Our learning this week

English

This week we began to explore our vehicle text 'Arthur and the Golden Rope'. We read the story and explored the language and vocabulary within. During sentence accuracy we explored prepositions and how to structure a sentence. The children enjoyed the book and next week we will be working towards writing our own myth narrative!

Maths

We began by exploring place value and understanding tens and ones. It gave us a chance to familiarise ourselves again with magma maths (the platform we use for the questions). The children enjoyed using the concrete resources to help with their learning. 

Science

The children were introduced to our topic 'Habitats' and we went outside to discover all the living things we could see. This developed into discussing the characteristics of living things by learning about MRS GREN. 

M = Movement

R = Respiration

S = Sensitivity 

G = Growth

R = Reproduction

E = Excretion

N = Nutrition

The children also had good discussion about whether something was living, never lived or once living. 

PE

This week we begun by exploring dribbling in football and running with the ball in tag rugby. We were lucky to have Isaac from Rugby Allstars come in to give us a rugby session. The children thoroughly enjoyed the lessons. 

History

We continued our learning about the Vikings and the reasons for their invasion of England and Scotland. The Vikings travelled from Denmark, Norway and Sweden to find good fertile land for farming as well as to take valuable items from monasteries. We focused on the Battle of Edington, how Alfred the Great defeated Guthrum and the subsequent signing of a peace treaty. 

Next Week - Key Information

Friday 19th September - Jeans for Genes

PE Kits

Our PE days will be Mondays and Wednesdays. Children will need to be dressed in full PE kit when coming to school. We will be beginning with Tag Rugby and Football.