Week commencing 14th October 2024
We have had a fantastic week in Year 4, the children have all worked super hard and demonstrated super aspirations in everything they do.
Some activities we have completed this week are: in Science we looked at how the environment changes and how this can affect habitats; in RE we have been looking at how faith influences people to care for the planet; in Maths we have been working hard looking at features of different 2D shapes and learning to classify them, showing super resilience; in PE children have been learning to perform different types of rolls and practicing these, always giving it a go and never giving up; on Friday we took part in the event ‘One million children praying for the Rosary,' which the children really enjoyed.
I am also super proud of the children for taking the time to learn their lines for the Harvest poem and then reading them during the Harvest Festival, they all read their lines beautifully and showed super confidence! Well done Year 4!
Week commencing 7th October 2024
Another super week has flown by in Year 4 and we have been up to lots of interesting things and always reaching to be the best we can be!
Some of the activities we have done this week are: starting our new topic in Maths, identifying different types of triangles and parallelograms; understanding and retelling the story of Abraham and Isaac in RE by acting it out and creating freeze frames; continuing our super sequences in PE, including having great confidence to go on the high apparatus and create wonderful shapes; In Art, we demonstrated high aspirations as we completed our underwater artwork based on Hokusai; In English, we wrote some beautiful pieces of work using ambitious vocabulary, as we were focusing on setting the scene.
Keep up the great work Year 4 and always keep shining and demonstrating confidence and empathy as you always do!
Week commencing 30th September 2024
It has been another jam packed week for Year 4, with lots of exciting things taking place.
Some activities we completed this week are: Looking at setting the scene in Literacy, thinking about all the ambitious adjectives we can use, always having high aspirations; in our REACH activity we conducted an experiment looking at which environment will make pieces of bread go mouldy the quickest, we all made predictions; we continued to show some super sequences in Gymnastics, going onto the high apparatus demonstrating super confidence; in Outdoor Learning, we went on an Autumn walk around the field and identified all the things we could see, hear, touch and smell.
Excellent work this week Year 4!
Week commencing 23rd September 2024
We are already nearly half way through the term and all the children have been showing great confidence in all they do this week, learning exciting new things.
This week some of the activities we have completed are: Whole School Mass, where the children sat beautifully and sang some lovely hymns; looking at microbes in our reach activity and making our own microbes using clay; showing resilience in Maths when learning about rounding numbers, even when the questions get slightly tricky; classifying animals in Outdoor Learning and Science and looking at Venn diagrams; having high aspirations with our handwriting.
We have had such a fun week and cannot wait for the week ahead!
Well done Year 4!
Week commencing 16th September 2024
It has been a super week in Year 4! The children have been inquisitive learners and shown great resilience when learning new topics.
Some activities we have completed this week are: gymnastics in PE, where children have shown amazing confidence when developing sequences on the apparatus; continuing to develop their atlas skills in Geography; classifying marbles in Science; looking at God’s promise to Abraham in RE; and continuing to consolidate our knowledge on place value, looking at finding 1000 less and 1000 more than a given number.
We are looking forward to having another great week next week.
Well done for all of your hard work Year 4, keep it up! Continue being the aspirational learners you are.
Week commencing 9th September 2024
St George’s class have been very busy this week. They have demonstrated empathy towards their friends as they settled into a new class, whilst also showing high expectations in every lesson and presenting superb enthusiasm and creativity.
A few activities that we have completed this week are: retelling a newspaper report in Literacy; starting our Maths unit on place value where we have had high aspirations; creating Autumnal pictures made from natural resources in Outdoor Learning; and using atlases to identify the different climate zones in Geography.
The children have shown great confidence and we are all excited to continue amazing learning in the coming weeks.
Well done Year 4!
Week commencing 21st October 2024
We have reached the end of term and I just want to say a huge well done to Year 4 for all their hard work and resilience during this term. We have completed so many fantastic activities and learnt so many new things.
Some activities we completed this week are: finishing off our gymnastics in PE and creating individual sequences; looking at lines of symmetry and symmetrical patterns in maths; writing persuasive letters about something we are passionate about in Literacy; in Geography we drew detailed maps of our school grounds; it was Awe and Wonder week, so we looked at Sikhism and learnt about the father of fiber optics in Science and in RE we looked at Guru Nanak; we finished the week off with our class treat which the children loved!
Have a super restful half term and we can’t wait to start excellent learning after we come back demonstrating high aspirations and great confidence.