Recently, class 3 have been looking at Hinduism for RE. We have been focusing on Hindu shrines and their places of worship. We decided to create our own Hindu shrines.

Recently we had been learning about mental health and relaxation techniques. This included things such as breathing techniques.

Recently we looked at forces and and discussed how the Romans used forces in their siege weapons such as Trebuchets. Mrs Richards had made a mini version of a Trebuchet and showed us all how it worked and the forces used in it.

We have been using number triangles and are now confident with them. Today we solved missing number problems with them. To start with we struggled to go the correct way around the triangle, to get the missing number, but by the end we had cracked it.

Today in English, we generated lots of ideas by have the stimuli of beautiful photos such as a sinking house. We then had to write sentences about said photos including lots of adjectives and time connectives.

On Friday we were getting to grips with subtraction using outdoor learning. We worked on representing calculations and solving them using objects from the grounds.

Apologies for these not being in the reading records, I will add a copy of them on Monday. This weeks spellings are: Mr Salmon’s Group Alternative pronunciation y as /ie/ and /ee/ fly, spy, shy, cry, try happy, silly, funny, money, honey (we also talked about the double letter after a vowel on its own)… Read more »

We have finished our Diwali week by making paper lanterns to decorate the classroom. We carefully cut and joined them together, decorating them with feathers and sparkles. The children have enjoyed this creative week. 

As we mentioned at the start of the year, we will be holding our Twilight evening this half term. Weather permitting, we are planning on holding this next week on Thursday evening. We are inviting the children to join us from 5:30 till 7:00 to take part in a range of activities linked to our… Read more »