English

First Term

In the first half of Autumn 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 a 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. 

During the second half of Autumn Term, Blue class will be creating a information fact file based on Ancient Egypt. We will investigate the layouts of fact files, how paragraphing and sub-headings portrays information for our reader. We will also be looking at how to increase our sentence structure with different conjunctions.

Second Term

Blue class have started to write a story based on wish. Using the fable of the golden fish, we are going to change to story be become our own, using wonderful descriptive language.

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 times table sheets. All work has been achieved individually or on a 1:1 basis. 

In the second half of Autumn term, Blue class will be continuing to improve on their calculation skills as well as some moving onto calculating area and perimeter.  

Second Term

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

Cooking

Blue class cook a variety of delicious recipes. The boys work hard as a team to learn different skills such as measuring, weighing, mixing, as well as knife skills. They also learn to use a hob and oven safely with tasty results!