Tiggers have been looking closely at traditional stories, we have been focussing on the Three Little Pigs, talking in detail about characters, setting, plots and endings. We also looked at different versions of the story reading the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig, comparing them and looking at the similarities and differences between the two stories. We also applied these skills to writing our own story maps and stories.

In RE we have been continuing to look at Baptism and are looking forward to a visit to the church to meet Father Oliver who will show us around the church and baptise one of our “babies”.

In Maths, we are looking closely at numbers, focussing on numbers 9 and 10. Understanding ways we can make the numbers that come before and after.

The children have especially enjoyed doing their cooking activities and are becoming really competent at handling kitchen tools safely and understanding the ingredients they are using. This week they have applied their phonic knowledge to write a shopping list.

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Fir Class have had a busy couple of weeks. The children have learnt more Fire of London facts and done some lovely writing as well as creating great silhouette pictures of The Fire. In Maths, we have spent two weeks looking at place value in depth using lots of different equipment to solve problems. In RE the children have begun to think about forgiveness and how important it is, they thought about it in the context of their friends to begin with and now we are looking at stories from The Bible. The children have carried on reading and re-telling various fairy stories in our English lessons as well as doing lots of work on reading and phonics.

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In Fig Class we have enjoyed continuing to read The Iron Man, discussing how the author, Ted Hughes, makes the story exciting for the reader. We have also continued to develop our comprehension skills by answering questions on the text both verbally and with written answers. Alongside this we have been developing our editing skills by up levelling Miss Duncan’s descriptive sentences.

In Maths, we have been looking at multiplication and division and have used our knowledge of the 2, 3, 5 and 10 times tables to help us with this. This is something that we have continued to practise. Perhaps you could test us on our rapid recall of these times tables at home, particularly out of sequence.

In RE, we have looked at the sacrament of marriage, looking at symbolism that represents everlasting love and listening to vows that the bride and groom make. This week, we became the RE teachers and in groups read about a miracle that Jesus has performed and shared our knowledge with the rest of the class. We then listened as different groups performed and talked about what we had learnt about Jesus’s miracles from other children in the class.

In topic lessons, we have been learning about William Caxton who invented the first printing press in the UK and have created a fact file about him. Last Friday, we took the paper planes that we made as part of our previous learning this term about early flight and tested them on the playground. We set up metre sticks and a start line and measured the distance that our planes flew. Some of us even attempted to convert between metres and centimetres.

In Science, I know that the children have been very busy planting with Mrs Montes, discussing the early stages of seed growth and watching bulbs grow in glass jars. I look forward to seeing and discussing the progress of their seeds with the pupils as the term goes on.

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