Class 4

In English we have started looking at our new text, a poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We have found some of the old fashioned language tricky but are working hard to understand and interpret the meaning. 
Maths lessons have seen the start of a new block of work, we are now looking at…

This week we have continued our study of Charles Darwin in English and of Evolution in Science. 
We have looked at inverse operations and estimating in maths as methods for checking our calculations and are nearing the end of our Addition and Subtraction unit of work. 
In PE we have continued…

This week our English and Guided Reading text links with out science topic. We are reading an adaptation of Charles Darwin’s on the Origin of the Species. 

In maths, we have recapped using the column method to add and subtract two four-digit numbers before we moved on to adding numbers with…

This week there as been lots of laughter and fun alongside our learning.

Working in small groups, we composed our own pieces of music, and performed them in front of the rest of the class. We had a variety of percussion instruments to work with, including djembe drums, coconut shells, bells and…

This week we have explored numbers to One Million in maths and continued to look at the stories from ‘How the whale became’ in English and Guided reading. 
We became personal trainers to our friends in PE and have devised training plans to help each other improve our stamina, strength or speed.…

This week we have settled into our routine of lessons and have had some fun along the way.

We completed fitness tests in PE, it was very warm but lots of rest breaks and water meant we all tried our best. There was lots of encouragement for others too. For the next few weeks we will be personal…

We have had a fantastic first week back!

We have come back to school with really positive attitudes and the children are keen to take on more responsibility now that they are in year 5. We have been really patient while Mrs Gully learns our names and the school routines. 
After agreeing some…

What a busy week!  We have continued studying the Maya in History and in particular the hierarchy of society.  We worked in pairs to produce to study one tier of society and produced booklets on what we found.  We have also linked our English work into our Mayan topic.  We have written an…

What a fabulous week we have had. This week we had Olympic Day to celebrate the Olympics birthday. The children all got to take part in track and field activities, they all had a choice of netball or football and they all created some wonderful Manga art at the end of the day. We had sprints,…

After a 2 week holiday it straight back to work this week as we started a number of new topics. Our new text in English is The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce and it about two Mongolian refugees who end up in a school in Liverpool.  I think it’s fair to say we are hooked!  We will be…

We had a great day at Packington Farm this week.  It was really exciting to be able to go on a school trip again.  The trip was part of our geography topic on ‘Food and Farming’.  We had a tractor ride to the education field, where we set up base for the day.  From there we moved into the woods…

We completed our second village litter pick this week. The children spent time on the show field and they were surprised by the amount of litter they found.  Well done team. 
We cooked again this week. On the menu were chocolate chip shortbreads.  They were really delicious.   Our English focus…