On Monday and Tuesday we had a brilliant start to our fantastic class talks about Vikings. We have heard five already and they have been full of great facts. They all had a wow factor! We can’t wait to hear the rest.

This week we have been learning about symmetry. We did a carousel of activities where we coloured in different coloured squares that had to be mirror images of each other. We also played a symmetry game on the smartboard and we looked at the alphabet to see if we could find symmetrical letters. We especially enjoyed creating symmetrical pictures out of wooden shapes with a partner. We had to put a ruler between us, create a pattern and copy the pattern that our partner had made, making it perfectly symmetrical on either side of the ruler.

In our writing we made adverts for selling a longship. We learnt about the features of persuasive writing and then had to include these in our adverts. We used alliteration, adjectives, details of our ship (often exaggerated!) and many of the eye catching features seen in adverts to try and make them stand out. Mrs Graham and Mrs Collings were super impressed with them! Did you want to buy a longship for 50 silver arm rings cause if you do, we know where to find them!

In P.E. we are coming to the end of our circuits fitness block. We are steadily improving our scores and are hoping to smash them in our final week next Thursday!
We have started thinking about our show and our assembly. It’s going to be a busy second half of the term for P4a (and P4b) with rehearsals and performances to look forward to.

In numeracy we are learning to multiply in 10s and 100s. We are working really hard using a variety of strategies to support our learning.

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