Willow Class Blog 2025 -2026

Term 1 Week 5

This week, we continued reading our class text, 'Song of the River' where the main character, Cari becomes involved in a project to re-introduce beavers into the area.  We watched part of a David Attenborough documentary and read fact sheets to learn about these amazing animals.  We also learnt about using different conjunctions (such as when, if, because, so that, even if) to add extra detail to our sentences.  Next week, we will use all the knowledge and skills learnt this week to plan and write a report all about beavers!

In maths, we have been using our knowledge of place value to help us mentally add and subtract ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.  

Big congratulations to the boys who demonstrated fantastic teamwork and skills to win the Langtree Partnership Football Tournament on Tuesday.  While they were out, the rest of the class played our first netball match where more amazing teamwork and sportsmanship was on show!

Term 1 Week 4

Hello!  Apologies for not posting until now.  I've been having troubling loading photos but I have saved them all up and will post on here as soon as I can. 

Everyone has made an excellent start to the new term.  The new year 3 children have settled into Willow Class smoothly and are already familiar with the routines and the year 4 have stepped up to be the older children in the class.

We are currently reading the book, 'Song of the River' by Gill Lewis and the children worked very hard writing stories based on the book this week.  I challenged the children to include some correctly punctuated speech and expanded noun phrases (such as the cosy cottage by the river).  I was very impressed with their story writing.

In maths this week we worked on rounding 3 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.  The year 4 children also rounded 4-digit numbers to the nearest 1,000.  We completed the week learning to read and write Roman numerals.  

In our topic lesson we learnt about the water cycle using the words evaporation, condensation and precipitation.  The water cycle song (to the tune of Taylor Swift's Blank Space) got mixed reviews!

Next week, we will be continuing to read our book, learning about how the re-introduction of beavers can help to prevent flooding.