Heart of Gold Award- The First of the Year

This Golden award was given to a very special young man as he showed a tremendous amount of care and consideration for other peoples' feelings and helped some of the younger children when they were feeling a little under the weather. What a lovely, helpful young person. We are lucky to have him in our beautiful class.

 

Reading

We are having great fun reading the BFG by Roald Dahl and answering lots of vocabulary, inference, prediction, recall and summarising questions on it.

Writing

The Lighthouse Keeper – A diary entry

We have worked hard to look at fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases as well as including feelings in our diary entries. The children have produced some lovely writing!

Maths

We have been honing our column subtraction knowledge and using dienes to support our calculations.

Maths

We have now challenged ourselves to find the most efficient way to subtract! Should we use column subtraction or a mental strategy? A lot of maths talk and being able to explain their reasoning.

Art

We are studying 'The Rainforest' in Art. We have created some mood boards to capture the colours and patterns from the rainforest fruit and vegetation art we completed last week. Next week, we will add some highlight colours to our mood boards using  water colours or pastels.

P.E

The children are learning hockey this half-term. They are working hard on sending, receiving and dribbling. The children are also doing extremely well in their swimming lessons, which are an hour long! However, they still have lots of energy at the end, so they can do lots more work when we return to school!

Music

Year 4 are working on a rainforest theme for their music lesson. They are starting to identify the texture and structure of a piece of music, and then they are developing some body percussion based on the Rainforest theme. They are certainly having fun working in groups.

Computing

We used Word and PowerPoint to research and present information about our House Saints - St. Christopher, St Carlos Acutis, St Sebastian, St Lucy, St. Oscar Romero, and St Joan of Arc.

International Day of Languages - Friday 26th September

We celebrated this day by looking at the Spanish artist 'Gaudi ', as we are also learning Spanish. We recreated some of his artwork using colourful dotted paintwork.