Term 6 Week 2

In Literacy this week we have been researching facts about Usain Bolt and summarising the information we have found and organising it into paragraphs. We then used conjunctions to write about his early life and childhood.

In Maths, Year 3 moved on to finding how many minutes make up an hour and how many seconds make a minute. We put this to the test when creating their own competitions, such as testing who could say the alphabet in the quickest number of seconds. We looked at duration and what this means and used previously taught methods to calculate start and finish times. We also used given start and finish times to calculate the duration of an event. Year 4 started the week by looking at positional language and how we can relate this to angles. We then looked at classifying different types of angles as either acute, obtuse or right angles. We were then able to use this to help identify properties of triangles and the four different types of triangle. Finally, we looked at classifying quadrilaterals and their individual properties.

In History we looked at Greek housing and how they were similar and different to the houses we live in today. In Art we looked at perspective and how to draw a David Hockney inspired landscape using one-point perspective. In Computing, we made stop animation films using cut out characters and then added green screen backgrounds.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mr Saunders, Mrs Hendry and Miss Parkes.