Year 3
With the half-term now well underway, the children are rising to the Year 3 expectations in both behaviour and learning. They are tackling tasks with enthusiasm and engaging well with the teaching input. That said, we’ve also reminded them about our Moulton standards - especially the importance of listening carefully, lining up quietly, and saving their chatter for playtime. Please support this message at home to reinforcing these high expectations so we can continue to get the very best progress from the children.
English
This week, the children became experts at writing instructions for how to get ready for school. I wonder if their mornings are as efficient and cheerful as their step-by-step guides suggest! Their writing was full of questions, exclamations, useful lists and clear steps. (Feel free to ask your child for a demonstration on Monday morning… I can’t promise it will work, but it will certainly be entertaining!). We’ve also reviewed our new spellings and had a mixed SPaG task to keep our skills sharp.
Maths
In maths, we’ve been adding and subtracting 1s, 10s and 100s, looking for number patterns along the way. The children showed great recall when we discussed exchanges, remembering the catchy “swap shop” from Year 2. See if your child can sing you the counting-in-3s song - and challenge them to go both forwards and backwards (or, as we like to say, “ascending and descending order”).
Science & Geography
Science saw us planning healthy, balanced menus and completing a lively quiz to round off our diet and nutrition unit. In geography, we moved from atlases to digital maps, tracing the journey of fruits and vegetables from around the world to our plates. The children loved zooming in on faraway countries and making real-world connections.
In other learning:
Music: The children composed inspired by climbing a mountain (metaphorically) with Miss Spinks.
RE: The children looked at the parable of the lost son and talked through new words. They discussed how and where they saw reconciliation in the story.
PE: Football skills were on display, with teamwork and sportsmanship at the heart of the lessons.
French: Classroom instructions – the children enjoyed speaking and acting them out so much that we may need to borrow them for lining up time!
Art: To finish the week, we collaborated on a whole-class artwork inspired by Van Gogh’s pencil sketches, capturing the landscape from our very own classroom window.
Keep warm and dry this weekend!
The year 3 team
Year 4
It has been a great week, the children have been focused and have worked hard. I have been impressed with the class at how hard they have worked to ensure they are behaving appropriately in and around school. Thank you for returning the spelling sheets, please make sure they are practising them correctly, the scores have been low for the last couple of weeks.
We came joint second for Bookster Bear this week, well done, let's try for him being ours next week, 6 reads folks that's all, just 6 reads and the children can read on their own and write it in their book. I just ask that a grown up listens to them read at least once a week.
In our learning this week;-
Maths - The children have looked at Roman Numerals and rounding numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 with Mrs Chittock whilst with Mrs Murray the children have compared measurements of length - km, m, cm and mm.
English - This week we have started looking at innovating our text and we have been sing our grammar knowledge to create some interesting descriptive sentences. With Mrs Murray the children had a reading comprehension that was a poem about Anglo Saxon Warriors.
Topic - This week we looked at the challenges that faced the Anglo-Saxons when they landed on the shores of Briton.
French - we looked at how the negative is formed (ne pas) and wrote sentences identifying the animals (c’est un lapin = it is a rabbit) using the correct masculine or feminine form.
RE - thinking about being a saviour we looked at why Christians think Jesus was a saviour, why he had to die on the cross. Then we discussed modern day heroes and superheroes.
Art - We created our 'seasonal' card, keep an eye out in the book bags soon for ordering instructions.
Have a great weekend
Mrs Chittock and the Year 4 team
Year 5
Our Star Reader numbers have improved again! We were 2% off 2nd place! We will need 3 more children to be a Star Reader this week if we are going to reclaim Bookster Bear!
This week in English, we have started our new writing unit: recounts. We have looked at a famous UFO sighting in Suffolk, and yesterday we started to learn about probably the most famous UFO sighting in the world - Roswell. We have discussed that UFO stands for 'Unidentified Flying Object' and that doesn't mean aliens (even though it is fun to think that!) Next week, we will have a go at writing our own recount of witnessing the Roswell UFO.
In Maths, we have looked at negative numbers. We've looked at how you can calculate the difference between positive and negative numbers. We also carefully drew and labelled axes for 4 quadrant grids. We've also plotted coordinated across all 4 quadrants, remembering that the first number in the coordinate pair is the X axis reference.
In Science, we learnt about why we have seasons. It's all about the Earth's tilt! We had the special treat of an extra art lesson this week - Mrs Grosvenor taught the children all about how to creature different textures with paint using different types of brushes.
In DT, we started planning our space-themed pop-up books. The children thought about which pop-ups they had enjoyed making in their previous session and how they could use these effectively. There are some amazingly creative plans in the room - I am so excited to see how the books develop over the rest of the term.
Next Friday, we will be having our first Reading Cafe of the year. It will start at 9:10 and finish at 10ish. Please join us if you can for a story, craft and a biscuit!
Have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe in the stormy weather!
Miss Rutter, Mrs Grosvenor and Mrs Marsh
Year 6
This week in maths, we have been practising solving missing number addition and subtraction problems, as well as learning how to multiply three- or four-digit numbers by a two-digit number.
In English, the children completed our whole-school writing task based on Paddington. They also worked hard on their baseline reading assessment and enjoyed writing diary entries – it has been a very busy week!
On Tuesday, the class had a wonderful opportunity to create beautiful Monet-inspired art plates at Newmarket Academy, which really showcased their creativity.
In PSHE, we continued our discussions around mental health, thinking about what it means to struggle and exploring positive steps we can take to look after ourselves and others.
In RE, we explored some of the quotes from the Gospel of John, thinking about how Jesus’ presence was shown through what he said and did – for example, “I am the bread of life” and “I am the door”.
In art, the children have been exploring the use of colour to create mood.
We are so impressed with the continued positivity and hardworking attitude of the class.
Home Learning:
This weekend, children will consolidate their maths learning with a short practice task, alongside a reading activity. Both should take no longer than 30 minutes.
Finally, a huge well done to the children who represented our class in the cross-country event. Not only did they perform brilliantly, but they also showed true Moulton courage, spirit, and determination. We are very proud of them all.
Nuala Gilmore
