In Maths this week we have been revisiting all our learning over the last 6 weeks. In English we wrote our newspaper reports and published them. In RE we wrote our own 10 commandments. For Science we finished our topic with food chains and sang our song 'Hey Mr Miller' for the Grandparents Tea Party. Happy half term!

We have had a busy week preparing for our Year group assembly, which was good if we don't say so ourselves! In Maths we have been learning the grid method for multiplication. In English we have been looking at fact or fiction and direct/indirect speeh for newspaper reports. For Science we did an experiment for learning about the digestive process, which was very messy!

This week we worked with Kim our resident artist and decorated our clay tiles using a variety of slips. In English we wrote a recount of our experiences during the sessions with Kim, reflecting on our learning process. In Maths we have been learning our 3, 6, 4 and 8 timestables, looking at the divisions too. In Science we have labelled a body with the different organs found in the digestive system. In RE we have been thinking about sacred items that you might find.

This week we have had the opportunity of working with Kim our resident artist and the first session of clay tile making. In English we have been looking at Newspapers and the features you find in a report. In Maths we have been subtracting. In Topic we have creating time lines and researching in computing the definitions of words. Foe Science we wrote our conclusion for our experiment. Check out the 'Fig Gallery' for photos.

It has been a busy week in Fig class. We had the opportunity of piloting a demo called 'Press and Play' where we combined drama with listening to a story; this was linked to our topic 'Anglo-Saxons'. In computing we researched questions on 'Anglo-Saxons'. For Art we designed our tiles ready to put onto clay tiles with resident artist Kim next week. In Maths we have been continuing with place value and adding numbers. In English, we wrote a police report on a character witness from 'Tuesday'. In Science we set up an experiment with eggs in different liquids to see which liquid would cause the most tooth decay. Finally, in RE we have been looking at Jesus and creating a CV.

This week in English we have been studying the text 'Tuesday', as detectives we have been asking questions to characters from the text and finding evidence ready to write our police reports next week. In Maths we have been looking at place value. In Science we made our own set of teeth and learnt about the different types of teeth. In Art we learnt how to create a wash in watercolours and in RE we have begun our topic on Christianity.

Welcome to Fig class 2019 - 2020!

It's been a wonderful first week at school, getting to know the children and the class getting to know us too. This week we have created our class charter, written our targets for the year ahead, designed our title page for our new topic 'Anglo-Saxons' and thought about vocabulary for our Science topic 'Animals Including Humans'.

This week we had a fantastic STEM day where the whole school were involved in activities linked around Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

This week has been assessment week so we have been really busy showing all our progress from the year of learning.

This week we have written a letter in English using the text 'The Peddlar of Swaffam'. In Maths we have been continuing with subtraction and addition looking at near multiples. We had a fantastic first swimming lesson for PE this week. In RE we celebrated Ramadan. In Science we looked at food chains. 

In English we have been writing fact files on Sir Francis Drake and then published them in computing. In maths we have been looking at subtracting and adding. 

This week we published our newspaper reports for Space Bat Angel Dragon. In Maths we have been multiplying. In Science we are looked at the digestive system. In computing we have been coding. Finally in RE we are continuing with Judaism.

We have had a busy week in Fig class. In Maths we have been looking at temperature on different number lines. In English over the last two weeks we are studying the text 'Iron Man' and writing character analyses. We have also planned a story ready for writing on where the Space Bat Angel Dragon came from. In Science we are learning about 'Animals Including Humans' with the focus this week being our digestive system. For our topic in RE we are looking at Judaism and special celebrations linked to the passover. 

This week in Maths we have been learning about equivalent fractions. In English we have written our recount for our 'mud walk' from last week. In Design and Technology we have designed a shaky hand game linked to our  Science topic 'Electricity'. We created our own art pieces for celebrating 'Holi' this week.

Our class trip to Creekside Development Centre for a mud walk was the highlight this week. We had a fantastic time walking in the creek and learning about the history of Deptford. Furthermore, we found plenty of river creatures and learnt about artefacts form times gone by that had been found in the creek. Check out the photos in our gallery. Did you know From the mid-16th to the late 19th century, Deptford was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first Royal Navy Dockyard.

It has been a whirlwind fun with 'Book Week and World Book Day' this week. With a Waterstones visit on Monday and each picking a book with the book vouchers we were given. World Book day on Thursday, where we dressed up as our favourite book characters and had a parade. In English we made a mini setting with a matchbox around the narrative of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'; then we wrote expanded noun phrases for the setting. In Art we have been making pressprints and relief printing blocks' with the starting point of Trees and the Environment linked to our 'Recycling' topic. Finallly, in Maths we have been learning about decimals. Phew!

A new half term! This week we have been looking at the text 'Until I Met Dudley', this is an explanation text, we have had great fun thinking about the features of an explanation text and explaining how a cat feeding machine works. In Maths we have been dividing and multiplying 10 and 100 by whole numbers and decimals. In Art we ventured into the playground and we sketching our the trees in our environment, ready for thinking about patterns to use for our printing. 

In English this week we have been writing diary recounts for our text 'Bill's New Frock'. For Maths we have been learning short division (bus stop method). In PSHE we have been thinking about our character traits and writing positive things about ourselves. For RE we have continued thinking about Buddhism and designed our own shrines.

Happy New Year! Our new topic this term is Recycling and the Environment which we were eager to start. In maths this week we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes and had fun making different 3D shapes using straws and playdough. Futhermore, we have looked at irregualr and regular polygons. We have started a new text Tuesday, this is a fabulous picture book. Fig have been detectives looking for evidence throughout the book so that we can write a police report and newspaper report on the unnatural occurrences that happened in the text, over the next two weeks. In Science we have started the topic Electricity. 

We had a lovely week in Fig class; with the trip to Bromley Theatre to see Cinderella, making Christmas cards and the Life Bus too. In Maths we finished our learning on chunking and our newspaper report in English.

 

This week we have been looking at the features of newspaper reports, for writing our own next week around The Firework Maker's Daughter. In Maths we have been looking at dividing. In Art we made some Christmas decorations and in RE we have continued to learn about Sikhism.

 

It has been a week of assessments, Fig class have worked extremely hard and all are making good progress. #proudteacher

We had a fantastic year group assembly on Friday and impressed all with our learning. In English we have been looking at character profiles from 'The Firework Maker's Daughter' and have been continuing with multiplying using the grid method in Maths.

 

Fig class have been writing our recounts in English all about the visit to the Chocolate Museum, using the grid method in Maths for multiplication and creating our poppy art using the milk pastel method. We had an Indian dance workshop and there were plenty of movers and groovers in the class. Finally we practised for our class assembly which is next Friday. 

 

We have had a creative week in Fig class. On Tuesday we visited the chocolate museum in Brixton, which was an amazing trip where we made chocolates and learnt about the history of chocolate. Please check out the photos in our gallery. On Wednesday we made a heart as part of our learning about WW1 and discussed our thoughts around why the war happened. On Thursday we made Christmas crafts  with our lovely PTA and Friday our thoughts were with the men and women who enabled us to keep our freedom.

 

 

Welcome to Autumn 2! Fig class have had a great week with a WW1 drama workshop on Monday where we were introduced to a WW1 soldier. This led us into our English learning, where we wrote WW1 poems called 'The Lone Soldier'; with our starting point being a black and white photograph of a soldier on a battlefield. Art&Design is all about WW1 too, where we have designed our own poppies on a contemporary background. Maths has been all about doubling and halving whole numbers, with Mr Greenwood introducing us to estimating numbers on different number lines. Sikhism is our focus for RE this half term, just a thought, did you know that it is the newest religion? Only 500 years old!  Finally, Fig have started the journey of coding in computing, this week we have been learning to create our own settings with moving objects. Check out on the photos in our Fig Photo Gallery. Phew, until next week...

 

We cannot believe that half term is nearly upon us and another busy week in Fig class. Our trip to Waterstones  on Wednesday was fantastic, hearing two chapters from a book about a dragon with a chocolate heart and designing a chocolate bar. In class we finished, edited and published our letters to the supermarkets about saying 'No to palm oil' and painted our Aztec pots. With parents' evening and Grandparents' Tea Party, it has been quite a week.

Happy half term!

 

It was assessment week in year 4 and we'll be carrying out assessments in English, reading, spelling and maths to see just how well we are all doing and where are learning is going next.

We had a fantastic Science afternoon where we made our own paper spinners and tested how quickly they would drop to the ground, depending on the weight of the paper clips. In Art we had our own pinch pots ready for painting our Aztec designs on next week.

In RE we learnt about the bible and how many books are within the New and Old Testaments as well as the names of each book. 

 

Another busy week in Fig where we became advertising experts; not only did we finish writing our adverts for our chocolate bar wrappers but we also recorded them on the ipad.  In Maths we consolidated our learning on subtraction, making sure we were secure on exchanging from other columns. A tricky business however lots of smiles by the end of the week.

 

We have had a fantastic week of learning in Fig class. Column subtraction has been our maths focus and we had a fabulous lesson with Mr Greenwood where we made cubes from nets and created our own 1000 sticks. Please visit the gallery to see our creations. In English we have been learning about advertising and have planned our adverts for our chocolate wrappers which we made in Art. Science was all about experiments, where we investigated whether gas has weight and if gas could be made from a solid and a liquid. Again visit the Fig photo gallery to observe our findings! For PE we are learning golf skills, there are some very good golfers in our class!

We have had a fantastic week, learning how particles move for our Science topic 'States of Matter'. Monday was 'Meet the teacher' where we discussed the trips for the year. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is helping us to write character descriptions and think about using conjunctions in our writing. For maths we have been adding using the column method and unpicking word problems.

*Monday are Tuesday are staff training days*

Welcome back to school! We hope you had a great summer and are feeling refreshed. This week in year 4 we'll be settling back in, getting new lockers and sorting out targets for the year.