This term Dormouse Class have been learning all about the Great Fire of London. We did a fantastic workshop online with the National Archives where we looked at artefacts and documents. The workshop leader was really impressed with how much the children already knew about how and where the fire started, and how people put the fire out. We made our own timber framed houses and set fire to them in the playground to show how quickly the fire spread. Houses in 1666 were very close together!
We started the term in maths by counting in 2s, 5s and 10s before moving on to multiplication and division skills. We have been looking at dividing numbers into equal groups, and adding equal groups together. We have looked at arrays and written sentences to go with them, e.g.
This array could be grouped as 4 groups of 3 or be grouped differently as 3 groups of 4
Our topic in RE is Judaism: Who is Jewish and what do they do. We have been really enjoying finding out about what things are important to Jews, what a mezuzah is and all about Shabbat.
PSHE this term has been thinking about ‘Relationships’. We have thought about making friends, families, greetings and people who help us.
In PE we have been developing our tennis skills with Mrs Linda, our Take Pride coach, playing lots of games to develop our skills in controlling a ball, sending and receiving bean bags and balls, aiming for targets, and using tennis rackets. We have also been practising some of the athletics events for Sports Day.
We are loving OPAL play and all the fun things to do in the playground, on the field and in the Wellbeing Garden.