Its hard to believe we have only been in year 4 for seven weeks - it feels like much longer and we are working well together as a class. This week has seen us take part in the beautiful sacrament of Reconciliation. There is a little movie below to watch. Despite being unable to do this in church with our families, it was a different but special occasion. Children came back into class with big grins and shared their feelings of freshness and love!

This week we have dived into our new story, ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin,’ in English. We have looked at lots of different versions and expressed preferences, found similarities and differences. Year 4 children wrote their own descriptions of the Pied Piper, trying hard to use our new Year 4 grammar skill - extended noun phrases. We have also made up our own class version which we are learning to recite!

Geography has been a high point this week - what good little map readers we are becoming! Children have learned further about the earth’s climate zones and biomes - exploring extreme environments. We found out deserts can be hot and cold! Children were brilliant at researching a desert and also asked geographical questions to find out more about one particular desert in America. Finally, we learned about export and import and researched where many of the world’s foods come from! Very exciting.

Maths has seen us start column addition - with 4 digit numbers (presentation is key with this!) and also start to practise our 8x table.

RHE focus

This week, we have focused on love and compassion, with our story, Be Loving, Layla Lioness.’ Children reflected on what compassion was and this fed into our council session in class - where we discussed what charity we could focus on this year. We have decided to give to ‘Streetlife.’

We again thought about gratitude and how lucky we really are when there are so many in desperate need in our world.

Let’s Celebrate!

One Bobby Bee certificate for Lexi for buzzing about her learning and loving every minute!

A Lizzie Ladybird certificate goes to Esme for always listening so carefully to advice from the teacher and for considering how she can improve in all she does.

French star this week was Julia

PE stars this week were Olivia and Jacob O

Thomas got the lunchtime award for being sensible and calm.

Notices

We break up on Wednesday at the normal time.

I have set homework for this week - which will not need to be in until after the half term.

Have a great and cosy weekend with your very tired children!!

God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Miss Forster, Miss Edmondson and Mrs Mather