Week beginning 4th July

As we enter the final month of the school year, it's time to get thinking about our chocolate bars! This week, we'll be designing and even starting to manufacture them in some cases! In English, we'll be looking at biographical writing as we find out more about Roald Dahl. Meanwhile, in Maths, it's time for time! We'll be exploring how to tell the time to the nearest minute.

Week beginning 27th June

This week, we are continuing our stories of our own events at Willy Wonka's factory. This leads to us writing our stories in Thursday's Big Write. In Maths, we are continuing our learning with shape, space and measure. Year 3 are measuring in m/cm/mm and Year 4 are exploring properties of quadrilaterals and triangles. Our topic learning continues to think about the origins of food as we explore where our foods grow and the conditions (including climate) which relate to this.

Week beginning 20th June

We begin this week with our Sports Day and it'll be lovely to have all our families in cheering us all on! In English, we begin a story writing unit in which we'll create our own adventures inside Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Our Maths learning introduces (or reintroduces!) us to angles!

Week beginning 6th June

Welcome to the start of our brand-new topic, Scrumdiddlyumptious! This week, we're finding out about the history and manufacture of chocolate. We'll be writing persuasively about the importance of eating healthily whilst our maths learning focuses on working with tenths (Year 3) and hundredths (Year 4).

Week beginning 16th May

In the final week of our Urban Pioneers, we will write and delver our speeches to suggest how WE would make Pleasley even better! Our topic art will look at the work of Andy Warhol. Then as the week ends, we join the school in celebrating the Jubilee!

Week beginning 9th May

This week, we continue to write our letters to suggest how we would propose to improve Pleasley. We also begin to look at some examples of Urban Artists as we found out about Keith Haring and start to design our own creations. Our maths learning continues to focus on fractions but this week we split; Y3 will look at equivalence e.g that 1/2 is equivalent to 2/4, 4/8, 5/10 whilst Year 4 will look at fractions greater than one whole e.g how 7/5 is 1 and 2/5.

Week beginning 3rd May

We begin this week on the Tuesday, after the Bank Holiday, and for the next fortnight we'll be focussing on how we can reshape Pleasley. Taking into account what our survey respondents told us, we'll plan and propose ways to make Pleasley even better. On Friday, Ben Bradley MP is visiting us to talk to us about the work of the council and how they work to improve our areas. Our maths unit on fractions continues.

Week beginning 26th April

After a lovely first week back, this week we're thinking further afield as we compare Pleasley with another locality - Berlin! Are there any similarities and what are the differences? In maths, we begin a big unit of learning on fractions which we are very excited about!

Week beginning 19th April

Welcome back for our new topic, Urban Pioneers. This week, we begin with a walk into Pleasley to conduct a fieldwork study. We'll be exploring and comparing our local area with others, thinking about how we might change or make Pleasley even better. In Maths, our learning focuses on money.

Week beginning 21st March 

This week, we are focusing on poetry in English and going to write our own animal inspired poem! In Maths, we will continue with our formal method of division. We will also be doing some Geography and looking at Biomes and Habitats. 

Week beginning 14th March

This week, we're carrying on with our very imaginative storytelling about how our animals came to be as they are! In Maths, our division work will extend into using formal methods. It's Science Day on Wednesday so remember those brilliant costumes. We're also working closely on our drawing skills.

Week beginning 7th March

After reading a number of 'Just So Stories' by Rudyard Kipling, this week it's over to YOU! We want you to come up with your own fantastical explanations for how some of nature's funkiest animals came to look and be as they are! In Maths, we're continuing with our learning on division and linking this to our times table knowledge.

Week beginning 28th February

This week, we've got our very exciting Forest School learning starting! We'll also be finding out more about Nature's Deadly 60 and you'll even be having a go at making your own mini role-play in the style of the show! Our Maths continues to focus on division of objects and amounts whilst, in writing, we'll be creating setting descriptions of The Grand Canyon!

Week beginning 21st February

After an INSET Day on Mon 21st Feb, we return to school on Tues 22nd Feb with a very exciting workshop handling and flying Birds of Prey! We'll find out more about where the owls and eagles come from and write about their habitat. In maths, we are beginning our work on division. 

Week beginning 7th February

As we head into the final week of this half-term, we will be bringing all of our learning together as we focus on our computing knowledge in making Groovy Greek PowerPoints. Our English will also tie into this as we work at sentence level to think about how to make our writing as informative and engaging as possible. Our Maths learning will continue with multiplication written methods as Year 3 multiply 2-digit by 1-digit and Year 4 move into 3-digit x 1-digit.

Week beginning 24th January

This week, we're finding out about The Trojan Horse and even having a go at making our own prototype! This will link to our English where we'll be writing instruction texts for how to make successful models! In Maths, we continue calculating applying our times-table knowledge.

Week beginning 17th January

Life in Ancient Greece is our focus this week as we find out about food, entertainment, homes, beliefs and school. We'll be continuing our work on mythology as we retell Pandora's Box. Our Maths learning continues to focus on our x table knowledge.

Week beginning 10th January

This week we're diving into the world of Greek Mythology as we find out more about the tale of Pandora's Box. We'll be discovering the history behind Greek pottery as we look at (and design our own) Amphoras. In Maths, we'll be continuing to develop and apply our knowledge of multiplication facts.

Week beginning 4th January

We begin our new topic with an exciting Engage Day as we plan a trip to Athens! We'll be looking at persuasive holiday brochures and applying those features. In Maths, we begin our learning of multiplication by working on our x-table knowledge in context.

Week beginning 13th December

It's a very festive week for us. Monday is Dress Rehearsals, Tuesday is our performance day, Wednesday is Christmas Jumper day, Thursday is Party/Disco Day and Friday will be a general festive day with festive learning in between the extra activities planned.

Week beginning 6th December

As we get closer to Christmas we are going to be basing our English on Christmas Adverts and designing our own with a story! In Maths, we will be working on measurements (linked to Christmas Trees) in Year 3 and on negative numbers (linked to temperature) in Year 4.

Week beginning 29th November

This week our focus continues on rocks as we discover more about their types and properties. In English, we will be inspired by our class text as we write our own version of the story climbing Mount Merapi, just like Lila. In Maths, this will be our final week of our subtraction unit as we exchange with 3 and 4-digit numbers.

Week beginning 22nd November

This week we'll be finding out more about the Vesuvius eruption of AD79 and writing a newspaper report about this. We'll also be beginning our science learning all about different types of rocks! In Maths,  we continue to work on subtraction as we subtract from 3-digit numbers including in problem solving.

Week beginning 15th November

After finding out lots about the formation of Volcanoes last week, this week we are looking more closely at Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii. In our English, we'll be writing an imaginary adventure story about being at a very special fireworks display. Our maths will continue to focus on subtraction methods.

Week beginning 8th November

This week, we're finding out all about volcanoes - How do they form? What happens when one erupts? We'll even have a go at recreating an eruption ourselves! In Maths, we begin our unit on subtraction. Our writing will be a story, imagining we are volcanoes, telling the story of how we came to be.

Week beginning 11th October

In the final week of this half-term, we we will be comparing the changes which happen in life across the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age. We'll also be completing an exciting fieldwork project looking at how Pleasley has changed from the sky. In Maths, we continue our learning around addition.

Week beginning 4th October

This week we have the exciting task of making our Bell Beaker clay work! We're also going to be writing the main action parts of our stories all about time-travelling back to The Stone Age. In Maths, we are beginning our learning all about addition.

Week beginning 27th September

Well here we are at the end of our first month of the term and hasn't it flown by! This week, I am super-excited for us to get stuck into our story-writing unit - you're going to be writing a time travel story all about your adventures as you wake up in The Stone Age.....!! We'll be continuing our work on clay beakers in Art whilst, in Maths, we'll be continuing to order and (in Year 4) round numbers.

Week beginning 20th September

After a super trip last week, we begin this week with an introduction to our Film Study unit as we will watch and then review Early Man. We have an exciting Art project beginning this week too, as we start to look at clay beaker pots and we'll build up to making our own. In Maths, we are continuing our work on our number knowledge as we explore comparisons of values.

Week beginning 13th September

This week we have an exciting trip off to Creswell Crags to find out more about life in the Stone Age, we'll even be exploring a cave! After our trip, we'll be working on writing a recount about our exciting trip .In Maths, we'll be continuing our work on our number knowledge. 

Week beginning 2nd September

As we welcome you all back to school for this next, exciting academic year, we will be working on some PSHE activities and thinking about our goals for the year ahead. You can find our first spellings of the year below: