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30th January - 3rd February
Posted: Feb 24, 2017 by: Teachers (BishopTeachers) on: What's been happening in Discoverers & Voyagers.
This week has seen the continuation of our underwater fantasy story writing. We have looked at examples of good stories and some of us have used music to assist with this. Voyagers put the story to music using instruments in the school hall and Discoverers have used underwater music to stimulate their imaginations. Children have focused primarily on their story openings, character and setting descriptions. So far, we have been very impressed! We are looking forward to getting these finished and being able to share with one another at the end of next week.
Children have also continued their work on fractions, looking particularly at ordering and comparing as well as adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. We have been dealing with some tricky concepts, which the children have grasped well. We will continue this and look at decimal equivalents next week.
Both classes have made a start designing their topic projects. The Voyagers have been studying Roman chariots and the Discoverers have been investigating Celtic Roundhouses. We hope to be able to start making soon! Both classes have also looked at particular aspects of Roman/Celtic life and have worked in groups to research and produce a factual poster about transport, religion, everyday life and attack and defence. The children have discovered some very interesting facts.
The Year 3s have also been learning songs in preparation for the Spring Music Festival at TCS on Thursday 2nd March. The children have made a good start but lots more practice is needed. We will be sending home some song words to learn in preparation for this.
