Friday 9th November

Our Roman Day

The day started with a talk from our Roman visitor about the start and the spread of the Roman empire.

We were then taught some more about Roman life and got to hold, touch and ask questions about items which Romans would have used 2000 years ago. 

After this we moved into the classroom and played a Roman game called Delta. In this game players took turns sliding counters into the target area. The target area was labelled with Roman numerals which represented how many points you won if you got your counter to land in that section.

Our second classroom activity was a Roman quiz. We were given a question sheet and our job was to find the answers that were printed on the different boards around the room.

In the afternoon we learnt more about the life of a Roman soldier and got to see some Roman armour and weaponry close up. We also recreated a Roman battle scene and a gladiator fight in an arena with an emperor watching on and deciding the fate of the gladiators.

Friday 2nd November

Today we worked in groups of four and each group had a large place value grid on their table and lots of counters. On the interactive whiteboard was a game called ‘Number Strength’ which challenges the children with lots of different mental maths problems. Each group had to answer 5 mental addition questions, 5 subtraction, 5 multiplication, 5 division and a final round of 10 mixed questions. After each group of 5 or 10 questions, the teams were told how many seconds they took to answer the questions correctly. The teams then had to represent the number of seconds they took using their place value grids and their counters. After each round they completed, they had to add on the seconds they took to complete that round to their overall total. This meant moving counters on the place value grid and crossing over from units to tens and tens to hundreds. Once all five rounds had been completed by each team, then the team which the smallest overall total of seconds were the winners.

Friday 5th October

This week Class 3 children have continued to produce some wonderful home learning. This is exemplified by our excellent model below showing off his home-made Roman soldier helmet.

In class, our art work has also taken on a Roman theme. Below you can see that some of us have now started to paint our Roman mosaics using the square printing style that we saw when researching examples of Roman mosaics.

Friday 28th September

All week the children have been completing the task that you can see pictured below. For this task all of the children had to learn the Roman myth ‘Romulus and Remus’ which is the untrue story of how Rome was created. The reason they had to learn the myth is because their challenge was to retell the whole story out loud and they weren’t allowed to simply read it off of the page. All that they were allowed in order to help them remember the story was a story map which they had to make themselves. Their story maps had to contain mostly pictures and they were only allowed to write key words like character and place names on their story maps.

Friday 21st September

On Monday of this week, we continued learning about 'keeping healthy' in our science. In this week's science lesson we revisited our information folders about our clients who we will be advising as we pretend to be personal trainers. Each client has a certain profession and therefore certain dietary needs. Some want to know what they should eat to grow stronger, some want more energy, while others just want to avoid catching every cough and cold going around. Whichever advice our clients want we need to advise them well and so today we attempted to design some possible meals for our clients in order to give them the nutrition they are looking for. In preparation for this we explored the five food groups (carbohydrates, fats and sugars, dairy foods, protein and fruit and vegetables), pausing on each one in order to look at the potential benefits of eating a food from that food group.

Friday 14th September

This week in science we have started our new topic entitled ‘Keeping Healthy’. Earlier in the week, on Monday, we were introduced to some clients that we will become personal trainers for throughout the topic. A lot of the advice we are going to need to give our clients is going to be based on their diet and so yesterday we played a game to revise what types of food humans and other animals eat. This game was called ‘Diet Riot’ and the aim of the game was to correctly group picture cards of animals into herbivores, omnivores and carnivores using our makeshift Venn diagrams made out of PE hoops.

In the first game (pictured above) the children were in groups of 5 and 6 and had to take in turns running into the middle, where the picture cards were scattered, grab a card and take it back to their Venn diagram, positioning it in the correct section. Once all of the cards had disappeared from the centre, each team then counted up how many they managed to sort and the team with the most (correctly sorted) animal picture cards were the winning team. In the second game (pictured below) each team had to first throw their coloured Frisbee into the bucket in the middle before they were allowed to collect a picture card. Each team also had one member who was just in charge of fetching the Frisbee back for their team.