St Mark's Eccles C.E. Primary School

LITCHFIELD CLASS   

    Teacher- Mrs Roberts

Teaching Assistant - Mrs David

Well done to this week's vision award winner - Michael for his positive attitude and good manners.

Termly Overview

Our Weekly Learning -Take a look at what we have been doing!

• In English this week we have been writing our own dragon stories.
• In maths we have been looking at length and height and measuring, comparing and ordering.
• In RE we looked at forgiveness and why it is important to Christians.
• In science we have been looking at animals and plants in unfamiliar habitats. 

• In English we have been writing letters to offer advice.
• In maths we have been looking at measuring in centimetres.
• In RE we looked at ways in which Christians show their beliefs in church at Easter time.
• In computing we begun to look at robots and how to programme them to move.

Maidstone Museum

• In English we have been writing instructions for a pancake recipe.
• In maths we have been looking at arrays and multiplication sentences.
• In history we have been describing our favourite toys.
• In science we grouped things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive.

• In English we have been exploring poems about water and looking at rhyming words.
• In maths we have started to look at multiplication and making equal groups.
• In science we have carried out a fair test , to look at how much water we can save by turning the tap off when we wash our hands.
• In computing we have been learning about internet safety.

• In maths we have been looking at money, adding and making amounts.
• In English we have been describing characters and looking at homophones.
• In geography we have been comparing our own school life and children in Brazil.
• In computing we have been creating our own leaflets and adding pictures.

• In science we thought about energy sources and how they are used.
• In English we have been writing our own non-chronological reports.
• In geography we have been look at a map of Brazil.

• In science we have started to look at our environment and what we do with our rubbish.
• In maths we have been sorting 3d shapes.
• In English we have been researching wolves and planning our own non- chronological report.
• In computing we have learning how to add a photograph to our work.

• In English we have been looking non- chronological reports.
• In maths we have been looking at the properties of 3d shapes.
• In RE we discussed the things Christians thank God for.
• In art we created tessellating patterns using 2d shapes.

• In maths we have been looking at the properties of 2d shapes.
• In English we have been writing a recount of Christmas day.
• In geography we have been using an atlas to find the continents and the oceans of the world.
• In DT we made our own moving pictures.

• In maths we have been looking at 2d and 3d shapes.
• In English we have been writing some Christmas poems.

• In maths we have been adding two digit numbers and one digit numbers.
• In English we have been been planning and writing our own traditional tales.
• In geography we have been looking at maps of our local area and planning a route.
• In RE we looked at how Christians show thanks to God for the creation.

• In science we have been looking at the properties of materials and investigating which material is best for making curtains.
• In computing we are using a programme to sort materials.
• In PE we have been practising our dribbling, passing and goal keeping skills.
• We have also been doing some maths, reading, grammar, punctuation and spelling assessments.

• In English we have been looking at 'Traditional Tales' and retelling them using a story map.
• In maths we have been adding and subtracting ten.
• In geography we looked at different types of maps. We used the four basic compass points to locate things on a map. 
• In RE we have been retelling the creation story.

• In maths we have been looking at related facts.
• In English we have been using descriptive language to describe an animal and also writing an information text.
• In science we have been learning about everyday materials and identifying and classifying objects.
• In ICT we have been looking at algorithms and designing our own series of instructions as a sequence.

• In maths we have been looking at fact families.
• In English we have been writing about our half term.
• In Music we have been practising keeping a beat.
• In PSHE we looked at how we show we are a good friend and how it makes us feel.
• We really enjoyed our drama workshop, we acting out the story of 'The Sword and the Stone'

Drama workshop

• In maths we have been counting in 2s., 5s, 10s and 3s.
• In English and history we have been writing diary entries. 
• In science we have been looking at how we keep ourselves healthy.
• In history we also looked at how the past has changed things today e.g. The fire service.

• In English we have been writing letters.
• In music we have been learning how to play the glockenspiels.
• In maths we have been mastering our place value skills and identifying the value of a digit.
• In science we created our own fact files about what a budgerigar needs to survive.

• In PSHE we looked at the importance of friendship.
• In maths we have been identifying and partitioning 2-digit numbers.
• In English we described the bear from our 'The Bear and the Piano Story.'
• In art this week we have been mixing colours and changing the tone by adding white.

• In maths we have been looking at identifying and representing numbers in different ways.
• In English we have been sequencing the story of the 'Bear and the Piano'.
• In history we have looked at what happened during each day of the 'Great Fire of London'. 
• In music we have been listening and discussing a song and the music we can hear.

• We have been discussing our 'wow' moments from the Summer holidays.
• In maths we reviewed our place value and number knowledge.
• In English we have been using capital letters and full stops.
• We also thought about our memories of Queen Elizabeth and recorded our thoughts.