Last day of the Autumn term fun and games
We enjoyed playing with our toys today to celebrate the end of a busy Autumn term. Den building was very popular in Class 3! We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 5th January.
A Christmas Tuesday!
We have had a delicious Christmas lunch followed by singing 'The Twelve Days of Christmas!'. We then had party games with lots of music, dancing and some more food in class. What a lovely day!
Magnetic Fields
We have been investigating magnetic fields in Science. We placed magnets under a piece of paper and then sprinkled some iron filings onto the paper. The filings created patterns when they attracted or repelled. This was lots of fun to see and we know much more about magnetic fields…
Volcanic eruptions!
To complete our learning about volcanoes, we made our own model volcanoes and used vinegar, washing up liquid, bicarbonate of soda and water to cause them to erupt!
Christmas jumper Day
The children looked very festive today, thank you for all of your donations that will be sent to ‘Save the Children’.
Waterproofing origami boats
We have been learning about the British designer Charles Macintosh and how he waterproofed material. We learnt how to origami fold paper boats and then we worked on waterproofing them. We had a range of materials like sticky tape, wax crayons and plastic wallets to choose from. Once we had…
This weeks winner is …
Congratulations to this weeks winner, who was so excited to pick a new book!
Maths tables tests
Today the Year 4 children completed a practise Multiplication screening check online. EVERYONE improved on their previous score so very well done Year 4!
Geographical research
Today we researched Mount Vesuvius during our Geography lesson and created a fact file about it. We chose this volcano because it is the one we have been reading about during our English lessons, it’s the most active volcano in Europe!
Active Maths in Year 4
Today our Year 4 children played some games to practise multiplying and dividing by a ten or one hundred. Some of them have already noticed a trick to help them calculate the answers really fast!
Christingle making in Class 3
This afternoon we made Christingles ready for our service in Church tomorrow. It linked nicely to our RE lesson, which was learning about the symbolism of the items used on the Christingle.
Structures in Design and Technology
We have learnt about British designer W B Wilkinson who in 1853 came up with the idea of setting steel bands within concrete to make it much stronger. We looked at all the amazing concrete buildings that are around the world. We particularly liked the tallest bridge in the world which is found in…