Thank you for the home learning and support you gave. The work that has come in to school has been wonderful to see and celebrate. It has been lovely to be together as a class once more. We would also like to welcome a new member to class, who we hope will enjoy his time in our class and school.
As the nights are now colder it must mean Bonfire Night has arrived again. Owls reflected on the historical events and people involved in the Gunpowder plot and then created some artwork linked to literacy. They considered how fireworks move, sound and appear in the sky and created word banks of vocabulary to describe them. The words and phrases generated were then used to create firework artwork.
There has been a focus on mental methods in our maths learning this week. The pupils have been revising partitioning as a method and then investigated rounding and adjusting and redistribution as different methods. Lots to remember and lots to learn but they showed good resilience. The pupils also thought about the structure of addition and subtraction and how to find missing values in a calculation using the bar model.
This terms science topic is Sound and the pupils enjoyed ‘seeing’ sound using tuning forks and water and rice and a drum. They discovered and proved that vibrations make the sound. There was then a listening activity where they heard mystery objects making a sound and then had to decide what the object was and the part that was vibrating to make the sound.
In English this week Owls have been writing up their super recounts on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Editing and redrafting skills were used in class to make sure the recounts were written using all the features required and all the children worked with attention to detail on this. Next week we will present our newspaper reports and read the Owl o’clock news!
Topsy turvy day was great fun and the children looked wonderful, thank you for the donations. Have a good weekend.
