In the classroom

English

First Term

During the first term we looked at fictional texts with story writing. The boys planned a story using their knowledge of Egyptians, using a picture stimulus to help them. Blue class also wrote letters as Anubis answering questions from a mummy. They focused on the key skills of adjectives, conjunctions and sentence structure to create their own story. After doing research around ancient Egypt, Blue class made information posters and the wonderful things they had found.

Second Term

In the second term, Blue class looked at creating their own fictional story. They used the story starter of 'The Game' which is based on Jumanji. They then created this fictional story using descriptive language, speech and adverbs. It was based around the setting of a classroom and a dusty old game that appears during wet play. 

Third Term

During the this term, Blue class will be looking at creating their own portfolio about and invention. It will consist of a timetime and facts about their chosen invention. They will be trying to add noun phrases expanded with fitting adjectives and prepositions, as well as simply structured sentence with some complex sentences. 

Maths

First Term

During the first term Blue class looked at place value, decimal numbers, addition and subtraction and improving our recall multiplication facts. The boys used resources such as numicon, place value charts and timestable sheets. All work has been achieved individually or on a 1:1 basis. 

Second Term

During the second term Blue class worked on writing and calculating multiplication and division statements using the times tabels that they know. These include 2 digit by 1 digit numbers as well as x by 10, 100, 1000. They also worked on recognising, finding and writing fractions within sets of objects. These were unit or non-unit fractions with small denominators. Blue class then learnt to order unit fractions, add and subtract fractions with the same denominators and started to write decimal equivalenets to 1/2, 1/3 , 1/4.

Third Term

Blue class are currently learning about decimals and money. They are comparing numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimals. 

Cooking

Blue class have been cooking a variety of delicious recipes. The boys have been working as a team to learn different skills such as measuring, weighing, mixing, as well as knife skills. They have also learnt to use a hob safely with tasty results!