Class 4
Friday 1st October
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I can't believe we are already at the end of our 4th week in class 4! It is absolutely flying by!
Once again, the children have worked incredibly hard and are impressing us every single day. I am hoping next week we may have a full team, with no one needing to isolate; fingers crossed!!
The children had a fabulous swimming lesson today and all seem to be developing so much confidence every week. Well done everyone!
We have finally completed our newspaper reports this week; they are looking amazing! There are definitely a few 'journalists' in the making in year 4!! We had great fun role playing in the forest as well as the classroom; the children have become confident environmentalists too!
The rain prevented us going into the forest this week, so we brought the forest into the classroom! The children really enjoyed developing their drawing skills as they carefully sketched a variety of leaves and created artistic patterns too.
Here are just a few examples of their work;
Have a super weekend!
See you next week!
Mrs Matthews & Miss Hewitt
Friday 24th September 2021
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Hello again everyone!
We are having such a brilliant time here in class 4; Miss Hewitt and myself could not wish for a better group of wonderful children!
We thoroughly enjoy ending each week with our visit to the swimming pool; the children have been particularly amazing today! They should sleep tonight as they have all swum length after length today and with smiles on their faces too! It really is a pleasure to take them!
We have really enjoyed our lesson in the forest again this week; I think Miss Hewitt and I enjoy it just as much as the children. Our new den is just fantastic; it really has transformed the learning environment. We'll be using it so much this year; I just love it. Who needs an indoor classroom?!! I've added a few photos of the forest area so you can see the wonderful changes Mrs Pearce and her husband have made. This week we were role playing; the children were having a rather heated deforestation debate. The 'local planning councillor' was being interviewed by 'irate villagers', protesting to the plans to build houses, a shop and MacDonald's (eeek!!) on our forest site. The children were amazing and very animated; wonderful actors!! We plan to write newspaper reports next week.
Here is our wonderful forest...
Have a wonderful weekend!
See you all next week!
Mrs Matthews & Miss Hewitt x
Friday 17th September
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Hello everyone!
What a wonderful week we have all had! The children thoroughly enjoyed our woodland walks yesterday; perfect for our science and literacy this half term. Believe it or not, the children were able to stand completely silently down in the woods and were amazed by all the sounds they heard and how much they could see around them when they really spent time taking note of their surroundings.
They had a fabulous time in our very own school forest too; thanks to Mr and Mrs Pearce we now have an amazing shelter in the forest, great for whole class discussions or activities. The children enjoyed using natural resources to make Roman Numerals. I'll post some photos next week.
Yesterday the children enjoyed harvesting their beans; thanks again to Mrs Pearce and her very green fingers, the children were amazed to find how well their own beans had grown over the Summer. We very much hope you enjoy them!
Next week I will post one or two photos taken this week; both in the forest and collecting the beans!
Thanks for a fantastic week class 4. Miss Hewitt and I absolutely love working with you all!
See you soon,
Mrs Matthews x
Friday 10th September
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Good afternoon everyone!
Wow! We have had such a wonderful week! It has been so lovely to once again see all the children back in class. They have been so enthusiastic, so hard working and as always so very entertaining!
They absolutely loved their street dance yesterday and certainly put me to shame with their fabulous dancing! Our super coach Lucy taught us all a wonderful street routine. We'll be trying out lots of different dance styles this half term so it should be great fun- exhausting, but great fun!!
The children were so excited this morning about their first school swimming lesson (and even the coach journey to and from the pool); they were all so amazing too! Miss Hewitt, Miss Monday and myself were so proud of every single one of them; it was a pleasure to take them and spend a great morning at the pool together.
We have enjoyed lots of lovely art in between working hard in maths and literacy! The children have been sewing beautifully and developing some great sketching skills too. We collected lots of natural resources in our woodland earlier in the week and yesterday the children began using their skills with pencils to carefully sketch them. They are certainly a very artistic class! Here are just a few of their sketches!
See you all Monday,
Mrs Matthews x
Friday 16th July, 2021
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Well class 4, You have been amazing this week. We have been busy with such a wide variety of lessons and activities.
In History, we learnt all about the Factories Act of 1833 and how the lives of working children changes from the terrible conditions of earlier to the slightly less terrible. Here a few highlights:
The Factory Act of 1833
1) No child workers under nine years of age.
2) Employers must have an age certificate for their child workers.
3) Children of 9-13 years to work no more than nine hours a day.
4) Children of 13-18 years to work no more than 12 hours a day.
5) Children are not to work at night.
6) Two hours schooling each day for children.
7) Four factory inspectors appointed to enforce the law. (in the whole of Britain!)
I have to sing all of your praises for yesterday. You made us all very proud of you. Your co-operation, incredible hard work and team work, not to mention your giggles and laughter, absolutely made our day yesterday. The garden looks completely amazing. You used the tools safely and sensible and helped and supported each other with such enthusiasm, it was totally wonderful to be part of. THANK YOU!
I am failing at the moment to get the tablet to turn on and post some photos. I will try and get some before and after ones blogged when it starts to work!
WELL DONE!
Have a fantastic weekend, keep safe in the sun and the heat that is expected and we shall hopefully see you all next week.
Class 4 Team