This week began with a shared write on writing a recipe about the pizzas we made during our Art’s Fortnight! We watched recipe videos, saw examples and learnt new writing techniques. We learnt how to vary our writing by introducing S, M sentences. Even though this was a lot of new information, the children shown great determination and did amazingly (see what I did there!).

In Maths, we learnt a new arithmetic skill of multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit number. We will continue to build our fluency next week by focusing on 2 by 3 digit numbers as well as exchanges. 

In our second Geography lesson, we have been exploring climate change and its devastating effects on the planet. We took a practical approach and investigated how rising sea levels affect the environment. Every thirty minutes from 9am to 12am, we measured the sea level. As time went on, the ice caps melted causing the sea levels to rise and costal houses to erode. After that, we plotted our results on a line graph. 

Science was electric this week. We began with understanding the main components of a basic electric circuit. Next, we all held hands and mimicked a human electric circuit. In small groups, pupils worked together to create their very own circuits! 

Please ensure you are practicing TTRS and reading at least 3 times a week.

It was so lovely to welcome all of the children back to class this week. We have started the term with so much positivity and enthusiasm already.

This week in maths we focused on multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000. We used place value sliders, base ten equipment and counters to see how each digit moves through the columns when we multiply or divide. We practised with lots of examples and word problems, which helped us understand the patterns and build confidence in our skills. These activities allowed us to explore the process step by step and really develop mastery in maths.

In reading, we explored a non fiction text about orienteering, learning about map symbols, navigation and teamwork. We practised back to back reading, taking turns to read aloud and matching our partner’s tone, intonation, pace and fluency. This helped us improve our expression, accuracy and confidence while reading aloud. Next, we practised the Big 10 skill of inference.

Please remember to complete 10 minutes of TTRS daily and try and get the soundcheck scores up to 25/25.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody!

Wow. What a term 4C!

We have had a jam-packed half term including our Art’s fortnight, special visitors and lots of learning. Looking back from where we started in September, we have come so far. We have loved, learned and definitely flourished. 

A quick round up of our week:

In writing, we summarised our scrapyard topic with a Hot Write. Our hot write included new languages skills and features such as: FAing, with FA and punctuating character’s speech. It is so brilliant to see an innovated HW including these new and tricky features.

In Maths, we finished the term with team skills and multiplication practice. The children all sat in new groups and competed against one another to solve the Christmas reasoning and problem questions. As always, pupils were so enthusiastic with their learning. They communicated kindly using rich maths vocabulary.
We also did a cross class TTRS competition and we won! 

To round up History, we filmed our Roman Battle and edited these on iPlayer!

To end the term, we made Christingles and attended the service.

Thank you for a brilliant term 4C, it has been a pleasure to see you learn and smile every day.

What a great start to our Art’s Fortnight!

On Monday, we had a very special visit from Sam the Sound Man. We learnt all about sound including: pitch, volume, nodes and sound waves. We were immersed into our learning by taking part in lots of different scientific experiments.

Our Art’s Fortnight is centred around our class novel ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. Our first art project involved learning the skill of gestural drawings. We have spent two days in the art studio practising the skills of drawing with our arms, not our wrists.
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We had many practice runs and reflected on each one before starting our next draft. Then, we began our final piece of a chalk gestural drawings of the Iron Man.

Today we focused on creating our plasticine prototypes of our Iron Man models. We worked hard on our resiliencebecause it was tricky and we had to overcome a few problems to improve with each attempt. The art skills underpinning the lesson were fine motor skills, understanding the shapes and depth of each body part and moving the clay around with our hands. We each made three attempts. After each attempt, we reflected on what went well and what could be improved for the next time. The students reflected really well and applied their feedback to improve their models with each try.

Tomorrow, we begin creating our final products with clay!

4C have had a really busy week completing assessments. Pupils have completed a reading paper , 3 maths assessments and a hot write this week. I have been so proud of pupils perseverance throughout a very busy week.

Yesterday, 4C had the pleasure of Mr Ash teaching them Samba! Pupils learnt all about rhythm and the different instruments involved in Samba to produce a class piece.

On Friday afternoon, pupils were taken out in small groups for some gardening. Pupils planted a variety of different bulbs. We are so lucky to have this opportunity in school.

Next week, we will begin our Art’s Fortnight and I am so excited.

4C, you have all worked so hard and deserve a fun and relaxed weekend. Well done for your hard work during assessments. I am so proud of everyone!

Miss Chadwick

Last week, it was national Anti-bullying week. We spent time during Collective Worship talking about anti-bullying and how we can become an upstander. Pupils then created their own ‘upstander characters’ in the ABW poster competition. In PSHE we watched and took part in the BBC live lesson on antibullying.

On Tuesday, Roots and Routes visited to continue our project. In the art session, we created a winter sunrise and painted branches. In the second dance session, we expressed ourselves with an abstract dance.

This term we have been strengthening our understanding of multiplication by exploring timetables in a hands-on and engaging way. Pupils have been using manipulatives such as counters to build arrays and visualise key concepts. We have been making connections between our 3,6 and 9’s.

We have also been focusing on maths oracy. Pupils are encouraged to explain their thinking clearly, work with partners, and use precise mathematical vocabulary to justify their answers.

In other news….

We won the TTRS battle. Great team effort this week 4C.

Every minute counts.

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Another fabulous week! Rest up 4C.

Please ensure you are signing reading records and reading for at least 20 minutes 3 times a day!

4C have had a very busy week of learning.

In writing we began our new topic of ‘openings’. During the imitation stage, we did lots of drama to learn the model text. On Friday we took part in a Writing World Cup where pupils, in partners, got competitive to craft and complete ‘M., FA, M. and M&M’ sentences. We were particularly focusing on including punctuation (even those pesky full stops), capital letters and adjectives to describe the setting.

In maths we began our next topic, Multiplication and Division. We have been learning all of the secret facts of times tables which have blown our minds. For example, in the nine times table each digit adds up to 9 — 1+8=9, 2+7=9, 3+6=9. We have been practising our times tables because 4C refuse to lose the Year 4 TTRS competition again.

Set your timers for ten minutes and let’s try to beat the other Year 4 classes. We can do this, I know we can! It will really support our learning in class.

Important reminders: this week it is Anti-Bullying Week. Monday 10th November is Odd Socks Day. Choose your wildest socks and rock them into school.

See you all tomorrow
Miss Chadwick

I am so impressed with how well the pupils in 4C have settled into the new academic year. I couldn’t be prouder of how far each and every one of them has come in just eight weeks.

Over the last week, we have been completing our hot writes to finish our writing topic. I can’t wait to read them, as pupils have worked really hard on their pieces. In Maths, we have been focusing on area. To build conceptual understanding, we have taken a very hands-on approach, exploring how to calculate the area of different shapes using sticky notes.

October is Black History Month. In our collective workshop, we have been exploring what this means and its importance. We have been recognising the amazing achievements and contributions of Black individuals. On Thursday, we all discussed and wrote about our Black History Month heroes.

Over this past half term in Art and D&T, we have been designing Celtic shields. As the Celts were known for being less organised, our shields in their different colours and shapes reflect this. Here are some of the wonderful shields created by the children.

Don’t forget to be practising those pesky timestables over half term holiday, let’s beat the other Year 4 classes.

Have a wonderful, but restful half term holiday 4C.

Miss Chadwick 🙂

On Tuesday, we were greeted by a Roman soldier. We stepped back in time and were each given a special role to help bring Roman society to life. Whilst some of us joined the council, others managed wells or sold goods imported from across the Roman Empire. We also learnt about Roman gods, their names and what they represented.

To end the day, we became the audience at a colosseum show. We mimicked battles and cheered on the fighters. We learnt SO much about the Romans and we are very grateful for this opportunity.

In writing and reading this week, we have been focusing on our class novel The Firework Maker’s Daughter. As a team, we have been planning and writing a shared letter to Lila’s friend. Next week, we will bring it all together by finishing this topic with a Hot Write. I cannot wait to read them!

The TTOTW is

…… (Drumroll please)

6 × 6 = 36
Ask your child what six sixes are and I am sure they will impress you.

Please ensure everyone is logging on to TTRS for 10 minutes each day to boost multiplication skills. We MUST bring Tiny back home to 4C for the holidays. We can do it. I believe in you, 4C.

Achievements:
We were the LKS2 attendance champions this week with an amazing 97 percent attendance.

Well done, everybody!