Congratulations to Michael and his brother David who shared a trophy for making so much progress this term.
keep it up!

We used the BBC Skillwise to learn and practise our tenses. Follow this link if you want to play the activities.

We looked at various matchstick problems in Numeracy. Look at the above matchsticks; can you remove 6 and leave 10. There are some more examples at

After watching “The piano “again, we found out that its maker was only eighteen years old. We found it amazing that someone so young was able to imagine so many fantastic ideas through the eyes of someone else. Two children were chosen to put on a hat and imagine they were a real policewoman or cowboy. Good writers are able to think like their characters.
In the afternoon we used the high apparatus and ropes, safely!

We have been using the fantastic film “The piano2 to explore flashbacks in Literacy.

Congratulation to Aziz for winning the writing award at celebration assembly.

The last question in our maths test today was a “How many triangles challenge?” We discussed the method used was as important as the answer? We then moved onto how many squares are there on a chess board. Although 64 is generally the accepted answer, if you look more closer there are many more squares. So, how many squares are there on a chessboard?

Our topic in Numeracy for the next few days is shapes. We started off today trying to identify 3D shapes. We put the ideas into a matching game. Click on the link below to play.
3D shapes match
After this, we looked at 3D shapes and tried to draw a net for the shape. We did really well at this.
In Literacy we are spending a few days on punctuation, especially the use of commas.

We have been designing some more Numeracy games. Click here to play them.

It become clear from our work on Romans that the children had very little idea of dates in history. So today we asked the question what dates the children knew in history. These were the first dates mentioned.

1. Roman Empire 1857
2. Tudors 1970
3. World War 1980
4. Queen Victoria 1950
5. The Plague 1860

I felt very old being told I was born after the World War and after Tudor times.

We talked further about different dates in history, and fifteen children lined up in a big time line. We shall return to this again and again until the children get a good feel for dates.

In Literacy we are using the Myst program to write powerful sentences. Six children went into the achievement book for their fantastic sentences. Hopefully, there will be more fantastic sentences, and more names in the good book tomorrow.

We started Numeracy with the above challenge.  This was very difficult until one or two children asked if they could rotate the square. Molly, closely followed by Elizabeth, was the first to work it out. Then Joe claimed to have solved it using just two squares. He was right; we think he managed to do it in two.

Can you do it with just two or three boxes?

Then in numeracy, children used calculators to work out fractions of amounts i.e. 1/4 of £16.80:   2/3 of 4.5 kg