Class 3

This afternoon we wrote cards with the definition for different river features eg meander or estuary. We then played a memory game to match the definitions up, in small groups. 
 

We have analysing the artwork of Richard and Judith Lang. They collect rubbish from the beach and create sculptures of sea creatures. 

We have designed and and created our own sculptures. We love them. 

The Year 4 children are still practising their times tables every day in preparation for their upcoming multiplication check. Today they played a new game where they rolled 2 dice and whatever numbers they landed on they multiplied together and had to work out the answer in 6 seconds! Fast maths…

Class 3 have been studying the music piece Yoyo and The Little Auk. We listened carefully to the music and created our own graphic notation to go with the piece. We then selected percussion instruments to create our own version of the music. 

Today we came to school dressed in red, white and blue for Victory in Europe day. We gathered as a school at our Memorial garden for a one minutes silence at noon, followed by a special prayer. 
In Class 3 we watched video clips from 1945 to show what celebrations were like in London 80 years…

Our new topic this term will be a Geography focus on Rivers.

We hope you have a lovely Easter! Here are some photos of us making your Easter cards. We discussed the symbolism on the card, the crucifix to remember the sacrifice Jesus made for us all and the egg shape and flowers to remind us of new life. 
 

The children enjoyed using a bi lingual French dictionary to look up words for their Easter French poem. Super confident work! 
 

We have been learning about seasonal British vegetables in Design and Technology. We have created stuffed peppers with the ingredients of rice, peas, courgette and some herbs. The skills we developed were grating cheese and chopping with a knife. We all tried our stuffed peppers and reflected on…

As part of our Design and Technology learning, we have made jam tarts today. We used the skill of rolling to roll the pastry and then used the pastry cutters to cut them out. We carefully placed some jam in the middle of them before placing a star on the top. We have learnt about how seasonal…

Congratulations to this terms TTRS most improved players! All the children have worked super hard on their tables this week, keep it up Class 3! 

This morning we used spelt flour to bake our own Roman recipe bread. Spelt is an ancient grain widely grown during Roman times. We also enjoyed trying other Roman snacks such as figs, olives and the more familiar grapes and pears. Most of us agreed we prefer modern day food!