Author: lhenshaw

Dear Class 4 parents,

It was so lovely to meet you all properly this week at the Curriculum Evening!

Please find the slides from the evening below.

Welcome to Year 4’s Curriculum Evening

With many thanks for your continued support,

Mr Henshaw & Janet

Stars of the week: Belen and Masroor

Well done Class 4 for settling back to school so well.

In Maths this week, we refreshed our place value knowledge of 2-digit numbers and moved onto partitioning the numbers into tens and ones. Class 4 worked very hard to partition each number on place value grids and explain what each digit is worth.

In English, we started to plan out our own Viking sagas, and created our own heroes who have to defeat a monster. We discussed what we would like our characters to look like and how we would like them to behave. Next week we are going to set the scene of our saga and think about the major battle that the hero and the monster face.

 

 

We have had such a great year in Class 4, which can be displayed through the various photos below. The children have worked so hard whilst also having a huge amount of fun! Well done Class 4!

 

 

 

Stars of the week: Noella and Ben

This week in D.T., Class 4 have been constructing our pencil cases. They all worked extremely hard to use the different stitches (running stitch, backstitch and whipstitch) to create patterns on their felt, and some started to sew the sides together. Sewing is a very difficult skill to learn so well done to you all for working hard – and most importantly being very patient.

 

In English this week, we have been planning out the final chapter in the Iron Man story. Class 4 have been coming up with an ending to the battle between Iron Man and the spider-bat-angel-dragon, in a bid to save Planet Earth. Ben and Noella came up with some great ideas and considered the shock ending.

Stars of the Week: Alpha and Fintan

This week in English, Class 4 had a dilemma to solve! We had to decide it Iron Man should be punished or protected. We started off by discussing the reasons for each side, and then had a debate to discuss the issues. Class 4 were very respectful of everyone’s opinions, listened intently and showed great maturity, whilst having a heated debate!

The debate helped us to structure our persuasive arguments in a letter form, written to the overall decision maker – Mr Henshaw!

In Maths this week, we have been looking at the different charts we can use to present data. We started by looking at data which can be placed into categories (discrete) such as pictograms and bar charts. Next week we are going to look at the way continuous data can be represented, mainly through line graphs.

 Stars of the Week: Deborah and Rileigh

This week, Class 4 have had a brilliant time taking part in various sport events in school. We started off with a intra-class rounders tournament on Monday and on Wednesday we took part in sports day. All the children had great fun running, skipping and jumping around to represent their coloured teams!  Well done to Deborah and Rileigh who showed sportsmanship, regularly giving a big round of applause to every person/team who took part throughout the week.

Also thank you to all the parents who also took part in the exciting egg and spoon race!

Stars of the week: Amelia and Martha

This week in Class 4, we have started our new class text – the Iron Man. We looked at the different ways that Ted Hughes described the main character, using powerful and imaginative vocabulary, and created a poster of one of the paragraphs. We considered the different types of onomatopoeia that was used to describe Iron Man falling down the cliff, and how Ted Hughes varied the sentence length to keep it exciting and interesting. Amelia and Martha worked very hard to read each sentence, provide inference as to what they mean, and create illustrations to describe the sentences.

Also this week, Class 4 and 5 have a great trip to Westminster School for Science Day. The children got to experience the 3 different sciences in action; with some explosive experiments in chemistry, studying the stars in physics, and exploring the function of our heart in biology. The children were very well behaved and listened brilliantly to all the new knowledge that was given.

 

Stars of the Week: Alphie and Margot

This week in Class 4, we have been looking at different styles of poetry for poetry week! We started with kennings poems, looked at their key features and then had a go at writing our own. Kennings are poems which are written like riddles with two-phrases on each line. Charles worked really hard to plan out his two-word phrases for each line of the kennings and follow the noun-verb format. We linked the kennings to our previous half-term topic which was Ancient Greece.

After writing our kennings, we looked at how we could plan and write our own haiku poems. Haiku poems follow a 5,7,5 syllable pattern through each line. Margot created a brilliant haiku poem about Ancient Greece and even added an extra two lines of 7 syllables to create a tanka poem.

Stars of the Week: All of Class 4. 

Well done to all of Class 4 for your  brilliant collective worship. You all spoke so confidently and clearly and you really showed off how much you have learnt this half-term, especially with Ancient Greece. Well done!

You can view the whole collect worship here -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tnKYX4xFt18ZGJXHeVcfxFqYGGmBeq4x/view?usp=sharing

Also this week, we had a great History Day! In maths, we looked at the number system that the Greeks used and created calculations from these. In English, we looked at the Ancient Greek alphabet and learnt about the meaning behind the different prefixes (such as geo- and anti-) and suffixes (such as -ology and -phobia) that were created from the Ancient Greek language. In the afternoon, the children created their own Parthenon models from paper and they looked brilliant!