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It has been a quiet week in Year 6 with so many children off.  It has been so lovely to have some children feeling better and coming back to school.  In English this week, we have started looking at the narrative poem The Highwayman.  Is a fantastic poem and we get so much out of it.  We have finished our unit on fractions in maths and will be starting geometry next week. In topic, we have continued learning about WW2 and who the leaders were.  

This week, we have started a new topic in Maths - fractions. So far, we have found equivalent fractions and we have converted mixed number and improper fractions. In English, we have written informal letters from the point of view of Robin Hood, who had been captured and was writing to Maid Marian. Mrs Cave was particularly impressed with her English group. In Science, we found out how seeds are dispersed and we made or own versions of the sycamore 'helicopters.' 

Year 3 have really enjoyed investigating different rocks this week in science. They have been testing how hard the rocks are and how permeable they are. They have also been performing and investigating the structure of Winter poetry. Next week they will write their own poems. In Maths we are adding and subtracting money. We are all looking forward to out trip next week to Creswell Crags.

This week we have been slowly returning to some degree of normal and it has been fantastic to see returning faces but we are missing those that are not here. Get well soon if you are off.

We have been continuing to study mountains and have considered whether mountains are places tourists would like to visit and why. In English we have been continuing to learn about newspapers and next week plan to write a newspaper report about Nigel Vardy (the mountaineer who visited our school) and the incident in 1999 on Mount McKinley. In Science, we set up an experiment about evaporation and found that water evaporated when in a warmer atmosphere.

It has been a busy week in Year 6.  We have explored different types of poetry in English and have written our own poems about war.  In maths, we have continued our work on fractions.  We have been dividing fractions and finding fractions of amounts.  In topic, we have been exploring the events that caused World War Two to happen and questioning what could have been done differently to prevent it.  In science, we have been using classification keys to group animals according to their features. 

 

Miss Hubert & Mr Tivey

It certainly has been interesting in Year 4. We have missed many of our children and hope they are making a speedy recovery. For those of us in school, we have started a new English unit called Spy Fox, which the children have loved and have interviewed witnesses of Dr Hammer's terrible crimes! In Topic and Reading sessions, we have learned more about mountains and have set up an evaporation experiment in Science. We hope to be back to full strength next week and are looking forward to seeing you all. Have a good weekend.

 

Mrs Marshall