Year 4 - Summer 2 - Week 5
Date: 4th Jul 2023 @ 9:31am
It has been as busy as ever in Year 4 and we are certainly making the most of our time together before the Summer Break.
In order to understand our new monthly value of Service, we connected our knowledge of our School Value of Serve. After creating our own footprints, we outlined the ways we follow Jesus’ example in our daily lives and recalled the characteristics we show to fulfil our school value of Serve throughout the school day.
We have welcomed the fantastic Scholastic UK Book Fair to school over the past week and were overjoyed to visit and explore the books on offer. After taking a glimpse into some of the fantastic reads on offer, some of use even headed back after school to make some purchases.
After discussing the areas we have found trickiest to master in Maths, we used this week to refresh our understanding of key mathematical terms and to revisit those trickier concepts. We used positional language to describe the transition of a shape from one location to another on a grid, made our own clocks to confirm the minutes past and to, before revisiting rectilinear shapes. Next week, our focus turns to revisiting fractions and ensuring we are secure in our knowledge when using written methods to calculate using the four operations.
This week, we moved onto poetry in English and enjoyed spending some time exploring different poems and spotting rhyme and other poetical features. We a keen interest in animals, we know that this would form the perfect topic to centre our own poetry around! We chose to write a Kenning using phrases of two words to replace a noun. Our Kennings formed a riddle which our peers were very excited to guess.
Within our Art lessons, we have loved using different colours to create an ombre effect to represent the sunrise and sunset. This week, we utilised this skill to form a backdrop to the silhouette of a famous London landmark and left two white lines to create the look of lights being projected from the building, into the night sky.
Meeting a lifeguard from Formby Beach on Tuesday allowed us to reflect on the importance of water safety and the careful attention we need to take when visiting our local beaches. Thank you to the local lifeguards who continue to keep us safe and help us understand how we can keep safe when enjoying our time outside.
After the success of last year, this week we saw the return of the TSP talent show. We couldn’t be prouder of all the hard work the children put into practising their acts and the entertainment they brought to our class talent show!
The week was complete with a visit to Year 5, as we were given the opportunity to visit our new classroom and meet our new teacher, Mr McCabe. We are so excited to start our new ventures in September in our new classroom.
Have a brilliant weekend, Year 4. See you on Monday!