our bowling and fielding skills.  Finally, we completed our unit on suspense narratives and wrote our hot task on Friday.

Well done to    for achieving star of the week

This week Beech class looked at the written method when doing multiplication - the grid method. In Spanish we looked at how to say family member names such as Mum and Grandmother.  We continued to practise the violin in music. For our topic work, we created a timeline of the major events during the Roman Empire.

Well done to Ruby W for achieving star of the week.

This week saw Beech class go on their rescheduled school trip to Kew Gardens on Friday.  The weather ended up being O.K., despite the dire weather forecast.  On arrival, we all looked through the Princess of Wales Conservatory, which is home to a variety of plants from around the world.  We then split into two groups - one group were taken by teachers from Kew Gardens while the other group looked through the Palm House and went on a walk around the grounds.  In maths we have been learning the column method when adding numbers and trying to solve a variety of word problems involving addition and subtraction. We started learning about Kwik Cricket with Mr Duffin in PE, while in English we looked at how to add suspense into our stories through using short sentences and sound words.  We also discussed what prepositions are ie words that tell us where things are eg in, under, on etc.

Well done to     for achieving star of the week.

The weather this week has been stunning - a great way to start back at for for Summer Term.  We started our new topic - the Romans.  We created a poster about what the children knew about the Romans and what they wanted to know.  Super efforts from Grace, Joshua, Connor, Summer and Freddie for their holiday homework about the Romans.  In Maths we looked at the grid method in multiplication and also doubling and halving 2 and 3 digit numbers.  Our new topic in Science is Forces and Magnets.  We conducted an investigation into how different materials effect the movement of an object.  We completed a reading comprehension activity about the London Marathon, which takes place this Sunday, and also began looking at how to create suspense in our stories.

Well done to Charlie for achieving star of the week.

This week in English we have looked at using inverted commas in our writing.  We have practised turning coversations between people and animals into a written format and also wrote our own story that included lots of speech.  In maths we spent the week measuring and weighing a variety of objects while in Spanish we have been practising the days of the week. On Thursday in topic we looked at a variety of unusual fruits, including figs, kiwi fruit and papayas.  We sketched what they looked like and also wrote down some words to describe them - the texture, smell etc.  It was Celebration of Learning on Friday and Parent Teacher interviews during the week as well so parents had an opportunity to see what we have been up to. Congratulations to Henry for being the first person in Beech class to get onto the T -Team as part of our school wide TT Challenge number facts activity.

After the disruption caused by the 'Beast from the East' in week 8 where the school was closed for 3 days due to snow and lack of power and heating, things got back on track in week 9.  On Friday we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as a character of a book.  We wrote about this character and also had a whole school parade in the morning.  We also celebrated Holi by looking at what this religious occasion is all about and completing a comprehension activity.  It was also International Women's Day on Wednesday and as such we researched a famous woman. In English we completed our topic on non-chronilogical reports, writing our own report about an animal. Maths saw us do a lot of work on fractions, including how to find a fraction of an amount, put a fraction on a number line and write fractions in ascending and descending order.  Finally, in science we looked at the different parts of a flower and how pollination and fertilisation works while in PE we continued to practise skills to play dodgeball.

Well done to Ruby N for achieving star of the week.

The final week of Spring Term 1 saw Beech class go on their third school trip - this time to Wagamama restaurant in Bromley.  The class were taken on a behind the scenes tour of what goes on in a restaurant.  They were split into groups of ten and looked at food and drink preparation along with how orders are placed.  We then enjoyed a delicious lunch, using our child friendly chopsticks instead of the usual cutlery.  In maths we looked at pictograms and how to interpret these while in English we made up our own poems based on one that we looked at called 'The Door'.  We looked at the continents of the world and had to name each one of these while in Topic we created an advertisement for our made up restaurant. Mrs Wheller and I would like to wish everyone a great half term break and look forward to seing everyone again on Monday 19th February.

Well done to Kiera for achieving star of the week.

Another week has passed by - another busy week for Beech class.  This week has been Multicultural week.  Each afternoon the class went to other key stage 2 classes to learn about the various continents.  They learnt about Australia in Fir class and created a koala; Asia and Chinese New Year with Mrs Gayle in Year 5 and South America in Oak class.  Finally, on Friday in pairs we researched a European country and created a poster while that afternoon we learnt about the continent of Africa and created a flag collage.  On Tuesday we had lots of fun learning two Bollywood dances.  This week has also been Assessment week.  We did another Star reading test while on Friday we did our half termly Maths test.  Mrs Wheller has created a terrific Tower of London display in the stair well leading up to the classroom - please come up and take a look.  A reminder that we have our school trip to Wagamama in Bromley on Wednesday.  Students will need to be in school uniform and will need to be in school by 8:30am at the latest as our session at Wagamama begins at 9:15am.

Well done to Freddie for achieving star of the week.

It has been another busy week in Beech class. In science we have continued to investigate plants, looking at trying to prove what conditions are needed for plants to grow as well as whether the stem does in fact transport nutrients around to other parts of the plant.  In English we have been writing our portal stories after having studied an extract from Narnia.  We had to describe going into various scenes and also completed our hot task.  Maths has seen us look at various degrees of turns, and revise how to find fractions of amounts.  On Friday it was Australia Day and so we read a text about what this special day (to Australians at least) is all about.  We also did some research into Kyle Edmunds, the tennis player who reached the semi finals of the Australian Open while in guided reading we studied a text about Roald Dahl and did some dictionary, thesauraus and atlas work from this text.  Finally, we got the paints out on Monday and painted the Tower of London.  Next week it is both Multi-Cultural Week and Assessment Week.

Well done to Grace for achieving star of the week.

The highlight of the week was no doubt our trip to the Tower of London.  Despite the cold weather, all of the children and adults had an enjoyable day out learning a lot about this most famous landmark. In Maths we looked at how to convert 12 hour time into 24 hour time, how to convert various time periods and also created our own bar graphs to show how we enjoyed the various events on our school trip to the Tower of London. English saw us write our own portal story, concentrating on fronted adverbials, adjectives and speech.  

Well done to Poppie for achieving star of the week.

This week in ICT we continued to learn about Microsoft Word, looking at how we can insert a table into a document.  We combined this with some dictionary work whereby we had to find certain words and put in the table what page they were on.  In Maths we looked at different types of lines (vertical, horizontal, diagonal, parallel and perpendicular) along with how to find the perimeter of 2D shapes.  English has seen us learn about adverbs and learning to memorise our Narnia extract by adding actions. In Science we looked at the four main parts of a plant (flower, stem, leaf and roots) and the jobs they have. A reminder that next Wednesday we have our trip to the Tower of London.

Well done to Shaurya for achieving star of the week.

Welcome back to a new term.  Even though it has ben a short week, Beech class have still been very busy.  In English we wrote about our Christmas holiday and are in the process of typing these up using Microsoft Word.  We started our new topic in Science as well - plants - by listing the things that we know about plants and what we want to find out.  We also completed our plant title page in our Science book.  In RE this term we will be studying Sikhism.  This week we looked at the story of Guru Nanak (the founder of Sikhism) and sequenced a story about his life.  In Maths we learnt about Roman Numerals (I, V, X, L and C) and also did more work on telling the time.

Well done to Joshua for achieving star of the week.

This week we went to the Life Bus where we learnt about the brain and looked at different parts of the body and their functions. We also had fun listening to Harold the giraffe singing songs about friendships!  In literacy we have continued looking at balancd arguments and using specific conjuctions. We boxed up our class writing which was about whether children should have unlimited access to computers after school. We also completed a variety of Christmas art activities and decorated the classroom with paper chains.

This week in maths we have been learning written methods for addition and revising the frog method when solving subtraction problems. We have started looking at a balanced argument in English and whether dogs should be kept on leads in parks. We have been really lucky to have taken part in a K'Nex workshop to help us develop our science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) skills. As it is getting very close to Christmas, we have started to decorate our room with paper chains and made our own Christmas cards.

Another busy week for Beech class.  We continue to look at earthquakes for our topic work - this week we looked at what we should do in the event of an earthquake and created a poster to show other people.  We looked at fractions in maths while in English we wrote our class story based on our Ice Cat extract.  Sun safety was the theme in Science; we looked at why the sun can be very dangerous to us and created either a pair of sunglasses or a hat to protect ourselves from the sun.  In PE the children have ben doing gymnastics and are having a lot of fun participating in this with Mr Duffin.  We also have been learning basic introductions in Spanish and are slowly becoming more confident.

Well done to Lucia for achieving star of the week.

We have had a great first week back after half term! We have started our topic on earthquakes; learning about why earthquakes happen and tectonic plate boundaries. We have also started reading our new class book (The Ice Cat) and we have been creating our own story maps while acting out the story. We explored the front cover and the blurb of our book to predict what the story might be about. In maths we have been looking at number patterns and how number bonds can help us to work out addition and subtraction number problems.  Also, in Art we have made our own colour wheels and experimenting how to mix primary colours to create new colours.

The last week before half term has been quite busy. This week was Maths Week and as a result Beech class have been involved in a variety of maths related activities.  On Monday we combined PE and Maths.  In groups of 6, children had to run out and get a tennis ball that had a particular number on it which matched a certain number fact. The children really enjoyed these games.  On Tuesday and Wednesday we played a variety of card and board maths games while on Thursday we had to come up with a 'What Number am I' riddle. In English, we also completed our unit on instructional writing and had to write a set of instructions that included headings, 'bossy' verbs and time connectives. 

It is Black History Month this month and as such Beech clas have been researching a famous person of colour (past or present) and then creating a 'Who am I?' riddle.  Take a look at these on the wall as you enter the school.  We have also been learning about the function of the skeleton and some of the major bones that make up our skeleton such as the femur and skull while in maths we have been continuing to practice our X2, X3, X4 and X5 number facts using our number facts challenge sheets 3 days a week.  

This week we have boxed up and written our own stories in Literacy and have been looking at 3D shapes in maths. We had a fantastic day learning about dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum where we took part in an excellent workshop and had the chance to look around the dinosaur section of the museum.  Thanks to the parents who came along and helped.

This week we have been writing our own class story based on the Matilda story where the evil Queen of Spades stole some diamonds from the palace and made poor Alic clean her huge room! In maths we have started looking at properties of 2D shapes such as pentagons, hexagons, octagons and even heptagons (7 sided shapes). 

This week we have been looking at synonyms to improve our character description in Literacy. We have been looking at time again in maths this week while in science we have become personal trainers and analysed a diet from a person called Joe.  We have also looked at when dinosaurs existed and created our own historical timelines.

This week we have been learning an extract from Matilda and are focusing on character description using adjectives and similes. In maths we have been learning about telling the time and also place value. We have started our topic on Hinduism in RE and have had some fun PE lessons playing invasion games. We have also started our Science topic about animals where we looked at herbivores, carnivores and omnivores!