28th September, 2018

Another busy week in Year 4 which ended with our class assembly on Friday on St Vincent de Paul.  Well done to all the children on speaking so clearly and acting brilliantly.

In Maths we have finished off our work on rounding and in English, have continued our work on Poetry.

Coach Dugan continued on developing our team work skills…we had great fun searching the school playground and field for clues for a final result which we checked in with Coach Dugan.

It was lovely to watch your teamwork skills of cooperation and decision making in good use.

Homework has been handed out and the focus is on creating your own sound poem.  Any problems, please come in and attend Homework Club on Monday at lunchtime.

 

Have a lovely weekend.

 

 

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21st September

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Our PE lesson – working as a team.  

 

Another busy week has whizzed by!

This week, the children have been enjoying the daily activities to assist their spelling skills.  In Guided Reading we have spent time looking at how earthquakes have formed and learning more about them.  In English our work on poetry has continued and this week, we have started to look at narrative writing using our Tudor topic as a stimulus.  We have started to learn about some of the people who were around during the reign of King Edward VI with our focus on William Sharington. Ask your child to tell you about him and his involvement with the King.

In Maths, we have continued to learn about rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.  The children have developed their understanding and have begun to apply rounding as a skill in contextual questions.

In Science, we have continued with the topic of Sound and in RE we have started to look at a sense of the presence of God in our lives.  The children chatted about what ‘Revelation’ means to them.  IMG_2303IMG_2302

 

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Mrs McNamara       Ms Varga

Do not forget that it is our class assembly on Friday 28th September!

Home Learning is in their home learning books.

E-Books:  Please log on and let your child read an e-book.

The link is: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/reading-owl/library-page       User name is: Year 4 love books    Password:  McNamara

Happy Reading!

 

 

Busy Week

Year 4 has been very busy this week. They have met Alex, the trainee priest from Rome, who is working in the parish for a short while. The children interviewed him and found out that he has met Pope Francis on two occasions.

Children have been introduced to the recorder on Tuesday. We have learnt about pitch, melody and rhythm. We practised how to hold the instrument and played a few sounds, as well. Next week, we are planning to learn 2 new sounds and start working on a simple song.

In Science, children have used instruments again, when investigating the pitch and volume of sounds.

On Friday, children will also have the opportunity to work with Mr Dugan from DAOS as part of their PE lesson.

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A warm welcome to Year 4

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Year 4 have had a great start to the new academic year. We have participated in an Act of Worship, where we reflected on the different talents we bring to our class. We have discussed some ground rules and talked about presentation in books as well as launching our Poetry unit and starting our History topic – the Tudors. We have had our first House Meetings and enjoyed an active Golden time. Well done to all the children, as they have worked hard.

Have a lovely weekend

 

Friday 13th July

Fantastic Year 6 SATS results

Well done to our Year 6 children who have achieved fabulous SATS results. 100% of our children achieved the national expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths. This is a huge achievement and well above the national average of 64%. At present we are waiting for verification of the % of pupils who reached the higher levels in each subject.  Thank you to all the parents and teaching staff who supported the children. A special thanks goes to Miss Donatantonio and Mrs McNamara for their hard work and commitment.

Today all children will receive their end of year reports. We hope you enjoy reading them!

6th July, 2018

 

This week saw Year 4 participate with such enthusiasm in Sports Day!  They truly entered into the  team spirit!

They had their drumming session with Kaz and starting preparing for their display to the parents for next week.

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29th June, 2018

As this month comes to a close, we celebrated today’s feast day with a mass at Our Lady and St Vincent’s Church with Fr Shaun.  Well done to Luca, Luka, Maria, Samuel and Evie who read their bidding prayers so well and well done to Louise, Owen, Giovanna and David who played drums/percussion for the African response.

In Maths this week, we have looked at plotting polygons, and in RE have continued our work on discipleship and the children have written some very creative things on St Peter and Paul.  We have been practising for Sports Day which is on July 6th and a letter has gone home about this special day as we will be having a family picnic at lunchtime.

On Thursday many of the class attended the community mass at Nicholas Breakspear singing with the choir.  The children sang beautifully in front of 450 children and after eating lunch played a game of rounders against St Theresa’s School in Borehamwood.

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Homework this weekend is Mathletics and SPAG. The spellings are the same as last week as many children have found the use of the prefix tricky to remember.

illogical     illegal   disqualify  impatient  illiterate  kind   unkind   illegible impractical  disobey

There seemed to be a problem with SPAG.com so I have reset the homework and apologise for this inconvenience.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the Strawberry Fayre on Sunday!