What a busy start we have had to the new school year; we have certainly packed a lot into the first few weeks of term! 

Our first few days were spent getting to know each other, and focusing on our class hero for this year: Jessica Ennis Hill. We learnt all about her amazing life, thought about how she displays our school values, and even set up and took part in a mini heptathlon event on the school field which we thoroughly enjoyed! 

It was also great fun sharing our ‘mini museum’ items with each other, and with the staff in the classroom.
We have got stuck into our first texts of the year in English, with some incredible hard work in phonics groups and great enthusiasm for our focus book in reading lessons, ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl. In writing lessons we are working hard building skills to write setting descriptions linked with Anthony Browne’s fantastic book ‘The Tunnel’. We have already had some opportunities to demonstrate fantastic dramatic skills in these lessons! In maths lessons, we have been securing our understanding of the place value of 3 digit numbers, using a variety of practical equipment to help us.

In science, we are learning all about human and animal bodies, starting off with their skeletons. We had great fun turning Noah into a skeleton, while we learnt the names of some key bones.

The staff who took the children swimming have been so impressed with the class’s behaviour in the swimming pool, where excellent listening is key. No doubt they will make fantastic progress!