Hello everyone,

I hope you’re all keeping well and staying safe. I hope some of you have managed to have a go at the Joe Wicks PE lessons. Exercise is a really good way to keep yourself healthy both physically and mentally. It’s also good to try and go for a walk to get some fresh air as well (just make sure you keep two metres away from other people).

A great website for resources is Twinkl. If you follow the link https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents there are lots of resources aimed at each of the specific year groups. There is all sorts on there which are linked to most subjects.

Another website is RadioBlogging which is run by a group of current and former teachers. Pie Corbett (the guru for Talk for Writing which we do in Literacy) is also part of it. https://radioblogging.net/?fbclid=IwAR3d2J6YVVtaFHa01RYhPY-tWqV6snGuP55hM4L56lO9oZk1f-wXfDA-ii8

The children can also access Mathletics, Espresso and NumberGym from home as well.

I hope you’re all well and looking after each other. Read plenty, enjoy the rest, learn a new skill and be kind.

Take care and hopefully see you soon!

Mrs Brunyard

Hello everyone!

This has been a very strange and anxious week for all of us! I can imagine that some of you are starting to get a little restless as we are now very limited as to what we can do. There is a fantastic range of activities to do online that you can do at home. I am sure lots of you have heard of Joe Wicks’ daily PE lessons. They are free to access and are on YouTube – just search ‘Joe Wicks PE lessons’ or ‘The Body Coach TV’. They run at 9am every Monday to Friday.

There is also another great activity if you are particularly keen on drawing. If you go to http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob there are regularly-updated, short videos of how to draw different animals/characters. I particularly like the Gregosaurus one!

The DfE has also released an ‘Activity Passport’ which has lots of different activities to do both indoor and outdoor. There are all sorts of ideas of things that you can do – you don’t have to stick to the Year 4 ones! More information can be found following the link:  https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/772070/My_Activity_Passport.pdf

Energize for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin has also put together a site which has lots of different websites that you can access to keep yourself busy and active. https://www.energizestw.org.uk/energize-resources

The work set on the 20th March should last another week. We will then set some more work for you to do after the Easter holidays. I know that it has been really tricky to stay inside and at home during this last week but it is so important that you do. We all find it difficult to stay at home and not go and meet family and friends but everyone needs to try their best to prevent the spread of this terrible virus.

I hope you are all staying safe and well.

Take care and look after each other,

Mrs Brunyard

Hello everyone!

We’ve had a very busy week in Sycamore Class! This week has been British Science Week and we have been looking at this year’s theme which is ‘Our Diverse Planet’. We have discussed diverse cultures, habitats, lifestyles, places and people. The children have been very thoughtful and mature in their discussions. We have also continued our unit on ‘Sound’. We looked at how musical instruments make a sound and how the pitch of a sound can change. We also looked at how sound waves travel and the speed of sound.

We have been continuing our work on decimals. The children have been looking at placing decimals on number lines and also dividing decimals by 10 and 100.

As our production is getting very close now, we have been doing lots of rehearsals for Rock Bottom! There are still quite a few children who have not yet brought in their costume. It is really important that they bring them in as soon as possible – they will need them for rehearsals next week. If you are having difficulty with this, please do not hesitate to speak to either myself or Miss Bliss.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Martin

Hello everyone

We’ve had another busy week in Sycamore class. This week, we have been rehearsing our production and the children are definitely improving with each rehearsal. Children need to bring their costumes in to school as soon as they can please.

We have been continuing our unit on play scripts in Literacy and the children have been writing their own play scripts based upon different animations.

In Maths, we have started our unit on decimals. The children have been looking at using tenths and writing them as decimals and putting them in place value charts. They have been linking their work with fractions to this unit which has helped them a lot.

I am so impressed by all of the fantastic costumes that the children wore for World Book Day! Every child looked amazing! We spent World Book Day focusing on this year’s theme of ‘Share a Million Stories’ and we completed a range of activities all centered around books and reading. Well done to Charlie and Amber who won the books for their super costumes!

Next week is Science Week. We will be completing a range of Science activities which are focused on ‘Our Diverse Planet’.

Letters have been sent out this week for our visit to Wood Lane Nature Reserve on Friday 27th March. Every child has had a letter with their name on (I know that a few letters go astray from time to time!). If the letter has not made it home, please do not hesitate to come and ask me for a new letter – I have spares!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Martin

Hello everyone!

I hope you all had a lovely half term break. It was nice to meet you all again at parents’ evening. I am sure that you are very proud of your children and how hard they have worked over the last few months. I know that lots of the children have enjoyed showing you their books.

We have been continuing our unit on fractions and the children have been finding fractions of quantities and subtracting fractions from whole numbers. This has been quite tricky but the children have persevered and tried really hard to apply their knowledge and skills.

In Literacy, we have been looking at play scripts. This has linked in well with our Year 3 and Year 4 production rehearsals. Children who have lots of lines to learn need to practice them regularly at home as the performances will soon be here. Our performances are on Tuesday 24th March and Wednesday 25th March (Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday evening). Children can bring their costumes into school at any point up until Monday 16th March 2020. They need to have their costume in a bag with their name clearly labelled.

As always, please can children read regularly at home and practice their spellings and times tables. Homework is due in on Fridays.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Martin

Hello everyone!

This week, the children have been writing their own persuasive leaflets trying to encourage people to buy their Stone Age dwellings. The children have been using lots of fabulous vocabulary to describe their Stone Age houses.

In Maths, we have been continuing our work on fractions and have been adding and subtracting fractions. We discussed unit and non-unit fractions and looked at the rules behind adding and subtracting fractions.

Costume letters will be going out today for our Easter production. If you have any questions or queries about costumes, please do not hesitate to ask. All of the children who require scripts, now have them. They need to ensure that they practice their lines as the production will soon be here!

Have a lovely week next week and we hope that you all have a relaxing break!

We shall see you all on Monday 24th February!

Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Martin

Hello everyone!

This week, we have been focusing on writing in a persuasive manner in Literacy. We have been looking at using persuasive language, apostrophes for contraction and possession and also using expanded noun phrases. I have been very impressed by the work that the children have done this week. They have tried really hard to implement their individual writing targets in to their work too.

In Maths, we have started our unit on fractions. This week, we have been looking at what is a fraction, equivalent fractions and fractions which have a greater value than 1. It has been a bit tricky to try remember all of the new knowledge but the children are coping well!

As part of our creative curriculum, we have been comparing houses from the Stone Age to today’s houses. We looked at typical houses from the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras and discussed how they might have been built and what they would have looked like. We have also been discussing our responsibilities and how our responsibilities change as we get older. This has been part of our ‘Knowing our Rights and Responsibilities’ unit in PSHCE.

Next week is the final week of the half term. We finish on Friday 14th February at the usual time. Spellings and homework will be given out (as normal) and children need to try and read at least three times per week. I have also reminded the children of the website which is handy for practicing their times tables (they have the website address in their reading records).

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Martin