Happy New Year!
We hope that you have all had a wonderful Christmas break, and would like to welcome you all back to school for the Spring Term. The children have had a busy week full of challenges and success across the curriculum.
In English, Year 3 have been excited to begin their new topic of learning on The Rainforest. This week, both classes have been exploring the Rainforest through a series of sound clips, animal documentaries and group jigsaw activities. It has been brilliant to see the children apply the key words and animal names they have learned, across a series of compound and complex sentences. Well done Year 3! Next week, we look forward to looking at some real life examples of Rainforest information leaflets, before planning and drafting our own for visitors of London Zoo.
In Maths, the children have been continuing their learning on addition and subtraction. We have focused upon solving a series of numerical and written problems, through the use of Maths tool kits including diennes, arrow cards and place value counters. We would like to congratulate both classes for the commitment and perseverance they have demonstrated, particular across challenging mastery tasks and ‘estimation’ games. Next week, we look forward to embedding our knowledge and skills across number and place value, especially within the context of addition and subtraction.
We would just like to takes this opportunity to remind all parents of the recent changes to Home Learning, the details of which are all listed within the school letters distributed among the children at the beginning of the Spring Term. Please ensure that your child regularly logs on to their online learning: Sumdog (Maths) and Active Learn (Bug Club), for which tasks are regularly updated to promote challenge and progress. Both classes have also been given a Poetry Performance booklet – each child is required to select their favourite poem and rehearse it regularly at home so that it is ready to recite at the end of the term.
We hope you have all had a great weekend,
Miss Honeywell, Mrs Luter and Mrs Sumba.