What a week!

In Maths this week we have been continuing with learning and using the grid method.

In English this week we have finished writing, editing and best of all, publishing our Roman Slave Diaries. They look authentically Roman, written on their ‘ancient’ scrolls!

In Topic this week we have learnt about Boudicca and how we don’t really know exactly what she looked like as there are no surviving portraits of her from her lifetime. The images we see today are based on old written reports of her and these vary based on the writers opinion of her. The children produced some lovely pictures of their own based on what we know and think of her personally.

It was lovely to see so many of you at Parents’ Evening on Tuesday and Wednesday and to have the opportunity to share with you how your children are doing and how they can be supported at home to maintain their progress. We appreciate all of your support, thank you.

This was followed on Thursday by a trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace. Thank you to all the adult helpers – we couldn’t run valuable trips like this without you and you did a wonderful job. It was a brilliant (and mostly dry!) day, jam-packed with wonder and awe. We hope that your child was able to come home and tell you an array of interesting facts or stories from throughout the day.

This week ended on a high with our school Poetry Competition Finals, featuring three of our lovely Year 3s. They were spectacular and we are incredibly proud of them. Well done, William, Lucy and Lola – the effort you have put in to practicing clearly paid off!

This weekend, please try and log in to SumDog, in addition to spelling and vocabulary homework. A couple of competitions have been set up for the children to practice their tables and recently learnt skills. We will be monitoring the use of SumDog as there is the possibility that, with high enough numbers, we could enter a County Contest. Please remember that even without live contests, competitions and assessments, SumDog is still very beneficial as it learns what your child needs to practice and puts those opportunities in place.

We wish you a restful weekend after a busy week and look forward to seeing you on Monday…

Team 3.