Hello everyone,

We made it! We can’t believe that next term is going to be Summer 2! The children have worked so hard and we are very proud of them.

This week, the children have been busy with maths arithmetic and reasoning tests as well as our reading comprehension test for guided reading. But it hasn’t been all papers and silence, we have had great fun this week exploring how sound is made! We used a rubber band to discover vibrations ,  how sound can travel through different states of matter and created cups with string.

Also check out our decorated Jubilee doors! We are very much looking forward to seeing all the children in their red,white and blue tomorrow for our Jubilee Party!

We hope you have a fantastic half term and look forward to welcoming the pupils back on Monday 6th June!

Kind regards,

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Miss Ranson and Mrs Woolston

Hello everyone,

This week, the children have been taking part in lots of group tasks to support their learning. We have used lots of card games to support our knowledge of subordinate and relative clauses – we cannot wait to present our Volcano and Earthquake reports to the BBC boss! Please see the photos below…

We also enjoyed a lovely walk to Sacred Heart Church on Tuesday 17th May – once again, a big thank you to all of the parent volunteers who joined us and helped the children complete their walk safely.

A few quick reminders for next week:

• Please continue to practise daily on your Times Table Rockstars accounts – the official check shall take place shortly after half term.
• Home learning (Maths, spelling, vocabulary) to be completed and handed in by Thursday 26th May 2022, so they can be returned on Friday with fresh homework for the holidays.
• Monday 23rd May 2022, at 5pm in the school hall – Parent’s information evening for the Y4 camping experience
• Friday 27th May 2022 – Red, White and Blue dress up day to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Have a great weekend in the sunshine,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash, Mrs Woolston and Miss Ranson

Hi everyone,

We hope you are well!

Here is a snippet of our fun science learning this week!

Few quick reminders,

• Homework is due back on Thursday 19th May 2022.
• Please ensure your child is practising times tables daily. We are fast approaching their multiplication test.
• Please send your child into school with the correct PE kit on Thursday 19th May 2022.

We hope you have a lovely week,

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Miss Ranson and Mrs Woolston

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and enjoyed your half term break!

Last Friday the children experienced Viking Day! We had so much fun with Tyrson War-Bear who taught us all about Viking life. We looked and handled real life artefacts, had a rune casting, spelt our names in runes, excavated, and created Viking shields and brooches.

After their workshop, Tyrson War-Bear put the mini Vikings to the test and asked them as a team to create a Viking Long ship that would be suitable for his men to travel to York in order to take it back from King Alfred.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell and the Year 4 team!

Hi there,

We hope that you are all doing well. The last couple of weeks have been lots of fun at St. Peter’s! We have enjoyed celebrating Diversity Week and exploring Judaism and Islam.

We were lucky enough to be able to have a workshop with Rabbi Svi during the week – we turned the Unity building into a Synagogue and the children listened to songs and Jewish scripture from the Torah. We also learnt about Yom Kippur and listened to the sound of a ram’s horn as we asked forgiveness for our sins, just as we have done during Lent in the Christian faith. Year Four were fascinated to know the origins and meanings of their Hebrew names and how these related to the names of specific characters from the Bible. Please see the photos below…

We also enjoyed going on a virtual tour around a famous Mosque, listening to the ‘call to prayer’ and exploring the religious artefacts and steps utilised by Muslims as part of their daily acts of worship. The children were very engaged by the session – they had lots of questions and were able to use lots of key vocabulary in their responses, including the following: Qur’an, Mecca and ‘daily salah’. In particular, the children enjoyed drawing their own comparisons between Christianity and Islam, regarding  types of prayer and religious places of worship.

The children have also enjoyed listening to ‘Passion plays’ this week, as part of our journey through Holy Week. We have been reflecting on the events leading up to the death and Resurrection of Jesus – in particular, Year Four have been comparing the reaction of the crowds on Palm Sunday compared to those witnessed at the Trial of Jesus.

We hope you have a great weekend,

Best Wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash, Mrs Cairns and Miss Ranson

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and safe.

This week, the children have continued to build on writing skills that will help them write a letter to Greta Thunberg, persuading her to continue her work. We began the week by looking at coordinating, subordinating and causal conjuctions, building on climate change sentences. We used these sentences to support our arguement when we were trying to persuade people to use electric cars rather than sport cars. Next week, we will begin to draft and edit our letters!

In Maths, we are finishing our multiplication and division unit by looking at the relationship between related facts, 10/100/1000 times smaller and bigger. Next week, the children will use their knowledge of times and divide to support them in finding amounts of quantities using fractions. We will also be recapping times by solving time and conversion word problems.

A few polite reminders,

• Unfortunately, due to covid we have had to postpone Viking Stem day which would have been held on Friday 25th March. We have now moved this to Friday 29th April 2022, we cannot wait to see all the children dressed as Vikings! Please continue to collect resources for the day such as large plastic bottles, lolly pop sticks, lids along with any other material fit for a long boat!
• Please send your child in their correct PE kit on Monday 28th March.
• Spelling, maths, reading journals and vocabulary homework is due Friday 1st April 2022.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Mrs Cairns and Miss Ranson

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe.

This week, the children have been working hard on their new unit of learning, writing a persuasive letter to Greta Thunberg to encourage her to keep campaigning against climate change. We have explored a range of articles and documentaries, to help us collect facts and opinions about deforestation, plastics in the sea, burning fossil fuels and global warming. Building upon their prior knowledge of Jemmy Button and the jungle descriptions we created in our last unit of work, the children were then able to develop their own expanded noun phrases to help them powerfully describe the beautiful rainforests that are currently at risk. Next week, we shall use a variety of conjunctions in order to explain to our reader why it is important to protect the planet.

In Maths, Year Four have re-visited their learning on multiplication and division, this time considering how they can use more efficient methods such as grid technique, bus stop and partitioning of larger numbers in order to count equal groups within a total. The children have also started to engage with their challenge tasks, that include using the inverse operations in order to go back and analyse, review and check their answers are reasonable and close to what they had initially predicted at the start of each Maths problem. Well done everyone! Next week, we shall continue to explore a range of techniques and consider how we can use ‘plan, do, review’ in order to apply them within the context of multi-step problems.

Here’s a few reminders for next week:

1. Please ensure your child arrives at school in PE kit on Thursday 24/03/22 for their morning session with CM sports.
2. Viking STEM day will be taking place on Friday 25th March 2022 – please ensure your child is wearing their Viking costume (if they would like to) and that they either bring a £1 voluntary contribution or their own plastic bottles and milk bottles (1L or 2L capacity), so there will be plenty of resources to use on the day. If your child would like to bring decorations to go on their Viking longboat, please ensure they are waterproof as we shall be testing the boats with our Viking visitor in the afternoon!
3. Spelling, vocabulary and Maths home learning (red books) and home reading journals (yellow books) to be handed in by Thursday 24th March 2022. Please also remind your child to continue logging in to TT Rockstars for daily practise of their times tables.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend,

Best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash, Mrs Cairns and Miss Ranson

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and safe.

This week in English, we are coming to an end on our Jemmy Button unit. The children have drafted, edited and published fantastic stories in which they were writing a narrative and setting description about Orundelcio’s journey to Britain. Our next unit, we will focus on climate change and natural disasters with our final outcome being a letter to Greta Thunberg herself!

In Maths, we have started our new unit of multiplication and division. We have already unpicked a multistep problem, looked at different representations of the two operations and recapping strategies we may have used in the past. Next week, we will use different strategies to help us multiply and divide three/four digit numbers! Please continue to encourage your children to use Times Tables Rockstars regularly as this will really support them in this unit and prepare them for the Multiplication test in summer.

A few polite reminders –

• Firstly, it was lovely to see you all (virtually) for parents’ evening. We really enjoyed sharing with you the amazing hard work your child has put in this year. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to grab us on the playground!
• Please send your child in the correct PE uniform on Monday 14th March.
• Reminder that vocabulary, spellings, maths and reading journals are due Thursday 17th March 2022.
• We are excited to welcome back Miss Ranson, student teacher in Koalas. Here’s to another fantastic term!

We hope you have a fantastic weekend,

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Mrs Cairns and Miss Ranson

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are well and keeping safe.

This week, we have enjoyed World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March 2022. It was wonderful to celebrate all of our favourite books, authors and characters. Please take a look at our class photos, below:

In English, we have been learning about Jemmy Button and creating our narrative stories. The children have thought carefully about which of the following skills they would like to include in their writing:

• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Similes and metaphors
• Speech dialogue

We very much look forward to completing, drafting and editing our work next week. In Maths, we have been learning strategies for addition and subtraction – in particular, we have focused on the following methods:

• Expanded column
• Number lines
• Number bonds

We also recently enjoyed our STEM day, where me made lots of shoebox biomes for a range of habitats as part of our Science learning, including:

• Deserts
• Jungles
• Oceans
• Caves
• Arctic

We look forward to seeing you all at our virtual parents evening session on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th March.

Best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well. So half term is nearly here and the children have worked so hard and had another fantastic half term. We are now at the half way point in the academic year and we are so proud of the progress the children have made!

In English, pupils have been exploring different sentence structure particulary looking at Alan Peate sentences. Here they looked at 2 pairs, (exhausted and fragile, tired and anxious), 3 ings (rolling, foaming, roaring, the waves crashed into the boat) and with a (With a deep breathe, Jemmy set foot on the new island). They then created their own using these models which they will later use in their final writes.

In Maths, the pupils are continuing their addition and subtraction unit. Craefully exploring place value, exchanging and carrying. When they come back from half term, they will look at measurements within addition and subtraction.

This week the children have been very busy with their STEM day. Through the year, the children need to understand what makes a habitat, what poses threats to habitats, classification of animals and the life cycles. Koalas and Kangaroos needed to study different biomes and the habitiats within them and how animals adapted. They then worked in groups to create their own biome thinking very carefully how they could show cross section of their havitiat, carefully designing to ensure their chosen creature could surive. Photos to follow, keep an eye out on the blog!

A few polite reminders –

• Friday 18th February is an Inset Day and the start to the half term .Children are to return to school on Monday 28th February 2022.
• Please send your child into school with appopriate PE wear on Monday 28th February 2022.
• Spellings, vocabulary, reading journals and maths homeowrk is due on Friday 4th March 2022.
• World Book Day is on Thursday 3rd March 2022. We look forward to seeing the children dressed as fantastic characters from their favourite books.

We hope you have a wonderful half term and a well deserved break. We look forward to seeing you on Monday 28th February 2022.

Keep safe and keep smiling,

Miss Jackson-Nash, Mis Honeywell and Mrs Cairns