Class Blog for Tregeagle

Week 6

This week, we have focused on Design and Technology following the plan, do review cycle of projects. Our work has involved creating a stone age outfit with design decisions based on the children's knowledge of Stone Age to Iron Age. The children chose materials according to the level of skills and tools people had access to, so some of the class chose bison or wholly mammoth pelt for outfits from the Paleolithic and Mesolithic with others choosing linen from the Bronze and Iron Age eras. We used a combination of running and looping stiches with some spectacular results.

In Science, the class continues their tour of space investigating how people survive in space including life onboard the International Space Station. next week, Mrs Phillips is serving up some dehydrated space meals for the children to try - yum!

In English, we have now completed our character descriptions and we have practised our editing skills, proofreading for spelling and punctuation errors and making improvements by finding synonyms for dull words and enhancing sentence structures. We have discussed the job of editing with our Governor Suzanne Goddard, who edits the Parish Magazine, and understanding a little better how the work we do in school links with the outside world has, as always, motivated the children.

We have Parent Consultations next week, so if you have not yet secured your slot, please contact Mrs Hughes in the office to book it.

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Week 4

It has been another busy and packed week of learning.
SCIENCE
As part of our Stone Age enquiry, the children are also exploring space trying to determine of the changes taking place on earth are echoed in space. They looked at the planets in our solar system and studied their inter-relational movements using the playground, chalk and themselves.

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We have started exploring how clothes were made in the iron Age and the children have designing outfits which we will make next week, learning different stiches. We are also studying Iron Age round houses and have started making clay blocks to dry out so we can use these next week to build our own roundhouses.

READING
We continue to build the skills of Reciprocal reading. We have focused on summarising this week, picking out and articulating the most important information in a text. To support this, we use the idea of a hand. The palm is the main idea of the text and the fingers represent 5 supporting ideas.

Maths
We have completed the KIRF assessments and your child will be bringing home their set of Key Instant Recall facts to practice this half term. Taking ten minutes 2/3 times a week to support your child with this will help their progress. We know home life is busy so in addition to any work they complete at home, they also have time to practice these facts 3 times a week during registration time. To help the children see their progress, we have introduced a new range of 99 Club questions. Like the times table 99 Club, this club gives the children a set number of questions to answer in a given time period. The difference is the questions are a mix of maths questions to mirror and build on their KIRFs.

I will be sending out letters next week about an upcoming trip on Tuesday 17th October to Cornwall Museum.

Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs W

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Week 3

Another whirlwind of a week. We have continued delving into the lives of Stone - Iron age people in Britain. Interrogating primary and secondary sources has helped us to understand how we know about the past. Next week, we are making links between modern day diets and the diet of prehistoric Britons to find out whether science has helped us live a healthier life today.

In maths, we continue to study Place Value in all year groups. There is a real buzz about maths in our class, it seems this is rapidly becoming a favorite subject. It is rewarding to hear the conversations the children are having about how they know they are getting better at maths - wow!

In English, we are writing a character description based on the main character from the Stone Age Boy. We have studied the vocabulary and had some great conversations about why we choose certain words to describe features and personalities. One group discussed how describing someone's face as "milky" rather than "pale" told the reader that the person's skin was also smooth and silky.
Thank you to those of you who were able to attend the Meet the Teacher event on Tuesday. We discussed the use of iPads as learning and recording tools and the use of SeeSaw as our digital platform. Our new approach to Maths teaching and I shared the expectations for daily reading at home and would appreciate it if you can find 10-15 minutes to read with your child and talk about the text to support their continued progress. If have questions about your child's daily life at school, please contact me

Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Wills

Welcome back!

We have had a super positive return to school with lots of smiles, happy children and learning.
Our first Enquiry is "Who Needs Change?". We are studying prehistoric Britain so finding out what life was like in the Stone age through to the Iron age.

We have had a go at replicating bronze casting to help us think about how people might have experimented with different materials to find the ones best suited to making tools. We used jelly and chocolate and filled this in our potato mold and discovered that jelly is fairly useless for tools but tastes great!.