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This week in geography, we have continued our journey along the Rhine.

We have ended up in Rotterdam, the mouth of the River Rhine. We have learnt about importing and exporting goods, and were able to identify examples of each. 

We then compared Rotterdam with somewhere we have previously…

This week in French, we have been learning how to describe people. 

We can describe their hair and eyes, thinking about the different order in French compared to English. Our next challenge will be to draw our own people and describe the characteristics we have drawn.

The children have been practising gross motor skills by balcing on the trim trail and moving safely with the bikes in our outdoor area. 
 

The children have been practicing our literacy and phonics skills. We practiced the formation of the graphemes we have been learning and practicing within class. 
 

Team Badgers are learning all about seasonal foods in England and why we import foods from other countries to our supermarkets. We explored a variety of different fruits and vegetables that can be grown in England during the spring, summer, autumn and winter and how the countries temperate climate…

In Team Badgers, the children have started to learn to play a new instrument- the ukulele! This week, we practiced all four strings G,C,E,A one at a time to the song 'My dog has fleas!'. We learned to remember the strings G,C,E,A by saying Good Children Eat Apples!

This week the Orchard team have taken part in some wonderful learning in both PSHE and English. In PSHE we have been thinking about being a global citizen and what life looks like for children in other countries. In English we have read more of our story King Kong. We have written narratives about…

Our Geography unit this half term is all about earthquakes!

This week we were understanding why earthquakes happen. We looked at the parts of the Earth's crust which are visible and which are not, what tectonic plates are, and why New Zealand may have earthquakes.

This is such an exciting…

During our French lessons this half term we are creating Monster Pets!

This week we have been learning the French version of 'head, shoulders, knees and toes'. Then we moved onto naming different body parts in French and recognising whether they are masculine, feminine or plurals.

Next, we…

This week in maths, we have been looking at place value of 4-digit numbers. Today, we were comparing 3-digit numbers. We talked about ways to identify the smallest and greatest number, as well as ways to remember the symbols < and >. 

This week in Orchard the children completed their first French lesson where they began to learn the vocabulary for different sports and the Olympics. They also began the exciting and immersive topic of Earthquakes in Geography. 

This week, during maths, we have been comparing 6 digit numbers. We have also worked hard on our presentation in our books.