What another busy week we have had. On Monday we had the cricket coaches, Danny and Dan, come in to teach us how to play cricket. The children were incredible! Their behaviour and teamwork were outstanding. Well done Year 4 you made me very proud!
Maths – This week we have been looking at 2D shapes. We have been identifying right angle, acute and obtuse angles. We have also been recognising parallel and perpendicular lines and used all this knowledge to describe the properties of shapes.
English – In English we have been analysing explanation texts. We looked at the features of an explanation text and based our writing around our own made up school. The children then wrote a letter of application explaining why they should be given a place at their chosen school.
RE – This week we have been looking at how Jesus showed us how to live and how we can change our behaviour because of this. We looked at images of sick people, the homeless and refugees and came up with ideas of how we can help them. We then linked our ideas to scripture.
Science – We had a super practical lesson exploring how sound travels. We made string telephones and discovered that we could only hear when the string was straight and tight. We then wrote a paragraph explaining how sound travelled.
Geography – We have been investigating food from around the world. We looked at lots of different countries and their popular foods. We then identified those countries on a world map and wrote the different foods from that country.
Notices
On the 13th February the PTA are holding a ‘silly sock day’ in aid to raise some money for our school library. The children are to wear their normal school uniform but with the addition of some silly socks and a £1 donation.
PE is back to normal next week. Our indoor session is on Tuesday and our outdoor session is on Wednesday.
The children have been given the opportunity to design the front cover of the programme for the Taming of the Shrew. They need to draw and colour their picture onto an A4 sheet of paper (portrait) and bring it in by Monday 3rd February. The picture could be of Padua, where the story is set, or a picture of the characters from the play. There should be no text at all. Thankyou.
Award Winners
Maths Award – This week the Maths Award went to Nevaeh. Nevaeh has blown me away this week with her hard work and effort during our fractions lessons. Well done Nevaeh!
No Golden Award or Star Writer Award this week due to us having Mass on Friday.
Homework
Maths – I have sent home a times table sheet for the children to complete.
English – I have sent home a sent on possessive pronouns for the children to complete.
Spellings for quiz on 7/2/20
Times tables - 12 times tables for quiz on 7/2/20
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Cunningham-Kay
