Class 4
Friday 3rd May
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
It's been another very busy but fun week here in class 4. The children are absolutely loving our Ancient Egyptians topic; not only are they enjoying learning lots of exciting historical facts in history, they are enjoying applying their learning to their art work and also their writing in literacy too. The children have enjoyed beginning to learn about Howard Carter's exciting discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and are developing a bank of interesting facts about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians too.
In literacy, having heard the exciting story of 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx', the children have been planning their very own Egyptian adventure stories too. They are cleverly using the facts they are learning in history to enrich their writing; I can't wait to read the exciting adventure stories they are all creating!
P.E. continues to inspire the children; they are loving developing great badminton skills and are getting quite competitive with each other as they play different skills-building games. I have been so impressed how well the children have adapted to badminton.
Our music lessons sound just gorgeous at the moment; the children are practising their folk festival songs most days. The corridor down Key Stage 2 sounds wonderful on an afternoon; I can't wait for the children to perform in the church next Friday.
We have been very busy working on statistics this week; the children's problem solving skills when interpreting data is improving all the time.
As it was polling day yesterday, the children had their very own ballot in class too. They loved it! I have to admit, it wasn't a vote for their favourite mayor or councillor though! As they had successfully filled the treasure pot, I decided to allow the children to have a democratic vote (voting slip and ballot box included of course) on the reward they should all receive! Their choices were a tasty treat, stories outdoors, team games outside or extra playtime. After carefully counting all their ballot papers, it was the 'extra playtime' the children selected. They loved 15 minutes extra time to play on the field and trim trail just before assembly today; a very well-deserved treat I think!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the Bank Holiday.
See you on Tuesday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
xx
Friday 3rd May
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
It's been another very busy but fun week here in class 4. The children are absolutely loving our Ancient Egyptians topic; not only are they enjoying learning lots of exciting historical facts in history, they are enjoying applying their learning to their art work and also their writing in literacy too. The children have enjoyed beginning to learn about Howard Carter's exciting discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and are developing a bank of interesting facts about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians too.
In literacy, having heard the exciting story of 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx', the children have been planning their very own Egyptian adventure stories too. They are cleverly using the facts they are learning in history to enrich their writing; I can't wait to read the exciting adventure stories they are all creating!
P.E. continues to inspire the children; they are loving developing great badminton skills and are getting quite competitive with each other as they play different skills-building games. I have been so impressed how well the children have adapted to badminton.
Our music lessons sound just gorgeous at the moment; the children are practising their folk festival songs most days. The corridor down Key Stage 2 sounds wonderful on an afternoon; I can't wait for the children to perform in the church next Friday.
We have been very busy working on statistics this week; the children's problem solving skills when interpreting data is improving all the time.
As it was polling day yesterday, the children had their very own ballot in class too. They loved it! I have to admit, it wasn't a vote for their favourite mayor or councillor though! As they had successfully filled the treasure pot, I decided to allow the children to have a democratic vote (voting slip and ballot box included of course) on the reward they should all receive! Their choices were a tasty treat, stories outdoors, team games outside or extra playtime. After carefully counting all their ballot papers, it was the 'extra playtime' the children selected. They loved 15 minutes extra time to play on the field and trim trail just before assembly today; a very well-deserved treat I think!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the Bank Holiday.
See you on Tuesday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
xx
Week ending 26th April
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
Here's a little round-up of some of the activities class 4 got up to last week! We had another great week!
The children have continued to enjoy working on activities linked to our text 'The Egyptian Cinderella'. This week the children worked in small groups to role play a section of the story each, so that we were able to complete the whole story as a class. The children were absolutely amazing! Their confidence is really lovely to see; they enjoyed performing their plays to each other and have found them really useful when completing their own compositions of the story.
This week we will be beginning to explore our new text, 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx'. We will be using this text to enthuse the children to begin their very own adventure stories. Do wish us look as I know this may prove to be a challenge!!
In view of our forthcoming singing performance in the Holmfirth Parish Church on May 10th, the children have been working exceptionally hard in their music lessons to learn and practise the songs. They will be performing alongside other schools in the Holme Valley as part of the opening act of the Holmfirth Folk Festival weekend; it should be a very exciting event and I know the children are really looking forwards to performing together.
Science has been fun this week too; we have recreated the water cycle whilst growing cress and on Monday will be investigating whether or not the rate of evaporation is affected by a raise in temperature. We are hoping for at least a little corner of sunshine on Monday morning so we can compare 2 different locations; keep your fingers tightly crossed!
The children loved P.E. this week; not only are they continuing to enjoy weekly swimming sessions, we have also now begun badminton lessons too. I was very impressed with the children's enthusiasm and progress on Thursday, very impressive indeed!
Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. Looking forwards to seeing you all on Monday!
See you tomorrow,
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Pearce
Week ending 19th April
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
Class 4 had a great week last week! Our new topic of Ancient Egyptians is now well underway and we're all loving every minute! We began the week with our new text 'The Egyptian Cinderella' and initially focused on developing some role play based on the text. The children then compared the text with the traditional story of 'Cinderella'; they were amazed how many similarities and differences they were able to find.
Art involved practising Egyptian decorative patterns ready for creating their own Ancient Egyptian headdresses for display!
History involved learning many interesting facts surrounding early life around the River Nile. The children learnt many facts about the importance of the Nile for daily life in Ancient Egyptian times; for farming, washing and leisure for example.
In PSHE, the children have completed a 3D pyramid each (very well decorated of course) and have then written lovely positive comments for each other and have added these to the insides of their pyramids. The children really love them; it has been great to see how supportive the children are of each other.
Science was very busy this week; in order to recreate the water cycle, the children have re-sewn their cress seeds as our latest ones failed to germinate for some reason!! I have never come across this happening before!! We're hoping for lots of cress and lots of condensation this week! The children have then been using thermometers to check the temperature of boiling water and also the temperature at which butter and chocolate melt; they have loved it. The fact that they used the chocolate to create very tasty crispy buns did help a great deal!!
More busy activities next week! Hope you are all having a lovely weekend and have thoroughly enjoyed the warmer weather!
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
Friday 15th March
admin on: Class 4
Good evening all!
We've had a very exciting week here in school; we all took part in National Science Week and on Monday and Wednesday the children in KS2 were all treated to a wide variety of science investigations and activities run by all the staff; a super event and very well organised by Mr Kershaw! The children loved every minute!
The children have been busily completing their wonderful recounts of their visit to Cliffe House this week; below is the 2nd collection of wonderful photos for you to enjoy!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
See you all on Monday,
Mrs Matthews, Miss Nipe and Mrs Pearce
