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This week we have been super busy! Here is a what we have been learning with Miss Heaton:

Mathematics

“We have been weighing different things using cubes and then weighing scales” –Ada

“When we had weighed the toys we drew a graph to show this.” – Darcy

English 

“During…

Monday

On Monday we had assembly and then we did SPAG. After that we did English and in English we did this new topic called Pitch It and we watched videos of people trying to get money to start a new business. After that it was break time and after break time it was maths, in maths we started…

Miss Heaton has been teaching us in Rainbow class most of the week, with Miss Ellison teaching us on Friday. Here is what we have been doing this week. 

Mathematics

“We have been adding and subtracting using a 100 square.” – Nicole C

“The pentagons didn’t use a 100 square. We drew…

This week in Moonbeam class the children have been working VERY hard completing their phonics tests. We are so proud of each and every child for all their hard work!! 

Here is what we have been doing this week in Moonbeam class.

"We have been playing football with Dan." - Ben

"I have…

This week in sunshine class we have started looking at coins. What the coins look like, the value of each coin and which coins have the biggest value. We discussed how many pennies we need to make the same value as a 5p coin, a 10p coin, a 20p coin, 50p coin and a £1 coin. 

We went over to the…

Another lovely couple of days in Moonbeam Class this week. We looked at some rhyming poems about dinosaurs and spotted the rhymes. After this, we wrote our own rhyming poems. Aiesha wrote a wonderful poem and was able to rhyme lots of words – well done!

We looked at a dinosaur claw (from an…

A new half term has begun. The final half term as Year 3 children, in seven weeks we will be Year 4. We have a lot of work to get through first. 

In English we are exploring our new topic, Shocking Styles, and learning more about fashion through history. We are learning about the features of…

This week has been a very hot week in school. In English we have been working on a new theme with Miss Desai. The outcome of the theme will be the pitching of a new idea to a panel of judges. This week we have been thinking about what the product could be.

In maths we have been plotting…

This week we continued our focus on written work before our moderation next week. This week has seen some fantastic pieces of written work being produced by the children! We have written narratives about The Hobbit and The Iron Man. We wrote our own interpretation of both these well known books.…

Welcome back to our final half term in Rainbow class (and our last half term in Key Stage One too!) 

PE

"This week we have been practising for sports day." - Esther

"We have been practising running, the egg and spoon race, the sack race and the beanbag race." - Mikquell

Please make…

First week back after half term and all the children have been superstars. They have worked extremely hard.

On Monday we had another visit to Ingol library where we talked about the difference between fiction and non fiction books. Richard the librarian read us some stories and we danced to…

Sadly Mrs Keating has been absent this week and will be off next week too, so Mrs Parkinson has been teaching Moonbeam class this week. Throughout the week we have worked really hard getting ready for our Phonics screening tests, which will be next week. 

We have enjoyed being outdoors a lot…