This week has been an exciting one for year 3. They have travelled back in time and experienced what life was like in Ancient Egypt. They all looked great in their costumes and enjoyed creating an Egyptian dance. The children have been learning about the importance of the River Nile and they have started to write an Egyptian adventure in English. Keeping with the Egyptian theme, the children have been drawing their name in hieroglyphics in art. In maths, we have been looking at converting money from pounds to pence, adding two amounts of money and subtracting amounts of money.
In English this week, the Year 4 children completed their biography written work about Neil Armstrong, Muhammed Ali or Stephen Hawking. This topic and their subjects really caught the children’s interest, which was reflected in the quality of the writing they produced. Consolidation and challenges centred around fractions, decimals, ordering and rounding decimals was the focus in maths. In science, the children investigated wonderful water, and the processes of melting, freezing, condensing and evaporating. This included several investigations including adding salt to ice, observing, then trying to explain what happened. Anglo Saxon kings were the focus in topic; who was best - King Alfred the Great or King Athelstan? Please debate, and they did!