Hello,

We hope you have all had a pleasant week so far.

This week, the children have been publishing and editing their Slave Diary entries. We were amazed by the children’s use of dialogue, 5W detail (who, what, where, when, why), possessive apostrophes and fronted adverbials. Well done, Year Three! Next week in English, we look forward to staring our new unit of learning on writing a Dragon Newspaper article. The children are going to find a surprise in their classroom and are going to be our school news reporters as they find out more about the events from key witnesses…

In Maths, Year Three have been learning how to tell the time. We have been working on the following: telling time to the nearest hour, half an hour, quarter past/to, nearest 5 minutes and 1 minute. The children have demonstrated a tremendous amount of commitment and critical thinking this week, particularly when they were given a set of interval problems to solve e.g. If I start to watch a film at 2.45pm and the film lasts 1 hour 15 minutes, what time will I leave the cinema? Have a go this weekend at creating some of your own time problems for a friend to solve. Can you think of a problem where you have to work backwards and subtract the amount of time away? For example, If I left the supermarket at 3.45pm and had spent 35 minutes doing my shopping, what time must I have arrived at the supermarket? 

We hope to see lots of children attending the Y3/4 Silent Disco and having a fun time with their friends after school, tomorrow. We also look forward to taking part in a drama session about Global Warming on Friday 17th May 2019, as well as attending our Y3/4 Mass at Sacred Heart Church and taking part in school photo day (both on Tuesday 21st May 2019).

We hope you all have a brilliant weekend,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Stewart and Mrs Sumba