English – Our focus this week has been  writing a set of instructions.  The children started off looking at what instructions are used for and highlighted the main features.  They then created a word bank of ‘rich vocabulary’ from the novel study (‘The Lion, the witch and wardrobe’) to create a pictorial timeline  to describe the children’s journey to the white witch’s house.  Then they used this information to plan, edit and publish their own set of instructions.  They all worked really hard on this to remember to use time connectives, bossy verbs and interesting adjectives.

Maths – They have been ordering and comparing numbers with up to 3 decimal places on a number line.  The year 4’s used a place value chart to help them divide one/two and three digit numbers by 10 and 100.  The year 5’s looked at percentages and representing these as decimals and fractions.

Geography – The children started their topic on ‘earthquakes’.  They looked into the key aspects of earthquakes and how they are caused by the plate tectonics.  They worked well in groups to represent the plates and the magma using broken up pieces of cups and a bowl of water.

Science – They completed an investigation into levers and made their own lever mechanism to test how well a load can be lifted using a smaller force.

RE – We started our topic about Easter.  They will be discussing the key question ‘Why do Christians call the day Jesus died Good Friday?’ over the next few weeks.  Today they listened to the story about ‘The Last Supper’ and discussed the betrayal of Judas to Jesus.  They also talked about the objects which represent the Last Supper and what they mean to the story.

Homework – handed out today – decimals/fractions/percentages.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas