Happy Summer! Welcome back to school after the Easter break.
This week has been our first week back with some little changes to tables, seats and groups based on our Spring Assessments. We’re always looking for the new ways to help the children make great progress in their learning.
In English, we completed our writing of a letter from Hansel, to his father describing all of the terrible events which had befallen the children after they were left in the forest. Our first session was all about editing the writing to check for sense and remove any clear errors. In their final piece, the children had to use all of the obvious features of a letter, but also include some great skills and techniques in order to improve the writing. For example – rhetorical questions, adverbials of time and a range of multi-clause sentences (including those which use subordinating conjunctions). The children have published the piece of work in their best handwriting to show their progress and development in writing.
In reading, we looked at a story called ‘We’re moving to where?!’ about a small boy who was informed he’d be moving with his family, to a log cabin in a forest in Canada. We talked about what that would feel like if we had to leave our life here behind and moved to somewhere new. The children then designed their own dream home in a new location and thought about the things that would make it both exciting and worrying. You’d better start saving up – the dream homes looked amazing and were in some incredible locations.
In Maths, we began a new unit of work about angles. We began to classify and group angles based on their size. The children understood the idea of acute, right, obtuse and reflex angles. If you’d like to know more, click HERE.
Our brand new topic, ‘OUR CONNECTED WORLD’ will begin next week. We’ll be looking at making connections with our life in the North East of England to those people who live in the Western states of The USA. It will primarily be focused on geography skills looking at both the landscapes and the people who live there. If you’ve ever been to any of the those states and have some mementos or souvenirs from your visit, please feel free to send them in for us to have a look at.
Please note, our PE days are now Tuesday and Wednesday.
Homework and new spellings will be handed out on Monday and collected in the following Monday.
Spelling Tests will be every Monday.
Well done to our Pupils of the week. They have had a fantastic start to the term. Awesome!
Otis in 2HB – for excellent effort and contributions in class all week!
Kendall in 2DJ – a strong start to the term with reading at home and completing homework.
