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6th - 10th March
Posted: Mar 12, 2017 by: Teachers (BishopTeachers) on: What's been happening in Discoverers & Voyagers.
In Literacy this week, children reflected on and improved their Magic Box poems. They also went on to publish these using a word processor. They look very professional! We have been so impressed with the creativity and imagination with which children have written their poems. We look forward to sharing them with you in our Celebration of Learning later this month. We also began our new topic of persuasive writing. We looked at what the children already knew about the powers of persuasion by writing a letter to Mr Killoran, persuading him to make the school day shorter! Children came up with some brilliant reasons for this!
Maths has seen the continuation of our work on multiplicative reasoning, division in particular. Most children are now able to solve division problems with remainders using either the number-line or bus stop method. Next week, we will be solving missing number problems before moving on to our new topic of geometric reasoning.
In Science, we have continued looking at living things, particularly at how they are grouped. Children had a variety of animal cards and grouped them in as many ways as possible. We discovered that there are many animals which fit into more than one group. We then practiced using a Carroll Diagram to classify animals independently.
P.E. has seen the introduction of our new topic, Basketball, which is enabling children to transfer many of their Handball skills to a new sport.
As ever, we have been continuing in our Topic work. The Voyagers have been looking into Henry VIII's love life and his many, many wives! Children have shown a great deal of interest in this and have produced some fantastic posters. Discoverers have been looking at historic methods of defense, particularly those of castles and knights. Again, we look forward to sharing what we have learned with you at our Curriculum Celebration.