The two weeks off have done everyone a lot of good and everyone is raring to go with learning. We started lots of new topics this week, including out book for writing “Escape From Pompeii”. The children role-played being citizens in Pompeii, before the volcano erupted.
The children explored replica Roman artefacts to better understand life in Ancient Rome. We shall see real versions of these when we visit Verulamium Museum on Wednesday 24th January.
In Maths, we have been learning about other ways to work out the answer to multiplication calculations and today the children used Dienes to show that multiplying a number by 12 is the same as mutliplying it by 12 and by 2, which are straightforward calculations to do; and then adding together these two answers.
I found out today that the cake sale raised £199.10 which is really fantastic! Thank you for your generosity in organising, making cakes as well as buying and selling them. I will discuss with the class what we would like to buy with the money.
I hope that you all have a lovely weekend and let’s all hope that it’s not going to be bitterly cold.
