In December we focussed on narrative writing and the children produced some incredible writing. We adapted a Christmas story based on the three little pigs and showed  off all of the skills we’ve learnt so far this year. We then word processed our edited  stories using Microsoft Word  to find tune any errors.

This half term we have looked at the United Kingdom. Some of the best work we have produced is on maps and famous landmarks. We looked into how maps are read, what symbols we might expect to find and the difference between physical and human features.
  

It is an ongoing goal to increase the healthiness of our children's packed lunches and it has been lovely to see that lots of children have at least 1 item of fruit or salad in their lunch boxes/bags. We have noticed that more children, who are having school dinners, are selecting fruit for dessert, too - well done!  ​

With regards to keeping fit, the children enjoying completing their daily mile - Here are what some of the children have said about the daily mile: 
Harrison: “I enjoy the daily mile because I like running. I think it is good that all the children get exercise everyday”. 
Enzo: “I like the daily mile because it will get you fit and ready if you are doing a tournament. Also, it is a great warm up to get your blood pumping”. 
Chloe: “I love to run and keep healthy. I think PE will be my hobby because it’s so fun”. 
We love that you enjoy doing the daily mile, keep it up!  ​

Bringing things back into the present, in our recent Computing lessons we have developed and enhanced our understanding of block coding.  Throughout this half term, we have considered algorithms and code from various perspectives.  In last week’s lesson we experimented with debugging, the technical term for fixing broken or incomplete code.  You can try it out by clicking here:   https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/475483/