Autumn 1, Week 4 Monkey Class Blog

Date: 26th Sep 2025 @ 2:29pm

Week 4 

This week in English, the children worked hard to write their own ending to the story ‘The Stone Age Boy’. They used their imagination creatively and focused on using interesting sentence openers, such as "One sunny morning...". The children also made a great effort to include interesting adjectives to describe their characters and settings, bringing their ideas to life. 

In Maths, we focused on learning different strategies for solving addition and subtraction questions. The children practised using mental strategies e.g if they spot any number bonds in the question e.g 134 + 6 = (4 and 6 are number bonds to 10). Then, we moved onto practising solving calculations by drawing Dienes and also using a 100 square. Towards the end of the week, the children practised using the column method to solve questions e.g 135 + 23. They needed to make sure that they lined the numbers up correctly underneath each other and remember to start adding or subtracting from the ones column.  

In History, the children learned about everyday life in the Bronze Age, including what homes were like, what they ate and wore. The children made comparisons between everyday life in the Bronze Age and Stone Age. The children also learned about how the discovery of metal changed the way that people lived in the Bronze Age.  

In RE, the children learned about the 10 commandments that Jewish people (and Christians) use to help them make positive choices in their lives. They learned that the commandments are like rules. The children learned about each commandment and then they had a go at creating ten commandments for the classroom!  

In PSHE, the children learned about what it means to be respectful and how that translates to school life as well as when at home and in other situations. 

Thank you for helping your child complete their weekly home learning tasks. Just a reminder that home learning is given out (on paper) every Thursday and must be brought back to school before the following Thursday. Ukulele lessons are every Friday and children who have signed permission forms from their parents will be allowed to take their ukulele home to practise their learning. 

Thank you for your on-going support. 

Star of the week: Emily  

Star writer: Charlotte 

Attendance: 99.26%