This week in English, we finished drafting our stories set in Wickhambreaux village. Next week, we’ll be taking part in small group editing sessions to focus carefully on consistency of tense and punctuation, helping us improve and refine our work.

In maths, we continued our work on calculating change, exploring how this is all about finding the difference. Our key stem sentence has been: amount paid minus cost of item(s) = change. We used bar models to represent the structure of different word problems and thought carefully about which methods were most efficient — whether that was using column subtraction, adjusting, or counting forwards on a number line. We also challenged ourselves further by calculating change when buying two or more items.

In science, we learnt about how plants reproduce. The children were introduced to using a microscope and used both traditional and digital microscopes to look closely at a tulip’s pollen and ovaries.

In art, we began creating perspective drawings of cityscapes, learning how to create the illusion of depth. We’ll be completing these next week.

We also had great fun building the structures for our castles, which we’ll be painting next week. Thank you very much for all the cardboard donations — they have been hugely helpful.

A reminder that the inter-house competition to design a front cover for the Sports Day programme closes next Thursday. All entries will earn 3 house points!

Homework