This week the children have been writing and editing their setting descriptions. We have been talking about using adjectives to describe what can be seen, heard, smelt and felt and to describe the mood and atmosphere. We have also been talking about figurative language- metaphors, similes, personification and hyperbole.

Our Golden Certificate Winner is Sabine. She has written a fantastic character and setting description this half term. Well done, Sabine.

In Science, we continued to look at shadows and investigated how shadows change. We found that the larger the distance to the light the smaller the shadow, and the smaller the distance to the light the larger the shadow. The children enjoyed drawing shadows that were made using objects and torches.

In DT, the children have been creating a circuit for their light. Next week, they will be using their designs to finish making their light.

Hope you have a nice weekend,

Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies.

This week it has been assessment week. The children have carried out writing, spelling and punctuation tests and our end of unit test in Maths. It has been great to see how much progress the children have made and areas where we will now work on. Next week, the children will do a reading comprehension and Maths test.
Following on from our end of unit test in Maths we have been looking at word problems and the steps to take to help us solve them. We will continue to look at word problems next week. In Literacy, we have also started to write out setting descriptions. We will continue to write, edit and present our writing next week.

In Science, the children enjoyed looking at how light travels in a line and shadows. We planned and carried out an investigation to find out which material blocks the light and talked about opaque, translucent and transparent.
In PSHE we have been giving compliments and continuing to talk about respectful relationships.
We have also been talking about advent and the children have enjoyed seeing the Christmas decorations up around school and opening our advent calendar in class.

Just a reminder that swimming will now take place after Christmas. We will start the first Friday back after Christmas, Friday 6th January.

Our Golden Certificate Winner is Omar who has been a great role model to his peers this week. He is eager to learn, tries hard and gets on with his work straight away. Well done Omar.

Hope you have a nice weekend,
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies.

This week in Literacy we have started to look at setting descriptions and finding features in an example text. We have been looking at figurative language and thinking of our own examples of similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole.

In Maths, we have been looking at; 12 times tables and division facts, multiplying by 1 and 0, dividing a number by itself or 1 and multiplying 3 numbers.

In Science, we have been using mirrors and the children enjoyed creating messages for their friends to work out. We have also been creating a design for our light in DT and talking about respectful relationships in PSHE.

Our Golden Certificate Winner is Frankie. This week when looking at figurative language, Frankie could think of a great metaphor. Well done, Frankie.

The children will start their swimming lessons next Friday (2nd December) so please can they bring in their swimming kits to school. Thank you.

Hope you have a nice weekend,

Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies.