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RHE this week was about distinguishing between behaviours which are, wrong, unacceptable, unhealthy or risky. The children enjoyed deciding which category behaviour like calling someone names because they are different, singing in front of people or eating food from the dustbin fall into. Many of them fell into two categories.

On Thursday, the children learnt about materials through a workshop at school, when all the resources where brought in and set up by an organisation called Setpoint. The children worked in pairs to carry out four investigations or experiments. They listened and focused brilliantly and made the most of this fantastic active learning opportunity. Many thanks to the parents who came in to help, without whose help we couldn’t run these sessions.

The children looked amazing in their costumes – there was a huge range of book characters learning in year 4, which was great to see. I am sorry not to post a photo, but the Apple mini-i-pad has “frozen”and I can’t get into it. When I can I will post the photo then.

As always, year 4 worked really well as a team and sang their Mother’s Day enthusiastically. It was lovely to see so many Mums, Grandmas and aunts today.

We have started a new topic in Maths – length and perimeter so there are plenty of opportunities to talk about distances and to estimates lengths and height of furniture, for example.

We are continuing to learn about Lent and Easter in RE and I am looking forward to seeing lots of individual entries for the Easter Art competition.

Have a lovely weekend.

Year IV know just what the Romans did for us and they told us all about it on Thursday. They did it with style, confidence and worked brilliantly as a team. The children learnt their lines off by heart so they could concentrate on delivering them clearly and loudly. Thank you for coming to support the children. We hope you enjoyed their ukelele playing. Thanks go to their teacher, Mrs Newman, who prepared all the music and tuned the ukeles the day before the performance.

We used the visit to Verulamium and the resources we have at school to complete some topical writing and Art which are now proudly displayed on the classroom wall. The children have very much enjoyed reading “Escape From Pompeii” and will start a new book very soon.

Everyone looked amazing on Number Day on Friday. Thank you for your donations to the NSPCC. The children played some games from the nrich website to use their multiplication and division fact recall in strategic problem-solving contexts. Maybe you could play the games with your children at home? The links are :

https://nrich.maths.org/6863 – Times Tables shifts,

https://nrich.maths.org/10094 – Four in a Row (or similar name)

… was one of the headlines year 4 chose to start their reports on their trip to Verulamium Museum. They also wrote about what they had learnt and their ideas show insight.

It was a beautiful day to walk across Verulamium Park and the interest in the dogs we passed along the way was almost as great as that shown in the Roman artefacts we handled during the workshop session. It was a fantastic opportunity to actually touch the same objects that Romans made nearly 2000 years ago. The children then had the opportunity to learn more about the Roman history of their city by exploring the museum exhibits.

We are very grateful to the two Mums who came with us, midweek; and without whose support we couldn’t do these very valuable enrichment activities. Thank you.

The Roman topic, studied in History and through reading “Escape From Pompeii”, has provided the children with opportunities to learn about vocabulary, practise art and understand the impact of a hugely significant civilisation.

The two weeks off have done everyone a lot of good and everyone is raring to go with learning. We started lots of new topics this week, including out book for writing “Escape From Pompeii”. The children role-played being citizens in Pompeii, before the volcano erupted.

The children explored replica Roman artefacts to better understand life in Ancient Rome. We shall see real versions of these when we visit Verulamium Museum on Wednesday 24th January.

In Maths, we have been learning about other ways to work out the answer to multiplication calculations and today the children used Dienes to show that multiplying a number by 12 is the same as mutliplying it by 12 and by 2, which are straightforward calculations to do; and then adding together these two answers.

I found out today that the cake sale raised £199.10 which is really fantastic! Thank you for your generosity in organising, making cakes as well as buying and selling them. I will discuss with the class what we would like to buy with the money.

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend and let’s all hope that it’s not going to be bitterly cold.

The children looked very festive in their beautiful jumpers and tops today. Mrs Porter and the year sixes decorated the dining room so it was very colourful and cheerful for Christmas lunch.

This week, the children made their slingshot cars which they finished and tested today.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and that the Christmas preparations are going well.