Category: Our Classes

Year 4 is making good progress with learning the 6 times tables and have been exploring the links between the 3 and the 6 times tables. They have used resources and counting the multiples, backwards and forwards, to help understand and learn the facts.

This week they verbally built sentences based on “The Snowman” and said what they liked about their partners’ writing. By responding positively to other people’s ideas they are giving others feedback on what works well as well as reading ideas which they may want to magpie.

Singing of the songs is coming on, but everyone really needs to commit the lyrics to heart so they can sing the songs confidently and beautifully on Monday, when we’re all looking forward to seeing you at St Bart’s, starting at 6.30pm.

Thank you for all the hard work in providing cakes and selling them this afternoon. They looked really amazing! We will have to consider what we, collectively as a class, would like to spend the money on.

This week has been bustling with exciting experiments in Year 3! In science we have been learning about rocks and soils. We explored various chocolate experiments to illustrate different rock formations.

In DT we have been experimenting with static electricity. Here are some photos of our experiments.

The countdown has begun! Year 4 has made some cheerful decorations for the classroom and is starting to look festive. The Advent table is ready and we have been learning the importance for Christians to prepare themselves during Advent, for the coming of the Christ Saviour.

This is the year 4 “Carol on the door”. Which carol is represented?

We have started our new book, “The Snowman”, which the whole school is reading. The children are really enjoying it. There is much nuance and inference when there are no words! I loved the simile one child thought of, when they said the boy’s hat flying was “like a kite”

The Maths topic of multiplication and division has started. Please don’t hold back with learning those times tables off by heart!

I hope to see you at the Christmas fair. Have a lovely weekend and stay nice and warm.

This week in history, we have been comparing facts about our current monarch King Charles 3rd and James the 1st who was king 500 years ago.

Today marks the beginning of Advent, the Church’s season of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the Nativity of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming. We read in Matthew’s Gospel, “Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.” Our RE display is bordered with lanterns – a reminder that we should be watchful – each of which contains our Advent promise as we reflect on our lives and resolve to live closer to God.

We have also worked together this week to make a door display for our classroom to remind us of the Advent season. The Advent wreath is full of symbolism: the circular shape stands for God’s infinite love for us; the materials of the wreath lead us to reflect on the everlasting nature of God; the four candles shape our preparation and remind us of Christ’s Nativity.

As we enter December and this Advent season, we look forward to the celebration of Christ’s Nativity and sharing this message with you at the key stage carol service on Monday, 11th December.

Beth says, “On our class trip, we went to Hampton Court Palace, we learnt about the Tudors and many of the events that took place there.

We went into the Great Hall, where all the important people ate twice a day.There were many long tables including one where the king and queen would eat with their most important courtiers. On the ceiling, there were heads called eavesdroppers to remind the  servants that they were always being watched. On the walls, there was a huge tapestry showing a bible story. When Henry VIII beheaded  Anne Boleyn, he wanted every trace of her removed from the palace, but one of her signatures still remains in the carving on one of the walls.

We also visited the Chapel Royal. Henry VIII was a very Catholic person and went to church every day. We saw the place where Henry VIII would sit for Mass. This was separate from where his Queen would sit. Another thing we saw in the chapel was Henry VIII’s  crown, although  it was a  replica because the real one was destroyed by Oliver Cromwell. It is made of pearls, emeralds, rubies and sapphires.

In the kitchen there were many bags of food and a fireplace where the meat would be cooked and places where they made the meals. Nearly 1,200 meals every day because they had to feed 600 people twice a day. 

I learnt many things about the Tudors on our school trip to Hampton Court Palace. “

We have had great fun learning about equal groups and how they can be used to make arrays. We used these arrangements to count in 2s, 5s and 10s and even learned some multiplication table raps. We are getting really good at using counters and real objects to help us to solve our multiplication problems.