A good time to reflect ..

As our first half term draws to an end it is a good time to reflect on the learning in Class 3. We have been super busy and I cannot believe all that the children (and adults!) have managed to achieve in just one half term.  The children all seem to have grown in maturity since September and it has been an absolute pleasure to watch them develop.

To finish in style during the last week, the children were entertained by Mr Rob Malcolm's apple press and took great delight in sampling fresh apple juice.  Of course we had our little show of acting skills in "The Enormous Fordham Turnip" and to complete the week the children learnt about many Special Places of Worship with Mrs Allen and used the ipads to 'green screen' themselves at these places of worship.

It was a delight to meet all the parents with their children during our two-day parent consultation sessions.  I hope that these were beneficial to you.  It certainly was for me, I have never known the children so quite!

The home learning has been incredible this half term and I would like to thank all who have actively encouraged or worked alongside their children to produce some wonderful work.  It was lovely to hear such enthusiasm at the parent consultations. And of course I have taken on many suggestions and yes, you will be building your own rocket (thank you Mr Browne!).

On return to school our destination will be Space.  With the arrival of a Space Dome to start our topic week we shall be learning about the solar system,  We will shall look at space travel and find out who who was the first man on the moon before, as a class, creating our own timeline of space travel.  It goes without saying that we shall be creating our own astronaut's helmet for all that travelling we shall be doing and, of course, a moon buggy to travel in.  We hope to discover a new plant and obviously that may mean even some strange aliens to help us learn about multiplication and division and there will definately be some recounts in the shape of newspaper articles and putting to good use all our persuasive tactics to encourage people to travel to our, hopefully, newly discovered planets.

Oh and on top of that .... it will be Christmas preparations !!

Enjoy the rest of the half term.

Mrs S

Jonty teaching the 5x table - a very good job!

Sharing our home learning

I think Jack won the spelling game!

Learning our spellings is fun - especially the games

The Apple Press visits!

Green shooting (or blue!)

If you look closely you can see the background the children have chosen,
but importantly what they control on the ipad