Weekly Blog: w/c Tuesday 22nd April 2025

It has been lovely to welcome the children back to the Summer Term.  I hope you all enjoyed the break. 

Our topic this half term centres around the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings and we are very much looking forward to the 'Viking Day' coming up.  Thanks to money earned by the PTA, I have been able to buy some brand new non-fiction texts on the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings which the children will be using in small groups as part of an Historical enquiry.  

Our Maths unit has started well by looking at angles and direction (clockwise and anticlockwise).  We have been solving problems whereby an object rotates a certain number of degrees in a particular direction and the children are asked to state the new location.  Today we move on to classifying angles using the terms 'acute', 'reflex' and 'obtuse'.  

In English we have been exploring figurative language such as the use of similes, metaphors, personification and onomatopoeia etc.  We will start reading our core text, 'Viking Boy' in 'Guided Reading' today and look out for examples of these literary devices.  

In Science we began our unit on the sexual reproduction of mammals, including humans, and plants.  

A letter about the exciting trip to Bawdsey Manor will be going home today, so please look out for that.  

I hope you all have a lovely long weekend when it arrives.

With best wishes,

Mrs Gilbert Scott