Today we discovered the triangle-based pyramid. This was a new 3D shape that we learned about during our numeracy topic focused on Shape. We built our own models, building on the skills we developed last week.

As Christmas draws nearer, we explored a winter village scene, complete with Christmas Tree, as part of our learning in expressive arts. We used our skills in line and shape drawing to recreate a classic image including snow covered roofs and hills, a forest and an imposing church to set us in the festive mood. We finished off our art with lots of colours, contrasting icy blues with lush greens.

We explored nouns today as part of our literacy learning. We now know that nouns can be a person, a place or a thing. Working in two teams, we explored the school building, hunting for different nouns that we recorded in our notes. Some nouns that we found included a phone, a bell, a magnifying glass, a drum, the Science Room and even Mrs Stewart!

In our Shape lesson today, we discovered a new shape – the triangular prism. We learned that it is created from both rectangles and triangles, and is a 3D shape with 9 edges, 5 faces, and 6 vertices. We then built our own models, using straws and Play-Doh. Everyone in class achieved all 5 of our success criteria, which the class agreed on beforehand.

We created a winter themed canvas painting when two local artists came to visit the school. We were really excited to hear that our work will be displayed in a local gallery.

Our basketball skills have really developed over the last few weeks. We combined all the skills we have been learning to take part in a 5-a-side mini tournament. Some excellent teamwork, passing, dribbling and shooting was on display. Each team won a match, and well done to the Green team, who finished with two victories!

We explored healthy eating, learning about the five food groups as part of our health and well-being learning. Pupils designed their own healthy plates, showing how much of each food group we should be eating in our daily diets.

Our numeracy work has seen us learning about pyramids. This inspired today’s spelling activities where we used pyramid writing to continue developing our spelling of ‘ss’ and ‘se’ words.

Our creative arts this week has an Autumn into Winter theme. We noticed from our classroom windows that the trees are starting to lose all their leaves. We are creating a 3D collage, using coloured card to represent the leaves, with a few still on the branches, and the rest lying on the ground. The class enjoyed hanging their pictures once complete.

In our Number Talk today, we focused on doubles, where we worked up to double 20. We recognised that when we use doubles, we are following the 2 times table. We used this knowledge to then extend our learning into near-doubles, where we learnt that to solve tricky sums, we can use our nearest double to help us work towards the answer. Pupils enjoyed ‘being teacher’ and sharing their answers on the class whiteboard.

Developing our listening skills is important for success in our learning. Today we followed our teacher’s verbal instructions to draw and colour a piece of art that we could not see, we had to only listen to what we had to draw and the colours we had to use, step by step. It is clear we have some superb listeners in class!

Today we have been sorting a variety of shapes, using our knowledge of 3D shapes. Pupils worked on this independently and were delighted to self-assess their work.

We begin each week with our Morning News. This lets us share our stories from the weekend; where we’ve been, what we’ve done, and who we spent it with. This lets us develop our independent writing skills, whilst the best bit is sharing this news with the rest of the class.

Tiling with 2D shapes is progressing well. We have now begun to create our own patterns using squares. We are utilising our measuring skills, using a ruler to ensure even-sized, neat lines, and then selecting four colours to use in a repetitive pattern.

Our basketball skills are really developing and we are now becoming really confident with our passing and dribbling. This week we worked on our shooting. We combined these skills in a mixed team match, with two players from each team competing against each other before switching with our team-mates. The fast-paced rotations were the perfect opportunity to hone our skills, and it was great to see some ‘baskets’ scored!

We have begun to use 2D shapes in tiling patterns as our numeracy topic, focused on shapes continues. Pupils discovered that some shapes can be tiled like squares, rectangles and triangles, whilst circles are not a good shape to use in tiling. There were some excellent patterns created, and the pupils were delighted that they met the success criteria that they themselves decided on. Well done P2/3!

This week we are practising our ay, ea and y sound words that we have been learning over the last 3 weeks. Pupils have been working hard on writing the words alongside building them with their magnetic letters.

Question Marks have been our focus in Grammar lessons over the last few weeks. We can now tell the difference between a sentence and a question, and can add in missing question marks within a piece of text. Creating our own questions lets us share our learning with the rest of the class.

We are extending our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes in our numeracy topic, this time looking for real life example of these shapes. We successfully identified a number of both 2D and 3D shapes in the playground. The children were especially proud of the Octogon they discovered!

Basketball will be our focus of learning for PE over the next few weeks. We have been developing our skills in chest and bounce passes, as well as keeping control of the ball whilst dribbling. We used these skills in a passing relay, and in a basketball possession game.

We have been continuing with our Shape topic. This week, we began to explore 3D shapes, and how they relate to their 2D equivalents. Pupils are learning how to draw 3D shapes – we might have some future architects in our class!

Our new Maths topic, exploring Shape began this week. We learned about the term vertice, which is another name for the corners of a shape. We identified how many sides and vertices, a variety of 2D shapes have.

This week, our PE learning focused on Hockey. We have been developing our skills in dribbling, passing and shooting.

Today, we were learning about Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Light. We discovered that it celebrates Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth) and Ganesha (the god of wisdom). These celebrations include food, music, fireworks and decorating your house with patterns called rangoli. We created our own colourful rangoli in class.

This term, football has been our focus during PE. We have developed our skills in dribbling, passing and shooting. Today we played a 4 team ‘corners’ match. There was some fantastic skills on display, some great goals, and lots of sweaty faces by the end!

Inspired by the incoming weather storm, we explored the water cycle, and how rain is formed, as part of our Science learning. We replicated the four stages of the water cycle, using water, shaving foam and food colouring to create our own mini rain showers.

We then recorded our experiments by drawing a labelled diagram in our Science jotters.