Good afternoon everyone,
I hope you have all had a lovely week. It’s not long now until our PGL residential and the children all seem really excited. Please note that an email was sent out with the PGL presentation slides and kit list attached, but if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email me.
In English this week, the children have moved on to Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky poem, where they have been identifying nonsensical words and using their comprehension skills to work out what the poem might be about.
In maths, we have been working with decimals, with a particular focus on tenths, and have been rounding these numbers to the nearest whole number. Next week, the children will be moving on to a very popular topic — money!
In our ‘Rivers’ geography topic, we have been naming and locating some of the world’s longest rivers, including the Nile, Amazon and Yangtze. We discussed the continents these rivers are found in and the children also enjoyed learning interesting facts about them.
In RE, we have continued to discuss and research the Bible. Last week, we discussed the meaning of the word ‘sacred’ and wrote down what we already know and would like to find out about the Bible. This week, we learnt about some of the authors of the Bible and read about their stories and experiences. We also discovered that the Bible is the world’s best-selling book, amongst other interesting facts - including John the Baptist eating locusts with honey in the desert!
In art, we worked on studies inspired by the rainforest. We used viewfinders to focus on sections of a particular animal or insect. We then split our pages into four sections to draw and colour enlarged studies based on what we could see through our viewfinders. We looked carefully at colour, texture and shape in our work.
Of course, it has also been Sir David Attenborough’s 100th birthday this week. To celebrate the occasion, we went outside to enjoy the outdoor areas he has worked so hard to protect and celebrate and the children wrote acrostic poems in his honour. They produced some fantastic work!
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I may even see some of you when the teachers win at the PTA Quiz Night tomorrow.
Take care,
Mr Chanter
