8th December 2025

It's been a fiery week in the Tigers: due to unexpected circumstances involving fire alarms, we have been sequestered in a different classroom from usual since Monday. Children are coping truly admirably with being somewhere different, and some enjoying a trip down memory lane in their old Year 3 classroom. Fittingly, we were visited by three members of Bucks Fire Service on Monday, who gave us an interesting talk, and also a tour around all the equipment packed into their fire engine - parked on the top playground! 

In English we are completing our portal stories, zooming in on details from High Wycombe's chair-making history; in Maths we are learning to subtract fractions, and we have just completed our Science unit on materials and their properties with an experiment blowing up balloons with different amounts of vinegar and bicarbonate of soda (this works very well and is very simple: see if your child can show you at home!). 

24th November 2025

In English we have begun honing toolkit skills for writing our portal stories. We have practised writing with short sentences and unanswered questions to build suspense and mystery, and used sound effects to create an atmosphere. We are enjoying the Nowhere Emporium by Ross MacKenzie - we can never guess what twists and turns will be coming next...

In Maths we are heating up our brains on fractions - finding equivalent fractions, converting improper fractions to mixed numbers and back again, and ordering fractions less than and greater than one. Try using the fraction bars with your child on polypad: https://polypad.amplify.com/p (or ask them if they'd rather have 2/10 or ¼ of a pizza). 

10th November 2025

In Maths this half term we have been thinking hard about multiples, factors, prime numbers, and square and cube numbers. We've found Venn diagrams useful, as well as counters (for making arrays), multilink (making cubes), and hundred squares. We've also been getting better and better at our times tables, which has helped a lot - with record numbers of children moving up a level in Cracking Times Tables. 

In English we have begun planning and writing our own eyewitness accounts, some about firework night. Try testing your child on their first, second and third person identification - eyewitness accounts often use all three!