Another busy week in Year 4! This week, we said goodbye to Madame Jefferson, who is retiring. Children made her lots of mini cards to express their gratitude and wish her Bonne chance!
We have done some excellent Shakespeare drama this week - please enjoy the pictures below. The spirit, Ariel even took flight around the field! This play has explored such great themes such as entrapment, duty, revenge, freedom and forgiveness! Children wrote a persuasive letter as either Caliban the monster or Ariel the spirit to beg to be given their liberty! Next week, they will find out the rest of this magical story. We are also loving our chilling novel, ‘The Snow-Walker’s Son’ and it has been lovely to sit back and watch the children show such depth of comprehension with what they read. Also their knowledge of root words (and a bit of latin) is really paying off and they use clue in the word to help them figure it out. Children say things like, ‘Exile must mean something about going out because ‘ex’ is Latin for out,’ and ‘subservient’ must mean serving under because the sub prefix means ‘under.’
Maths has seen us develop great understanding about non-unit fractions in various forms - such as in shapes, of amounts and on numberlines. The IXL homework this week will really help to consolidate this.
In Science, children conducted a fair test to explore, “Which material muffles sound the best?” Now, we have swiftly moved onto our last topic - Light!
In other VERY EXCITING news, all children throughout school have learned about who their teacher will be for year 5 next year. Mr. Cornwell is new to our school and will be the Year 5 teacher next year. He is currently spending time within class getting to know all the children and after his first morning with them, he knew all their names! Well done Mr Cornwell - we welcome you to Our Lady Star of the Sea.
This week, the worship was all about Hope. These children did a marvellous job and it was lovely to hear what other children’s hopes are.
Let’s Celebrate
This week our certificate winners were:
Charlie who received a Clara Clownfish certificate for noticing important things and being able to summarise ideas. Also for having a keen mind that loves to figure things out!
Jay, who received a Sadie Spider certificate for pushing himself to achieve this week. You have given super effort and have persevered if you found something tricky.
TT ROCKSTARS - FRANEK HAS ALSO NOW COMPLETED ALL TT GIGS! Well done!
Notices
Please could children bring A PLASTIC bag FOR ALL SCHOOL BOOKS TO BE TAKEN HOME ON FRIDAY
Next week, Friday 15th we will be swimming. However children will be completing their water safety skills. They will need to wear their uniforms but bring swimming costume and pyjamas. Obviously fleecy pyjamas are a bad idea.
Recorder concert Thursday 14th July. Please complete the form on previous blog to say how many will be in attendance.
4. We break up on Wednesday 20th July at 2:00pm
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Mrs Lyons, Mr Cornwell and Mrs Mather