1 year, 157 days ago
Posted on 28th January 2023 by Rachel Fairclough

Sycamore Class Newsletter 27.1.23

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

1 year, 173 days ago
Posted on 12th January 2023 by Rachel Fairclough

Sycamore Spring Topic Web

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

1 year, 179 days ago
Posted on 6th January 2023 by Rachel Fairclough

Sycamore Class Newsletter 6.1.2023

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

1 year, 199 days ago
Posted on 17th December 2022 by Rachel Fairclough

Sycamore Class Newsletter 16.12.22

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.

1 year, 214 days ago
Posted on 2nd December 2022 by Rachel Fairclough

Sycamore Class Newsletter 2.12.22

This week it has been assessment week. The children have carried out writing, spelling and punctuation tests and our end of unit test in Maths. It has been great to see how much progress the children have made and areas where we will now work on. Next week, the children will do a reading comprehension and Maths test.
Following on from our end of unit test in Maths we have been looking at word problems and the steps to take to help us solve them. We will continue to look at word problems next week. In Literacy, we have also started to write out setting descriptions. We will continue to write, edit and present our writing next week.

In Science, the children enjoyed looking at how light travels in a line and shadows. We planned and carried out an investigation to find out which material blocks the light and talked about opaque, translucent and transparent.
In PSHE we have been giving compliments and continuing to talk about respectful relationships.
We have also been talking about advent and the children have enjoyed seeing the Christmas decorations up around school and opening our advent calendar in class.

Just a reminder that swimming will now take place after Christmas. We will start the first Friday back after Christmas, Friday 6th January.

Our Golden Certificate Winner is Omar who has been a great role model to his peers this week. He is eager to learn, tries hard and gets on with his work straight away. Well done Omar.

Hope you have a nice weekend,
Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies.

1 year, 228 days ago
Posted on 18th November 2022 by Rachel Fairclough

Sycamore Class Newsletter 18.11.22

The children all looked great dressed up for Children in Need today.
Today has been a fantastic way to end our friendship week. The children have enjoyed decorating our class door, creating posters about standing up for others and finding the odd socks that have been hidden.

Today we talked about ‘Reach Out’. We talked about bullying and if we or others were being bullied when we would reach out, who we would reach out to and how we would reach out to help others who were being bullied. The children loved using their hands to create pictures to show this.

This week in Literacy, we have been writing and editing our character descriptions of Sir Captain Thomas Moore. The children have been using adjectives to describe his appearance, actions and personality.

In Maths, we have been looking at our 3, 6 and 9 times tables and multiplying and dividing by 7 and 11.

In Science, we have been looking at reflection and yesterday we planned and carried out an investigation to see which material reflected the most and least light.

Our Golden Certificate Winner is Kayla. She is a fantastic member of our class who always tries hard, helps others and is a good friend. Well done Kayla.

Hope you have a nice weekend,

Mrs Fairclough, Miss Shadbolt and Mrs Davies.