Yew Class Blog

A few highlights of the last couple of weeks for Yew class include continuing to explore various forms of writing, inspired by the book ‘The Great Fire of London’. We have taken on the characters of people involved, including Samuel Pepys writing commands to the King to take action, a London dweller writing a diary entry about their experience and King Charles II himself, creating certificates for the bravest, kindest and most outstanding Londoners who helped out with the fire. In Maths we have moved onto focussing addition and subtraction, exploring ways to add across 10, number bonds to 100, and subtracting 1 digit numbers. You will see this reflected in their home learning over the next few weeks. In Science, the class have really enjoyed the experimental aspect of our lessons, exploring shadows, reflective materials and how light travels in straight lines. In music we have played with call and response, dynamics and tempo. We just enjoyed a beautiful musical retelling of Goldilocks and the Three bears, noticing the effect of different elements of the musical performance.  In computing with Mrs Davidson the class have been developing their knowledge of paint tools on the Chromebooks, including adding text.  They have used these skills to independently create posters to illustrate our rules for using the Chromebooks safely. Our rules include, listening to and following instructions, carrying them with two hands and being kind my helping each other. See the pictures for some great examples. We continue to focus on taking care of ourselves and each other. Well done Yew class!