Newsletter- week ending 12th June

Dear parents/carers,

In our English lessons this week the children have been devising and writing their own short scripts, as part of our work on dialogue and plays. Their ideas are very imaginative! We’ve looked at the features of a playscript and the children have been using these to write their own scripts. Next week we will be filming the plays and editing them, with a view to entering the short films into the ICT Team “Graftas” competition. This has given the children’s work a real purpose, which I think has encouraged them to create some brilliant scripts.

In our maths lessons this week we’ve been looking at measuring length and mass. The children have estimated in metres, centimetres, grams and kilograms, and compared their estimates with measures to see how accurate they were. The children found it most difficult to estimate heavier weights, but they were very competent on the whole with length. Next week we will be continuing with measuring by looking at measuring liquids in litres and millilitres, and then we will be looking at solving some measures based problems.

In science this week the children have planned their own investigation into how friction affects surfaces. Next week we will be carrying out the investigation, and I look forward to seeing the results!

I’m really pleased with how well our topic work is going. The children are working in groups on some wonderful Aboriginal Australian style paintings, each of which tell a story that they have devised themselves. The quality of work is really high, but I’ve been most impressed at how well the children have worked together on this project. I’m hoping that we will finish the paintings this week. We’ll be doing some more art when our visiting artist comes into school next week.

Rehearsals for the school play have started and are going to continue over the next couple of weeks. We’re very lucky this year as all of my year 3 children have a speaking part, so please encourage your children to learn not only their lines, but the cue line that comes before it. Soon we’ll be sending out letters about costumes, so please keep an eye on book bags for that information.

Mrs B

Three things to ask your child this week:
1 What does a kg feel like?
2 Is it more difficult to write a story or a script? Why?
3 How do Aboriginal style paintings tell a story?