This week has flown by!

We started our new English unit looking at an old Vietnamese Folk-tale – ‘The Fly and the Fool’ and learnt about the characters – Mr Lo, The Judge, Lo and Lan.  The children worked in partners and their table groups to ensure they understood the story and acted out part of the story as well.  We are continuing with this focus on playscripts next week.  In Mathematics, we learnt about conversion in our topic of Measurement and starting learning more about shapes. In RE we spent time talking about Pope Francs’ teaching on the Joy of Love through his  writing ‘Amoris Laetitia’.

In PE this week, Coach Duggan joined us to assist with our learning and he will be with us this term.  The children had great fun doing a variety of athletic activities.  On Wednesday, the children went to Furzefield for their swimming lesson and a great time was had by all.

As part of a project with Stormont School to enhance our outdoor learning focus we are taking part in an environmental art project with their art specialist Ruth Burgess.  They will be planning and creating willow sculpture to enhance our Peace Garden trellis so we are all excited on seeing their creations in Spring!

So, for Year 4 this term, we have a lot going on and keeping us busy!

I have signed the children onto e-books via the Oxford University:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/  Click on the Class Log in icon.

Their user name is: Year 4 love books   Password: McNamara

Please allow your child to choose a book (from the Aged 7-9 area) and listen to it whilst it is being read.

Homework has also been given to the children.  Please examine their home learning books

If the children have any queries, they can come along to the Monday lunchtime homework club.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McNamara

Doing Measurement Conversion using a place value mat (one of our many resources)

Happy New Year, I hope you had a restful and prayerful holiday. Thank you all very much for your lovely cards and generous gifts.

The children have made a fantastic start to the Spring term. We started the week by reflecting on the 12 days of Christmas and celebrating Epiphany – they have made wonderful Epiphany promises and enjoyed making crowns to wear.

We have been exploring synonyms and antonyms in English and have enjoyed reading The Mousehole Cat in guided reading. In maths we have been exploring what strategies are most effective. Please keep practising your 4 and 6 timetables.

Home learning will begin next week.

Miss Pringle

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The half-term has arrived and this week has been a really busy one with lots of work on our chosen focus country Egypt for One World Week.  It was lovely to see so many of you this morning at our harvest assembly and afterwards in class.

We started the week using picture prompts to help us use description, action, dialogue and rhetorical questions to write some interesting short pieces.  Our Egyptian spellings for the week showed how the children earned stickers by spelling such words as pyramid, hieroglyphics, mummification…!

In Maths we used hieroglyphics to help calculate answers and write our own number sentences.  We baked ‘Cleopatra’s Palace Bread’……..using honey and dried fruit.  Did you sample some when you came today?

The children created their own Egyptian jewellery, created 3D dangling camels, cartoush art and this afternoon had an opportunity to create 3D Egyptian art.

Have a restful half-term.
Miss Varga and Mrs McNamara