9 March 2016

Times Tables Champions

Just look at all the children who have reached the top of our times tables ladder.  They all know their times tables facts up to 12 x 12, as well as the associated division facts.  Well done!  Some children are very close to reaching the top of our ladder, so keep up the hard…

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8 March 2016

très bon

Year 4 love their French lessons!

Today they all used the laptops to listen to French, read French words and sentences and even spell words in French!

It was a very quiet lesson, as they all had their headphones on, but the children can now say the names of different countries in…

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4 March 2016

Book Week

The children have been involved in all sorts of activities to celebrate Book Week this week. The whole school composed a story together.

Reception started the story and each class added to it. Year 6 edited the story and read it out in celebration assembly on Friday.

The children in year 4…

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24 February 2016

The Book Games

In Year 4, we love reading and listening to a good class novel!  We have a competition running called 'The Book Games' where the books we read compete against each other.  In Autumn term, we read The Witches by Roald Dahl versus 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' by C.S Lewis.  We enjoyed…
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23 February 2016

You've got to hand it to Year 4.......we are great at handball!

This term, Mrs Smith from Southlands High School, will be working with Year 4 on learning how to play handball.  Today, the children were introduced to the sport and had the opportunity to learn some important skills that will be useful when we are playing the game.  We learned how to catch and…

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9 February 2016

Internet Safety Day

Tuesday 9th February

Today was Safer Internet Day.  In Year 4, we came up with our own recipes for a better internet, which got us talking about some of the ways in which we can make sure we stay safe, while being online.  We then took part in some drama dilemmas.  We were given a scenario to…

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3 February 2016

Year 4 Debate.....

In English, we have been looking at discussion texts and exploring different reasons people might have for or against an issue.  Today, we worked with a partner to practise our debating skills.  We were given different discussion statements and one partner had to speak for the statement, whilst…

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27 January 2016

More Good Vibrations

Today we took part in a Science round robin afternoon for our topic of Sound and Hearing.  We worked in groups rotating around different activities.  All the activities got us investigating and thinking scientifically about how sounds are made and how we can change them.  We found out lots of…

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26 January 2016

Good Vibrations

Year 4 have been enjoying their new Science topic all about Sound and Hearing.  In class, we played a game where we had to listen to and identify everyday sounds.  Some were easier than others and it made us think about how important our hearing is to us.  We also had the chance to work with a…

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26 January 2016

Good vibrations

Year 4 have been enjoying their new Science topic all about Sound and Hearing.  In class, we played a game where we had to listen to and identify everyday sounds.  Some were easier than others and it made us think about how important our hearing is to us.  We also had the chance to work with a…

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11 January 2016

Year 4 make a great start to 2016

Happy new year to everyone from all in Year 4!   We have all settled back now into our class after the Christmas break and are ready for all our new learning challenges.  We are looking forward to starting our new topics- in Science we will be investigating sound and setting up our own…

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14 December 2015

Christmas Around the World

Monday 14th December

 

Year 4 began their Christmas journey around the world this morning in China!  Over the next two days, we will be visiting different classrooms to find out about what Christmas is like in another part of the world.  We will be taking part in art and craft activities, as…

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