| 23/10/25 |
During this final week of the first half-term, Year 2 have been busy writing instructions for how to hollow out a pumpkin referencing our previous class text Pattan's Pumpkin. We of course had to hollow out our own pumpkins first so we got our hands dirty on Tuesday and got to scooping! In Maths, we have begun learning how to partition numbers using our knowledge of number bonds to 10. This will help us next term when we continue learning how to add numbers to 20 fluently. We also wrapped up our Art unit about portraits and self-portraits by drawing each other using chalk outside - so much fun! I hope everyone has an enjoyable half-term break, and the Year 2 team all look forward to seeing you soon! |
| 17/10/25 |
Year 3 have began an exciting project, working towards creating their own short story based on Mr Markham's own one - where a boy gets transported back to the Stone Age after tinkering with his Grandad's old clock. The focus of this work is on fronted adverbials, used to show place, feeling, or time. I can't wait to see the final results! In Maths, the class have been using a range of manipulatives such as hundred squares and place value charts, in order to demonsrate additon and subtraction fluency and reasoning. |
| 10/10/25 |
What a week in Year 3! This week the class were given the shocking news that Ms Butler had decided to send them back to the Stone Age! With this new buzzing around their heads, the class set about learning the skills needed to create a persuasive letter that they can send to Ms Butler either against or in favour of this idea. We await Ms Butler's response! In Maths, the children have been diving into addition and subtraction. The focus has been on the children putting the methods they learnt in Year 2 into practice with larger and trickier numbers. Keep up the hard work Year 3! |
| 3/10/25 |
This week, Year 3 have been busy completing their newspaper reports on Ug's new invention. The focus this week has been on including speech and the correct punctuation as part of this activity. In Maths, the class have been rounding off the Maths module focusing on Place Value and are now ready to move onto Addition and Subtraction. With Ms Nhambure, the class have been conducting a fascinating investigation into their muscles of the body. |
| 26/9/25 |
This week in year 3 we have been hard at work planning and assembling our newspaper reports. This has involved immersion as news reporters and spending time learning about how to use inverted commas in speech. We have continued our progress looking at place value and spent even more time delving into the fascinating world of skeletons - looking at bones and their uses in our bodies. |
| 19/9/25 |
This week, Year 3 have been hard at work tackling place value and also working at using imperative verbs in their sentence starters as part of creating their Stone Age recipes. Science has been a thrill with children enjoying learning about skeletons across the animal kingdom! |
| 12/9/25 |
Well done Year 3 on completing a fantastic first full week of term. The start of this year has been full of understanding classroom expectations, getting know our teacher and each other, and then beginning to get started on all of the fantastic work and learning that lies ahead for us as a class. This week, this has meant looking at expanded noun phrases and also beginning to represent numbers using hundred, tens, and ones. |
