We have had a fantastic first week in 4A! I have really enjoyed getting to know everyone and getting ourselves back into our daily routines. 

The children have been working incredibly hard in many different subject areas. Within our Maths learning we have been looking at place value by using base ten to create 3-digit numbers. We also took part in our first session of Maths karate which allowed us to practice the four different operations. Our first Year 4 wide TTrockstars competition has begun and at the time of writing 4A are in the lead. Keep it up! 

In History, we started our new topic ‘The Roman Empire,’ which will take us all the way through till Christmas. We began the topic by splitting ourselves into different countries that were each given a selection of resources. We then set up a trading forum where we were able to barter in order to get different resources for our country. Once trading finished Mr Ash took on the role of the Roman Empire and told countries that they needed to give away resources to different countries and then to him. Although we all thought this was really unfair, it did demonstrate the power that big empires had over other countries. 

A couple of key things for next week: P.E. will take place on Wednesdays so the children will be able to come into school wearing their P.E. kits. Reading scheme books were given out this week and we will be expecting the children to read at least three times every week.