Hello,

We hope you have all been enjoying the beautiful summer weather.

This week, the children were very excited to find out that a Dragon had invaded the classroom over the Easter Holidays! Both classes explored the Crime Scene at St. Peter’s school by using the 5 senses, then generated a variety of questions about the events that took place. The following day, Year Three held a Town Hall meeting – the children took part (as news reporters) by asking their questions to Mr Crozier, Professor Walls, Mr Chapman and Mrs D. By the end of the week, both classes were taught how to convert reported speech into direct speech, using direct commas. The children enjoyed scanning local newspapers to find suitable verbs as alternatives for ‘said’. Well done Year Three!

In Maths, we have been learning about Addition in the context of Statistics and Data. At the beginning of the week, the children were given bar graphs about the occurrence of UK dragon sightings. Using place value counters and diennes, the pupils were able to problem solve and calculate which two areas had a total number of sightings that was closest to 200. On Friday, St. Peter’s took part in a Deep Learning day for Growth Mindset. Both Year Three classes had successfully problem-solved their way out of a tricky ‘learning pit’ when given a pack of tricky Dragon problems to complete. Great Commitment and Critical thinking, well done Year Three!

Just a brief reminder that we would like for the children to complete the Maths Challenge sticker – in their Home Learning diaries – by Friday 27th April.

We hope you all have a pleasant weekend in the sun,

Miss Honeywell, Mrs Luter and Mrs Stewart.