Half Term Information Spring 2 2026

Wow what a journey! We have done a whistle stop tour of rivers around the world! First, we learnt about the rivers local to us here in Cambourne before learning about the major rivers of the world! Did you know that the longest river in the UK is the river Severn? We then learnt about the features of rivers and how the water cycle impacts them! 
 
In English, we have really enjoyed reading Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. We wrote persuasive letters asking for a day at the beach from James to Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge! We polished our use of fronted adverbials and paragraphs and  worked on lots of  different ways to add description, such as similes and metaphors. The children enjoyed the links to art as we have also learnt about Quenten Blake and his style of illustrations.
 
In Science and Maths, the children loved experimenting with equipment and getting hands on with magnets and measuring tools. The children particularly enjoyed testing the impact different surfaces had on the speed of a toy train. Building fraction walls and learning about equivalent fractions proved very useful when we moved on to reading scales and learning about mass!