Following on from recapping the bus stop method of division last week in Maths, we have been using this skill to find fractions of amounts of money, for example 3/8 of £256. To do this, the children needed to divide the total amount of money by the denominator (bottom number in the fraction) and multiply that amount by the numerator (top number).

 

This week in English we have decided, driven by the children’s wishes, to put together an argument in response to a letter written by our own Head Teacher, Mr Cunningham. The children, having learned about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, felt that Mr Cunningham’s proposals – about reducing the amount of time spent playing in the school day – disregarded some of their rights. We look forward to Mr Cunningham’s visit to our classrooms on Tuesday, when we can present our argument to him.

 

In RE, this week we have continued our unit on Sacraments by thinking about the ‘vocation’ of those within the Church. We learned about what ‘a day in the life’ of a nun, monk or priest is like.

Spellings are continuing from last week, the test will be on Friday:

Groups 1 and 2

replied

enemies

emptied

victorious

marrying

Groups 3 and 4

envied

pitiful

busily

delayed

supplier

Remember, these all have root words that end in -y. They could possibly change in some way when we add a suffix. Encourage you child to make conscious choices about what they should do to the word and why.

 

Enjoy the lovely, sunny weekend.

Team 4.