Welcome to Summer Term!
What a lovely sunny start to our last term together!
In English we have loved our new text called, 'Marcy and the riddle of the sphinx'. Marcy has been on an exciting adventure to help save her father. The children have been learning about recounts and are currently planning their recount! They are putting themselves in Marcy's shoes and planning their own rescue! It will be exciting to read them!
In Reading, we have been using the same text to make predictions, make inferences about Marcy's feelings as she makes her way through the rescue mission. We have also written our own retrieval questions and explored lots of new words!
Our first unit of work in Maths has been all about Time. This has been a tricky one for the children but they have been very resilient and haven't given up. The pupils have been learning to read the analogue clock to the minute and compare these times with the digital clock.
In Maths, we have also been learning lots of facts linked to time - months, hours, minutes, days, years. the children did a great job sorting out these facts and learning while doing it.
Outdoor PE has been wonderful as the weather has been so sunny! 3N enjoyed their first experience of Orienteering around school. In the first lesson they needed to locate the points on the map and write what object was there. It will be getting trickier in the weeks ahead as the pupils will learn to navigate around school using a compass!
In RE we have been exploring local communities we are part of. This has involved thinking about the different religious groups in our community. It was lovely to hear from some of the pupils who attend these places.
Art has been very exciting as we got to design and complete our dragon's eyes. We are very proud of the work we have completed! Have a look at some of them!
In Computing, we have been learning about data branching and databases. We have learnt about Yes No questions and how to group various items. In our books, we grouped some dinosaurs under certain questions before having a go online. Lots of us managed to create a successful data branch to sort out different objects on the online programme. Class 3N really enjoyed this activity.
Science has continued to be fun, learning all about plants and what they need to grow. We set up an investigation this week to see of plants really do need - water, light and nutrients to grow. 3N planted some sun flower seeds and took one of these away from each pot, leaving only Pot D that had nutritious soil, water and light. One of them was planted in sand and another was put in the cupboard! We wonder of any of the seeds will grow?!
PHSE this half term has been all about, 'Being the best me!'. We have looked a lot at how to look after ourselves e.g how to ensure we have a balanced diet, what to do when we are poorly and how not to spread illnesses. We have debated what choices we should make to help look after our bodies e.g. less screen time, going to bed early and less fizzy pop. 3N have written lists of top tips, designed posters and had some really good class discussions about this topic.
In English, the pupils have just completed an end of unit 'Big Write'. It was a recount based on our text in English. The pupils wrote their own recount about an adventure they went on to save their father. It involved a magical journey to a new land and lots of scary obstacles that the children needed to overcome in order to rescue him. They did a fantastic job! Well done to all!
This week we were excited to start our new topic about 'Ancient Egypt' in History. We stated the unit by exploring the timeline of history and finding out exactly when this amazing civilisation began and finished. We did some sorting tasks and discussed lots about what we noticed when looking at timelines.
in History this week, we also explored the importance of the River Nile to the Ancient Egyptians and learnt all about how they invented paper called papyrus. We enjoyed writing our names and some other words using hieroglyphs!
In English, we have started learning about playscripts. We are currently learning about the features of a playscript and are writing our recent text, Marcy and the riddle of the sphinx into a playscript. We are enjoying learning about scene descriptions, dialogue, stage directions etc. We might get to perform one of our scenes at our assembly next half term.
In outdoor PE, we have continued to develop our orienteering skills trying to work better as a team and with more speed. This week we needed to collect a letter from each point and then try and work out what the word was. The word was 'Orienteering'.
In spelling, we have been learning about prefixes and suffixes all year. This week we did a sorting task of prefixes and suffixes and then we had a competition to see how many words we could think of that used these suffixes and prefixes. We looked at some of the spelling rules to help us remember how to spell them.
in Maths, we have spent some time revising fractions and are now finding out lots about shape, angles and lines. We have been using our bodies to help us remember about angles, right angle turns and what clockwise and anticlockwise mean.