Key Dates for Term 5

Timetable changes for Term 5

Thursday - Forest school

Friday - PE

Friday - Book change day

Week 1

It was lovely to have the children back and ready for learning.

This week we went to Dragon School. Our text for English was "Zog" by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. We looked at the different lessons he had and the things that went wrong as he practiced.

In Forest School we learned to make sparks just like Zog.

In Maths we revised comparing quantities and then compared numerals using the terms greater than and less than and the symbols > and <.

Week 2

This week was Geography week. We used the text "Maps, Anna to Zane" by Vivian French. We labelled maps of our outdoor area and tried to draw maps of the classroom.

Mr Keeping, the Year 4 teacher, gave us a map workshop. We used Google Earth and OS maps to find the school and local wildlife reserves.

We also visited the Explorer Dome. We learnt about the different temperature zones of the world, the weather and wildlife associated with them.

In Maths we revised positional language, playing his and seek with Mr Todd the Fox. We also learnt about directional language and used this to program the Beebots.

Week 3

This week we used the book "The Oak Tree" by Julia Donaldson. It tells the story of an oak tree from a small sapling through to it being toppled by a gale and all the things it "sees" in its life.

The tree saw the end of WW2 and the children picnicing under it so we used this for inspiration for our VE day celebrations. We made our own sandwiches and took them to eat under the oak tree at Forest School.

In Maths we revised 2D shapes and looked at 3D shapes, including cone, cylinder, cube, cuboid and sphere. We looked at the difference between them and the 2D shapes we could see on their faces.

Week 4

For English this week we used "Supertato" by Paul Linnet and Sue Hendra. We created a supermarket in our classroom but this became a crime scene when the Evil Pea escaped from the freezer and caused trouble. We wrote crime scene reports and made wanted posters.

In Maths we looked at money noticing the differences between different coins and then went shopping using 1p coins.

The Big Brush Club came to watch us clean our teeth and give a talk on oral hygiene. We learnt not to rinse the tooth paste off our teeth so that the fluoride could continue to protect the teeth.

We spent part of every afternoon practicing the events for Sport's Day.

Week 5

This week was a very busy week being both Sport's week and Science week..

Throughout the week we engaged in a variety of sporting activities, including multi-sports challenge, balloon volley ball and skipping. Wednesday was sports day itself and thankfully the rain cleared to allow it to go ahead.

This week we used another Supertato book, "Run Veggies Run" as our text for English. We created and labelled our own superveg and then described Supertato's characer.On

In Maths we revised several topics such as , teen numbers, subitising, composition and greater than/less than.

On Thursday we had a talk about engineering from Jonathan Allen, our stem ambassador. He talked about his job and some famous engineers. He then allowed the children to try on some of his safety clothing.