Wow! What a week it has been celebrating STEM Week! We have had a great time exploring, discovering and creating, from Mummifying Apples and Candy Division to building Flower Models and an Oil Spill Challenge! We then finished the week with a visit to the beach to create the Nile River as one big construction group! The P3’s have shown incredible teamwork and cooperation all week.

In Literacy, the students have been revising their learning on conjunctions and using them in a range of sentence types. They are showing great knowledge of how to use a variety of conjunctions, whilst creating grammatically correct sentences with a first and second clause. We have also been exploring Persuasive Writing: Advertising: The students have been comparing and contrasting adverts, showing their knowledge of specific features, whilst also devising their own persuasive ideas. Get ready to create your own adverts next week P3!

In Numeracy, the students have been securing their multiplication and division skills. For example, learning how to use the grid method for multiplication of double numbers, whilst applying their knowledge of partitioning hundreds, tens and ones. They have also been using the ‘chunking’ method on a line to divide double numbers with remainders.

For our Topic lessons next week, we will be continuing our discovery of Ancient Egypt by learning about their Farming Calendar, the difference to our Calendar today, and how their seasons impacted their way of life. We will also be making our own Farming Calendar!

For Science this week, we will be investigating the Life Cycle of Flowering Plants and how insects and other creatures play an important part in the pollination of flowers. We will also be creating some stunning bee and flower models!

Let’s have another fantastic week as we edge closer to the holidays P3!