b"Issue 11 The British School of AmsterdamYear 2 Year 3The term kicked off when they receivedEnglish lessons this term left the children a letter from Rosie Revere the Engineer.feeling hungry as Cloudy With A Chance She tasked them with the challenge of findingof Meatballs was the focus text. out how she could power her engine-less car.The book really ignited the childrens imaginations The children carried out a series of experimentsand helped inspire their creative writing. to deepen their understanding of differentThe creativity continued as they prepared for materials and their absorption properties.their show Hoodwinked. The children have been During math lessons, they learnt about 3Dlearning lines, organising costumes and set design shapes and programmed Bee-Bots to navigateand working hard to learn all of the songs!mazes whilst recording the different directions they took and altered their programming toIn music lessons, Year 3 learnt about Melodic suit the various routes they explored. Ostinato's and kept repeated patterns going, Music lessons focused on developing the childrenseven when there was more than one melody. understanding of rhythm; they created their ownArt lessons focused on colour mixing and were rhythm patterns using different words and sounds.inspired by the popular story The Dot.They learnt how to conduct and developed theirThe children made their own shops to buy and sell skills in delivering feedback to others about theirthings using their developing knowledge of how performances. Some of the rhythm patterns wereto use money. We encourage the children to help very complicated but practice makes perfect, andwhen they go to the shops to give them real-life the children certainly rose to the challenge. context by paying for items, counting the change and Art lessons were just as engaging, and the childrenchecking receipts to make sure the numbers add up.enjoyed working with clay. They made pinchEach week during the Achievement Assemblies, the pots which eventually were transformed intolast class to be pulled out of the Star Achievers hat clay animalsimpressive! PE lessons focusedget to take home Harriot (the hammerhead shark) on developing teamwork; Year 2 engaged withand Year 3 have been lucky enough to have Harriot a wide range of activities to help develop theircared for in a couple of classes and one class even coordination and spatial awareness as well asgot to take home Ringo (the flamingo) too!giving them lots of opportunities to work with others and identify their strengths as a team.YEAR 2CLAY WORK YEAR 3ACHIEVEMENT ASSEMBLY9"