Class 4
Friday 11th November
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We've had another wonderful week in class 4 with your super children! They're all working so hard and seem so focused and enthusiastic. They're even becoming a little quieter too!!!
We began the week with some lovely, calming artwork. Whilst some of the class went out into the forest area with Miss Monday, the remainder stayed with me and we worked on beautiful animal pencil sketches, inspired by the work of Richard Symonds. We are continuing with this work next week and adding colour so do keep an eye out for some photos in the next couple of weeks!
The children are really impressing me with their geography knowledge this half term. We have begun by recapping the 7 continents and locating the equator, tropic of Cancer and Capricorn and identifying each of the hemispheres and poles. The children are real fountains of knowledge!
In science we have been identifying and learning the functions of each of our teeth, before we begin learning more about the process of digestion. The children are very much looking forwards to our practical sessions on digestion!
Gymnastics today was super! The children are loving our Friday lessons. They have loved creating wonderful balances, moving in varied ways, vaulting and perfecting their dismounts. I am really impressed with their lovely enthusiasm; well done everyone!
We have all shared 2 minutes silence outdoors today with the rest of the school; an emotional moment where every single child played their part beautifully. We're all very proud of each and every one of them!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
See you all on Monday,
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt
Friday 4th November
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
Congratulations year 4 on winning the Key Stage 2 'Mathletics' award this week! Well done for all your hard work!
We've had a wonderful first week back this week! The enthusiasm and hard work from all the children has been wonderful to see! The children thoroughly enjoyed their first coach-led netball session this week; we were very impressed with the skills the children already have. Gymnastics on Friday was equally successful; I was so impressed with the enthusiasm of every single one of the children. It was great to see how much progress the children showed in just their first lesson. Well done everyone!
The children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own acrostic Halloween poems early in the week. I was amazed how quickly they got the idea and began creating their wonderful poems! I guess Halloween being the evening before had helped a little!
Music this week has involved listening to and appraising the wonderful work of Camille Saint-Saens in 'Carvival of the Animals'; the children loved every minute. This was great to see! Mrs Parker, our music co-ordinator, would be very impressed!!
We've been working hard on reading comprehensions this week; it's lovely to see the children improving in their fluency whilst reading and their comprehension too.
We hope you all have a great weekend!
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt
Friday 21st October
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We have all had a super week this week! The children have really settled well this half term and are working so incredibly hard and putting 100% into all their work; we have been really impressed.
We began the week with some lovely outdoor art work. The children firstly sketched and then added pastel to wonderful landscapes around school.
We have worked incredibly hard on maths this week; multiplication and division. It has proved quite tricky for many of the children, but I do think we have now mastered them both. Any practise at home would be very useful though- particularly division!!
We have ended the week with a fabulous crafty afternoon with buddies in year 1. The children have made some super Halloween crafts. We finished the day very noisily using percussion instruments and ukeleles to create their own musical composition for 'Peter and the Wolf'. The children loved it!
Here are a couple of photos!
Enjoy the half term holiday and see you all very soon!
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt
Friday 14th October
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon all!
First of all, can I just say an enormous thank you to all the children and supportive parents/family members for all your hard work with homework. The children are so enthusiastic about both 'Mathletics' and 'Spelling Shed' and are completing their written spelling tasks to a high standard too. Keep it up everyone; you're doing an amazing job. Guess what Mums and Dads, the children won the 'Spelling Shed' award again this week!!!
We've had a brilliant week this week. As the sun was out on both Monday and Wednesday afternoons, we enjoyed some great outdoor learning. The children worked in teams to create the most amazing natural sculptures using the beautiful Autumn leaves; we were so impressed with, not only their fabulous creative skills, but also their team skills.
On Wednesday, the children enjoyed another energetic football lesson outdoors and then moved onto the woodland and lower field area to work in role play groups. They are clearly extremely talented actors and actresses as they all re-enacted 'The Lorax' just brilliantly!
Here are a few photos taken during both art and drama!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone and see you Monday!
From,
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt x
Friday 7th October
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
Well done year 4 on a super week. A lively and chatty week to begin with, but by the end of the week you have all shown us what a quiet, hardworking and mature team you are! We are very proud of you all; the 'A' team!
Success again in assembly today too! Congratulations on winning the 'Spelling Shed' award this week; your trophy is standing proudly on our bookshelf! Keep up the fabulous hard work!
We began the week with some wonderful artwork. We had planned sculpture work in our lovely outdoor area; however, rain became an issue and hence we practised shading techniques with charcoal. We are focusing on the sculpture work of Andy Goldsworthy just now and hence the children were creating circular patterns with shading as a link to his work. There was almost as much charcoal on the children afterwards, however!! I have added a couple of lovely examples of the children's work below; they produced some fabulous ideas.
The children thoroughly enjoyed P.E. again this week; with football outdoors on Wednesday and dance yesterday, they are certainly keeping fit and healthy! Again, I have added a couple of photos.
The children are continuing to develop their knowledge of 'classification keys' in science as they sort animals and are loving appraising Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf' work in music too.
Once again, it has been a full on, but fun week!
Do have a great weekend together and see you all on Monday!
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt.
