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What a week! This week Year 4 have had a busy, hectic schedule which started with sports day. All the KS2 children did amazing in the afternoon sports day race showing camaraderie in their house teams, sportsmanship qualities with just the right amount of competitiveness. KS1 and KS2 children wracked up the points throughout the day for their house teams but their was only one clear winner - Charles Dickens house team.
On Wednesday, Year 4 had their final swimming lesson where they were assessed and awarded certificates. It has been lovley to see the children's confidence grow over the 10 weeks and they have thoroughly enjoyed all the sessions.
The week ended with a bang! On Friday, Year 4 had their Ancient Egyptian Day. Throughout the morning, the children were able to create pyramids out of sugar cubes, spaghetti and marshmallows as well as create heiroglyphics in clay, jewellery out of pasta and card, participate in Ancient Egyptian board games and they even got to play musical mummies. In the afternoon, the children competed in sporting events including the brain and spoon race, wrap the mummy, and organ dash.
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The temperature has been slightly cooler this week which has been a blessing for Year 4, especially as they have just started a new English topic on instructions. The children have learnt the importance of a well structured introduction using questions and interesting facts to draw the reader in; ensuring steps are sequenced in order and have a range of adverbials to state what the reader should do; and to separate items using commas.
In Religious Education, the children have been learning about how Christian's and Humanists view sacrifice and how this is included in their practice, whilst in PSHE they have been developing their understanding of what is a secret and what is not.
As part of our Ancient Egyptian topic, the year group have been researching flatbreads in Design and Technology to see what ingredients were traditionally used in flatbreads during this time period. Children were then able to adapt a recipe with the ingredients of their choice which would be their interpretation of an Ancient Egyptian flatbread.
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This week, Year 4 have finished their independent action stories where they used a range of tools including personification, similes, -ing clauses and wrote how a character was feeling through show not tell vocabulary.
In swimming, the children had a lesson in safety and what to if they were to get caught in water wearing their clothes. The drill involved children jumping in the water with a lightweight top and short bottoms. When in the water, they then had to take the top off without holding onto the sides.
Year 4, have started their new maths topic of statistics. They have been reading pictogram charts and identifying quantities from the different images on the chart. The key to their success was identifying what a picture on the chart was worth and then working it out from there.
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This week in swimming, Year 4 have been learning to perfect their breast stroke. When swimming the children are gaining a better understanding of how to do the breathing cycle technique which follows the rhythm of pull, breathe, kick, glide. The instructors also had a focal point on ensuring the children were doing the frog kick with strength and poise.
In maths, children have started to develop their understanding of symmetry within regular polygons, in English they started to write their independent action story and in French, the children are learning how to name classroom objects using the persessive forms of mon, ma, mes.
WB 2.6.26
Welcome back! The sun blessed us in the half term but our first week back has been a mixture of showers, sun and plenty of work too.
The children have hit the ground running and have started their new maths unit on angles and directions. They have learnt about acute, obtuse, right-angles and straight-line angle. They have seen how turns can be described as angles. For example a one quarter turn is the same as a 90-degree turn.
In English, year 4 have started to write their innovation which consists of a space and portal theme.
The children headed outside for PSHE, where they had to find answers to how someone's behaviour could affect someone. In history, they have continued to learn about ancient Egypt, in particular the different gods and goddesses they worshipped. Children were able to do their own research online about their chosen god and present the information along with an image of their god/goddess.
