English: We have been looking at the features of Newspapers this week, spotting features such as headlines, images, captions, past tense verbs and third person language.

The Year 2 children have continued with their Read, Write, Inc work and have done some writing linked to the stories they have been reading.

The Year 3 children have also been learning about quotes within newspaper articles and have role played creating their own and been learning how to correctly punctuate speech.

Maths: 

The Year 2 children have been going over addition this week. They have been using the greater than, less than and equals symbols to compare number sentences. They have also been learning how to use known number facts to work out other addition sentences – e.g. If I know that 5 + 3 = 8 I also know that 15 + 3 = 18.

The Year 3 children have been learning about position and direction this week. They have been learning about right angles and have been identifying these within a variety of different shapes and spotting angles which are more or less than a right angle. They have also been learning about quarter, half and three quarter turns as well as clockwise and anti-clockwise turns (see photos in below post).

Science: This week the children have been learning how muscles work in pairs. Their science lesson was linked to PE where they had to predict and identify which muscles would be used in a number of different exercises.

Geography: The children have been using an atlas to identify rivers in the UK. They have also been identifying the sea in which each river flows into.

Art: The children have been learning about Van Gogh this week and have created their own work inspired by his painting ‘Starry Night’.