Week beginning 19th July

Week beginning 12th July

Week beginning 5th July

Here we are, July already and the last month of the year! This week, we've some very exciting science lined up as we conduct a series of practical investigations. As well as this, we continue our story writing unit. In Maths, Year 3 and 4 will be studying different content. Year 3 will be working on Time and Year 4 will be working on their knowledge of decimals.

Week beginning 28th June

Another exciting week here at Farmilo as we work our magic! This week, it's all about Olivanders as we design and make our own magic wands...in school AND on our trip! You're going to design your own and create it using a range of materials. In English, we're very excited to be starting our 2-week story-writing unit. In Maths, we continue with our work on fractions as we explore subtraction.

Week beginning 21st June

Chocolate Frogs are the theme of the week as we make and write the recipes for our own! We'll also continue to look at the music of John Williams. In maths, we will continue to focus on fractions as we explore calculating with them.

Week beginning 14th June

This week, it's all about Diagon Alley! We'll be exploring how JK Rowling describes this iconic setting and also seeing how it is shared in the movie. We'll study the music John Williams uses to accompany the scene and we will find out more about John Williams as well. In Maths, we will be returning to fractions and working on equivalence. Year 4 will be taking part in the times table check this Thursday and Friday.

Week beginning 7th June

Well everybody here we are, Potions! This is our final topic of the year and one I know we're going to have so much fun with! This week, we've got our 'Day at Hogwarts' on Tues 8th June. We're going to be writing a diary entry of our 'day'. We begin our maths this half-term with a revisit of our times-table knowledge.

Week beginning 24th May

As we approach the end of a FANTASTIC half-term, we bring all of our learning together this week as we think about answers to some of the more unusual questions we've had - like why is snot green?! We will continue with our fractions learning as we explore equivalence such as how two quarters and one half are the same (equal) amounts.

Week beginning 17th May

What an exciting week we have in store! This week, it's all about sandwiches...HEALTHY sandwiches! You'll be evaluating existing sandwich recipes before designing, making, testing and evaluating your own! In maths, we continue to work on fractions as we order them on a number line.

Week beginning 11th May

It's a very busy week this week with lots of exciting things happening including our local walk for our Young Leaders Award! In Maths, we will be beginning fractions on Wednesday including finding halves, quarters, fifths and tenths. Our English story writing unit continues as we get ready to write our own stories inspired by Alex Sparrow. We will also be learning about food chains!

Week beginning 4th May

Do you know what happens once you've started eating your food? Well this is the week to find out! We'll be learning more about the digestive system including recreating a model of it to help us make sense of the process. In English, we're starting our own stories inspired by Alex Sparrow. In Maths, we are working on our knowledge of division.

Week beginning 26th April

This week it's all about poetry! We'll be using Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen to inspire our very own poetry about our favourite food and I cannot wait to read them! In Maths this week we will be multiply 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by 1 moving into the formal written method as some important revision and consolidation. Don't forget it's also parents' meetings week.

Week beginning 19th April

Welcome everybody to the Summer Term! AND a new topic - Burps, Bottoms and Bile! We begin our topic with our teeth and finding out about how and why they need caring for! We'll be writing instructions and carrying out an experiment to discover what would happen if we didn't care for them....yuck! In maths, we are consolidating our knowledge of multiplication.

Week beginning 15th March

Spellings

Week beginning Monday 14th December

Our week of Christmas parties, virtual Carol service and other festive fun is upon us! Christmas-themed Maths, calendars, cards and decorations to make. Let's have a fantastic week and step into Christmas....!!!

Week beginning Monday 7th December

After all your wonderful learning in Traders and Raiders, this week we are getting in the festive spirit with a focus on the poem 'Twas the night before Christmas. We'll be exploring the poem and crafting our own version of it too. In Maths, we are continuing our learning on multiplication and division. 

Don't forget that we are swimming on Tuesday morning.

Week beginning Monday 30th November

This week, we bring our Viking learning to a close as we find out about The Battle of Hastings. In English, we are writing newspaper reports about the events which took place in our myths. In Maths, we are continuing our learning on multiplication and division. 

Week beginning Monday 23rd November

It's another exciting week this week as we write our own Thor and Loki stories set at Farmilo! Miss.Chant and I are really looking forward to reading them on Thursday. In Maths, we are continuing our new learning on multiplication this week.

Week beginning Monday 16th November

Such an exciting start to the week as we have our Virtual Viking Experience from Jorvik museum and that forms the basis for our whole week! This week, we are finding out about Viking Sagas and also Mythology as we learn more about Thor, Loki and Asgard. We are even going to write our very own Thor and Loki story, set at Farmilo! In maths, we will continue our learning about subtraction before moving on to times tables and multiplication. 

Week beginning Monday 9th November

We had a fantastic first week back everybody, thank you and well done. I especially enjoyed your tremendous Big Writes!

This week, we are finding out all about Viking Raiders including looking at Longships! We will also be celebrating Remembrance Day with some special artwork. We'll be writing letters from life aboard a Viking Longship whilst, in Maths, we continue our work on subtraction.

Week beginning Monday 12th October

Well goodness me it's the final week of the half-term and what a super one it has been! This week, we're brining our Roman learning together as we create our own mosaics! We'll be continuing our learning about addition in Maths. AND, very excitingly, we have a Love 2 Investigate experiment all about Roman toilet paper on Thursday.......!

Week beginning Monday 5th October

This week, we are fast forwarding to modern day Rome and planning a little trip! We'll be investigating tourism in Rome today as we find out about what we can see and do in the Italian capital. We're going to be writing our very own holiday brochure pages and planning a day out in Rome. In maths, we'll be busy working on our addition knowledge which we will focus on this week and next.

Week beginning Monday 28th September

We can't wait to read your time-travel stories this week as we write about our journey back in time to a battle at The Colosseum. In topic, we'll be finding out more about life as a Gladiator. Our maths learning will focus on the skill of rounding to 10, 100 and 1,000.

Week beginning Monday 21st September

This week it's all about Roman life! How did the Romans live? What were their houses like and how do they differ to ours? We're going to be making a start on an exciting adventure story which we'll be working on the for the next two weeks. In Maths, we are ordering and comparing values both as objects and then as numbers, using our Place Value knowledge.

And for Miss.Chant's spelling group:

Week beginning Monday 14th September

What a fantastic first week back we had! You made a terrific start! This week we are learning about Boudicca and this includes making some clay models of her and writing a biography about her. In maths, we are continuing our work on Place Value as we explore working with numbers to 1,000 on number lines.

And for Miss.Chant's spelling group:

Week beginning Monday 7th September

After a brill couple of days settling in, we have a very busy week ahead as we find out what it would have been like to be a soldier in the Roman Army! We're going to look at the training, the uniform and what day-to-day life would have been like...could YOU have been a Roman soldier? In maths, we're going to be looking at Place Value in numbers up to 1,000. Don't forget our PE days are Tuesday and Friday - remember to come to school in your PE kit as we stay in these all day.

Our spellings for the week are here: