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Rhino class have all settled back into school life. They have loved being with their friends and have worked hard to get back into the routines of daily life in Rhino class. The first week saw a bit of snowy disruption! The second full week back has been a positive and busy one.

Here’s a snapshot:

We have started exploring our new text in English lessons. ‘Firebird’ by Saviour Pirotta has engaged us all and has us wondering what will happen to the Firebird, the Princes, the King and the Kingdom. We have worked hard to identify verbs and tenses within the text so far. We have studied different extracts, found a variety of verbs and have found synonyms and antonyms to build up a large bank of vocabulary. We have spent time working on our grammatical knowledge. Studying the simple past tense, progressive past tense and the perfect past tense has been a challenge. We have also been writing multi-clause sentences and finding out how using the subjunctive mood can affect our writing.

We have been enjoying our journey into multiplication and division. Year 5 children are getting to grips with using a range of written methods and Year 4 children have been investigating multiplying and dividing by 1 and 0. We are pushing ourselves to complete challenges to make sure we are using our problem solving and reasoning skills too.

We have just started our new topic ‘Ancient Greece’ which we are all excited about! We spent time putting together and understanding a timeline of events within the Ancient Greek period. I think we are all looking forward to finding out about Greek Gods and Goddesses and monsters!

Mrs White has spent time teaching us how to write on a stave to compose our own music. Listening to our mini performances in class has been fun.

Mrs Beauchamp is looking forward to starting our new Science topic very soon. Our journey into Earth and Space will be very interesting!

As part of our computing curriculum, we have been using Scratch to discover block-based visual programming language. We had the task of creating a maze and moving a Sprite from the start to the end.

Many children have been involved in Young Voices and a Dodgeball event this week. Well done to those who took part – it has certainly been a busy week or two!

We spent time researching ‘hillforts’ during our History session. We used the internet, fact files and passages of writing to find out about why hillforts were built and what remains of them today. We had the task of creating an interactive fact book to tell others about hillforts.

As part of our journey from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, we spent time finding out about the history of Stonehenge. We watched videos, explored images and read about the meaning behind the stones and how it is still used today by many people. We then had the task of create our very own models of Stonehenge using a variety of biscuits! We had to make sure we represented the different stone formations. Well done Rhinos!

Rhino children have been showing off their artistic skills over the last few weeks. We started by exploring feathers and their lines and patterns. We made sketches and discovered how to use a pencil in may different ways. We sketched wild birds and carefully added tone and colour. We then went on to learn about block printing. We followed a process carefully to ensure the results were the best they can be. I think you will agree – the prints are fantastic! Well done everyone!