2024/25 Our Learning
Autumn 1 Week 2
Our first full week in school has been brilliant, with the children continuing to settle into Year 4 life really well. For our English learning this week, we read the short story The Boy and the Tiger. We thought about how the tiger would have felt a different parts of the story and we also predicted what would happen at the end of the story. At the end of the week we used adjectives to write a description of one of the settings from the story; down a deep hole. In Maths, we continued to recap the place value of 3 digit numbers by partitioning them and showing them on number lines. Then we moved onto looking at the value of the digits in a 4 digit numbers that have thousands. In Science, we learnt about the 3 states of matter, solids, liquids and gases and their properties. We then used this knowledge to help us sort some different items into solids, liquids and gases. For our Geography, we thought about where water goes after it has rained and we looked at the water cycle. We learnt about evaporation, condensation and precipitation and what each process does. In Computing, we did some coding with Mrs Bradley and animated some dinosaurs. In PSHE we covered some online safety and thought about what devices we have that can access the Internet and some of the rules we need to follow to keep us safe. We had an extra PSHE lesson this week when we had a visit from Harold the giraffe and the Life Education Centre. We talked about what it means to be unique and how we should celebrate our differences. We thought about how we can have differences even with our friends and ways that we can compromise. In Music, we listened to some music composed by Pamela Z and discussed how it made us feel. Then we listened to some Bhangra music and looked at some of the different instruments that are traditionally used in it. We had our first week back at swimming, which we were all excited about. We worked hard in the pool doing widths and lengths recapping different strokes. In French, we had another look at the map of France and learnt how to pronounce some of the places using our knowledge of other words with the same spelling patterns in them. We played a matching game where we had to match two words with the same sounds in them. We explored the story of David and Goliath in our R.E lesson this week and thought about the qualities that David showed and how his strong faith in God helped him. We took advantage of the nice weather on Thursday and went outside for our Art lesson. We created large scale sketches of pots and vases in the style of Magdelene Odundo on the playground. We used chalks and soft rounded shapes to make them look like hers.
Autumn 1 Week 2 Photos
Autumn 1 Week 1
The children have made a fantastic start to Year 4 in the 3 days that they have been in school. It has been lovely to have them in the classroom and they are getting used to all the routines really well. We started off the week by creating a class contract between the staff and pupils, we thought about what things the children wanted from their teachers and what things the teachers wanted from the children. Once we had agreed we all signed it. We also got to know each other a bit more through numbers. We chose some numbers that were significant in our lives and then gave clues to what they were. In Maths, we recapped the place value of numbers up to hundreds from our Year 3 learning so we are ready to move onto our Year 4 new learning next week. We also practiced partitioning numbers using part whole models. In English, we showed the skills we had learnt in Year 3 to help us improve some simple sentences that we were given by adding subordinate clauses, adjective and adverbs. We also thought about what it would feel like to be trapped and used a thesaurus to help us use the best words we could to describe the feelings. In Science, we discussed all of our learning from last year to see what we could remember ready to use in our Year 4 learning. Mrs Bullen and Miss Sivill were blown away by how much they could recall. In Art, we looked at the Kenyan born artist Magdelene Odundo who creates sculptures from clay. We looked at some of her work and also found out a bit about her and her influences. It was lovely to see Madame Wardle after the summer break for our French lesson. We started our new topic of Ony Va which means let's go! We looked at a map of France and started to identify some of the larger cities and what they are famous for. In RE we built on our learning from Year 3 about prophets and thought about what God looks for in a person to do a special job for him. We used the words from the Bible 'God looks at the heart' from 1Samuel 16 to help us understand and then we thought about what God would want to see in our hearts. After such a fantastic week in school, I can't wait to see what we can achieve over the next year!
Autumn 1 Week 1 Photos
