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Headteacher: Liz Heymoz
Baker Street,
Potters Bar,
Hertfordshire
EN6 2ES
Tel: 01707 659755
Fax: 01707 665431
Email: admin@popepaul.herts.sch.uk
Baker Street,
Potters Bar,
Hertfordshire
EN6 2ES
Tel: 01707 659755
Fax: 01707 665431
Email: admin@popepaul.herts.sch.uk
Friday, 24th November 2023
/1 Comment/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week, the children in Year 4 had multiple opportunities to learn whilst having fun. On Monday, the choir spent the day at the Royal Albert Hall, whilst any remaining children worked on a clever, open ended Maths problem with Year 5 and 6 pupils, made props for our upcoming KS2 Advent service and finally […]
Friday, 17th November 2023
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week, as part of Anti-Bullying week, we have focussed on race, racism and what it means to be anti-racist. We discussed key terms and cleared misconceptions before discussing scenario cards to gain understanding of acts of racism whereby a person treats another unfairly due to their race. Later on, we have participated in a […]
Friday, 10th November 2023
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week, the children in Year 4 moved onto formal written methods for addition in their Maths learning, using place value counters to represent number sentences and check their regroupings for ones, tens and hundreds. In English, they have written paragraphs using figurative language to describe setting before creating detailed story maps using our shared […]
Friday, 3rd November 2023
/1 Comment/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceAlthough the weather wasn’t the best, the children had a lovely, active week back after Half term. In Maths, the class moved onto mental strategies for addition and subtraction and learnt about ‘Think 10/100/1000’ and ‘equal sum’ as two new useful methods to add 3 and 4 digit numbers. In English, we started our new […]
Friday, 19th October 2023
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceIt is the end of our first half term. All the children have settled into Year 4 and it has been wonderful to speak to you at parents evening to celebrate their achievements so far. This week was One World Week and we learnt about Colombia. The class used atlases, globes and Google Earth to […]
Friday, 13th October 2023
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 this week continued their learning of rounding whole numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000, identifying key benchmark numbers along the way and later applying their understanding in missing number problems. In English, the children edited their final narratives for punctuation and sentence structure before writing them up in […]
Friday, 6th October 2023
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 moved on to number magnitude and rounding in Maths. They investigated different number lines and identified benchmark numbers to help them understand the relative size of numbers in relation to these benchmarks. They also used number lines to round 3 and 4 digit numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. […]
Friday, 29th September 2023
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThis week, the children in Year 4 continued their Maths learning of Place Value by looking at number magnitude and rounding. In English, they have participated in a rainbow group writing activity, where they have written engaging paragraphs in ‘newspaper style’ warning residents of the evil Spider and his cunning plan. In RE, the class […]
Friday, 22nd September 2023
/0 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 consolidated their understanding of Place value and looked at various ways to practice their multiplication facts. In English, they have written diary entries from a new character’s point of view recalling key events from our class book, The Spider and the Fly before revising speech punctuation as their grammar focus. […]
Friday, 15th September 2023
/2 Comments/in Year 4, Year 4 Archive /by Margaret JoyceThe children in Year 4 this week looked at Place value as part of their Maths learning, focusing on representation. They played strategic games to create 4 digit numbers and reason about their game using specific mathematical vocabulary. In English, the class worked on writing an effective advertisement in M&S style to promote the often […]