What a fantastic week! In English this week, we have continued with our work on the story ‘King of the Birds’. We have begun adding actions to the story to help us retell the story and have completed story maps of our own.

In Maths, we have been working on our multiplication and finding patterns in the 9 times tables.  We have also been applying our knowledge of the times tables to multiply larger numbers using grid  method.

My favourite part of this week was swimming every day and we had a fun session today to celebrate the end of our swimming block! We hope we get to go again soon!

Happy weekend all!

Year 4

In Topic this week, we have been exploring NASA’s website to find out about Space inventions that we now use in our everyday lives. An example of this is an infrared ear thermometer. Originally, the technology was used to measure the temperature of distant stars.  Now, we use the technology to measure ear temperature to check for high temperatures.

In English this week, we have been looking at instruction writing and choosing adverbs and bossy verbs for our writing.  Also, we have been working on our Oracy skills preparing to present our instructions on how to wash your hands properly to Nursery children.

In Maths this week, we worked on our data handling skills and created, extracted and interpreted pictograms and bar graphs. Also this week, we have been working on measurements of weight.  Did you know, we measure weight in grams and kilograms? 1000g=1kg.

Year 3.

In Welsh this week, we have been working on our third person profiles.  We researched and wrote about our patron Saint, Saint David.

In English, we we finished writing our story, The Legend of Alltwen. We included lots of adjectives, adverbs and complex sentences to make our stories more interesting.

In Maths, we have using expanded column addition to solve problems.

Finally, we have been practicing for our class assembly and we are looking forward to performing it for our parents and siblings next Thursday.

Blwyddyn 3.

What a busy last week of term.  This week in topic, we have been learning about shadows and have carried out an investigation on light and shadows.

In English, we have been looking at simple, complex and compound sentences using interesting vocabulary to improve out writing.  As well as this, we innovated the story of Gelert, changing it to the Legend of Alltwen.

In Maths, we have been working on addition using the expanded column addition to add 3 digit numbers. This was challenging.

Year 3

We have had a great week! This week, we have enjoyed going swimming.  In topic this week we have been doing missions and our major task was to solve words problems involving adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

In English, we have been learning the story of Gelert and writing our story maps.

In Maths, we have begun to look at our times tables using arrays to help us multiply and divide.

Next week, we are looking forward to another week of swimming.

Year 3

Waw! What a busy week! This week in topic, we have started our mission work on the solar system. These included cracking codes, finding information about the planets, working out clues to order the planets and creating our own planets.

In English, we have begun to Pie Corbett the story of Gelert using actions.

In Maths, we have been ordering 3 digit numbers on a number line and using Freddie the frog to help us subtract by adding on.  Furthermore we have been using our knowledge of place value to round numbers to the nearest 100 and 10.

Next week, we are looking forward to our swimming lessons!

Year 3.

Another busy week.  This week we have been looking at facts about Henry VIII and we have used the facts to write a personal profile in Welsh.

In English, we worked on compound sentences and have innovated the story Nail Soup in preparation for writing our own stories.  Also, we have used the story mountain to plan our own stories and have begun to write the opening of our story.

In Maths this week, we have been learning about fractions like 1/2, 1/4, 1/3 and 1/6 and have been finding fractions of amounts.  This was challenging.  Also, we used our knowledge of fractions to solve a puzzle.

Year 3.

Another jam packed week!  This week the Riverside teachers came to teach us in our Garden of Learning.  We played some fun games and made crafts out of wood. In Topic, we started our art work and have decided to make collages of Henry VIII.

In English, we have learnt about similes.  Similes contain the words as or like in them and they are used to describe something as something else.

In Maths, we have been using Freddie the Frog to help us subtracting by counting on.  We have also been working on positioning numbers on a number line.  This was quite hard.

Until next week…

Year 3.