Good evening everyone,
It has been such a great day full of activities! We have been survivors in the woods, we have been on the giant swing, trapeze jumping, abseiling and problem solving.
We have had lunch and dinner. Now we are off to our evening activity - balloon splash.
We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
PGL 2024
Hello Year Four,
We have had a busy first week back.
We have begun our new geography project on rivers and later in the term we will be going on a field trip to learn first-hand about rivers in the UK. This began by exploring the water cycle. We have set up an experiment in the class room to show evaporation and condensation.
We are continuing to learn about fractions in our maths lessons and are currently learning about mixed number and improper fractions.
For English we are coming to the end of our persuasive letter to the local council from Mr Wolf. He is trying to persuade the council to ban little girls from the forest and he is very persuasive!
For Spanish we will be learning the names of different countries and how to say where we are from, what our nationality is and which languages we can speak. The children have been exploring a map of Spain, so if you have been on or are planning a holiday to Spain it would be great to know which region you will be going to.
Today we had a PHSE lesson and as we are focussing on 'Healthy Me' this term we explored the effects of smoking and alcohol.
For science we will be beginning our project on electricity next week.
In our RE lessons we are looking at sacred texts and this week we focussed on the word 'sacred' and The Holy Bible.
Spellings will be given out on Monday. The test for these will not be for two weeks due to the PGL trip, however I am posting them for you now.
Group1
electricity
circuit
insulator
conductor
stomach
healthy
Hinduism
sacred
phrase
vocabulary
Group Two
electricity
safety
bulb
switch
sign
water
danger
corner
wizard
witch
Group Three
little
happy
sweet
strong
what
The children are very excited for next week's school journey. If you have any further questions or information you feel will be helpful for us please do not hesitate to see either myself or Miss Davis.
Please see the note from Ms Davis below:
PGL
Please return all OV7A forms if you haven't done so already. Any medicine we will have to administer whilst at PGL you will need to fill out paperwork to consent to this. Please go to the office to hand in the medicine in it's box and to fill out the paperwork.
UPDATE The coach is due to leave at 7:30AM. Please arrive at school between 7:15-7:20am. We are due back at school at approximately 4pm. We will have lunch when we arrive at PGL and we will have lunch before we leave.
There will be a fitted sheet on the beds. Please provide bedding for the night. If you child wears deodorant please can you pack roll-on only.
Make sure they can carry their bags themselves - we are due to be on bottom floor accommodation. Please can I stress not to pack any electronics for PGL or anything sentimental.
We will send texts via the school to let you know we arrived safely and we will post on the blog during the evening.
Hello Year Four,
We have had a busy and productive week. It has been science week and the children have been carrying out experiments and working on projects.
The class winners were.....
We will be focussing on maths and English next week as we will be spending a lot of time rehearsing for the KS2 production.
English
The children will be learning how to write a persuasive letter. They will be planning it, exploring the purpose of their letter, using appropriate arguments and language that features emotive writing, rhetorical questions, exaggeration and provokes sympathy.
Maths
We are continuing to work on perimeter. Next week we explore regular and irregular polygons and how to calculate their perimeters. Halfway through the week we will begin fractions. Firstly we will explore 'the whole' and move on to count beyond 1.
Spellings
Group One
you're
your
communicate
delicious
where
were
we're
wear
won't
believe
Group Two
you're
your
where
we're
wear
were
won't
tomorrow
massive
quickly
Group Three
where
want
were
needed
yellow
Please bring your children's costumes for the performance in next week, if you have not done so already.
I wish you all a happy and restful weekend.
Ms Davis
Hello Year Four,
This week we have been working on finding perimeters in our maths lessons.
For English the children have written a scene for a play, directed it, acted it and videoed it. They were very successful!
In history we are exploring the Anglo Saxons, Picts and Scots. This week we focussed on Sutton Hoo and the archeological dig that enabled us to learn so much about this period of time. The children were fascinated by this and produced some good work following their research.
As it was World Book Day on Thursday the children enjoyed describing their characters and explaining why they chose their books.
Hello Everyone,
I must apologise for not adding the spellings to the blog on Friday.
Please find them below.
Group One
finished
weather
whether
who's
whose
missed
mist
trouble
country
partner
Group Two
with
where
laugh
laughed
quiet
quite
wear
metre
centimetre
people
Group Three
saw
with
where
said
for
Hello Year Four,
We have had a fabulous week!
On Tuesday we went to visit Christ Church. The focus was on the church building and contents and praise and worship.
The children had a series of activities to experience that were linked to the theme. They learned so much and enjoyed it very much.
Hello Year Four,
This week has seen us finishing lots of projects. We have completed our work on The Amazon Rainforest as the children compared the land use to that of our local woods. We were able to create a bar chart using the information from our questionnaires. The children then used the bar chart to answer questions.
We have completed our project on birds and the children found that the most common bird in our local area was a blackbird.
The children had a fabulous time on the walk and took many photos!
