It’s been a busy week in P3/2 with lots of great learning.

For our engineering competition, the children were asked, “If you were an engineer, what would you do?”

The challenge is to think of a problem and how you could create something to solve it. We looked at big examples, like bridges and how they solved travel problems. We looked at the telephone and how it solved communication problems. If you want to, you could chat with your child about a problem that happens for them, or something in the wider world. If they come up with a good idea, can you help them draw a sketch of it and bring it in to enter into the competition.

We have been doing fractions work in maths. We started by halving shapes and moved on to halving quantities and looking at how to write a half. We will be continuing this work next week.

The children are continuing to work hard on their phonic knowledge and reading strategies. Please keep reading and spelling with your children as much as possible at home.

We have been learning about electricity in science and the children will be having a go at making simple electrical circuits next week. They may have talked to you about the dangers of electricity, we will be making safety posters next week to consolidate this.

Have a great weekend. I look forward to hearing about it on Monday!