This week in Zakynthos class…..

In English, the children focused on planning, editing and publishing their writing task based on  a non-chronological report called ‘ Incredible Job’. They had to include a few features, such as to write the job description of the job, the uniform and the tools needed, the skills needed, and where does the job take place. They had to create a layout of their choice , ensuring that each box contains a feature.

In Maths, we finished the unit ‘Money’ with to subtract money and how to find change. We then started a new unit called ‘Statistic’, where the children first looked at how to interpret a pictogram, to read and interpret information presented in pictograms.  Another lesson was based on ‘Draw pictograms’ were the children had to construct their own pictograms using given data on a range of topics and they had to think carefully about how the data could be presented using a pictogram. They also looked at ‘Draw Bar Charts’, where the children had to use information from tally charts, pictograms and tables to construct bar charts and answered questions.

In Art, the children’s objective was to understand the starting points in a design process, inspired by the Rainforest. They had to create a ‘Mood Board’ by using a series of small drawings of various objects, either from real-life observation or from photographs. They focused on a small part of the object/photo, such as the texture of a fruit skin or the centre of a flower or drew the whole thing, using crayons and other mediums.

There is NO home learning this week.

Have a wonderful weekend, enjoy the beautiful hot weather and please keep hydrated.

Miss Weithers

This week in Zakynthos Class……

In English, the children have started looking at a new book called ‘ Incredible Jobs You’ve Never Heard Of’.  We started to discuss the purpose of the book and who they think the audience for this information text might be for. The children then had the task of writing about a particular job like an Armpit Sniffer or a Bed Jumper which they had fun doing.   Then their next task was to discuss, plan and write about a job of their choice.

In Maths, the children started a new unit ‘Money, and they recapped about pounds and pence, then they learnt how to convert pounds and pence and also how to add money.

In Science, we continued with the unit ‘Making Connections’. The children had to create a bar chart based on the relationship between viscosity and how fast a liquid flows. The used the results from the previous week to complete their Bar Chart.

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I have included a spelling sheet as extra support.

Zakynthos Home Learning – 04.07.25

Y3 list 35- Revision Words – Homework Sheet

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

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

Have a great weekend!

Miss Weithers

In English, the children had the opportunity to become creative writers, creating a magical fantasy world story.  They first planned their story and  had to include expanded noun phrases, the ‘Power of 3’ (3 similar adjectives grouped) prepositions, ‘show and not tell’ which is a technique where you describe a character’s feelings, thoughts, and actions through sensory details and actions instead of directly stating them and direct speech. Towards the end of the week, the children had to edit their work and then publish it. They really enjoyed creating their story being the great authors that they are.

In Maths, we finished the time unit with minutes and seconds, units of time and solving problems with time. We had to repeat time and duration as they found this challenging.

In RE, we focused on the Greek Orthodox Church respecting the Saints.  The children had to choose a saint, annotate the icon, say why they had chosen that saint and what they have learnt from the life of that saint.

In Science, we looked at what was ‘viscosity’ (a measure of how runny a liquid is). They also looked at the relationship between viscosity and the flow of liquid the through scientific enquiry and gathered data on whether the viscosity of a liquid affects the speed of the flow by measuring accurately and recording their data in a table.

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I have included a spelling sheet as extra support.

Zakynthos Home Learning – 27.06.25

34- Revision Words – Homework Sheet

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

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

Have a great weekend and enjoy the hot weather that is expected!

Miss Weithers

This week in Zakynthos…..

In English, we continued with the  book ‘Alice in Wonderland’.  Their task for this week was to first explore the Mad Hatter’s tea party and write a narrative setting description, then they had to write a character description based on their own ideas about the Queen of Hearts. Another activity they did this week in English, was to plan and record their own fantastical, magical ideas for their setting and character. The following day, they continued with their plans by adding  more details and a rich and varied vocabulary, relating to their setting and character, including prepositions, five senses and dialogue.

In Maths, we continued with ‘Time’ and looked at AM and PM, Years, Months and Days, Days and hours and Hours and minutes – use start and end times.

In Geography – We continued with our topic  ‘Where do our food comes from?’ and the children focused on where our chocolate came from and how it travels from abroad to the consumer.  We looked at a few videos’ and had to pay attention to What is cacao? , and where does the chocolate come and how it was made. We also looked at the different types of transport that were being used,(trucks to the fermentation and packaging factory; ships and aeroplanes to European factories; trucks to the shops; cars to consumers’ homes).  The children focused on the various processes that the cocoa bean go through to become chocolate (picking, cutting, fermentation, roasting, removing their husks, packaging, grinding, heating, mixing and cooling).  They then had a go at explaining and illustrating the journey of the cocoa bean from Côte d’Ivoire to the consumers’ homes.

In RE the children focused on to know that God wants us to respect our church leaders and their other lesson was on the Lord’s Prayer, looking at the significance of the Lord’s Prayer for Christians, and what the Lord’s Prayer tell us, annotating each line.

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Zakynthos Home Learning – 20.06.25

I have included a spelling sheet as extra support.

Challenge Words – Homework Sheets

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.

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather that we have been blessed with.

Miss Weithers

This week in Zakynthos …..

In English, the children started a new book called ‘Alice in Wonderland’.  They first explored a map in pairs, looking at different places and characters and record what they saw. They then role played the character of Alice and wrote on speech bubbles what Alice was like and her thoughts.  They also drew a simple map of the White Rabbits journey using prepositions and wrote a paragraph to explain the Rabbit’s journey. Then also focused on adding dialogue to their paragraph and looked at another setting tin the story.

In Maths, we started a new unit ‘Time’.  The children looked at Roman numerals to 12,  telling the time to 5 minutes, telling the time to the minute and to read time on a digital clock.

In  RE, which we focused a lot on due tho the inspection, the children had a good understanding of ‘What Makes a Good Leader and we looked at how people communicated with God.

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Zakynthos Home Learning – 13.06.25

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Weithers

Welcome back!

Firstly, I would like to apoologise for the late home learning task, I had to leave school by 5 pm on Friday.

In English, we began a poetry unit called ‘Kenning Poems’. The children really enjoyed learning about Kenning poems, as well as reading and performing such poems by Joseph Coelho. The children then had the opportunity to explore kenning poems and they created kennings to describe people, animals and objects. They finished the week with creating and publishing their own kenning poems.

In Maths, we finally finished Mass and Capacity. The children focused on comparing capacity and to add and subtract capacity. We then did a recap on Mass and Capacity.

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.

In Geography, we began our new topic, ‘Where do our food comes from?’ We talked about what a Biome was, why different foods are grown in different biomes and how we get different foods in our supermarkets if they’re not grown in the biome we live in.

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Zakynthos Home Learning – 06.06.25

I have included a spelling sheet as extra support.

List 25- Words with the suffix -er – Homework Sheet

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

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Weithers

This week in Zakynthos Class….

In Maths, we continued with ‘Mass and Capacity’.  The children focused on comparing mass, to add and subtract mass, to measure capacity and volume in millilitres, to measure capacity and volume in litres and millilitres and equivalent capacities and volumes (litres and millilitres).

In Science, the children looked at the relationship and investigated between vibrations and volume and between vibrations, strength and volume.  The children worked in groups of three’s, used an iPad (for the online metronome), a  variety of instruments and a tape measure. They recorded the sound of the instrument played at different metres and measured the volume of the sound in decibels. Another lesson that the children focused on was to describe the pitch and how to change it.  They chose the instrument, used the online metronome and recorded the pitch (high and low) in hertz and then had to write what they had learnt.

In DT, the children designed their own Egyptian collar and used the techniques of cross stitch and running stitch to sew on their collar.

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Zakynthos Home Learning – 23.05.25

Have a wonderful half term holiday!

Miss Weithers

This week in Zakynthos…..

In English, the children had the opportunity of being creative writers. They had the task of planning, editing and publishing their own story using instructions.

In Maths, the children started a new unit called ‘Mass and Capacity’. They looked at using scales, how to measure mass in  grams and kilograms and focused on equivalent mass using grams and kilograms.

In Science, the children looked at how sounds are heard through different mediums. They did an investigation – ‘Does sound travel better through a solid (string) or gaseous (air) medium’. They worked in groups of threes and were given cups to use as a telephone. One person had to write something on a whiteboard and show the person who would say the word or words. The other  person held the cup to their ears and had to say what they heard. We then discussed which was the better medium, gases (air) or solid (string). The children recognised that sound travels faster, better, farther through solid mediums than gases like air.

In DT, the children’s end product is to design and make an Egyptian collar. Their first task was to learn how to use the technique to sew cross-stitch and then how to applique which means ‘applied’, which is used to refer to a patch to cover a hole in a piece of material and is now used to decorate textiles. Although they found the task rather challenging, they enjoyed the experienced of  threading a needle, making a knot and using felt to cross-stitch.

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Zakynthos Home Learning – 16.05.25

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Weithers

This week in Zakynthos…..

In English the children focused on writing a story from their plan about Hermelin’s nexrt adventure and this completed finishing this text. They then looked at the next book for the term called ‘Instrucciones’. We first talked about the four  different types of text (to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to discuss) and then we looked at a sentence type called ‘Commands’. The children were given pictures taken from a story that did not have any words and they had to write a command sentence for each picture. Another lesson was based on the children listening to the story ‘Instrucciones’ and they then had to use the image strip to write commands using preposition and using a different strip if images based on the book, to write a dialogue for the images.

In Maths, we finished the unit on Shapes with looking at and drawing different types polygons, recognising and describing  2D and 3D shapes.

In Science, we have started the new unit of ‘Sounds and Vibrations’.  The children had the opportunity to investigate different ways of sensing sound. There were six work stations placed  around the classroom with different equipment.  The children explored the equipment to help them see sound and discussed what they observed (hear, see, feel) at each station and were taught that sounds are caused by something vibrating.

What an amazing assembly! The children worked really hard to perform to the best of their ability and to learn their lines without having to read them. I am so proud of my children and I thank  you all for attending to your child’s class assembly.

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Zakynthos Home Learning – 09.05.25

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Weithers

In Zakynthos this week……

In English, the children focused one lesson on writing a recount in role as ‘Hermelin the Detective Mouse’. They used a freeze frame, voiced the thoughts of the characters and then wrote a diary entry describing the start of the party, including feelings. They used their skills of story mapping to help them orally retell the story as a group and had the opportunity to become authors themselves by planning a new adventure for Hermelin and Emily his partner to solve more mysteries. This task will continue next week.

In Maths, the children continued with expanding and further developing their knowledge of ‘Shapes’.  We looked at horizontal and vertical lines, parallel and perpendicular lines, and recognising and describing 2-D shapes.

In History, the children continued with learning more about the Ancient Egyptians culture. We looked at what they believed in when they passed away, where they believed their soul would go to (the ‘afterlife’) and the burial procession that took placed. We also studied the pyramids, how, why and who they were built for.

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Zakynthos Home Learning – 02.05.25

Have a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend!

Miss Weithers