In English, we started a narrative unit, our focus text is Alice in Wonderland. Over the week, we wrote about the character’s journey, using similar style as Ross Collins. We used role- play to explore the speech in the text and to write dialogue with the accurate punctuation. We ended the week with planning a setting description.

In Maths, we converted between analogue and digital times,  converted between 12- and 24-hour clock times,  reviewed hours, minutes and seconds, and finally found and used durations.

In RE,  year 4 focused on the importance of sharing what we have with others and a big question on ‘Places of worship important to people?’. Year 3, focused on respecting leaders and a big question on ‘Why do we pray?’

Home Learning

Please see the links below for this week’s home learning.

I have included a spelling sheet as extra support.

Remember to keep working on times table knowledge and number bonds – the basis for the more complex mathematics.

For handwriting we follow the Nelson scheme, it supports correct formation of letters and helps to keep cursive writing neat and legible.

Spetses Home Learning – 13.06.25

Y3 – Challenge Words – Homework Sheets

Y4 – Words that are plurals with possessive apostrophes – Homework Sheet

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Richards

Welcome back!

In English, we began a poetry unit; Kenning poems. The children really enjoyed reading and performing poems by Joseph Coelho. From these lessons, they moved  on to explore kennings; they created kennings to describe people, animals and variety of favourite activities. They finished the week with creating and publishing Kenning poems.

In Maths, we began a new unit; time. In the first steps, the children learnt to read the time more accurately on an analogue clock; telling  the time to 5 minutes, telling the time to the minute. Then they  focused on reading time on a digital clock and finally understanding a.m. and p.m. times through out the day.

In Science, we began a unit ‘Making Connections’ in the first lesson, the children recapped classification and states of matter.

In RE, we focused on the feast day celebration of Pentecost. The children, carefully observed the symbols and images in the icon and how they help us to understand the message of this feast in our lives today.

Home Learning

Please see the links below for this week’s home learning.

I have included a spelling sheet as extra support.

Remember to keep working on times table knowledge and number bonds – the basis for the more complex mathematics.

For handwriting we follow the Nelson scheme, it supports correct formation of letters and helps to keep cursive writing neat and legible.

Spetses Home Learning – 06.06.25

Y3- list 31 – Words ending in -sion – Homework Sheet

Y4 List 31- Challenge words – Homework Sheet

For those still preparing for the year 4 times table check,  you can use this link:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/ 

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Richards

This week, in English, we began a new unit focused on instruction writing. We read ‘Wolf in The Snow’ by Matthew Cordell and ‘ Instructions’ by Neil Gaiman. These texts, helped us to focus on imperative verbs, preposition, adverbs and direct speech in instructions. We ended the week with a planning session for the Instructional text we will write next week.

In Maths, we started a new unit on decimal numbers. We made a good start; linking our previous learning on fractions to write tenths as decimal numbers. We were able to use this growing understanding, to discuss the place value of each digit within a decimal number; 2 wholes and 3 tenths is 3.2 as a decimal number.

In Science, we  started a unit ‘ Sound and Vibration’. We learnt to identify the sources of sound and to describe it sound using the correct scientific vocabulary. We conducted investigations and learnt how to test volume using an online sound meter.

In RE, Year 3 learnt about ways we can show we are Christians through acts of kindness and Year 4 learnt about Paul and modern day missionaries.

Please find the home learning attached: Spetses Home Learning – 09.05.25

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Richards

This week in English, we began with  freeze framing; where we explored the thoughts and feelings of the characters in Hermelin the Mouse Detective. Then we wrote diary entries as Hermelin. We also worked in groups to perform the retelling of the story; using Story mapping we worked as a team to orally retell the story and performed to the rest of the class. Finally, we planned new adventures for Hermelin and his  new partner, Emily, solving new mysteries. We look forward to writing these up, next week.

In maths, we completed our unit on ‘Shape’. We learnt about polygons and their properties, we used this understanding to draw polygons. We also revisited lines of symmetry and deepened our understanding in completing shapes and intricate symmetrical designs. Next week we will begin a unit on decimal numbers.

In History, for our unit ‘What did the Ancient Egyptians believe’, we learnt more about the Egyptians beliefs in the afterlife. We learnt about the reasons they made pyramids and how they were built. We also learnt about their ‘Book of the Dead’.

Please find the home learning attached: Spetses Home Learning – 02.05.25

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Richards

This week in English, we began a two week unit based around the text ‘Hermelin the Detective Mouse’. We started with predictions and making inferences about the text, we wrote about the main character, wrote book reviews, conducted interviews of the key characters and wrote thank you notes to Hermelin.

In maths, we continued with the unit on shape; comparing angles, identify different types of lines (parallel, perpendicular), identifying different types of triangles (isosceles, scalene, equilateral) and identifying quadrilaterals.

In History, we started a unit on the Ancient Egyptians; identifying the time period, identifying other civilizations alive at the same time and looking at the physical features of Egypt. We also began to look at their beliefs and to identify the Ancient Egyptian gods.

Please find the home learning attached: Spetses Home Learning – 25.04.25

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Richards

This week…

In maths, we continued our unit on fractions; finding unit fractions of an amount, non-unit fractions of an amount and reasoning with fractions of an amount.

In RE, we began to look closely at the events and services of Holy week; Lazarus Saturday, Palm Sunday and the Bridegroom services. These were reflective moments, where we looked at preparation for the celebration of Pascha.

In Geography, we looked at how the local area has changed over time. Then we looked at the city of New Delhi; identifying how the land is used and comparing it to our local area.

Please find the home learning attached: Spetses Home Learning – 28.03.25

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Richards

This week…

In English, we continued with our unit on non-fiction text. We published our local area guides. Then we began to look at explanation texts; we explored the features and created checklists for success. We then began to consider the purpose of explanation texts and the audience. We discussed how the audience will influence language choice and began to research ideas on a topic.

In Maths, we continued our unit on Fractions. We learnt about mixed numbers, improper fractions and how to convert mixed numbers into improper fractions.

In science, we researched the scientific fields; electricity and Newton’s laws of motion. We continued to explore electric circuits and to understand the role of the switch. There is more to come next week as we build balloon-powered cars and light – up cards!

Please find the home learning attached: Spetses Home Learning – 14.03.25

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Richards