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We have been learning about the impact of plastic pollution on the environment as part of our learning in science and geography this year. We read a very interesting book called A Planet Full of Plastic by Neal Layton and you can find out more by watching his great video.

We are all stewards of the world around us and we have enjoyed litter picking in the school playground to ensure that it is safe for us and the animals that we share it with. We have learned a great song reminding us ‘Don’t drop litter, put it in the bin. Let’s keep our playground tidy, neat and clean so don’t drop litter, put it in the bin’. If you see one of us in passing, we will be very happy to sing it to you.

As part of our learning about plastic pollution, we have learned that the most important thing to do is to try and reduce the amount of plastic that we use, especially single use plastic and we are very pleased to use a refillable drinks bottle everyday and make sure that our daily snack comes in a plastic re-useable pot, rather a new plastic wrapper or bag every day. We can all do our own bit to help this precious planet. Remember …

At the beginning of the week, we celebrated Earth day, reflecting on the things we’re grateful for on our planet. We also created pledges to protect it.

We began our new geography topic, which explores Europe and North America. We have linked this to our English work, where we have been developing our speeches about  plastic consumption and how we can preserve our planet.  We used our geography skills to analyse data to find out which country had the highest plastic usage. 

We had a wonderful time at the cathedral on Wednesday. The children’s behaviour was excellent, they listened very well and really enjoyed the practical map reading activities, outdoors. They created some beautiful illuminated letters, each one different and individual.

Year 4 enjoyed seeing the chicks who were only born one week ago but already have adult feathers coming in!

Everyone is sad to say good-bye to Miss Cartwright and wish her lots of luck in her new ventures

It’s been a short but packed week. We finished reading “Odd And The Frost Giant”, which we all loved. The children wrote some great writing in the adventure story genre and when asked what they’d learnt from this, said:

“I’ve learnt how to write similes.”

“how to use dialogue”

“how to tell a story from a different point of view- from the “baddy’s” point of view”

One technique to get children talking and sharing ideas is hot-seating and we enjoyed using strategy to get closer to the characters in the story this week:

The children also really enjoyed experimenting with “Chrome Music Lab”, a fantastic piece of software to write melodies with lots of different apps which the children can use at home, if they choose to.

It was lovely to see parents at both the assemblies this week – the Stations of the Cross on Tuesday and Easter celebration on Wednesday. Well done to the children who won prizes for their careful, beautiful artwork. All the entries were stunning.

We are all sad to say good-bye to Miss Cartwright. In year 4, she has been more than the PE teacher as she has listened to readers, accompanied us on trips and generally supported the children in the school day. We will really miss her, but wish her well as she starts her degree. She has a brilliant future ahead of her and many other children will benefit from her teaching.

The office will inform all parents the details of netball club after we return from the holiday.  It will start a few weeks into the summer term, with the start date and the day yet to be confirmed. When it does start any interested year 4s are very welcome to join. There are no more league games or tournaments now so the focus will be on playing together as a team and skill practice. I know that there are some very keen netball players which is fantastic there is a brilliant opportunity to build new, confident school team next year!

I hope you all have a lovely two-week break together, starting with celebrating the Good News of the Resurrection and then enjoying relaxing, seeing family,  going on holiday or whatever plans you have to have a good time. I look forward to seeing everyone in April. Happy Easter!

Last week in Science week, we explored time.

We learnt what we can do in a minute, from how many star jumps to how many times we can write our name.

We looked at the lifecycle of a bee and other cycles of life we see in nature.

We linked all the learning to our Science topic of seasonal changes and learning about the months of the year, which we then shared with our families and the school in our Learning Assembly.