Spirituality Week: Monday, 18th May

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Spirituality Week 2020

Theme: The God who speaks

Monday, 18th May

The God who speaks through Creation

Tuesday, 19th May

The God who speaks at prayer stations

Wednesday, 20th May

The God who speaks through scripture

Thursday,  21st May

The feast of the  Ascension

Friday, 22nd May

The God who speaks through prayer

Monday 18th May  

The God who speaks through Creation..

Today is the start of our annual Spirituality week and the theme for this year is “The God who speaks.”

To begin our special week we are going to think and remember each other and look forward to when we can all see each other again in school.

We pray for each other today and remind ourselves that God loves us all and we are his unique creation.

God speaking through creation or the natural world means that when we look up at the stars or gaze at the bluebells, we see the fingerprints of God. The more we fix our eyes on the wonder of creation, the more we must conclude that these things could not make themselves.

Read by Liam, one of our Liturgy Leaders

 

Class Teachers to lead:

Remember your class friends today

“God loves you very much and you are his unique creation. Listen as you hear the names of all your class read out”.

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Reception

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Activity One

Draw a large bubble on a piece of paper with the words “God Loves you” Then, write the names of everyone in your class inside hearts around the bubble.

Activity Two

Look at the power points of God’s Creation and God’s creation in Potters Bar.

Read the poem.

Poem read by Oliwia, one of our Liturgy Leaders

 

God who made the earth

By Sarah Bett Rhodes

 

God who made the earth,

The air, the sky, the sea

Who gave the light its birth,

Careth for me.

God who made the grass.

The flower, the fruit, the tree,

The day and night to pass.

Careth for me.

God who made the sun,

The moon, the star, is he

Who, when life’s clouds come on,

Careth for me.

 

 

Write a prayer entitled ‘God is Glorious’.  Here is an example to help you.

 

God is glorious in the falling of the green oak leaf.

God is Glorious in the rainbow in the evening sky.

God is glorious in the blackbird singing in the spring air.

 

REFLECTION ON MY DAY

How am I feeling at the end of today?

What have I most enjoyed today?

What am I thankful for today?

When was I most peaceful today?

What are my hopes for tomorrow?

 

Monday, 18th May, 2020

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Good Morning Year 4!

We hope that you have had a wonderful weekend. As always, we love to see what you have been doing.

This week is a very special week. It is our Spirituality week! We have lots of lovely activities for you to do each day, which will make our week a little different and enjoyable. The Year 6 House Captains and Liturgy Leaders have worked hard to assist with this, so we send them a special thank you too.

Our Science experiment progressed very well since Friday. Make sure you see the pictures of our eggs and what happened to them, by looking at the PowerPoint. You can complete your science table in your books when you are ready. Don’t forget to let us know how your experiment went, if you did it yourselves!

It is also Week 5, which means that on Friday it will be half term! So, one more week of hard work, and you can have a whole week of well-deserved rest!

We want you to share your learning with us and tell us what special things you have been doing at home on your own or with your family.  Keep posting!

A reminder: you can keep in contact with us by sending an email to: year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk.

Continue to try your best in doing your learning each day. Remember, read through each activity for today’s learning and keep your handwriting neatly presented as you complete each task.

Let’s see what some of you got up to on Friday:

Space Beeping (1)  William G explored the music app – listen to his space composition

Many of you enjoyed listening to Peter and the Wolf.  Here is a link to a you tube clip of Peter and the Wolf where you will recognise many of the people on it. Have a LOOK!

Here’s some of Fabian’s observations:

Click here for today’s learning

You need this information today to help you:

Spelling Sheet Aid Week 5

Poetry Links – Click below and choose a poem to read/listen to/learn by heart!

Poetry Links

https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/

https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/

Science PowerPoint

Spirituality Week  Click on the link on our blog to take you to Monday’s Spirituality

 

Wednesday Word – 6th Sunday of Easter (A)

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Each week, a Year 6 Liturgy Leader will be guiding you through the Wednesday Word. Take the time to follow it as a family and reflect on each Sunday’s Gospel reading.

This week, Elysia has prepared a beautiful powerpoint to take you through yesterday’s Gospel. Click here to open it.

Friday, 15th May, 2020

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Good morning Year 4!

Well, we have seen such a wonderful array of birthday cakes this week – I hope that Fabian, Alice and Darcie-Louise still have some birthday cake left to nibble on today!  Your parents have clearly ensured that they have found creative ways so that you have had a fabulous day during this time.  Judging by your early morning photos, it seems as if you have had special breakfasts that include seeing your cake!  Lucky you!

It has been wonderful to hear that you had fun with your science experiment this week – make sure that you keep daily observations on what is happening!  Lots of you are working hard on developing your understanding of decimals, improving your handwriting and lots more.  Joseph has also shared his lovely altar.

Keep posting – it is lovely to see all that is going on at home and how hard you are all working.  Experimenting, competing, celebrating, practising your handwriting, mastering work on decimals…well done!

 

Have a great day of learning today!

Click here for yesterday’s answers.

Click here for today’s learning.

Resources that you need for today’s learning:

computing and music

Science Observations UPDATED   Click here

Olympic ChallengeOlympic Challenge       English Writing Challenge

 

Maths: Activity 1 here and Video 1    Click here for the answers

Activity 2 Click here   Video 2      Click here for the answers

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 14th May, 2020

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Good Morning Year 4!

We start today wishing another member of our class Darcie-Louise a Happy 9th Birthday!  We wish her a great day ahead!  What a fabulous Haribo gravity defying cake Darcie-Louise!

Let’s see some of the news we received from you yesterday….

Our first email of the day arrived from Cian.  He created a beautiful, reflective altar and explained why these special items were placed on it.  The colourful cross was from his First Holy Communion and his Nan gave him the rosary beads which mean a lot to him as they came from the Holy Land. The Bible is his mum’s – a present she brought back from Australia. The two special candles were received at his brother Joshua’s and his own Communion celebrations.  To complete the look, Cian has been allowed to use his mum’s best tablecloth!  Next week is Spirituality Week and to prepare for this special week, it would be lovely to see if you could prepare your own altars in a special place in your homes.

Ellie has been busy too…not only completing her learning but she has made a birds house that has an apple, apricot and small pieces of a cookie at the bottom of it.  We hope that many birds visit it.

Freddie has also been busy getting stuck into his English – Keep up the great work!

I have also been spending time outside in my garden in the early part of the evenings and at the weekends taking photos of birds nearby and the moon (early evenings and at night time).

We hope that you got to set up your experiment for our science investigation.  Each day, do observe what is happening to your eggs in vinegar/water/orange/coca-cola.  Well done to William who has set up his experiment at home!

Click here to see what has been noticed so far.  This ppt will be updated regularly.

Click here for the answers to yesterday’s learning.

Click here for today’s learning.   Click here for your English task

 

Maths Learning for today: 

Activity 1 and Video 1 Click here for the worksheet     click here for the answers

Activity 2 and Video 2   Click here for the worksheet       click here for the answers

Keep posting!

 

Class email:  year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk

Wednesday, 13th May, 2020

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Good Morning Year 4!

Again, it has been lovely to hear from you and see what you have been up to.

Yesterday was a very special day for Fabian and Alice as they celebrated their 9th birthdays! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to both of them!   Alice’s cake is Swallow from the Swallow and Amazon books.  Fabian’s cake has his favourite fruit raspberries and strawberries.  Both cakes look yum!

         

We hope that you find this mornings prayer information interesting, as it is about Our Lady of Fatima, when Our Lady visited children of your age and younger, and spoke to them, exactly 103 years ago! How amazing that must have been for them!

Today is a great day for our Science work! It is experiment time, and we know that you love these activities. If you have been able to get hold of what you need to join in and do your own experiment, that’s great! Don’t worry if you haven’t, as we will be posting daily updates showing you what is happening with our experiment.

Also, how are you getting on with the Olympic Challenges?  We are now on Day 8.  Make sure you take part – keeping your body active!!

Continue to keep us up to date on your learning and about anything else you would like to share.

A reminder: you can keep in contact with us by sending an email to: year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk.

Continue to try your best in doing your learning each day. Remember, read through each activity for today’s learning and keep your handwriting neatly presented as you complete each task.

Here’s what some of you have been up to: Thank you to Manus, William and Fabian for their photos.

 

Manus also emailed his contraption: Cleaner 30! A contraption that can clean almost anything!

      Advisor to the King by Manus (click here to read it)

Click here for the answers for yesterday’s learning.

Click here for today’s learning.  Have a lovely day!

Here’s what the Science Experiment looks like!

 

Tuesday, 12th May, 2020

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Good Morning Year 4!

Again, it has been lovely to hear from you and see what you have been doing.  We want you to share your learning with us and tell us what special things you have been doing at home on your own or with your family, so please get in touch.

Let’s see what news you have for us from yesterday:

Freddie’s friend decorated a stone with a special message and left it for Freddie to pick up – a thoughtful act of kindness from a lovely friend.

Many of you spent time on Friday enjoying the VE Day celebrations:

Nabira continues to enjoy her local area and complete her daily learning.

Last week, many of you enjoyed the French work on time and we have more of that for you to learn today!  Also, we have some lovely RE work for you about Our Lady, Mary, as it is her special month of May.

A reminder: you can keep in contact with us by sending an email to: year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk.

Continue to try your best in doing your learning each day. Remember, read through each activity for today’s learning and keep your handwriting neatly presented as you complete each task.

Before you start today’s learning, click here for yesterday’s answers.

Before you begin today’s learning, we want to wish Fabian a Happy 9th Birthday!!

Fabian been busy making another birthday cake. This time he helped his mum  to make a cake for himself! From the photograph it looks like he is going to be busy building his new lego!
Have a great day Fabian!

Click here for today’s learning.    Don’t forget!  It’s Day 7 of  Miss Pringles Olympic Challenge : today you will see Ms Dunning and I having a go too!

Resource for RE: click here

 

Monday, 11th May, 2020

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Good Morning Year 4!

 

 

Welcome back after a long weekend.  We hope that you had time to celebrate VE Day with your family.  Did many of you have your own garden parties?  I made bunting which I put up outside my house and we had scones and tea in the garden.  Did you hear the Queen’s Speech?

Ms Dunning and I hope that you are finding the work we are setting on the class page manageable. Whilst it is important that you try your best to keep up, we understand that every family’s situation is different, with sharing of laptops, slow wi-fi, younger children to cater for, home working for adults and so on.

We have seen some amazing work from all of you in the class and it is lovely to have emails from you too.  Keep on posting your work!

Have a lovely week of learning!

Mrs McNamara and Ms Dunning

Here’s what you got up to on Thursday:

Darcie-Louise designed her poster and solved the VE Day wordsearch.  Nabira had fun in the park enjoying the sunshine!

There are a lot of great activities for you to do today, including History.

Before you start, click here for the answers from last Thursday’s work.

A reminder: you can keep in contact with us by sending an email to: year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk.

Continue to try your best in doing your learning each day. Remember, read through each activity for today’s learning and keep your handwriting neatly presented as you complete each task.

Click here for today’s learning.

 

Try out this Horrible Histories Song: Divorced, Beheaded, Survived! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 7th May, 2020

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Good Morning Year 4!

As tomorrow is a bank holiday, no learning will be uploaded. However, tomorrow is a VERY important day.  Tomorrow, Friday 8th May, people all over the UK and in other countries of the world will turn their thoughts and attention to the 75th anniversary of VE day. This very important and historical day, back in 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe. You have been focusing your learning on VE day this week.  I have put together a range of activities for you to try on a project planner – choose as many activities as you want to! There is something for all ages so have a go and don’t forget to share your learning! Have a wonderful day celebrating.

At 9am on 8th May, The Queen will address the nation and there will be a live stream on BBC – which is the exact same time that her father, King George VI, spoke to the UK 75 years ago, on the actual VE Day.

At 11am there will be a two minute silence to remember and thank those who fought for our freedom.

Send onto me pictures of the things that you do!!

Let’s have a look at what you have been up to:  thank you to Phoebe, Lottie, Darcie-Louise and William for posting photos to share their learning with you.  Great postcards!  Telling the time in french and preparing for a VE Tea party – great work!

Click here for the resources to assist you for today’s learning:

VE-Day-project planner Year 4

VE Day At home party pack recipes and ideas

VE DAY powerpoint

Click here for today’s learning   Click here for yesterday’s answers.here

Maths : focus on decimals

Activity 1 and Video 1                      Click here for worksheet        here for answer sheet

 

If you find this a challenge try Video 2 and Activity sheet 2 below

Click here for worksheet and here for the answer sheet

Wednesday, 6th May, 2020

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Good Morning Year 4!

Again, it has been lovely to hear from you and see what you have been up to.  Thank you for keeping in touch. Before you settle down into doing today’s work, don’t forget to look at the answers for the tasks you completed yesterday and if you did not complete the challenge for the RE task, take a look at the comparison between the Gospel’s of Matthew and Luke’s accounts of the resurrection. The differences are very interesting! As today is Wednesday, the Wednesday Word is now available online. Click here. 

We hope that you enjoy today’s work that has been set, including the science task today! See below details of things that you will need for next week’s activity. ep in contact with us by sending an email to: year4@popepaul.herts.sch.uk.

Let’s see what you have been up to:

Megan enjoyed doing the body percussion activity and wanted to share this with you:

Fabian is sharing more of his culinary successes: a birthday cake that was made for his dad and pizza making with his sister!

 

Nabira and her family are celebrating Ramadam and she has been fasting too.

William and Lola enjoyed the time work for French today.

Lola has been working hard on her contraption and art work.  She thought of two contratptions: one is a hot air balloon that helps carry your water bottle up to you if you sleep in a bunk bed saving you having to get out of bed and the second idea is a spinning wheel t hat helps decide on what chores you have to do for the day!!  I think that we could all do with these!

Keep posting everyone!

Click here for the answers from yesterday’s learning.  Maths Learning 1 and2 (support)

Click here for today’s learning.  Click here  for the Wednesday Word.

Here are some resources to assist you in your English activity on writing a postcard:

Word Mat – VE day          Fact cards – VE Day

Click  here to try Day 3’s Olympic Challenge!

Maths Learning for today:

Video 1    Divide 1 or 2 digit numbers by 100.  Click here for the worksheet.  Click here for the answers.

Video 2   Support: Tenths on a number line   Click here  for the worksheet.  Click here for the answers.

VIDEO 1

 

 

VIDEO 2

 

A Reminder for next week:

Next week, in our Science task, our task will be focusing on an EXPERIMENT! The experiment is about how eggshells react to different liquids.  We will be putting eggs in different liquids to see what will happen. The material that eggshells are made from is a little bit like our teeth, so it will be interesting to see what will happen! If you would like to do the experiment yourselves, you will need to be prepared. You may have these things at home or you may want to get them so that you can do the experiment.

You will need 3 eggs (you can use more), 3 liquids. Vinegar would be ideal and any 2 other liquids of your choice such as Coca-Cola, lemon juice, orange juice, milk and water. If you cannot do the experiment, don’t worry. We will be posting pictures daily, to help you keep a record of what happens over time.