Year 3 Now year 3 have settled into a different style of learning, the work being produced is phenomenal. It is hard to believe that this is only the second week of online learning as the children have been truly amazing. They have adapted superbly supporting each other along the way. In English, we have continued to focus on the book Hodgeheg by Dick King-Smith with an emphasis on the skill of writing descriptive dialogue. In maths, the focus has remained on fractions; finding fractions of objects and numbers. At the beginning of the week, the children explored items that were magnetic in their house and some excellent maps locating Mayan cities were received. Thank you for sharing some of your favourite inspirational quotes on the form pages.
Year 4 Having been thrust into a world of online learning our resourceful and enterprising year 4s have really found their feet over the past two weeks. Their application of our behaviours for learning in this ‘Brave New World’ of online education has seen the children produce exciting and exceptional pieces of work.
The sunny weather has given us the perfect opportunity to investigate plants which is the science topic for this half term. For the past two weeks, year 4 have been learning about the parts of the plant and its life-cycle. Noah started growing leeks last year, and this week harvested them and used them in his chicken and leek pie. The children have been describing the process of germination and pollination as part of the lifecycle and drawing their own poster to show the stages. Drawing and observations are a key part of science and when so much of our learning is online, drawing detailed and labelled images has been a welcome change. Some children chose to pick a real flower and dissect it and then label it.
Moving back to 1066 and the lead up to the infamous Battle of Hastings, one of the most entertaining lessons this week was when the year 4 children presented their hot seat portrayals of contenders for the throne after Edward the Confessor’s untimely death. Untimely, because he left no heir and hence all the trouble. Trying to reenact the battle, as a form group, may prove trickier than usual next week! Try to imagine Senlac Hill as the mound near the old year 3 block…...