Week Beginning 26.06.17

Literacy 

In literacy this week, we discovered an online letter writing campaign. We learnt that a dam is going to be built in Honduras in Central America. We researched how building a dam affects the surrounding environment and found out that the Tawahka tribe that live in the nearby forest will have to move away and change their life completely. We looked at the pros and cons, organised facts into reasons for and against and have decided to write a letter to the Honduran Prime Minister Sr. Porfirio Lobo Sosa to help the tribe's people. We  have been practising using persuasive sentence starts and using conjunctions to fully explain the reasons and our point of view. 

Maths

In maths, we have been brushing up on our rounding skills and taking it all a step further by rounding to both the nearest 10 and 100 in numbers up to 1000. We have been using our rounding skills to estimate answers to questions and problems and to mark work. 

R.E 

In RE this week we have been learning all about the Holy Trinity: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. We made trinity flexigons that have colours and pictures that represent each part of the trinity. 

Science 

In science this week, we had great fun as our year 2 and 3 topics overlaps whilst learning about humans and other animals. We looked at the structure and purpose of the human skeleton learning all of the common names and even some of the scientific ones. We really enjoyed listening and singing along to 'Dem Bones' whilst putting together our skeleton jigsaws. 

Well done to Sky and Carley-Mae who performed at the Royal Norfolk Show this week with The Choir of 1000 Voices. 

It was lovely to see so many of you brave the rain and come for the school BBQ lunch. We didn't let the rain get us down and enjoyed spending time together in what turned out to be a rather lovely indoor picnic! 

Week Beginning 19.06.17

What a sporty week it has been this week! We started the week with a challenging work-out with our visiting athlete Marrissa King. Well done to everyone who took part; trying their hardest and raising funds.

We continued our sporty theme with our school sports day on Tuesday. Everybody seemed to enjoy the afternoon, as we persevered and pushed ourselves to the maximum  for personal bests and points for our team. Well done to everyone and a special well done to our winning house: Seacole. 

Literacy 

In literacy this week we have been looking at persuasion. We have been looking at the language and techniques used in advertising to convince us to buy products. We really enjoyed starring in our own commercials and using our language skills to sell some really boring products. Moving forward with our persuasion theme, we have started to look at the structure and layout of letters as we progress towards writing constructive, effective letters of complaint. 

Maths 

In maths we have been interpreting tables. Also, we have have been thinking of questions to investigate, designing data collection tables, collecting data and choosing the clearest way to present our findings. 

Geography

The Amazon rain forest was our destination this lesson, as we researched some  of the indigenous tribes of the mighty forest. We looked at the Tupi, Korub, Kayapo and the Panara tribes; focusing on how they use the forest to survive and and was makes each ones culture so individual. 

 

Week Beginning 12.06.17

Literacy 

This week in literacy we have been doing lots of reading. Practising our skills hunting for information, deducing and inferring and summarising a range of texts. 

Maths

Maths has been all about data this week. We looked at wide range of objects thinking how we could group and categorise them. 

We decided it was much easier learning about picotgrams when smarties were involved! We used them to generate a large data set then learnt how to create a pictogram. Then, we used our skills of analysis to interpret different pictograms. 

Science 

We continued  looking at nutrition by thinking further about healthy foods. We compared food groups and created nutrient pyramids. 

It's a busy week next week with lots to remember. Please can all children have their P.E kits in school on Monday ready for our visit from a real Olympic gymnast and cirque de soleil performer. We will all have some time with her  doing sporting activities, before an assembly with  Marissa King. 

P.E kits will be sent home on Monday, so that children can arrive in their kit, with their team coloured t-shirt all ready for sports day on Tuesday. All parents and carers are welcome to attend in the afternoon for the big event. 

Don't forget to book your place for the annual school BBQ. Letters were sent out Thursday. Please return your slip by Wednesday 21st June so we can get your tickets out to you.