Term 6 Week 1

This week in Literacy, we have started to look at the language and features of an biography. We started the week by writing our cold writes all about the Olympic diver Tom Daley. We then learnt about the features of biographies and researched the life of Usain Bolt, finding out facts about his early life and career so that we can use these to write about him.

In Maths, Year 3 started the week identifying Roman Numerals to 12 and locating these on an analogue clock face. We then recapped our understanding of o'clock, half past and quarter past/to times using our own clocks that we created. We also read these times on analogue clocks and represented them, drawing the hour and minute hands as accurately as possible. We finished the week comparing analogue time with digital time. Please encourage the children to tell the time at home, either with an analogue or digital clock. In Maths, Year 4 have been reviewing telling the time to the nearest minute on analogue clocks. We then looked at digital clocks and how they show AM and PM using 24 hour clock.  We looked at how to convert 12 and 24 hour clocks and how this would be shown as digital and analogue clocks.

In History we had to piece together pieces of broken Greek pottery to see what these sources tell us about the lives of the Ancient Greeks. We had to use our oracy skills to explain what inferences we made based on the pictures. In Art we looked at the work of David Hockney. We looked at a range of his artwork and picked out common themes and colours, and what we liked and disliked about it. In Computing we are looking at stop animation this term. We created our own flip books to see how images can be over-layed to give the impression they are moving.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.