​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have been learning about fractions of amounts and fractions on a number line in Maths. In English, they have begun to write their own versions of 'The King who banned the dark', focusing on character and setting descriptions. They have concluded their Humanities topic by comparing The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and The Iron Age. They compared food, homes, clothing and tools used during these different periods. They have begun their new Science topic about plants and have planned an investigation about plant growth. All of Year 3 were amazing on sports day, everyone tried their best in all of their activities and races. It was a fantastic day, Miss Booth and Mrs Macdonald are very proud of how well everyone supported each other throughout the day.
Year 4 – have had the worst luck, they entered their classrooms to find a crime had been committed - three apples were stolen from a magical apple tree! The criminal, eight-year-old Noah Barleywater (definitely not Alexander) has been arrested and will be brought up in front of the judge (Zuzanna) next week. In English, they have put on their barrister wigs and have been writing their opening and closing statements as well as questions for the witnesses that will stand up in court. In Maths, they have been working very hard! Each member of Year 4 sat their multiplication test (MTC). This was a very tricky timed test, but they handled the pressure brilliantly and all tried their best. In Science, they have been investigating food webs.
Year 5 – have been very busy this week editing and publishing their newspaper articles about the Platinum Jubilee.  Everyone worked hard to include commas for parenthesis, relative clauses and apostrophes for possession.  The finished pieces of work are lovely and really show the improvement many of the children have made. They have converted millimetres and millilitres, and learnt how to convert metric units using part whole models and bar models in their maths lessons this week. They have also used some lessons to look back at some of the tricky work Year 5 have already completed. In their Topic lessons this week, they have continued to look at Asia.  They have learnt about the landscapes, regions and culture. Everyone who attended Sports day thoroughly enjoyed it and everyone was very happy with the effort made during the races and the encouragement given by the supporters.
Year 6 – have continued to work hard on rehearsals for their production, Bugsy.  This week the children have been learning the songs in the production and have started to learn some dances, use props and work with scenery.  We have also been sorting out costumes.  All of the children who took part in sports day did really well and had a great day.  Back in the classroom, in science the children have continued to learn how nutrients are transported around the body; and have finished producing their great posters to illustrate this.  In maths they have continued to work on their bakery project and have this week used maths skills linked to the four operations and converting units of measure.

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have been writing a persuasive letter in English in reaction to the King's decision in Y3’s class book 'The King Who Banned the Dark'. The children came up with some persuasive arguments to try and get the King to reverse his decision. They come up with creative and imaginative reasons to keep the dark that really impressed their teachers. In Maths, they are using their division skills to understand fractions and have even moved onto decimals. In Science, they have completed the topic of fossils by creating fossils of their own! They have completed their last lesson of Humanities in Year 3 by creating an extremely informative, non-chronological report of prehistoric Britain. Despite the heat this week, they have persevered and completed some fantastic work.
Year 4 – have rounded off their maths topic on time by converting analogue and digital times. They have also had one final big push on times tables, ahead of the scheduled MCT next week. English this week was inspired by the amazing morning spent learning about and taking part in some of the events at the Commonwealth Games. They have been writing a poem all about this year's up-and-coming event being held in Birmingham this summer. Their poems include stanzas about some of the 19 different sports available. In Science, they have continued to investigate classification and have searched the playground looking for invertebrates to classify.
Year 5 – have been continuing their work on translation and reflection.  They have learnt to label each vertices and carefully translate or reflect from the mirror line.  They have identified which reflections are correct or incorrect and explained how they know. During Year 5’s English lessons, they have been planning a newspaper report about the Platinum Jubilee celebrations.  Whilst writing, they have focused their attention on including parenthesis and speech marks correctly. In Science, they have been looking at life cycles of different animals and compared them.  Once this was completed, they worked with partners to produce a play script for a wildlife documentary called 'Life'.
Year 6 – have been mainly focussing on rehearsals for the end of year production, Bugsy, this week.  The children have been working really hard to learn lines and songs; the production is gradually starting to take shape!  Back in the classroom, Year 6 have been focussing on their science topic this week: Animals, including humans (the circulatory system).  The children have identified and named the parts of the circulatory system and have explained the functions of each part.  They have also looked at how water and nutrients are transported within the body, producing some great posters to explain this.  As well as science, they have started a maths project linked to a bakery where the children are using a range of previously learnt maths skills.

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have been writing inspired by their experiences in the Now Press Play that they took part in last Friday. They are writing a newspaper article about the heroic Stone Age child and all the amazing rescues that they performed during the day (including battling wolves, rescuing a child from a cave-in and even saving their own dad). In Maths, Year 3 have begun to look at 2-D shapes and their properties. They have been learning about new vocabulary that they can use to describe the lines of a shape including parallel, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, adjacent and perpendicular. In Science, Year 3 have been learning about Mary Anning and the great strides that she made for both history and science through her discoveries in palaeontology. They produced a cross-curricular piece of work by writing a biography about her life. For PSHE, they have started the first of two lessons thinking about being a good global citizen. The first lesson looked where their food comes from and how it is made. The next will continue to develop their knowledge of global relationships.
Year 4 – have completed their stories about a missing toy in English. They have really enjoyed getting to share some of their stories with Year 3. In Science, they have explored both natural and human damages to habitats. In PE, they have enjoyed playing cricket and practising for next month's Sports Day! Year 4 have continued to impress with their dedication to practising their times tables and have been using every free moment to do so! Some are now so quick they are beating the teachers at answering! In Music they continue to love learning to play the glockenspiels and learning to sing and sign to Pink's Cover Me in Sunshine.
Year 5 – have been writing a character description about the tardigrade. The children are very intrigued by the tiny creatures. They have focused their attention on pronouns, apostrophes for possession and conjunctions. They have moved on to measuring and drawing angles in Maths this week.  They are becoming more familiar with the types of angles, the parts of the protractor and how to measure, placing the protractor on an angle correctly.  They have then extended their knowledge, using reasoning skills to calculate a larger missing angle using an angle they know. In Topic this week, Year 5 have continued with their work comparing Iver and China.  They have identified the physical features, settlement and trade in the both places. 
Year 6 – have been relieved to have a week without exams! Following on from SATs last week, the children in Year 6 have this week been focusing on further developing their writing skills.  They have worked really hard and have produced an interesting non-chronological report about wolves; plus they have re-told the story of the 3 Little Pigs, but this time from the wolf's point of view. It has been great reading these stories and we have enjoyed reading some of the twists!  In Computing, the children have started a new topic this week - Networks.  This week they found out about the difference between the internet and the world wide web.  In Humanities, they are continuing to look at the Maya civilisation and have found out about everyday life for the Maya people.  They have also had auditions for this year's production - Bugsy - and we were very impressed with some of the drama and singing!

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have created some fantastic diary entries all about the Stone Age! They have slept in caves, completed cave painting and even gone hunting! In Maths, they have been discussing different types of lines including horizontal, vertical, diagonal, parallel and perpendicular. They have also discussed angles including acute, obtuse and right angles. In Science, they are investigated different types of rocks including metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary and have started to look into the rock cycle.
Year 4 – have been designing and making their own mosaics. The children have all made their own stamps to make an effective design using paint. They have also been doing LOTS of Times Tables Rockstars practice. All of Year 4 have also taken part in a Now Press Play all about Pompeii and the disaster that occurred there in 79 AD. The children have learned about the disaster and have been using their knowledge to write a newspaper report of the event.
Year 5 – have written a diary entry in English this week based on the book 'Cosmic'. They have been responsible for ensuring they include the language features from the success criteria.  They have planned, written, edited and published the entire piece of writing independently. During Maths lessons, they have added and subtracted whole and decimal numbers, looked at decimal sequences and multiplied and divided decimal numbers by 10, 100 and 1000. They have continued with their topic based on the local area and compared it to China.  They located both places on a map then compared the landscapes.
Year 6 – have worked really hard during their SATs and we are really proud of the effort, resilience and perseverance they have shown throughout the week. Following the efforts put in each morning in their tests, each afternoon the children have had the opportunity to learn some skills in softball and have enjoyed the different aspects of this. In Computing, they have finished coding their text adventure games and will be moving on to a new topic soon. They are continuing to find out more about the Maya civilisation in Humanities and have been exploring their thoughts, feelings and actions linked to mental health in PSHE.

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have continued their writing based around 'The Pebble in my Pocket' book. This week, the focus has been on planning and writing the story of the journey of the pebble.
In Maths, they have been learning about turns and angles. They made a right-angle monster to check angles around the classroom. In Humanities, they have continued to look at life in the Stone Age, including making their own cave paintings and writing about how to survive in the Stone Age. In R.E. they have continued to learn about Sikhism, the focus this week has been on special places, learning about parts of a Gurdwara.
Year 4 – have been writing a series of diary entries from the perspective of the main character from this term's class text - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Edward, (a toy china rabbit) has been through a lot, he was savagely attacked by the neighbours' dog, slobbered on, hoovered by the new maid and stuck on a shelf like he was a common toy! In Maths, they have been rounding decimals, finding decimal equivalents of halves and quarters and beginning their topic on money. In Humanities, they have been exploring Roman beliefs and looking at the many gods that they believed in.
Year 5 – have been editing and publishing their EPCOT leaflets.  Children have made sure they have included all relevant language features including Year 5 and 6 spellings, apostrophes for contraction and modal verbs. For their Maths lessons, they have all been mastering adding and subtracting decimal numbers with the same number of decimal places and different number of decimal places.  They have all made sure that they lined up the decimal points to ensure the digits for each number are in the correct column. They have continued with the Van Gogh unit in Art and have practiced pencil drawing their own hands.  They concentrated on using line and shading and the children’s finished pieces were amazing.
Year 6 – have spent time on revision as we make final preparations for SATs.  The children have been working really hard in their revision lessons and have also been finishing their fantasy stories about a dragon slayer in English.  In Humanities they have continued their topic about the ancient Maya civilisation and have been finding out about how the Maya society was organised; plus their religious beliefs.

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have been very busy this week learning about weighing in grams and kilograms in Maths. In English, they have been exploring the features of poetry, followed by writing their own poems about the journey of a pebble. They have been incredibly creative with their ideas and use of vocabulary. In Humanities, they have begun to learn about Pre-Historic Britain and have created their own timelines. On Thursday, they had a very exciting Zoom call with Farmer Nicola! She showed Year 3 around the lambing shed. They have had 86 lambs born on the farm over the last two weeks. Nicola showed us a very hungry lamb being bottle fed and it drank the whole bottle in 56 seconds!
Year 4 – have taken on a classic fairy tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and twisted the story to tell it from a different point of view. Some have a very misunderstood wolf who was just concerned about Red’s safety as she quite happily shared information with a stranger! In Maths, they have been working on comparing and organising decimals. They have also started their exciting Romans History topic by discovering what Iver would have been like as part of a Celtic tribe and comparing it to the life in Rome at the same time. They have also been comparing the lives of rich and poor Romans. In Science, they have begun looking at their topic on habitats. Year 4 have also been very lucky to have taken part in an exciting music lesson this week. They have been singing and playing glockenspiels along to different songs including Mamma Mia and a song about IVJS.
Year 5 – have continued their work learning about decimals in Maths.  They have added and subtracted decimals within ‘one’ and understood how number bonds help to make one whole. They have been creating a leaflet about Epcot for English to identify it’s features and watched a video about Epcot which inspired our writing.  They planned what information to include then began writing our paragraphs. Year 5 have also continued to study the work of Van Gogh.  They have looked closely at his Starry Night painting and used his style to create their own interpretation of this famous art work.
Year 6 – have all been working exceptionally hard on their return to school after the Easter Holidays.  SATs are almost upon us, so much of this week has been focused on grammar revision in English; and covering one of our last topics in maths - Statistics.  We have started our new Humanities topic - The Maya civilisation, where the children have found out where this ancient civilisation were and how their abandoned city of Chichen Itza was discovered by the Spanish conquistadors just over 500 years ago.  In PSHE this week, we looked at mental health and discussed how we can look after our mental health.  The children have begun coding text adventure stories in computing.

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have been very busy this week learning about time in Maths, including solving problems about time and writing their own questions for the class to solve. In English, they have been writing a diary, imagining they are a Victorian child having to go to work in a mine. The descriptive language used has been fantastic and they have been really getting into character. This was supported by a 'Now Press Play' experience children's lives in the Victorian era. In Science, they have been learning the names of bones in a human skeleton and investigating how muscles work. In PSHE, they have continued to work collaboratively designing an accessible garden and have had to keep within a tight budget.
Year 4 – have started their brand new topic on the Egyptians and got to meet and interview Howard Carter! They continued to learn even more about the Ancient Egyptians during an exciting orienteering afternoon. Year 4 also began learning about all of the different types of teeth and their functions. During this lesson on teeth, they had the fun job of creating their own made-up animal and deciding exactly what teeth it needed depending on it's diet.
Year 5 – have had a busy week! This week has been dominated by swimming lessons that the majority of the children have thoroughly enjoyed.  The children have made so much progress this week already which has been really lovely to see. For Year 5 Maths, they have been learning about decimals up to 2 decimal places and linking them to their previous work on fractions. They are using a short film called 'The Girl And The Fox' in English to plan a narrative, telling the story. They have planned and written introductions so far and will continue to write next week.
Year 6 – have really enjoyed their swimming lessons this week and have coped really well with the timetable changes. Back in the classroom, the children have been writing a recount in English; focusing on the trip to Cuffley Camp last week. In Maths, they have been learning about volume and time. The children are coming towards the end of their Humanities topic on the history of crime and punishment and are starting to produce leaflets about the different changes throughout the various periods. In French, they have also produced some very informative leaflets all about France and particularly, Bastille Day.  In Computing, the children have had the opportunity to view each other’s blogs and make comments on what they have read.

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have had an absolutely incredible time at Cuffley Camp. It really brought out the adventurous side and smiles filled their faces, which was lovely to see. In English, they recapped what present perfect tense was and started to get into the mind of a Victorian working child so that next week they can create some fantastic diary entries. They have used some brilliant descriptive language that they will add to their diary entries to make them even better. In Maths, they have consolidated their knowledge of multiplication and division and have reminded themselves how to use bus stop and expanded multiplication. In Science, they have been discussing the differences between herbivores, carnivores and omnivores and have been singing a rather catchy song to help them remember. In PSHE, they have been working together as a team to create a garden that needs to be accessible to everyone. Year 3 have also really enjoyed going into the hall for lunchtime and have been able to have some really interesting conversations.
Year 4 – have been working hard on writing a biography for the main character in their class book, Varjak Paw. They have planned, written and edited their informative biographies. In Maths, they have been revisiting their times table and multiplication knowledge by working on a series of different tasks throughout the week. This week, they have been busy writing scripts for their very own scientific presentation about digestion. Everyone was very impressed with how well they were presented and how informative they were. Well done!
Year 5 – had a great day at Cuffley Camp on Wednesday.  Not even the weather dampened their spirits! Everybody thoroughly enjoyed all the activities and many of the children really challenged themselves. Some children did a brilliant job at trying things that were way out of their comfort zones and felt great afterwards.  It was lovely to see so many smiling faces at the end of the day. They have also continued to answer a variety of reasoning questions relating to subtracting fractions during Maths lessons. They planned and started to draft a narrative based on The Girl and the Fox in English. Year 5 worked in pairs to plan, then wrote their opening two paragraphs, trying to include the Year 5 language features including relative clauses, speech, descriptive language and modal verbs.
Year 6 – have finished publishing their endings to Rooftoppers and have started their new piece of writing - a fantasy narrative based on a short film called 'Dragonslayer'.  In Maths, the children have been using their addition and multiplication skills to work out the perimeter and area of shapes.  Year 6 had a great day out at Cuffley Camp on Thursday; the children were fantastic and everyone was so proud of them.  Not only did they represent the school brilliantly, but they also showed great team work, perseverance, resilience and stamina as they took part in the various activities - including the daunting Gladiator Wall, where the children showed their amazing climbing skills.

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have been very busy learning about statistics in Maths. They have created tally charts, pictograms and bar charts and have interpreted the data. In English, they have been writing biographies about Queen Victoria and discovering some interesting facts about her life. During their History lessons, they have been researching the life of Victorian children. First, they looked at those who had to go to work from a very young age and then we spent time learning about Victorian schools. They found out how very strict they were! They found the old entrance to the school for 'Boys and Infants'. In PE, they have been creating magical dance moves to the Harry Potter theme tune.
Year 4 – have been writing a non-chronological report all about cats. They have been researching domestic cats, wild cats and fictional cats. In Maths, they have been finding fractions of an amount. In DT, they have made their pneumatic moving monsters and they all look amazing! In Science, Year 4 got to make a replica digestive system.
Year 5 – have written setting descriptions in English.  They have planned, written, edited and published their work trying to ensure they have used expanded noun phrases, commas for lists, relative clauses, commas for clarity. In Maths, they have continued to revisit adding and subtracting fractions ensuring everyone remembers to ensure that the denominator is the same. They have started their science topic about space this week and have learnt the names of the planets and facts about them.
Year 6 – have been busy finishing their narratives to write their own endings to the book Year 6 have been reading - Rooftoppers.  It will be interesting to see how many of them predict an ending close to the real one!  In Maths, they have been focusing on geometry and learning about shape.  As well as taking part in the Mission Zero project for the European Space Agency, in Computing, the children have been starting to create their own blogs.  They have continued looking at the history of Crime and Punishment in Humanities and have this week focused on crime and punishment during the Anglo Saxon, Viking, Medieval and Tudor periods.