Thank you to everyone that came to our maths learn along last week. We hope you found it a useful insight into how we teach maths in school. We are making our bridge this week so please send boxes that would be suitable for junk modelling. 

Diary dates

Monday 5th April – Bank holiday
Friday 16th May – Year 1 trip to the SS Great Britain
Saturday 17th May – May Fair

English

Phonics

Reading
We will be focusing on non-fiction text this week and will be reading information about Brunel ahead of our trip.

Writing
This week we will be learning and writing about Brunel. We will be writing fact files about some of the information we have found out.

Maths   

This week in maths we will be looking at division. We will be looking at how:
-to share objects equally between a number of groups.
-understanding that it is not always possible to share equally and that all groups must have the same amount to be fair.

Wider Curriculum

Science: We will be revisiting our learning about animal classifications; mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Each class will choose the animal groups to focus on depending on the ones that they class found the trickiest to remember. 

Computing: We will be designing our own algorithms e.g. giving an object a command 

DT: Inspired by the work of Brunel, we are going to be building our bridges based on the designs we created last week. 

Religion and World Views: We will be learning about the Christian Creation Story

Music: We will be beginning to identify the difference between a pulse and rhythm.

History: We will be doing an assessment on timelines.