In English, we really enjoyed reading 'The Dragonsitter' by Josh Lacey and had a real focus on answering comprehension questions in full sentences with all the appropriate punctuation.  We then wrote book reviews about it.  We also wrote some super recounts of our Victorian trip, with a focus on using time conjunctions and well-organised paragraphs.  We also used 'My Encyclopedia of Very Important Myths and Legends' as inspiration for creating and describing our own mythical creatures, which we loved!

Our recent maths units in both Year 2 and Year 3 have focused on developing a secure understanding of fractions, a key area of the Lower Key Stage 2 National Curriculum. Children have been learning to recognise, find, name, and write fractions of shapes and quantities, as well as beginning to compare and order simple fractions. These skills form an essential foundation for later work with number, measure, and proportional reasoning.

To support this learning, the children have been introduced to a catchy and memorable song called “Numerators and Denominators”, which has helped them remember the correct mathematical vocabulary. Understanding and using precise language is an important part of the curriculum, and the song has strengthened pupils’ confidence in identifying the numerator (the number of parts we have) and the denominator (the total number of equal parts).

We finished our learning on Money where we developed our confidence when working with money by revisiting pounds and pence, learning to convert between the two, and applying our understanding to adding and subtracting different amounts; and then using these skills to solve real‑life problems such as calculating totals in a shop and working out change.

We have thoroughly enjoyed our Victorian topic in history.  We started the unit of work by coming up with our own questions about what we wanted to know about Victorian schools to see if they would all be answered on our trip to the Radstock Museum.  It was a fabulous trip which we dressed up for and many of our questions were answered but we then came back and researched those that hadn't.  We also learnt all about mining, living and shopping in Somerset during that era.  We were also loaned some very interesting artefacts from that time period which helped us learn even more about what life was like.

In RE, we have been learning about 'agape' love in Christianity by reading and responding to a range of parables from the bible, including 'The Good Samaritan', 'Zacchaeus the Tax Collector' and finally 'The Parable of the Sower', which we performed and explained to the rest of the school in church at the end of term.  We responded to each parable through art, discussion or drama. We also looked at the Lord's Prayer in detail and discussed the meanings of different parts of it.

This term in DT, we explored mechanisms by designing and creating our own fairground wheels. We began by investigating how wheel mechanisms work before planning a fairground wheel structure that would celebrate what makes Somerset special. Working together, we selected materials with suitable properties, built and tested moving wheels, and made adjustments to our designs as we went along. We also carried out a simple survey to gather opinions on our ideas, using this feedback to help us improve our final structures. Once completed, we finished and evaluated our rotating wheels.