A great start to the New Year! Well done to the children who received this weeks Head-teachers and Good to be Green awards! Super effort. Keep up the hard work everybody!

Year 3 investigated- Which building has the least damage after an Earthquake? 

They predicted and carried out a fair test to find out which building design was the best design.

Today we used base 10 to support our learning of adding 2 digit numbers using the column addition method. We started doing additions without crossing the tens and then when we were confident and secure, we began doing additions crossing the tens. When are ones column totalled more than ten we exchanged ten of our ones for a tens stick and carried it over into our tens column. Well done everybody! 

As part of children's learning about Earthquakes in Geography children found out about how Earthquakes happe.

In Design Technology children planned and designed an earthquake proof building.

This week in our mastering number session we are understanding the composition of odd and even numbers. The focus will be the conecpt that even numbers are composed of 2's and odd numbers contain 2's but have an extra one. We will relate this to familiar experiences of objects that come in 'pairs'. 

Year 4 had a new music teacher today for penny whistles. I was highly impressed by their fabulous playing and their eagerness to learn. Well done Year 4. 

We have used online manipulatives this week to help us explore fractions. We used the fraction wall on mathsbot.com to find equivalent fractions. 

Please find attached our Spring 1 half termly plan and a home learning grid packed with activities for anyone at home self isolating or wanting to do some additional learning.

We are learning all about Winter and the Polar Regions this half term.

Mrs Kleban

Our new topic in Year 5 will stretch our geographical skills, as we learn about the importance of rainforests to our planet.  This will lead us into the ongoing debate about Climate Change, where we will learn more about Greta Thunberg and her efforts to save our planet.   Find our Topic Information and Home Learning Challenge Grid below.

Year 4 were fabulous today with their first Athletics session with our new coach. They had to complete an athletic relay, a long jump, a chest throw activity and a sprint. It definitely warmed everyone up.