Week 2 (09/11/2015)

Maths In maths we have been doing time. We have also been doing number lines and subtraction. We have been using clocks to help us! 11 minutes past 10 a quarter past 6 English In English we have been writing complex sentences and looking at a book called Sir Charlie stinky socks. We were also … Read more

Week 1 (02/11/2015)

Maths In Maths we have been doing: column subtraction. This is what it looks like:         We have also have been learning the frog method this is a picture of what it looks like.         We have been doing lots of for example three digit numbers subtracted by four … Read more

Week 8 (19/10/2015)

After half term, we are going to be spending a week on ‘time’ in Maths.  If you know this is an area in which you struggle, please use half term to brush up on your skills with the help of your friends and family. Here are some of the time-telling skills that are required: ·         … Read more

Week 7 (12/10/2015)

Maths In maths we have been adding and subtracting two decimal numbers, here are some examples. 0.35+0.1=0.45 0.94+0.01=0.95 0.6-0.01=0.59 We have also been practicing our times tables 3, 7, 12 3×8=24 3×4=12 7×12=84 7×7=49 12×12=144 12×6=72 English In English we have been describing evil villains and building up descriptive sentences and looking at the features … Read more

Week 6 (05/10/2015)

Maths In maths this week we have been learning about grid method. Here is an example …… x 20 5 9 180 45 180+45=225 To add it up we did column addition if it was a hard number (like a 3 digit number add a 4 digit number). If it was easy we would add … Read more

Week 5 (28/09/2015)

ENGLISH In English we have been expanding sentences by using: expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials, adverbial phrases, similes, adjectives and powerful verbs. Here are a few examples. It is night. The night fell on the trees. Darkness fell on the trees, like a black blanket covering the sky. At the last crack of day, darkness … Read more

Week 4 (21/09/2015)

Maths This week we have been exploring numbers by doubling and halving. We wrote the score difference between teams. We did number patterns and sequences. French We learnt how to say different feelings in French. We said how we are. We did greetings. History We did a re-enactment of the Vikings. We wrote a commentary … Read more

Week 3 (14/09/2015)

English: In English his week we concentrated on the Lost Happy Endings story and we also we have been thinking up describing words to describe a background and we have to make a boring word into a good word! Maths: We were x 10 and 100 we learnt a song as well about dividing and … Read more

Week 2 (07/09/2015)

English In English we have been learning about a book called The lost happy endings. At the start of the week we looked at the setting and came up with adjectives to describe it, for example, shadows looming. Also we described the setting with similes. History This term in history we are studying Vikings and … Read more

Week 1 (13/04/2015)

This week we began our ancient Egypt Topic by asking some thoughtful historical questions. We learned about Primary and Secondary sources and we thought about how these sources could be useful if we wanted to answer our questions.