Week ending 26th January 2024

 Hello Year Four,

We have had an amazing week! Our trip to the Hindu temple was fantastic! The children learned so much about another religion and culture. They were extremely engaged and interested. The staff went out of their way to welcome us and attend to all our needs. The lunch was delicious!

We began the day by visiting the temple and learning about their Gods, how they pray and their daily timetable, which begins at 4am!

The children were able to dress up in traditional costume and have their faces painted. They were shown rituals and features of the Hindu religion.

We rode on a cart pulled by oxen to visit the dairy, the cows and the oxen. 

It was a wonderful and memorable day and I will share a few photos with you.

|This week we have also been continuing to learn multiplication and division in our maths lessons. 

We are working on alliteration in English and will be using it to create a poem.

For geography we explored how the indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest live. 

In Spanish the children are learning the words to describe family.

We explored dreams and goals in our PHSE lesson.

NEXT WEEK

English

We will continue with poetry writing at the beginning of the week and then we will start a new project - play scripts. We will be basing our work on the play 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Maths

The children will continue to work with multiplication and divison as we move on to problem solving involving these operations.

Science

An experiment will be set up to explore how chocolate may changed when heated and cooled as we learn about changing states of matter.

RE

The children will be writing about features of Hinduism after our visit and will include a photo that they took themselves and use that as a focus to write about one of their favourite moments.

ICT

We will be working on typing speed, TT Rock Stars and emails.

PHSE

How do we feel when a dream does not come true or a goal achieved?

Spellings

Group One

wonderland

spectacular

announce

proud

sigh

laugh

dramatic

gently

quietly

nervously

Group Two

quiet

quite

shout

proud

pounce

giggled

angry

demand

sense

sigh

Have a wonderful weekend.

Ms Davis

Spellings

 Hi Everyone,

So sorry I did forget to post the spellings this week. Please see below:

Group One

peace

piece

main

mane

fare

fair

young

touch

trouble

country

Group Two

they

there

their

adventure

during

after

while

where

terrified

working

Just to add that the children are doing well with spellings and tables. Spending time learning them at home really helps.

Many thanks 

yvette

Week ending 19th January 2024

 Hello Year Four,

This week we have been continuing to look at multiplication and division in our maths lessons. The children are moving ahead with their times tables and have been creating their own resources to help them. They have taken these home and need to use them at least a few times a week to ensure that they know all their tables to twelve within the coming weeks. 

The children wrote beautifully this week. The writing was inspired by the book 'The Tear Thief' and they wrote a daily diary. The vocabulary was amazing, the use of sophisticated verbs and phrases and the extended sentences was evident throughout their work.

In our science lesson we learned about the water cycle. The children enjoyed this and soon understood that the cycle in continuous.

For geography we really dug deep into the structure of the Amazon Rainforest.

Next Week

English

Next week we will be working on poetry. The children will learn about alliteration and the poems will be inspired by the story 'The Tear Thief.'

Maths

We will continue to work on multiplication and division. Please ensure your child practises spellings at home as often as possible.

Geography

The focus will be learning about the indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest.

Design and Technology

Next week the children will be making nets of different shapes and sizes. We will continue to learn about shell structures before they begin their planning.

RE

We have been exploring praise and worship and the different buildings that are used for different religions. The children will continue to research this and on Thursday they will have the first-hand experience of visiting a Mandir. Later this term I have booked a visit to Christ Church for a morning of activities to learn about churches and how they are used for prayer and worship.

School Visit

The children are very excited for the trip to the Mandir next Thursday. Please ensure that they arrive at school on time and in full school uniform. They do not need to bring anything with them. Packed lunches or snacks are not permitted inside the temple. We are all looking forward to this amazing experience.

I wish you a happy weekend.

Ms Davis

Week ending 12th January 2024

 Hello Year One,

We have had a very busy first week back. One big surprise was receiving all the new books for our classroom. Everyone is so excited and it is great to see children so enthusiastic about reading. We also have a handmade tree in the school library. Please read the message below from Mr Gradwell.

Don’t forget that if you wish to enter the competition to name our reading tree in the KS2 library, you need to give your class teacher a piece of paper with your name and class written on it and the name that you would like to give the tree, by next Friday at the latest.

This week for maths we have been focussing on dividing by ten. Next week we will move on to 100. 

The children loved the English lessons this week as they were featuring themes from a book called 'The Tear Thief' by Carol Ann Duffy. They love the story and the beautiful illustrations. They wrote about a precious tear and their vocabulary was wonderful!

For science we have begun our topic 'States of Matter.' This week we explored solids, liquids and gases. We sorted items into the three categories. We looked at how the particles are formed in the different states.

We have begun our D and T project which is 'shell structures.' This week we have looked at a variety of buildings, manmade and natural structures. We have sorted structures into groups of either shell structures or frame structures.

For geography we will be exploring the Amazon Rainforest. This week we investigated the biome of the forest and located it on a world map. We discovered which countries are part of it and looked at how the indigenous people live there. We are exploring the changes that are being made to the forest and how that effects the people living there and contributes towards global warming.

NEXT WEEK

Maths

We will begin with division with 100 and as we progress we will be working on division and multiplication and related facts

English

We will continue working from 'The Tear Thief' as the children write diary entries. We cover comprehension every fortnight and work from the book 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King.

Spellings

Group One

guide

guest

guardian

guitar

guard

guarantee

guess

guidebook

January

teardrop

Group Two

January

February

time

taste

liquid

fluid

people

quickly

terrified

smiling

Geography

We will be discovering the Amazon Rainforest this half-term. The children will be doing their own research and investigating what it would be like to live there. They will explore how changes to the forest is causing global warming.

RE

We will be looking at the importance of belonging alongside places of worship. As you are aware we will be visiting a Hindu temple as part of this learning and I have also arranged a praise and worship workshop at Christ Church.

D and T

The children will be creating a shell structure at the end of this project. At the moment they are learning about different structures and designing their own.

Science

We are working on states of matter this half-term and next week we will explore the water cycle.

PE

Swimming starts on Wednesday. Please ensure you child has a swimming kit.

I hope you have a happy and restful weekend.

Many thanks 

Ms Davis