Some Half Term reading recommendations from 3K

Touch Typing Test Time

After half term, the children can start practising their touch typing more but today was a good chance to see where they are currently at. The silence is golden :-)

Excellent technique from Madeline...

Thursday's Geography Homework - enjoy watching this video!

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Year 4 take the Tea Time Concert by storm.

Samuel plays Minisnoa on his violin.

Coco plays Storm at Sea on her violin.

Coco and Amber sing Recycle Round as a duet. Very catchy!

Dominic played March on the piano.

Joshua played Last Word and Buffalo Hunt on the piano.

Zoe sang Revolting Children from the hit musical, Matilda

Ben played The Clown on the piano.

And Olwyn closed the show with her own electronic composition and PowerPoint presentation.

U9 rugby team play fantastically well in All Hallows' tournament

The before photo...

What happened in between...

It started with a fantastic draw against a lively and industrious Taunton side which showed our team that they could compete with the best teams. Next up was a difficult game against a strong Kings Hall team which tested the team's resilience and after that, the boys went from strength to strength in the following games. Louis was a constant threat as he dived over for numerous tries, Joshua was constantly powering through the middle to draw defenders in for his team to exploit the spaces left and Isaac was always dangerous with ball in hand. Aryan proved he is a lean, mean tackling machine and Alex is as brave as a lion as he put his body on the line numerous times. Dominic jinked his way past defenders and made some try saving tackles when his team needed him most whilst Fabio's mazy runs set up lots of tries.

2 wins, 2 losses and a draw. Although, officially it is 5 draws as it was a friendly tournament.

There were knocks, a blood injury and lots of tired rugby players at the end but the team bonded magnificently and improved each game. Good luck to their next opponents if they continue to play with the same confidence and bravery.

Thank you to Mr Thompson for leading the team so well and a huge thank you to the parents, grandparents and siblings for their vocal support. I certainly appreciated the good company.

The after photo...

And Isaac and Dominic with their signed ice pack from Ex Bath and England front rower, Victor Ubogu:

Mr T

First Aider for the day.

Thursday's Science Homework

Jemima the Rock Queen

What an exciting start to the day! Earthquakes, atoms and volcanoes were certainly explosive and entertaining topics for our first lesson today.

During our special Science assembly, Jemima became a sedimentary rock, and we all learnt an awful lot of new things which would be useful for designing a brand new world!

 

Autumn Half Term Maths Assessment Subjects.

Our maths quiz on Thursday will consist of questions on the following:

Pairs of numbers to 100 or 1000

Column addition

Column subtraction

2D shapes

Types of triangles

4T went to Mr Tumnus' house.

In English today, 4T used adjectives to describe Mr Tumnus' house. It is great to see so many of them independently reaching for a Writer's Toolkit to help them with their choice of words.

Today's Geography homework.

After researching penguins and polar bears, complete the similarities and differences table for both animals. What do penguins and polar bears have in common? How are they so different?

Harvest lesson in PSHE

Based in a small village in the Amazon rainforest, the class had to contend with dry seasons, forest fires, wet seasons and floods as their (paper) food store was being wiped out after wave after wave of bad news announcements. Luckily, a charity came to their rescue and provided them with a greater range of food sources to help them to survive the different challenges that living in these areas can pose. The panic felt by the children in this game gave them just a small glimpse into the panic that the communities in these areas face for real.

Today's science homework.

1) Take your heart rate for 30 seconds.

2) Do 5 minutes of exercise.

3) Take your heart rate for 30 seconds. What has happened?

Year 4:3 maths class have been looking at triangles.

So we made our own out of people...

isosceles triangles have 2 equal length sides:

equilateral triangles have 3 equal sides:

scalene triangles have sides of all different lengths:

and a right angled triangle has a right angle (90 degrees):

R.I.P. Gym Ball Chair

You were a good chair and you will never be forgotten...