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Hello! 

Class 4 have been busy so far this week. On Monday, as part of our Novel Study, we explored information on what is required to make a suitable home for a pig (Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web). The children were asked to design a suitable home and annotate their drawings using descriptive vocabulary. There were some lovely designs!

Year 5 had a great session of Brass on Monday morning. They all enjoyed it and came back from the session full of smiles. Year 4 children began to explore a musical programme called ‘Ten Pieces’ which has been developed by the BBC. It aims to introduce the younger generation to classical music. We listened to a composition called ‘No Place Like’ which was composed by Kerry Andrews. More information can be found via this link BBC Ten Pieces

The children all tried hard in a mental arithmetic test on Monday – we worked through the answers, methods and calculations together. On Monday afternoon, the children had chance to practise their programming skills using the App ‘Scratch Junior’.

We all revised our numbers 0-20 in French. We listened to a funny song which helped us to learn numbers beyond 30 too. The children then played a couple of games on our school language programme called ‘Language Nut’.

During Class Worship, we explored a passage from Hebrews 12:1-2 which helped us to understand that life can be compared to a race. We must persevere (our Worship focus for this half term) and focus on our goals.

In English today, we used the laptops to research how to care for a pig in preparation for compiling an information leaflet. We had to think about the use of sub-headings to organise our research.

We revised the use of landmarked and unmarked number lines to place numbers up to 10,000 in order from smallest to biggest.

In PE we explored the use of movement such as stretching high, bending down, marching, side stepping and much more to put together a sequence of movements in small groups. This was done to music in the hall.

We started to look at Stone Age artwork this afternoon. We had a look through topic books to find out any information we could on the different methods and types of artwork carried out by people during the Stone Age – more to follow next Tuesday!

Well done Class 4 – you have worked really hard. 

Mrs Conde 

The children in Class 4 have had a wonderful day. They have all enjoyed being together and catching up with news about their holiday adventures.

Today, the children were introduced to our new ‘Novel Study’ which will be ‘Charlotte’s Web’. We read a section from Chapter One and the children were asked to discuss the events and give their thoughts and feelings about what had happened and how it had made them feel. The children worked really hard to talk to each other and keep on task to record their ideas by writing them in thought bubbles.

We spent time exploring place value in Maths. Children had to identify the value of different digits in 3 and 4-digit numbers. We used number cards to make a range of numbers and the children had to write the values of the digit in place value grids. We then found the biggest and smallest numbers and also put all of the numbers in order from biggest to smallest.

This afternoon, we talked about the qualities of a person in Class 4 and what we would like to continue to grow as. For example, the children suggested that they wanted to continue to grow as writers, historians, artists, mathematicians, Christians, good friends, actors and many more! The children used Microsoft Publisher to create signs for a display board to remind us of what we are working hard to be.

The Class 4 newsletter has been placed in the Class 4 noticeboard and it will be uploaded onto here tomorrow.

Well done Class 4 – it was a great day!

Mrs Conde.