Maserati Class-Summer Term 1, 2024

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Week 1 and 2

Well done Marvellous Maserati what a wonderful start to the term.

In English we have been focusing on Newspaper Reports and using a film clip of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ to help to the understand the key features, headline, orientation, formal and standard English, quotes and concluding paragraphs and a televised version. We have had great fun creating these and working together.

We have started working hard in Math’s. For the Year 3’s they are in the middle of the second unit of fractions and have been adding and subtracting with the same denominator, solving word problems and finding unit and non-unit fractions of amounts. Fantastic Year 3! In Year 4 they have been working with decimals and looking carefully at tenths and hundredths, partitioning, comparing, rounding to the nearest whole number and finishing with halves and quarters.

In Science our new topic is ‘Forces and Magnets’ where we have been identifying ‘push and pulls’ in everyday items and this week we have tested different types of surfaces and looked at friction and how you need a push going in one direction and friction goes in the opposite direction. Some great result were recorded in hand drawn tables.

Our topic for this term is ‘Rock, Relics and Rumbles’ where we have launched the topic looking back at the structure and characteristics of the Earth’s layers, using poster and information sheet.  We have worked as geologists, testing samples of rock to find out if they are sedimentary, igneous or metamorphic and now know more about rocks and different places where they are found.  After watching a video about fossils, I have asked the children to recall and describe each step of fossil formation. Then the children completed some work about Mary Anning and how she became a famous palaeologist. 

Our Art this half term is looking at figure drawing and the human form in art. The children have started to explore the significant artist, LS Lowry and his unique style of figure drawing. We have studied LS Lowry’s figures in more detail by selecting a figure or groups of figures from the ‘Going to Work’ and drawing them in their sketchbooks. Everyone has drawn the shape, forms and figures and n used similar colours dark shades scheme to colour them.