Spring Term 2025

The children have been learning about contractions and using inverted commas/speech marks in their writing. They enjoyed matching two short words to their contraction which used an apostrophe to replace the missing letter(s). 

It has been wonderful to see so many children completing their home learning research about barn owls during half term. We have enjoyed sharing these with the class throughout the week and the children have used the information to create a word bank about a barn owl's appearance, behaviours, habitat, diet and feeding patterns.

In Maths, the children have started their new unit of adding and subtracting within 100. We have been adding and subtracting ones, adding ones to get to the next ten (applying their knowledge of number bonds to 10) and adding to a tens number. It would be wonderful if the children could practise their fluency with recalling number bonds up to 10, e.g If I say 3, how many more do you need to make 10? A further challenge would be for an adult to say "My number is 82, how many more do I need to add to get to the next ten?"

In our Learning Means The World lessons the children have applied their learning about compass point directions when programming a code to complete a given task. The children explored the initial stages of debugging and were challenged to identify problems in a code and fix them. 

  

    

  

  

  

The children really enjoyed a visit from Steve Frew, British artistic gymnast and gold medalist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Children took turns in completing a fun exercise circuit and then delighted in seeing Steve back flip, balance and leap over some (not so relaxed) volunteers during an assembly.

  

  

In Learning Means The World, the children have recapped their learning about compass points. They have been learning about physical features and co-ordinates. The children particularly enjoyed playing battleships to develop their ability to read coordinates.  In PE, the children enjoyed playing the game 'Change it!' where there were cones with tennis balls scattered around the area and when the children heard the instruction "Change it!" they had to pick up a tennis ball and put it on a different cone. During the lesson the children practised their throwing and catching skills and worked cooperatively with a partner.  In RE, the children talked about the food and drink which Jewish people do and do not have. To develop their understanding the children sorted kosher and non-kosher pictures.

  

  

  

The children have enjoyed developing their painting skills by exploring what happens when you add white to a colour. In English, the children have been learning about rhyme using the book 'When I Was a Pirate'. During Maths we have been consolidating the children's understanding about 3D shape - faces/surfaces, vertices and edges. In PE, the children developed their ball skills, focusing on throwing and catching. 

  

  

The children in Rosen class have been enjoying their forest school sessions this half term and have relished the opportunity to explore the forest school site. A particular highlight has been the mud slide! In Maths this week the children have been introduced to 3D shapes and have started to explore how many faces/ curved surfaces a cone, sphere, cylinder, cube, cuboid, triangular prism and square-based pyramid have. In English the children learnt more facts about pirates and used them to create a plan for their non-chronological report. During our Learning Means The World lessons this week the children enjoyed learning about primary colours and what happened when they mixed two primary colours together.

  

  

In Rosen class this week the children have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We have discussed how many’s sides, faces and vertices the shapes have. Perhaps you could go on a 2D and 3D shape hunt at home to consolidate their learning. In English, the children have been continuing to learn about the features of a non-chronological report and as part of their writing they have been using verbs and adjectives. 

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The children have continued their learning about pushes and pulls. They were able to explain what happens when you push or pull something and what forces can do to an object. In Learning Means The World this week the children have been learning about how people move boats into and out of the water. As part of this, the children enjoyed making their own trailers in school. We have also been learning about the parts of the ship. In addition to drawing and labelling their own pirate ship, the children enjoyed playing pirate games where they had to follow the captain's orders and navigate to the right direction of the ship (port, starboard, bow and stern).

      

  

Rosen class started this term by writing a New Year's resolution. We have been exploring the forces, pushes and pulls and the children started their new Learning Means The World Topic - Land Ahoy! - as part of this they have started to explore the different ways things move. The children worked as a group to sort pictures into things which move using wings, wheels and legs.