In our Music lessons so far this half term, Year 3 have been learning about Classical and Baroque music. We focused on Beethoven and created a case study. We learnt that Beethoven's pieces of music are incredibly complicated. Beethoven trained as a musician from the...
At the beginning of this week in Maths, focused on converting improper fractions to mixed numbers. We used our division knowledge to work out how many whole numbers were in each fraction and how much fraction was left over. Today, we converted a mixed number into an...
This afternoon, some children from Year 5 and 6 were chosen to take part in a new programme called; ‘Think Good, Feel Good’. The programme will run for 6 weeks with Miss Greenwell and Hannah Long from Gateshead Council. The first session was called; ‘Be kind to...
On Friday morning in English, Year 5 began planning the writing of a formal letter. Our piece of writing this half term is based on ‘Shackleton’s Journey’. The children are writing a letter, pretending to apply for a job on board Shackleton’s ship, ‘The Endurance’, to...
This morning in Maths, Year 3 were adding 2, 3 digit numbers with an exchange. At the start of the lesson, the children worked together in groups to complete a 4 times table game, where they had to correctly line up the 4 times table in order. The children...
This morning in Maths, we began our new topic; Time. For our starter, we discussed what we can do or what can happen in different amounts of time. Some of our answers included the following: 1 minute - making a drink 1 hour - taking a nap 1 day - building a large lego...