This week we have continued with our SEN surgeries in school. This is where the teachers and the SEND team meet to discuss the children who need or may need extra support to achieve in school. We are proud of the progress that all our children make in our school and especially those for whom it is much more challenging to reach National Standards of attainment.  

Our new, exciting creative curriculum is being seen in school and the Year 6 cohort had a fantastic time at Shrek's Adventure this week, which supported their learning of fairy tales as part of the English Curriculum. It certainly inspired our children to write some grim tales!

I spoke to the children this week about our new school values and we played a game in assembly, where we discovered how we can demonstrate our values around school and outside our school. It is important our children understand the values and how they can demonstrate them in their actions. I'm hoping you may find your children a little more polite this week towards you!

Many thanks to the FOP for organising and supporting the bouncy castle this afternoon and raising much-needed funds for the school. Please do collaborate and decide your class reps and FOP reps for this year and complete the online form.

Year 4 Focus Week 

In English, we have been reading the book Tuesday and basing our work on this text. We started by learning about the features of a newspaper article, and the children then created their own newspaper articles by focusing on a different feature every day and then putting these together at the end of the week. They reported on the mysterious incident that had happened in the book (flying frogs!) and produced some fantastic, informative newspaper articles!

In Maths, we have been learning about Place Value. We have partitioned numbers, estimated on a number line to 10,000 and found 1, 10, 1000 more or less. We have also compared and ordered numbers up to 10,000, introduced Roman numerals and rounded numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

In Science, we are learning about food and digestion. We recreated the process of digestion while learning about the different body parts involved e,g, oesophagus, stomach, intestine etc. We have also learnt about the features and functions of human teeth and even made our own teeth using Plasticine! In Art, we have been learning about using different pencils, tones and shading to create 3D effects in our drawings. In History the children had lots of fun exploring an online 3D model created of the houses at Skara Brae as part of our learning about the Stone Age, as well as learning about the Amesbury Archer.    

What a lot of fun and learning we have had in Year 4 this week!