Week Beg 12th July 2021

Another exciting, jam-packed week planned!! 

Our Maths is focused on recapping the 4 operations and using this knowledge to problem solve. 

Our English is a persuasive advert based on our potions. We will creating our own potion and persuading a customer to  buy it. 

For Topic this week, we have 2 experiments lined up! We will be creating ice-cream using Science! We will be using ice and salt! We will also be making our own potions using vinegar and baking soda as well as decorating the potion bottle. 

A reminder that it is SPORTS DAY on TUESDAY 13th JULY! Unfortunately, this is for children only, parents cannot attend onsite. 

Our QEA visit is on Friday 16th June! We are excited to conduct some experiments with the science teachers. 

Week Beginning 5th July 2021

We have an exciting week planned with lots of science learning!! 

Our Maths this week will be split into Year 3 and Year 4 topics. Year 3 will be learning how to tell the time up to 1 minute, Year 4 will be focusing on decimals. 

In English, we will be using our story plans from last week to write a story about our mythical creature. 

In Topic, we will be grouping solids, liquids and gases, investigating the viscosity of certain liquids in our Love to Investigate experiment and investigating Ooze to see if it is a solid or liquid. Lots of experiments this week!! 

Week beginning 28th June 

This week, we are starting our story unit. We will be creating our own mythical creature! Don't forget it's our Rufford trip on Tuesday! We are so excited to be exploring somewhere and even making our own wands! 

Maths this week is  focusing on subtracting fractions. We are doing something very exciting in our Topic learning .... designing and creating our own wands with hot glue guns (teachers will man these!) 

Here's to a great week everyone! 

Week beginning 21st June

We have another exciting week planned! As we travel further into the Harry Potter universe, we will be creating our very own Chocolate Frogs! Using this amazing experience, we will then be writing our chocolate frog recipe in our Big Write. In Maths, we will continue our work with fractions and look at addition of fractions. Year 4 will be looking at mixed number fractions in particular and applying this to addition. Don't forget to complete your maths home learning this week! PE days still continue to be on Tuesday's and Thursday's. Due to inset on Friday, we have a 4 day week this week. 

Week beginning 14th June 2021

This week we will be focusing on Music during topic lessons, looking at the music of John Williams. We will be learning about his life and comparing/evaluating his compositions in the Harry Potter films. 

Don't forget that we have our times table check for Year 4 this week on Thursday and Friday. Our Maths learning will be on Fractions this week. We will be focusing on equivalent fractions as we found this tricky the first time round before half term. 

Our English learning is based on Diagon Alley, we will be using our senses, personification and fronted adverbials to create amazing setting descriptions. 

Week beginning 7th June 2021

_{This week, we will be writing a diary entry based on our day at Hogwarts.}

_{Our  Hogwarts day will include: the sorting hat, writing with quills, tasting butter beer and playing quidditch.}

_{We will be learning how to set up experiments accurately to make invisible ink. Our Maths learning will focus on recall of times tables up to 12 x 12.} 

Week beginning Monday 16th November

This week, we are finding out about Viking Sagas and also Mythology as we learn more about Thor, Loki and Asgard. We are even going to write our very own Thor and Loki story, set at Farmilo! In maths, we will continue our learning about subtraction before moving on to times tables and multiplication. 

Week beginning Monday 21st September

This week it's all about Roman life! How did the Romans live? What were their houses like and how do they differ to ours? We're going to be making a start on an exciting adventure story which we'll be working on the for the next two weeks. In Maths, we are ordering and comparing values both as objects and then as numbers, using our Place Value knowledge.

And for Miss Haywood's spelling group:

Week beginning Monday 14th September

What a fantastic first week back we had! You made a terrific start! This week we are learning about Boudicca and this includes making some clay models of her and writing a biography about her. In maths, we are continuing our work on Place Value as we explore working with numbers to 1,000 on number lines.

And for Miss Haywood's spelling group:

Week beginning Monday 7th September 

After a brill couple of days settling in, we have a very busy week ahead as we find out what it would have been like to be a soldier in the Roman Army! We're going to look at the training, the uniform and what day-to-day life would have been like...could YOU have been a Roman soldier? In maths, we're going to be looking at Place Value in numbers up to 1,000. Don't forget our PE days are Tuesday and Friday - remember to come to school in your PE kit as we stay in these all day.

Our spellings for the week are here: