Penguin Day 3rd December 2024
PENGUIN DAY
As part of our Discovery topic, Extreme Survival. Year 3 took part in a penguin day. We had a day fun filled with all things penguin related. We started the day with a penguin song and dance, followed by researching and writing fact files about different types of penguins. Finally, we created our own penguins using toilet roll tubes.
Computing lesson 4th December 2024
Year 4 Culture Week
Year 4 Culture Week
As part of culture week Year 4 are learning about the country of India. So far this week we have created colourful art on the Indian elephant, learnt about and designed Mendi patterns, used henna to create beautiful artwork on our hands and wrote our names in Hindi.
Year 4 Financial Literacy Workshop
Year 4 were very lucky today to take part in a financial literacy workshop lead by Kennedy from Skint2mint and sponsored by Coventry Building Society.
The children learnt about what a want is and a need is. They also learnt about budgets.
They were given a task of identifying which items they would need to survive on an island. They were given a budget of £50 and had to select 5 items they think they need to survive.
The children absolutely loved this and learnt alot!
4GW Maths Morning
Year 4 took part in a Maths Morning today. The children took part in lots of exciting activities and loved the moring. The looked at matchstick puzzles, money problem solving and reasoning challenges and created animals and creatures from triangles.
Here are some of 4GW’s amazing work!
Times Tables Rockstars Parents/Carers Page
???? Funky Parent & Carer Webpage ????
There is now a Times Tables Rockstars page that is just for parents and carers, including the following;
What’s included?
- Importance of times tables
- TTRS intro video
- Parent guide PDF
- FAQs answered
- Free downloadables
Year 4 Teeth and Eating
Year 4 Learning about plaque
During our Science lesson today, the children learnt about the importance of keeping their teeth clean. The learnt about plaque and what this is. They each used a disclosure tablet to identify old and new plaque on thier teeth, before brushing them. The children found it very exciting and fascinating! Fingers crossed they won’t ever moan about brushing their teeth again!
Crime and Punishment Day
Year 4 Crime and Punishment ‘WOW’ Day
Today Year 4 arrived in school to find out that a terrible crime had been committed, somebody had stolen books from the library!
The children worked on lots of different activities to learn about solving crimes. This included looking at CCTV footage and doing a walk-through, looking closely at witness statements, taking fingerprints, drawing mugshots and learning about the role of different people that are involved in investigating crimes
