Category: Our Classes

This week we have been learning the Glory Be. We have done well verbally and ordering the lines.

This was the view from the teachers desk this afternoon during indoor playtime. Don’t worry, its all tidy now.

In the Judaism workshop, we explored the rich traditions of the Jewish festival of Passover. We learned about its historical significance and why it remains such an important celebration today. We also discovered the symbolic meanings behind each item on the Passover plate. Afterwards, we examined a variety of foods to decide whether they could be eaten during Passover, and we even got to taste some unleavened bread called matzah. To finish, we had the opportunity to look at the Torah and try on a kippah, deepening our understanding of Jewish culture and customs.

The children have all worked very hard, writing their versions of “Weslandia”. They had great ideas and wrote some fantastic sentences to express these.

We have come to the end of learning about decimals for year. 4. The next topic is money, which can be very tricky as not many people use cash very often any more! Any learning you can do at home – recognising the coins and notes, understand the equivalent amounts and add and subtract amounts of pounds and pennies – in advance would help.

On the Tuesday after half-term – the 3rd of June – we will all go to Kew Gardens for the day. The journey is long but well worth it, to see the world-famous World Heritage site. Hopefully the weather will be a bit warmer than the last few days. Thank you for offers of help: the coach is now full!

It has been a very short half-term. I hope you all have a lovely week off with your families, whatever you do. I look forward to seeing you all for the last, long half-term of year 4.

Using small world figures, the class have been retelling the Gospel story of The Road to Emmaus.

In English we have acted out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. We gave each other notes on how we can improve out story telling.

Linking our Science to Literacy, we have also planted some beans in clear baggies so we can watch them grow. After three days, we can already see shoots emerging from two of the beans.

We launched May by thinking about Mary, Mother of Jesus. The children prepared a lovely display ‘Mary, Queen of Peace’ and enjoyed singing many hymns in our Celebration of the Word dedicated to Mary.

We started reading “The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe” today and the children were very excited to be able to say exactly what “…they were sent away from London during the war…” meant, and when. They looked very colourful in their red, white and blue; and enjoyed the celebration in the morning.

We are starting to plan our version of “Weslandia”, a book full of creativity which the children have really got immersed in. They are also continuing to enjoy “The Firework Maker’s Daughter” which is great for vocabulary development and is a great adventure to follow. “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” is our new class reader. We have a set of 15 books so the children can follow my reading out loud. If your child would like to bring a copy of their own, too , so more children have an individual copy to follow along with, then that would be fine. This is just an option, if your child would like to.

Mrs Newman is teaching the children some lovely cheerful summer songs on the ukelele; and this morning they were “shaking it off” in Taylor Swift style. The children have also been told to look out for the Electric Umbrella choir on “Britain’s Got Talent”. In June we will be joining Electric Umbrella at St Albans Cathedral for a special school concert (during the school day) and we have got lots of words to learn, which I will soon send home.

I hope you all have a relaxing weekend and that there is more sun than recently!