Author Archives: Mrs Skelton
Wonderful, wildly windy, wet walk!
Well, it might have been wild weather but we were all calm and happy as we enjoyed this afternoon’s end to children’s mental health week. What a pleasure it was to take 13 children from Year 2 and 15 from … Continue reading
Year 3, Spring 1, Week 5
The children have had a lot to think about this week as the school has celebrated children’s mental health week. On Tuesday they enjoyed a wonderful assembly from Mrs Bonsignore, which has given them great pointers about a healthy mind … Continue reading
Year 3, Spring 1, Week 4
After completing our long pieces of writing last week about volcanoes, this week we have written some poetry. The children have clapped and counted syllables, which has helped them to write haiku and tanka poems. In maths, we have continued … Continue reading
Year 3, Spring 1, Week 3
It’s been a busy week of writing this week as we worked on completing the unit on non-chronological reports. Our reports were titled ‘Volcanoes’ and the children did a lot of research on volcanoes as well as examining all the … Continue reading
Year 3, Spring 1, Week 2
It’s been a slightly quieter week this week – no volcanic eruptions and no earthquakes. However, we have still been busy. In English we have practised making notes from a text, summarising the main ideas and using comparative language to … Continue reading
Year 3, Spring 1, Week 1
Happy New Year to you all and welcome back! Year 3 had a very exciting topic launch morning today when they came in to find that the mountain on the English working wall was actually a volcano and had erupted … Continue reading
Year 3 Christmas
Our last class news of the term and it’s quite a short one. The last couple of weeks have been incredibly busy with assessments and then Christmas preparations. The children worked really hard practising for the carol service and had … Continue reading
Year 3, Autumn 2, Week 4
This week in English, we have continued our work on newspaper reports. The children have been examining headlines, looking at word play, alliteration and what makes a good headline. They also started planning their own newspaper reports which we will … Continue reading
Choir News
Last minute information for choir as there seem to be a few children who didn’t get the final letter on Friday: Just a couple of last minute arrangements and reminders about Monday’s trip to the Royal Albert Hall. The concert … Continue reading
Year 3, Autumn 2, Week 3
The weeks are whizzing by! This week in English, we have continued our work on paragraphs. We have summarised paragraphs in reports that we have read and we have started putting our own writing into paragraphs, using the True Story … Continue reading