Weekly Bulletin - 7th February 25

​This Week In School…
Year 3 – have been writing a travel brochure. They have been including persuasive techniques to convince people to travel to their fictional country. For their grammar focuses, they tried to included adverbs, suffixes and commas for lists.  In Maths, they have continued their work in length by converting between mm, cm and m.  In PSHE, they discussed looked how they can use teamwork to complete a single goal. Together, they have designed a garden and used voting and win-win compromising strategies to work as a team. In Science, they looked how the distance between an opaque object and a light source can change the width of a shadow. They planned, completed and evaluated their investigation. In Geography, they looked at the major rivers of the world. They explored the atlas from the River Amazon in South America to the Yangtze in Asia as well as all the major rivers in between. 
Year 4 – have finished drafting and publishing a biography about Varjak Paw. In Maths, the children have been finding the perimeter on a grid and a rectangle. In Science, Year 4 have explored different types of teeth you will find in carnivores, omnivores and herbivores. In DT, the children explored how some toys can be programmed using a computer. They used Dash and Dot to complete a product analysis. In History, the children were understanding that Roman Art is a mixture of paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and buildings. They were also able to explain what a ‘mosaic’ is and where these patterns would typically be found in Ancient Rome and nowadays too. They also had the opportunity to practise their own mosaic pattern. 
Year 5 – have had a busy and exciting week! The children impressed us with their continued work on The Dream giver, skilfully incorporating key success criteria. In Maths, they tackled fractions of amounts and began exploring equivalent fractions and decimals. RE lessons focused on the origins of Islam, while in PSHE, they researched their dream jobs, looking into qualifications, salaries, and career paths. Geography lessons took them to the mountains of Asia, deepening their understanding of the region’s landscapes. Well done, Year 5!
Year 6 – have completed their stories about a creature they find after moving home, linked to the class book, Skellig by David Almond.  We have been very impressed by these stories and have enjoyed reading them.  In Maths, the children have started a new topic of algebra and have been learning about forming expressions. They enjoyed doing an investigation in Science where they looked at different surfaces to find out which type of surface was the most reflective and which was the least.  In Geography, they have been looking at extreme weather and natural disasters in Brazil; and in RE, we have been learning about Humanists.  In Art, Year 6 are coming to the end of their topic so the children have now been further investigating one of the four artists they have looked at in order to plan their own piece of art, based on that particular artist.