CLASS INFORMATION
PE - Our PE day is a Wednesday. Please come in in your PE kit- black tracksuit bottoms or shorts and a red t-shirt. Can long hair be tied back and earrings taken out.
Homework- Homework will be sent home on a Friday and is due back by the following Thursday. Spellings will be sent home weekly ready for a spelling test on a Thursday.
Reading Books- Reading books will be changed on a Monday and Friday. Please bring reading books to school day. 
CRESSIDA COWELL CLASS
Teachers- Mrs Roberts & Mrs Clarke
Teaching Assistants - Mrs Lavender & Mrs Millett
Well done to this week's vision award winner - Ottilie for her determination and perseverance with her work this week.
Our Weekly Learning- Take a look at what we have been doing!
Most current learning at the top
Term 5
In art we really enjoyed making our sculptures. We made them using wire and covered them with material. They reflect our hobbies or personalities.
This week in English we have been thinking about persuasive writing. We are planning a persuasive letter to our local councillor about houses being built in the village. In maths we have been looking at decimals, and in PSHE we have been exploring economic wellbeing.
Term 4
We have been coding using microbits. We created shapes and letters.
We had great fun dressing up for world book day this week. We enjoyed making our own bookmarks and listening to the different teachers read us stories.
Term 3
In maths we have been dividing 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers using place value counters.
We have enjoyed exploring and explaining how the features of a castle help defend it, when under attack.
We have been writing our own portal stories. We have also been using formal written methods for multiplication. We have been researching the features of medieval castles.
In English we have been looking at the the story 'The Tunnel' by Anthony Browne, and exploring character's feelings. In maths we have been multiplying 2- digit numbers and in History we have been looking at castles.
Term 2
We have had a great start back to term 3. We really enjoyed taking part in aventurous outdoor activities in PE. We did a scavenger hunt around the school grounds and it was great fun! We also explored a new artist in art called Kevork Mourad, who does monotype printing. We thought his work was amazing.
We have been writing instructions of how to trap a dragon. We have enjoyed choosing our own dragons. In maths we have been looking at the perimeter of shapes.
We have had a special visit from reindeer. We enjoyed seeing them and learning a little bit about them.
We started to plan and design our Christmas wallets in DT and we practised some different stitches on felt. We created our own story books which we are all very proud of.
We have been having great fun writing our own warning stories this week in English. In ICT we created our own Podcasts about anti- bullying week, we all enjoyed listening to each others.
In Geography we have been looking at the rainforest and exploring the different layers of vegetation. In maths we we have been dividing by 10,100 and 1000.
Term 1
We have been multilying by 10,100 and 1000. In English we have been uisng a story map to retell a story and wriing descriptions of a negative and positive setting.
We had great fun this week during History. We re-created the mummifcation process using tomatoes.
In maths we have been using column method to add 4-digit numbers with one exchange. In English with have been using drama to support our writing. We enjoyed thinking about how our behaviour impacts us and others in PSHE.
In maths we have been rounding numbers to 10,100 and 1000. In English created our own book of non-chronological reports. In music we were making sound using our bodies and performed a whole class body percussion round following simple musical notations.
In PSHE this week we were thinking about courtesy and manners. We discussed what we thought was rude and what was polite. In maths we have been comparing and ordering numbers beyond 1000 and in English we have been writing our own non-chrinological reports about dragons.
In History this week we looked at artefacts and predicted what they might be, what they were used for and who might of used them. We created our own museum plaques to explain what the artefacts were.
We had a great start back to school. We started our English work, which involved researching dragons and in maths we looked at Roman numerals. We really enjoyed our art this week too!
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