With Mrs Skilling, we looked at the differences between Islam and Christianity religions.  We looked at how to take notes using bullet points and headings and have been practising while watching Newsround. 

In Numeracy, we have been continuing to look at numbers sequences in 10s, 100s and 1000s for some. We have also been ordering 3- and 4-digit numbers.

In Literacy, we designed posters about how litter affects animals. We feel very strongly about it as it has been an issue in our class novels. We used PowerPoint and copied images from Google and added a heading and extra information.

In PE, we learn how to hold and pass a rugby ball and in Art, we made Christmas Cards!

We have been getting things ready for our stall at tomorrow’s Summer Fayre. We are having a Tin Can Alley. We have made posters to go with it.

In Health and Wellbeing, we chatted about some of the challenges we can face. We then talked about strategies we can use to overcome them. Today, we acted out scenarios to show a challenge and how it could be solved.

This week we have been learning about ‘Famous Failures’. We found out about famous people who didn’t succeed in something but then persevered until it worked out. For example, Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before inventing the light bulb. If he hadn’t persevered we might not have electric lights! We learnt that everyone will make mistakes and fail at things before they get it right. That’s why we have to keep trying. We learnt about the Learning Pit which is part of most learning and when we find our learning tricky it is actually better for us. We drew our own Learning Pits. We also read The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes and found out that it is actually better to make some mistakes and know that making mistakes is a good part of learning.

In Literacy, we took notes all about red squirrels and then wrote an information text about them.

In Outdoor Learning, we split into 3 groups with all the P4s and P3s and did 3 different activities. We will swap round over the next 2 weeks. Some did bird spotting, listening to their calls. One group identified trees and measured their circumference to find out how old they are. The last group created ‘natural stories’!

In PE, we have been practising our throwing and catching skills by playing bench ball! We also had to learn how to defend and help our team mates by getting into space and calling for the ball.

In French, we learnt some classroom instructions like stand up, sit down, line up, hands up and hands down. We played ‘Simon Says’ which is called ‘Jaques a dit’ in French!

In Art, we drew beautiful baby foxes using a grid to help us get the proportions and size right. Then we coloured them with oil pastels and crayons. They look brilliant!

In Numeracy, we have been sequencing 3- and 4-digit numbers forwards and backwards in ones and tens!

This week, we have been learning about red foxes. We voted to learn more about them and then used a book and a video to note down some facts. We then wrote an information text including an introduction, facts and our opinion at the end. We have been trying to include and, but, so and because to join sentences. The P4s had to try and add some openers too like ‘Did you know’ and ‘Another interesting fact is’. We all had to try and use describing words.

In Numeracy, we learnt the word ‘partitioning’ which means to separate numbers in to hundreds, tens and ones or maybe even thousands too. Today, we had a go at partitioning in a non-standard way!

In Art, we collected leaves and used them to print trees. We then added trunks and branches with pen and painted the ground. They look great!

In PE, we have been practising bouncing and dribbling with a basket ball. Today, we played games to practise these skill.

In Health and Wellbeing, we thought about the wellbeing indicators and how Newport Primary School helps to support these. We made posters with a partner. We also read ‘Your Fantastic, Elastic Brain’ and learnt how we can make our brains even bigger and stronger. We can learn new things, make mistakes and keep practising things.

This week we have been learning about kingfishers, as they came up in our class novel, Benji’s Emerald King. We have written an information text with an introduction, lots of facts and our opinion. We had t include describing words and connectives.

In Art, we made collages of kingfishers using different colours and textures of paper. They look fantastic!

From our class novel, we have also been interested in trees and identifying them from their leaves. We are trying to find out what trees we have on our school grounds.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about Place Value or 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers. We have been playing games to consolidate our learning.

In Health and Wellbeing, we read a book called Incredible You! It is all about remembering all of our special skills and qualities. We made posters to share what makes us incredible!

In PE, we have been learning and practising 3 different types of throw – shoulder pass, chest pass and bounce pass. Today we played some games to practise.

In Outdoor Learning with P2/3, we designed mazes and obstacle courses with chalk on the playground. They were very creative and we worked well in groups of three. We got to have a go on other children’s mazes too.

With Mrs Skilling, we looked at bar graphs and created our own using information gathered from a picture.  We talked about the importance of secure passwords and created our own for our glow accounts.

Welcome back, everyone and welcome to P3/4!

We have got off to a great start! We have been thinking about what our School Values look like in school and have created a classroom poster. Today we spoke about the UN Rights for the Child and used them, along with a discussion about what makes a good learner, to come up with our Class Charter. We are thinking we will have a woodland theme as we are enjoying our new class novel called ‘Benji’s Emerald King’.

We have been practising our number bonds to 10 and 20 through games and a making posters.

In PE today, we played games like Chaos Tig and Jungle on Fire.

In Outdoor Learning, we colour matched classroom pencil colours with colours in nature. For example, if we chose yellow, we found dandelions or yellow leaves!

In Literacy, we drew a postcard of one of the best things we did in the holidays and wrote the postcard to Miss Amy. We had to try and include connectives, wow words, openers and good punctuation.

In Art, we each made a birthday card so that on our birthday we can pick a card from the class. We have put all of our birthdays up on the birthday balloons in the classroom.

In French, we remembered how to great each other and say how we are. We also learnt how to say the date.