Wow – can you believe we are already halfway through this term?  

We have been busy at work this week introducing new digraph sounds and tricky words to use in our reading and writing. We have been working on writing responses to our weekly story books with a focus on grammar and punctuation. During Maths, we have been learning a range of strategies that we can use when completing addition problems. These include counting on using a number line, partitioning tens and ones and rearranging.  

Science this week saw us exploring sound using musical instruments. By the end, we could explain that sound is created through vibrations that travel through the air into our ear drums. This was a very fun and exciting exploration. Over the coming weeks, we will be moving from focussing on Creation to the story of Noah’s Ark. We are very much looking forward to this and will be weaving this learning into our technology unit where we will need to design and build our own Arks to stand up to water and wind.  

Our exciting event this week was Shrove Tuesday. We got to eat pancakes prepared by Miss Cindy and the Year 6s and they were delicious! This marks the day before the beginning of Lent, the lead up to Easter.  

It’s been an exciting start to Term One and we look forward to more learning and explorations to come.  

Many thanks, 

Mrs Backhouse.