Happy New Year!   We hope you all had a restful Christmas break. The children have come back into school refreshed and keen to learn. We have started the year by reflecting on the holidays and also thinking about New Year Resolutions and our hopes for 2015.

Literacy   We have been looking at shape poems and how the meaning of words inspire the shapes in calligram.     You could have a go and your own calligrams. Maybe you could use word art on the computer!   Useful Websites:   Homework: Talk Homework – This year, what was the best gift you gave to someone and why was it so special? How did it make them feel? What was the best gift you received and what made it special to you? How did it make you feel?

Mathematics   In Mrs Prowle’s group we have been practising adding and subtracting.   In Mrs Williams and Mrs Gilder’s group we have been revising our knowledge of place value. We have been generating three digit numbers (or larger) and marking their position on a number line. http://www.ictgames.com/LIFEGUARDS.html   In Mrs Roche’s Group we too have been revising place value and looking at what happens to a number if you add, subtract, multiply or divide by 10.

Topic   We are looking forward to beginning our topic on the The Tudors. Maybe you can visit the library and find some books relating to this topic.

Science All three classes began to look at our new topic on Sound during the week. We discussed the statement ‘Something has to move for a sound to be made.’ We played musical instruments and discussed how the sound was made.

Computing   We have begun our new topic entitled ‘Bringing Images to Life’. We have been comparing some before and after images and discussed what affect these changes have.   What changes can you see in these before and after images? What affect do these changes have?