Author: lhenshaw

Stars of the week: Astrid and Eyoel

This week the whole school had a visit from one of the original dancers in the west end production of STOMP. Class 4 had a brilliant workshop with him, and learnt the different wants they can create sounds and rhythms just using their body. They learnt a very complex routine in under 15 minutes and then they got into groups to create their own routine.

Also this week, Class 4 enjoyed participating in the Summer Fair. They played lots of brilliant games and won some great prizes! Thank you to the Friends of Cathedral School for organising this.

Stars of the Week: All of Class 4!

This week, Class 4 participated in a local schools cricket tournament, organised by Platform cricket who came into school for 10 training sessions. Around 19 teams from lots of different schools in the Elephant and Castle area also attended.

Throughout the tournament, every child worked hard to show off the skills and techniques they had learnt during the 10-week block, and provided a great competition. From the 19 teams, 2 out of the 3 Cathedral teams made it to the semi-finals and we had a great, competitive match between Cathedral A and Cathedral C in the 3rd and 4th place play-off. Class 4 acted with such maturity and determination throughout the tournament and showed great sportsmanship during, and after every match – by being the first team to initiate the shaking of hands and saying thank you for a great game.

Well done Class 4!

 

Stars of the week: Cam’ron and Belén

This week in Class 4, we had a dilemma to solve! Iron Man has destroyed all the farm machinery and the villagers were getting fed up! We had to decide if Iron Man should be punished or protected. Class 4 created some persuasive arguments for each side, and then we had a very respectful and mature debate over the dilemma. Well done for being so sensible and for listening to each other’s reasons.

Next week, we are going to be writing our persuasive letter to the village mayor to demand he listens to our reasons!

 

 

Stars of the Week: Thea and Cameron

This week in Class 4 we have been filming our TV reports about Iron Man! They considered the different camera angles to use, and how to create a temporary auto-cue so they could read off the report. Class 4 recorded all of their clips, and then edited them using the iMovie software. I will attach the videos to a separate post for you all to enjoy!

Stars of the Week: Javon and Caitlin

This week in class 4 we have been writing TV news reports. We have based them around eye-witness accounts of Iron Man’s fall off the cliff edge, and how he managed to find all of his broken parts. Class 4 carefully chose ambitious language to keep the news report interesting and exciting, whilst also making sure they included enough description of the story. We will record and edit them next week and then we will upload them to the class blog!

In Geography this week, class 4 have been looking at maps and using their knowledge of 8-point compass directions to explain the locations of different cities in the UK. They worked hard to ensure they were looking at the correct direction and marked the points between each city accurately.

 

 

Stars of the Week: Sonny and Rosa

This week in class 4 we have started our new class text – The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. The children had a go choosing lots of ambitious language to illustrate the first few pages of the book. The start of the book describes Iron Man tumbling own a cliff edge and landing on the beach. Sonny and Rosa worked hard to think about how they can illustrate each page and use the words to animate the story. Please enjoy some of our examples below!

Stars of the Week: Chiugo and Jomi

This week in Class 4 we have been doing lots of assessments. Class 4 worked very hard on each of these, in order to show off all of their brilliant learning from this year. Well done everyone for being so sensible.

In Science, we have been looking at the different factors that impact our environment, such as through pollution or deforestation. Class 4 researched each topic and then created a presentation which we we’ll watch after half-term.

Stars of the Week: Osarenoma and Jessica

This week, in Maths we have continued our work on plotting points, using co-ordinates on a grid, matching the points to create shape and then translating the shape to a different position. Everyone work extremely hard to make sure the correct points were in the correct place and then carefully move each point left, right, up or down.

In English this week we have been writing our ancient Greek myths. We looked at how we can start the stories in the most exciting and engaging way, by including some onomatopoeia and then describing the battle. Osarenoma and Jessica worked hard to include some great onomatopoeia and support it with some powerful adjectives to describe the battle.