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A great week!

What a busy week we’ve had as we all settled back into our normal routines.

This week we’ve been learning about possessives…….tricky! We are all confident using the apostrophe to show when something belongs to someone but it’s a little trickier when we are looking at collective nouns however this time next week we’ll be more confident with this as well.

We have used Queen Victoria as a focus for writing a biography. We have all impressed Mrs D very much with the standard of work we have produced as we are more aware of transferring skills into different contexts. We wrote in chronological order and used the notes we had taken about Queen Victoria’s life to make sure we had included only factual information. This also allowed us to discuss the difference between fact and opinion and we will be learning more about this as the term goes on.

In maths we have been revising what we already know about telling the time. We have discussed the different skills that we already have that will help us to build on what we already know. The majority of the class said they did not feel confident in this are however by the end of our first lesson those same people said they already felt better about developing their skills in this area. We have been revising – o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. We know that the minutes in an hour can be counted in individual minutes or in 5, 10, 15, 20 etc. Mrs D is very impressed with the work we have been doing using the four operations especially decomposition and addition with carrying.

I would just like to say I am delighted to be back. Have a great weekend folks!