We are all looking forward to our trip on Monday! The children will need to bring a healthy snack, packed lunch and water bottle with them. They should wear school uniform and comfortable trainers. They will need a coat as we will be outside for some of the day. We leave school by coach at 9.15 am and will return by 3.30 pm after the pick-up rush traffic.

4SP start swimming on Wednesday morning. The children will need a swimming costume, hat, goggles and towel. Please name everything!

Children should have their hair tied back as appropriate please.

This week we have been recapping factors and product numbers in multiplication. The children have also learned about factor pairs and how to use this skill when working out equations with larger numbers.

We have also introduced Mathstonaut sessions to help with times table skills. The children will earn a certificate and move up levels when they have 2 weeks with no mistakes.

We are really enjoying reading ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’ and are creating our own ‘list poems’ inspired by the story. This week, we analysed other list poems to look for features we could emulate. George’s medicine is pretty disgusting so, of course, we had fun generating ideas for our revolting poems!

In SPaG this week, the children revised similes and metaphors so that they can use them in their poetry next week.

The spellings this week all include the suffix ‘ous’: poisonous, dangerous, mountainous, famous, various, venomous, vigorous, courageous, outrageous, adventurous We will check these on Wednesday 15th.

As junior scientists, the children have been working scientifically by learning to set up a test and record data. These skills came in handy when discussing what makes a fair test. Using what we learned about variables, we devised ‘The Great Tomato Drop’! The children designed and made their own parachutes to drop the tomatoes all the way from Year 6 down to the bottom of the ramp in order to test what size parachute was best and slowest (without splatting the tomatoes). Ask your child which elements of the experiment were measured, which were independent variables and which were constant variables!