What a wonderful week it has been! Year 4 have not let the strong weather dampen their Christmas spirit and have worked through the week showing real, independent resilience.
All of the staff in Year 4 along with Miss Haggerty, Mrs Ormerod, Father Chris, Father Frank and Father Tim were immensely proud of the children who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Thursday evening. The children enrolled on our Holy Communion programme carried themselves with dignity and respect, listening and responding to the service that was held and shining their lights brightly for the entire Parish to see.
Year 4 also showed off their voices when recording their carols and narration parts for the KS2 Carol Service, standing beautifully and trying their best to represent their school’s ethos.
In Maths this week, Year 4 have spent more time working on the perimeter of all sorts of 2D shapes, including triangles and rectilinear shapes. Year 4 practised their mental addition skills while adding up all the sides of these shapes to find the total of the perimeter. Year 4 also got out their trusted rulers to measure in CMs the length of different shapes to find the perimeter.
In English, Year 4 have been working very hard writing up, editing and perfecting their own independent pieces of poetry. As a class, we have looked at Christmas poems to inspire us in writing our own. The children spent time thinking of Christmassy vocabulary to build their own poem. Year 4, then spent time looking at the varying rhyming structures that could be in a poem’s stanza and then deciding if they wanted their poem to rhyme or not. Year 4 made sure they were including similes, alliteration and plenty of adjectives when writing up their poem, impressing the staff in Year 4 with what they produced!
In Spanish, Year 4 continued revising their greetings and the different members of a family. They also spent time learning all about how Christmas is celebrated in Spain. We learnt how to say “Merry Christmas”, “Feliz Navidad!” We also learnt about how Christmas celebrations begin on Christmas Eve and the food and celebrations that are involved here. Year 4 were also highly amused to discover that in Spain, the 28th of December is their very own April Fool’s Day equivalent called, Dia de los Santos Inocentes!
In PE, Year 4 have come along miles in their team working skills, playing the best games of hand ball the staff had ever seen! The class worked hard together to make the games fair, show resilience and be supportive of both their teammates and their opposition, even congratulating other teams for winning!
With only one week to go until our Christmas Holidays, the staff in Year 4 wanted to say a big thank you to all the support we have received from parents. Work done at home both on resilience and academically has shone through.
Congratulations to our Award Winners:
Golden - Ola.
Writing - Zak.
Maths - Hallie.
From all of the staff in Year 4.
