Welcome Back...Week Ending 11/11/16

 

Welcome Back - Week ending 11th November 2016

The children have started the new term with a superb attitude, displaying great effort and enthusiasm in all areas of school.

In maths this week, we have learned a new method for multiplication. Everyone in the group made lots of progress and is able to multiply two digit by one digit numbers using this process. They have applied this knowledge to a range of calculations which then led to various related problem solving tasks.

Children produced exciting stories before half term and have successfully developed their paragraphing and sentence structure. Our English work this week has centred around building more detailed descriptions into our writing.. We have revised verbs and adjectives and worked on incorporating adverbs to improve the work we completed previously.

Preparations have begun for the Christmas performance, in which all of the children have an important role to play. Any time you can give them to help rehearse lines would be hugely appreciated.

Thank you.

Mr Daniel.

Week Ending 28/10/2016

Year Four have developed their reading by continuing to study the text ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurggo. We have engaged with group reading sessions which have stretched their understanding of various characters and their motives. These conversations have demonstrated the classes’ ability to ask probing questions and show empathy in a range of situations.

In numeracy one of our recent areas of focus has been shape.  We have investigated shapes in the classroom and also around school. The children have learnt to recognise different aspects of 3D shapes and are able to count faces, edges and vertices of various objects.  Could you find something in or around your house to measure the number of faces, edges and vertices of? You are welcome to post pictures of your findings in the comments section. Who can find the most interesting shape to explore? 

Prior to the end of term, we spent lots of time and effort producing work related to Halloween. We learnt about building tension within writing through the use of dramatic short sentences. We did some more work on structuring our ideas into clear paragraphs which is now being done with much more accuracy. We discussed different ways of developing the plot, how to introduce the setting and characters and also including a surprising twist in our stories. By the end of the final week the children were able to write ghost stories set in our school or the surrounding area. The results were superb!

We hope that everybody has had an enjoyable and restful break, ready for the new term to begin.  The children should be proud of their achievements during the first part of the year and we are confident that as we move forwards they will continue to succeed.