English

First Term

In the first half of Autumn term, Blue class looked at creating their own fictional story. Using the text, 'Until I met Dudley', we looked at layout, sentence structure and time connectives. Using these skills, we then designed our own invention with step-by-step instructions. 

In the second half of Autumn term, we used the text 'How Santa really works' as a skills example. We then worked on our skills of conjunctions and nouns, to produce our own ideas on how Santa really works. 

Second Term

Blue class have started to write a fictional hero story based on Beowulf. 

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 continued 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. 

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!