Christmas Cards

By Miss Topliss23rd November 2020

Hello Year 3 and 4 adults!

The time is nearly upon us to start thinking about Christmas in school. Many children and adults ask us about cards. Due to the current situation, we have thought about how best to go about the giving and receiving of cards in school this year.

This year, please only send cards to children in your year group bubble (eg 3S and 3T or 4G and 4L).

From December 1st, children can bring cards and place them in the year group post box. This will be in their classroom. Cards can be dropped in any day up until 11th December.

On 11th December, the post box will close and no further cards can come into school. This will mean all cards will enter a period of quarantine. On Tuesday 15th December, all cards will be given out.

Please ask a member of the 3/4 team if you have any further questions.

Thank you for your support in helping to enjoy the joy of giving and receiving cards, whilst keeping everyone safe.

Our remembrance family learning creations!

By Miss Blackham16th November 2020

Thank you so much to everyone who entered! I really hope you all enjoyed your treats last Friday! A huge well done to the winners:

Samuel- EYFS

Miksang- KS1

Kyan- LKS2

Dalton & Ashton (who sent in a joint entry)- UKS2

I hope you enjoy your prizes! Please keep a look out for our Christmas family learning competition launching soon!

4G are scientists!

By Mrs Graves12th November 2020

Today, we were looking at the results of our science experiments and making conclusions.

We looked at what plants need to live and decided that the most successful cress had light, water and nutrients. Even though seeds in other conditions sprouted, the plants were smaller and very pale.

We were really excited about how our experiment into how water is transported through plants turned out. It was hard to draw conclusions about which temperature conditions were the best for the celery, but we could very clearly see how the water and food colouring was absorbed and transported through the xylem in the celery. We cut the celery horizontally and could see the small holes of the xylem in the end of the stem and then we cut the celery vertically and could see how the xylem went right through the plant to the leaves at the top.

 

 

It’s great being scientists!

4G Plover Praise

By Mrs Graves9th November 2020

A quick catch up on the children who have been bringing home the Plover praise postcards over the last couple of days!
Well done for demonstrating good aspects of the Plover Pledge.
#LovePlover

We are scientists

By Mrs Graves9th November 2020

We have been having great fun being scientists in 4G. For the last few lessons, we have been conducting our own experiments about how plants live. Last week we started looking a the best conditions cress seeds need to grow in. Today we have been setting up tests into how water is transported around plants (celery) and whether temperature will make a difference.

Can’t  wait to see the results!

4G Roman Workshop

7th November 2020Mrs Graves

We had a great time learning about life in Roman times today! It was a really  hands-on workshop with Claire from Want2be workshops.

We added to our knowledge of the Romans, leant how to march like Roman soldiers and even learnt some Latin!

Writing out our shopping list on a wax tablet proved to be much more challenging than using a pencil and paper, but creating our own mosaics was very successful.

 

 

 

Fabulous Film Night

By Mrs Graves6th November 2020

Year 3/4 thoroughly enjoyed this evening’s film night.

We watched ‘Onward’, whilst we ate pizza, sweets and a bun and drank tasty chocolate milkshake.

Sadly there are no photos as the room was so dark and the staff were so busy running round like Deliveroo drivers, ensuring everyone got fed!

Thanks to the support of film night, we have  raised over £50 for our Phase so thank you very much.

 

 

Online Learning

By Mrs Graves20th October 2020

Please note that if you have to self-isolate at home for any reason, you can access your learning online through Google classroom. We shall put copies of the learning slides and tasks online, so that you can still take part in what we are doing in school. I know this might be a bit tricky at times without your teacher to help you but there are still plenty of other things you can do:

1) www.myon.co.uk – an online library of digital books. Select books at the right reading level and quiz on them on Accelerated Reader. Logon using the same username and password as Accelerated Reader.

2) Accelerated Reader –  quiz on the books you have read. Follow the link from the bar at the top of the school website after you have logged in.

3) Times tables Rockstars – practice your times tables

4) www.corbettmaths.co.uk – primary 5 a day! Find today’s date and have a go at the maths questions on the bronze level.

5) BBC bite size – find the super movers videos and practise times tables or research about the romans.

6) www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk to research the Romans in Britain. – click the romans link

Any questions, please contact school and we will get back to you.

 

Mrs Graves and Miss Lotysz, Miss Topliss and Mrs Schofield

Rockin’ Roman Roads

15th October 2020Mrs Graves

We have had a great day in 4G today, learning about Roman Roads.

In English, we improved our Speech and Language skills by practising and performing a Roman Top Gear sketch.

This afternoon, in Expedition, we were historians, learning how the Romans built their roads. We then had a go ourselves, building our own roads out of biscuits, chocolates and custard! It really was a rocky road of a lesson!