Welcome back to Term 2.  What a great first week back it has been.  In English, the children have been focussing on writing letters to a mermaid by imagining they are a sailor who has seen a mermaid 'atop a rock'.  I was incredibly impressed with how wonderful and imaginative their letters were.  

We have started and completed our Area topic in Maths.  This required the additional skills of using a ruler as well as being able to count squares and use times table knowledge to support this.  

We are continuing with Sound in Science and spent Wednesday afternoon investigating why sound changes in volume over distance.  The children had a great time outdoors with a drum and were able to explain that the vibrations become weaker the further from the sound source they are.  

The Roman Empire is our focus in history, and this week we have learnt more about how a Roman Army was formed from centuries, cohorts and legions.  We acted out the invasion of different countries so that the children understood that a governor would remain in a province with an army to enable them to keep control.

It was wonderful to see so many of you at Parent's Evening yesterday.  As mentioned it is really important that the children are practising their times tables at home, and they can not only count on but recall their times tables with in 6 seconds.  

Many of you asked what you could do to help with spelling, and although we do not test weekly, there is no harm in the children practising the words that they find tricky so that their spellings improve.