Please have a look at what we will be learning this term and pop back to celebrate with us at the end of each half term!

Celebrating Autumn Term 2

It has been another busy half term with much to celebrate and be proud of.  We have enjoyed learning about the roles that animals played in WW1 and WW2 which inspired us to write letters of thanks as well as to use our imaginations to combine fact and fiction when writing diary entries.

We worked hard with our maths to master formal methods of addition and subtraction to allow us to solve problems and check our answers.  This was followed by a unit looking at the properties of 2D and 3D shapes - what better way to end than by making our own with cocktail sticks and delicious marshmallows!

We were delighted to welcome Mrs Brown into our class in support our ‘Living things and habitats’ science unit.  She was able to help us learn more about our local rivers and its wildlife – Oscar and Flat Stanley the otters were a big hit!

Our PE lessons have also been really enjoyable especially as we had the benefit of coaches from Astrella  to help us learn more invasion game skills.

One of the highlights of the term has to have been performing our nativity, ‘Lights, Camel, Action!’ at three sell-out performances!  We all had speaking parts which we learnt and delivered beautifully as well as singing fantastic songs with actions.

We ended our term with a lovely Christmas dinner and some fun, festive activities.

Celebrating Autumn Term 1

We have thoroughly enjoyed using the wonderful story of how Paddington Bear first met the Browns as a stimulus for some creative writing.  We retold his story but with our own twists on the plot! 

In our maths work we successfully mastered our place value topic and soon got to grips with addition and subtraction using lots of manipulatives to help us – especially crossing the tricky tens barriers.

Our science topic of exploring everyday materials saw us undertake some very exciting investigations, including the concept of shock absorbency – please see our photos below to see us testing different materials to see which could protect the delicate shell of Humpty Dumpty when he had his great fall!  We also enjoyed exploring fair testing when we investigated which materials would make the best house for the Three Little Pigs to withstand the ‘huff and puff’ of the wolf.

We took advantage of the good weather to have many of our PE lessons outside where we learnt basic skills ready to put into practice in different sports, including some challenging team work challenges.

One of our highlights was our geography fieldtrip into Salisbury where we navigated our way around the city to learn about the different landmarks ready to produce out own non-chronological reports.  We also had fun spotting the clues that Paddington left us in shop windows to help solve an anagram at the end of the day.