What a fun way to end the week with our Children in Need dance event! Well done to all the classes for both your dancing and your fundraising. 

Year 4 have impressed us this week with their enthusiasm and resilience when tackling column subtraction, even in the face of some tricky exchanging. Using concrete equipment and pictorial representations has helped them to really 'see' the process rather than blindly follow an algorithm.

In English, we  have finished reading the incredible stories of Rosa Parks and Emmeline Pankhurst, who both used their voice to stand up for important rights that nowadays we take for granted.  Ask your children to tell you more about what these women achieved. We know these stories are going to inspire some amazing writing!  

The classrooms have been a buzz of activity in the afternoons as we start to explore our science topic of electricity, learning that a complete circuit is required to power a device and that increasing the number of batteries in a circuit will increase the brightness of the bulb. Ultimately, this work will feed into our next DT project to build an alarm system. If you have a shoebox at home, keep it as it will be useful for this part of the project!

Have a super weekend and we look forward to seeing you all again on Monday.