English: This week the children have been doing English through their Geography work by creating a holiday brochure for a destination in the UK. The children began the week by researching a particular type of UK holiday – city break, scenic holiday, seaside holiday etc and they had to find out a place in the UK to suit this type of holiday, find out whereabouts in the UK it is, how you can get there and what you can do there. After researching we had a go at coming up with our own whole class holiday brochure before the children began writing their own. The Year 2 children have been focusing on using neat handwriting, using capital letters in the right places, making sure their spelling is correct and using questions and conjunctions in their sentences. The Year 3 children have been focusing on these things as well as trying to use powerful adjectives, prepositions and different sentence openers in their work.
Some children have been completing the Read, Write, Inc programme this week and have done some fantastic reading and writing relating to a pirate named Black Hat Bob. They have focused on their handwriting, spelling, capital letters and punctuation as well as using adjectives and conjunctions.
Maths: We have continued our work on shape this week but have moved onto 3D shape. We have spent time exploring the names and properties of different 3D shapes – discussing the number of faces, the shapes of faces, the number of vertices, number of edges and the Year 3 children have also been learning how to identify if a shape is a prism. The children had great fun using modelling equipment to create their own 3D shapes and finding different ways of sorting the shapes according to their own criteria.
Science: The children have continued their work on forces and have been identifying the types of forces at work within different types of sport.
D&T: The children have decided on their final design for their scones and are very excited about making them next week!
RE: We have continued thinking about the Easter story and what this means to Christians.
PSHE: We have spent some time discussing friendships in PSHE this week, thinking carefully about how we should behave in different situations which we may find difficult.
Thank you for returning the slips to let us know who will be attending our British Afternoon Tea on Thursday 22nd March. If you still need to hand yours in please could you do so by Monday 19th March. Just to make it clear, the offer is open to any two family members so Nannies, Grandpas, Aunties, Uncles etc are very welcome. We look forward to seeing you there!