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Spring Term
English
Our new text is a brilliant explanation text, called 'Until I Met Dudley', which is a mixture of fiction and non-fiction explanations on how everyday things really work. It provides some funny fantasy explanations, alongside scientific and factual descriptions too. At the end of the unit, we will write our own fiction and non-fiction explanation text about the digestive system!
Maths
In Maths, we are looking at Fractions. We will explore how to add and subtract fractions, how to place fractions on a number line, and how to find equivalent fractions.
RE
Out topic is called 'Galilee to Jerusalem', and we will be looking at historical evidence for Jesus' existence, the parable of the sheep and the goats, and the Nicene Creed.
Humanities
This term, we will be focusing on Geography. Our big question is 'Where does food come from?' - we will be investigating how our food choices impact the environment, what fair trade is, and where we get chocolate from. A very interesting topic!
English - To develop our creative writing skills, we went out on the lovely field and in the outdoor classroom, to write about our senses. We wrote some beautiful paragraphs on what we could hear, see, smell and touch, whilst enjoying the sunshine too!
RE - Stations of the Cross
Art - Today we took on the role of fashion designers, as we used our repeated patterns that we carefully created last week, to design new items of clothes. We had a brilliant time!
Science - In order to develop our classification skills, we went on a hunt around the forest school and the field, to see what living creatures we could find! We saw a range of insects, as well as flowering and non-flowering plants!
Geography - We were lucky enough to have our school chef, Mrs Strickland, come into Year 4 and explain where our school dinners come from, how she chooses the food, and how low food miles influences her choices. We learnt so much, and loved asking her many questions!
Celebrating St Joseph’s Day with some fun stalls and games set up by Year 6!
English - We developed our proof-reading skills by using a dictionary to correct our spellings in our big write!
RE - We joined forces with Year 5 to celebrate St Joseph’s Day! We researched St Joseph and created a fact file all about him. We also designed our own comic strip to show his life story. Next, we created a life size image of Jesus and filled him with all the different names we call him, such as saviour, son of God, Messiah and the good shepherd!
Maths - We loved using our practical resources today to help us with our tenths and hundredths work!
French - Today we explored where countries are in the world, in relation to the equator. We took our learning outside, to make use of our wonderful world map on the playground!
Art - Today we explored techniques to develop imagery. We used view finders to zoom into different parts of animals, and tried to include lots of texture in our art work.
World Book Day!
Science - We went out onto the playground with chalk to create a whole class classification key, before doing the same in class with animals. We then had a classification key race, to see who could classify the animals the fastest!
Geography - Today we worked in groups to create detailed and informative posters all about Responsible Trade!
RE - We took our learning outside today, acting out the story of Peter denying Jesus 3 times. We were able to include so much detail in our performances!
Music - We played our instruments beautifully to the tune of “Let Your Spirit Fly”. We were amazing!
PE - Netball with our specialist teacher, Mr Irish!
Science - To start our new topic of “Living Things and Their Habitats”, we looked at all the different ways we could group ourselves, based on our observable characteristics. We looked at our hair colour and eye colour, then we grouped a variety of animals too. Next, we learnt about mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish, and regrouped our animals again!
English - Today we marked our text, finding a range of conjunctions, prepositions, adjectives and technical vocabulary!
Maths - We started Spring Term 2 off with a bang, using fraction walls to find equivalent fraction families! We were brilliant at this, and were able to use our own fraction walls to independently help ourselves.
Safer Internet Day - Today we looked at a variety of scenarios to see if a scam is happening or not. We talked about how some scams are too good to be true, a contact we did not expect, or when money is asked for.
PE - As we are nearing the end of our Vault lessons, today we were successfully jumping onto some really high vaults, whilst still using excellent technique!
Art - After using wax crayons and black paint last week, today we were able to create some detailed scratch art. We were able to use our repetitive patterns, as well as different sketching techniques, to produce some beautiful artwork!
History - We had lots of fun completing our ‘Historical Source Treasure Hunt’. We went around the classroom, looking at different sources about Alfred the Great. We evaluated their bias, and what information they shared.
English - to kick start National Story Telling Week, we joined a live author talk. We will use this to create our own character and story, focusing on their individual superpower!
On Your Bike - Today we were lucky enough to take part in a bike maintenance workshop!
RE - Today we celebrated the Jubilee Launch Day, where we wrote about the problems we see locally and globally, and how we can use the Catholic Social Teaching Principles to help. We also created our own Cross, and decorated around the theme of this year - ‘Hope’
Computing - We took part in an E-Safety lesson, where we explored what we go online for, what to do when uploading a picture online, and how things stay online forever.
Guided Reading - We are loving using our artefacts from the Museum Service, along with our history books from the library, to create fact files on Anglo-Saxon settlements.
Science - Last week, we set up our experiment in the classroom, where we observed how a range of solid objects melt over time. Today, we looked at our results and wrote up our conclusions and evaluations.
Music - We were lucky enough to have a live music performance today!
Maths - today we looked at informal methods of multiplication. We had a great time drawing base 10 and part whole models on the table to help us!
Maths - We are loving using our practical resources and our place value charts to help us divide 4 and 5 digit numbers by 100!
History - We made our own Anglo-Saxon houses!
RE - Today we found Scripture in the Bible about the different miracles Jesus performed. We then acted them out!
PSHE - Today we discussed our hopes and dreams for the future! We have a class full of future teachers, athletes, musicians, pilots, surgeons, business owners and much more!
PE - We had a brilliant time starting our new Vault unit of work.
Science - To start our new topic, “States of Matter”, we explored 3 different balloons. One was filled with ice, one was filled with water and one was filled with air. We had a great time discovering their properties and differences!
Art - Today we were inspired by the work of Ed Ruscha, and we created our own tonal ribbon sketches.
