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St Joseph'sCatholic Primary & Nursery School
Summer Term
English
For the first half term, we will be exploring the poem 'Brother Eagle, Sister Sky'. We will explore how persuasive features are used throughout this book, and will work together to put on a whole class performance of the poem, focusing on our prosody, fluency and expression. We will then write our own free-verse poem, focusing on endangered animals.
Maths
We will be learning many interesting topics this term, such as money, time, shape, statistics and position and direction. We will also continue to work hard on our times tables, ready for the Multiplication Tables Check in June!
RE
Our next topic is 'To the Ends of the Earth'. We will look at a range of Bible stories, different Saints, the Apostles' Creed and Mary.
Humanities
For the first half term, our focus is History, where we will explore our big question 'How did the achievements of the ancient Maya impact their society and beyond?' - within this, we will look at their settlements in the rainforest, their city states, and their inventions.
DT - What a fantastic morning! We used all our techniques from previous lessons, and sewed our Egyptian collars, using cross stitch, running stitch and appliqué. We showed a brilliant positive attitude, even when we found it a little tricky, and our finished products are amazing!
RE - Today we worked with Year 5, using the Chromes to research the organisation “Expect the Unexpected”, and how they follow in Jesus’ footsteps.
English - We looked at our new class book today, called The Whale. We loved looking through the fantastic illustrations, and we drew our own story maps to retell the book!
Maths - We enjoyed going onto the playground to learn all about different turns. We explored what clockwise and anti-clockwise means, as well as quarter turns, half turns, three quarter turns and a full turn.
Science - We emptied out the music cupboard to explore what ‘high pitch’ and ‘low pitch’ means, and what kind of shapes and sizes create those pitches. Next, we explored the different pitches our rulers made, and how the shape impacts the pitch. We then discussed what their sound waves would look like, and enjoyed copying these movements with our arms!
Maths - We have completed our final lesson on Time, where we answered a range of tricky reasoning and problem solving questions, converting 24 hour time to 12 hour digital time! We have worked so hard with this, and whilst it was something we found a little tricky, we never gave up! Excellent effort Year 4.
DT - Today, we very carefully cut out the base of our Egyptian collar, as well as all the patches we will use for our appliqué. We used the designs that we created last week to guide us, and used special scissors to help us cut through the material. We persevered when we found it a little tricky, showing excellent resilience!
English - Last week, we worked very hard to write our own free verse, persuasive poem about endangered animals. Today, we performed them in small groups, and then to the class, focusing on our fluency, pace and expression.
History - This afternoon, we have designed our own Ancient Maya city states, carefully considering where the palace, plaza, pyramids, temples and farms would be. We had some fantastically detailed maps!
History - We took on the role of archivists, and explored a range of Ancient Maya inventions. We sorted and categorised them, whilst discovering how we still use them today!
PE - As part of our multi-skills unit of work, today we developed our ball control, taking part in lots of different activities.
Maths - We worked hard this morning to convert times from analogue clocks into digital clocks.
DT - We started off our new DT topic by learning how to sew! We worked on our running stitch, cross stitch and appliqué, ready to create our own Egyptian collars later on in the term. Well done Year 4!
PE - Tennis in the sunshine!
Science - We explored how sounds travel through different mediums today, as we travelled around our vibration stations! We took part in a variety of activities, such as understanding how string telephones work, exploring the phrase ‘keep your ear to the ground’, using a glass against a door to hear the other side, and putting our heads on our desk and scratching the other side. We had a brilliant time!
Music - We were lucky enough to take part in a ukulele lesson today, taught by a specialist music teacher! We will have this every week, and we can’t wait to see how much we improve.
RE - After listening to the scripture John 20, we each drew a scene from the story on a paper plate. We then put all the paper plates together, to create one big picture, showing the resurrection of Jesus!
English - We started rehearsing for our poetry performance today! We worked in small groups to learn a section of Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, focusing on our fluency, expression, pace and volume.
Computing - Today we programmed our screen turtle to move in different directions!
Maths - We started our Money topic today by getting out our pretend coins to help us create different amounts, and add two amounts together! We worked very hard and improved our understanding a lot.
