A huge well done to all the children for working hard in swimming. It was our last lesson today. The children have grown in confidence in the water and have tried hard. A big well fine too; Mariana, Frankie, Olivia and Indie, who swam 25m on their front and back.

Our Golden Certificate winner this week is Ethan. He had worked really hard these last 5 weeks in swimming and has made good progress. Well done, Ethan.

This week in English, we have been looking at the features of explanation texts. We have learnt about chronological order and paragraphs. We have also asked questions about the mummification process and used books and Ipads as a research tool to answer them.

In Maths, we finished our unit on multiplication at the start of the week and then started to look at length and perimeter. We have been measuring in kilometers and meters and converting between different units of measure.

This week in RE, the children enjoyed finding out the Hindi celebration Holi and creating a  t-shirt to show what happens at Holi.

This afternoon the children enjoyed looking at a play ‘A Glint of Gold’ which will be doing next half term with Year 3 for our production. Today, we have sent some children home with scripts to learn lines ready. If your child hasn’t come home with a script, this is because they have a singing role.

Thank you for all those that have already returned in parents evening slips. If you haven’t done yet, please bring them in as so soon as possible, so we can sort a time for you. Thank you.

Hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies

The children are continuing to work hard with their swimming and it’s been great to see their confidence in the water grow. The weeks have been flying by, and it’s our last week of swimming next Friday.

In English, we’ve started our new unit, Explanation texts. We’ve been looking at examples and features of explanation texts and using conjunctions.

In Maths, we’ve been looking at division. The children have been dividing a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number with and without remainders, and dividing a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number.

The children had a fantastic afternoon creating puppets and puppet theatres to perform the poem ‘Caterpillar’ by Christine Rossetti using shadow puppets.

Our certificate winner this week is Darcey. She is a great member of our class and takes an active role in our class discussions, where her contributions are well thought out.

We hope you have a nice weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies

Our topic this term is ‘What have we learnt from the Egyptians?’. We will be learning all about the Egyptians and the river Nile, including the water cycle. In Guided Reading our class book will be ‘There’s a Pharaoh in our Bath!’ by Jeremy Strong.

You can find our topic web below:

Topic Web ‘What have we learnt from the Egyptians’ 2023

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

We hope you all had a great Christmas. Thank you for all the Christmas wishes, cards and gifts we received.

We have had a short but busy first week to start our Spring Term.
The children all thoroughly enjoyed their first Swimming lesson in Year 4 this morning. Our Golden Certificate this week goes to Theo who tried his best to swim, and persevered even when finding it hard. Well done Theo!

Our Topic this term is Ancient Egypt and the children have brought home today their homework for this half term. In Literacy, we created questions we want to know about Egypt and have looked at the process of mummification. In Art, we followed instructions to make salt dough to make our Egyptian Scarab Beetle Amulet.

In Maths, we have been continuing our multiplication and division unit. We have been learning factor pairs of a number. The children have been enjoying doing our cracking times tables. Remember to keep practising those time tables at home.

In PSHE, we have been talking about the Rights of the Child. Ask your child if they can tell you about all the rights they know.

We hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies

Well what a busy term it has been. A great week to end it with our Carol Service, Christmas activities and a visit from Santa.

This week we have been finishing our lights in DT, talking about what Christmas means to us and others and looking at our British Values.

Our Golden Certificate Winner is Jake K. Jake is always eager to contribute to class discussions and his hard work has shown this term with the progress he has made, especially reading and times tables. Jake has also impressed us in DT to create his light. Well done, Jake.

Well done to all the children for a fantastic first term in Year 4. We hope you have a lovely Christmas and a well earnt rest, and come back ready to learn in the new year.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies.