Class 4
Friday 23rd May
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
As always, we've had a wonderful week this week. The children continue to work incredibly hard and with such enthusiasm too!
Today, we have had our final ancient Egyptians session; learning all about how the wealthy and pharoahs were embalmed and mummified. The children loved re-enacting the whole procedure, step by step!!
Following on from our lovely whole class story; 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx', as well as 'Jimmy and the Pharoah', the children have also planned and written their very own ancient Egyptian adventure stories! I can't wait to read them all!
Today, we have shared a very exciting box of artefacts; this time, 'The Romans'. Again, Tolson Museum have provided us with a fabulous resource to share; it includes a wide range of amazing artefacts and factual information. The children have thoroughly enjoyed passing around the objects and sharing the factual documents. We've learnt so much even before we fully begin the topic following our return from Cliffe House.
Badminton proved very popular too this week. The progress the children have made across this half term has been great to see; super serving, returning and competitive games too! All the children have really impressed us!
Computing has been great fun too; the children have loved learning all about how to edit photos to achieve the required outcomes. Today, they have worked incredibly well using the 'cloning' tool to make effective alterations and earlier in the week the children added a range of colour effects to alter the mood of different photos. They have loved every minute!
Do enjoy the photos I have added below; taken during our history session.
Have a wonderful week and see you all very soon,
Mrs Matthews and the class 4 team.
xx
Friday 2nd May
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We hope you all had a fabulous Easter holiday and made the most of the gorgeous sunny weather. I can't believe it's now only week 2 and we've a Bank Holiday to enjoy again too! Do make the most of the extension to the weekend!
We have had a brilliant start to the Summer term. The children are absolutely loving our new Ancient Egyptians topic. I collected a great big box of wonderful Ancient Egyptian artefacts from the Tolson Museum earlier this week; the children had great fun yesterday examining each one and learning all about them and what they were used for. The enthusiasm has been so lovely to see. Do enjoy the photos below, showing just some of the artefacts we shared.
On Monday, the children enjoyed a super cricket training session led by a coach from Yorkshire Cricket; each of the classes in Key Stage 2 had over a full hour's session, developing their skills in batting and fielding through fun, but competitive games. Again, I have added a couple of photos taken during our year 4 session.
Have a great Bank Holiday weekend everyone and we'll see you all on Tuesday.
See you soon, Mrs Matthews and the year 4 team xx
Friday 4th April 2025
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We hope you all have a wonderful Easter break and enjoy lots of special time together. Let's keep our fingers crossed for the good weather to continue!
The children across school had great fun this afternoon on an Easter egg hunt. They loved searching for their eggs beneath the beautiful blossom trees beside the playground. The weather was really kind to us all too. Thank you so much to FONS for the donation of the eggs; it really made this afternoon very special!
I have added some photos below of the egg hunt and also some photos taken whilst the children made the chocolate crispie buns last week. We linked the baking to our science by checking the temperature of the boiling water, the melted chocolate and melted butter too! We never miss an opportunity to link our learning!!
Have a super Easter!
See you all very soon,
Mrs Matthews and the class 4 team xx
Friday 14th March
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Good afternoon everyone!
Here's a few photos I thought you might like to share with us! We've had a wonderful last 2 weeks! Last week, we thoroughly enjoyed the sunshine, as we shared books with buddies in year 1 on World Book Day. We enjoyed cakes as we sat on picnic rugs, sharing picture books in the gorgeous sunshine!
This week, we have had great fun sharing exciting practical science investigations. The children each had the opportunity to work with every one of the KS2 teachers on different experiments; the children absolutely loved every minute! Enjoy the photos!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Mrs Matthews and the year 4 team xx
Friday 28th February
admin on: Class 4
Here are just a selection of photos of some of the fun and practical activities we have all enjoyed this week (not forgetting the soup-making just before the holidays).
This week the children have thoroughly enjoyed 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' role play in small groups during literacy sessions and are loving sharing the book.
Science this afternoon involved a whole class investigation to determine which of our 6 selected materials proved to be the best insulator of sound; it took us a while, but we managed to order the materials from the most effective insulator to the least effective.
We are currently working on measuring at the moment in maths; measuring lengths, capacities and masses. Earlier in the week we enjoyed working both indoors and out using 30cm and 1m rulers, as well as the trundle wheels. Thank goodness the weather has been kind to us this week!
Do enjoy the photos above!
Have a great weekend everyone.
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews and the year 4 team.