Apologies for the delay in updating our blog. As you can all imagine this has been a busy term with a new topic to introduce, lots of activities involving the Trust, planning the recent maths and celebrating international festivals.
Our topic this term is Off With Their Heads and the children will be learning about a wide range of things as outlined in the topic web sent out two weeks ago. So far we have revisited the main countries of the UK and learnt about royal residence in each of these and have looked in more detail at the features of castles and what the purpose of each part was.
To continue with this theme in English the children's favourite pirate, Sir Francis Drake has sent them a letter suggesting they learn all his 'marvellous monarch' Queen Elizabeth I ad the children have been replying to him with their questions about her.
Our main focus points in English this term remains spelling and handwriting and we are encouraging the children to be more adventurous in the way they structure their work to include each of the main sentence families: commands (e.g. Write back soon), questions (e.g. How did Queen Elizabeth become queen?), exclamations (What a brilliant piece of writing you did!) and statements (e.g. The children are learning about castle.).
In maths we have been looking at fractions and how to halve, quarter and third both objects and groups of objects. The children have been shown how to work out the answer to a fraction question by using division. We then used our knowledge of quarters in geometry to navigate Red Riding Hood through the forest using positional directional language. The children then created their own mazes and wrote commands for users to follow them. This week they have used all existing knowledge of halves and quarters and related it to time. We then used our five times tables to tell the time to the nearest five minutes.
We are always happy to talk to you about what's happening in school, so please do come and speak to us in person if you have any questions.
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