1st July 2022

Hello again everyone,

This week we've got back to normal after a busy few weeks with our play, and have been continuing with our topics. 

In English, we finished our persuasive letters to persuade people to donate to the Rainforest Alliance.  The children used persuasive language, statistics, and emotive noun phrases to try to persuade myself and other teachers to donate to the Rainforest Alliance.  They were certainly very persuasive - so much so that I have donated some money to the Rainforest Alliance!  In Maths we have continued with Time.  We've even created our own clocks to help us in our learning.

We are going to be starting a new topic of poetry for the final few weeks, and we will look at 'Beachcomber' by George Mackay Brown.   The poem describes some curious finds on a beach, so to get into the spirit of finding curious objects, we went to the forest school area today to look for interesting objects.   The children had to draw them, describe them, and explain what made it a curious item.

Our new class pets have changed...into chrysalis'! We've loved watching them everyday wriggling and growing.  I've transferred them into their butterfly habitat, in readiness for when they emerge in about a weeks time!

Now for some news... today the children found out that they will have Mr Frewin and Miss Barton when they move up to Year 4.  Mr Frewin and Miss Barton are super excited to be their teacher, and it's really exciting news!  But with it came some sadder news for myself and the class.  Unfortunately I won't be returning to Chagford after the summer holidays, as I'll be taking up a teaching role at another school.  I would have loved to stay for a little longer, and I will miss all the children and staff very much!  Although this came as quite upsetting news to the class, we're going to be optimistic about the last 3 weeks, and I've got lots of fun ideas for our lessons!

Have a lovely weekend everyone, and see you on Monday!
​Miss Paddon