This week has flown by!  We’ve been part of the audience watching the Year 6 production of Bugsy Malone on Tuesday which we really enjoyed and also the Guitar concert on Wednesday morning.  Well done to Elysia, Evie, Matthew A, Matthew D, Maks, Nick and Samuel on their wonderful performances.  Each of them has shown such progress from the start of the year. Congratulations! The children played their guitars with such confidence – the audience of children and family members clearly enjoyed the tunes played.

This week we have continued with our Maths learning – looking at Roman Numerals at the start of the week and investigating different types of triangles (Isosceles, Right-angled, Scalene).  It was great to hear the children discuss the various sizes of angles (obtuse, acute and right-angled).

In English we are writing up our Narratives using description to add more meaning and dialogue to bring the story alive.

In RE we have looked at the importance of the Martyrs and examined the Gospel for this Sunday’s Mass – The birth of John the Baptist.

In Drumming we have been preparing a special song to sing and perform at St Peter and Paul’s Mass on Friday.

Click below for our spellings this week: Spellings for unit 10 HW

Maths – Log onto your Mathletics account – complete the activities on angles and types of triangles.  I encourage your child to sit at the computer with a pencil and paper and use them to assist in answering the questions given.

Topics covered are: angles, triangles etc..

Log onto Oxford Owl and try reading one of the books from the bookshelf.

Log in details are:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/?selLanguage=en&mode=hub

Log in: Year 4 loves books

Password: McNamara

Happy Reading!

This week has been a busy one ending with a wonderful afternoon with Mass and the Blessed Sacrament procession to Our Lady and St Vincent’s church.
On top of the usual curriculum work, we have been preparing in our RE,  activities based around the Blessed Sacrament. During our class worship the children have been very reflective and have recognised the many words that are used such as Holy Communion, Eucharist, Blessed Sacrament, Tranformed, etc…

On Friday morning, the children have begun the first of their lessons for the remainder of the summer term in drumming. The sound of the drums showed its popularity with the children as they were able to create an unusually wide range of pitches and learnt that the sounds were created by striking different areas of the djembe skin with their hands.

Homework is:
English – to write up a newspaper article based on the mass and procession that they were part of.
Maths – log onto Mathletics
Spag – this will be the grammar homework for the next two weeks as it is a Grammar paper for the children to complete.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs McNamara

This week, we started off with Grandparents Day and the school was buzzing with proud children excited that their grandparents were in their school!

The children had their weekly tennis lesson and have continued making their poppies for the carnival on Sunday 10^th June.  They have made their stencils for their t-shirts which they will be using in their t-shirt workshop when they return to school after the half-term. In English we have continued to learn about the characters in The Runaways and in Maths the children have worked REALLY hard on developing their understanding of division. We even had assistance from some of the Year 6 boys which was a delight to watch!  Their interaction with the children meant that they could share their understanding of this difficult concept.

As it has been Spirituality Week, the children have spent time thinking about the importance of their family and God’s love for them.  The children met with their Year 2 prayer partners and received special prayers that the children had written for them. On Thursday, with the help of the Year 6 children, the class took part in various prayer stations which they enjoyed: ‘God’s Words’, the ‘Bubble Station’, ‘God’s Creation’ etc..were some of the stations they visited.

On Friday, following the Year 6’s assembly on The Family, we had an act of worship in the classroom in which some of our parents came and participated in.  Our focus was to create a class book that contains all the children’s family prayers written in the morning. It was a lovely ending to an uplifting week.

Have a lovely half-term.

Mrs McNamara and Miss Varga

Homework for the half-term is for the children to design the cover for the Summer Fayre.  Happy drawing!