What a fantastic start to our new half term! The children shared their amazing Ancient Egyptian home learning projects, including Egyptian menus, travel guides, sarcophagus crafts and much more! We were so impressed with their creativity and hard work that we invited Year 3 in to admire everything too.

In Maths, we explored what rounding really means and began rounding numbers to the nearest 1,000 by identifying the previous and next multiples of 1,000. In English, we drafted the discovery section of our Tutankhamun news reports and enjoyed an independent writing task about our perfect playgrounds!

We also launched our new sound topic in Science by listening carefully to sounds around us, sharing The Sound of Silence picture book and trying some body percussion with Richard Filz. In Geography, we explored the River Nile. Did you know it flows through 11 countries, travels from south to north and is the longest river in the world?

Coming up next week

• English: Finishing our Tutankhamun news reports and hopefully beginning to record our video news broadcasts

• Maths: Rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100

• Science: Investigating how musical instruments produce sounds

• Computing: Beginning our exciting new audio recording and podcasting unit

• PE: Starting our outdoor hockey lessons