It's all about the generations!!!

Dear families, 

A heart-warming welcome back to our class blog and a big welcome to our new students, Daniela from Spain and Louise from Belgium. We are all very excited to be in Middle Primary where our first week was dedicated to sharing all about our summer experiences and getting to know each other. And to take this a step further we had a fun afternoon in the park with all of primary where we did some team building activities.

Our numeracy programme got under way successfully with the children refreshing their numeracy skills and learning more: we have focused on multiplication, number lines, clock work and 3D shapes. We are also continuing with our math fact test every Monday and this is a wonderful way to ensure the children remember the number facts.

In grammar the year 3’s and 4’s have been learning how to use the past, present and future tenses correctly. We have been revising pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, adverbs and nouns.

Our first writing task was a recount on the summer holidays where the children had to ensure that they followed the instructions to punctuate, paragraph, use time connectors and a variety of adjectives correctly. It seems like they all had a busy summer!!

We are in the process of our second writing challenge which consists of researching specific countries and how these countries are dealing with plastic pollution. When all the information is gathered we will make reports. It is an extremely interesting topic and I hope that your child will have lots to share about this!

The Entry Point of our IPC Unit ‘The Generation Game’, was a wonderful way to get to know each other through discovering pictures of each other as babies or toddlers and talking about our parents lives as children. We also listened to different types of music and the children then spoke about how the music made them feel: happy, sleepy, relaxed, full of energy!!!
From there we focused on art of children and we have taken photos of the children playing and then painted these images as a way to describe childhood activities with friends.
Last week we started our history unit which is all about Victorian times; we have been looking at the differences in education, games, work ethics and also all of those very important inventions from that era. We have incorporated the famous book ‘Oliver Twist’ into this section as it gives the children an even better insight into how hard life was back then, especially for the poor.
Zahra's father dedicated some of his time to talk to Middle Primary on world poverty. He spoke about the lack of education, health care, food and shelter in many countries of the world but he also spoke about the organisations who are doing their best to help the poor. It was an intriguing talk which lead to many interesting questions by the children.  Thank you so much for sharing your life experiences with us!!

Swimming, sports, music and Dutch are running smoothly, and the children are lovig these extra classes.

The Headmaster Award was given to Leo because of his very caring attitude towards his classmates and for being so helpful in the classroom. Also because Leo is extremely hard working and he is always careful and precise with his work. Keep up this excellent attitude Leo!!

We have had a busy but great start to the new school year. I am looking forward to seeing Middle Primary blossom this year.

Enjoy your weekend.

Ms. Rebecca