And just like that, we’re back for another busy half term in Year 4!
We began our week with a whole school Mass to mark All Souls’ Day, taking time to remember and pray for those who are no longer with us. The children wrote down the names of loved ones they wished to pray for especially and produced some beautiful illustrations in Drawing Time, showing what they imagined Heaven might look like. It was lovely to see how thoughtful and reflective the children were.
In English, we have started our new unit, which will see us creating our very own persuasive radio adverts to encourage families, adventure seekers and history lovers to visit our wonderful home city of Coventry! We have been hooked into our new topic, exploring and analysing different persuasive adverts before beginning to plan our own. We are looking forward to drafting and recording these over the next couple of weeks, ready for you all to listen to!
Our new Maths unit has us focusing on addition and subtraction, and the children have been wowing Mrs Hartwell with how quickly they are picking up new skills. We have also been particularly impressed with the presentation of their formal written methods (after a little – or perhaps a lot – of nagging!). Keep it up, Year 4!
We said goodbye to Geography for a little while with a very competitive end-of-unit Kahoot quiz! It was a tense battle for the top spot, but a huge well done to Logan, who managed to hold on to first place throughout! This also meant it was time to begin our new History unit, exploring just how much the Ancient Egyptians achieved. Our first lesson had us investigating how the Egyptians managed to prosper in the desert, with some fantastic discussions about how the River Nile helped them not only survive but thrive!
We also began Dance with Mrs Cooke, where we have been learning some Rock and Roll moves! Meanwhile, in Spanish, we have been counting in tens and challenging ourselves to add and subtract numbers up to 100. Using dice to create two-digit numbers, the children then had to work out and give their answers in Spanish. We were so impressed with how well they remembered their vocabulary and tackled some tricky pronunciations!
A huge well done to Rose C and Ella, our very deserving Class Superstars this week! We also welcomed another member to our growing pen licence crew – congratulations to Devasena, who has earned her very well-deserved pen licence! We have a feeling there might be a few more joining before Christmas… watch this space! We are also determined to win Mr Cooke’s Attendance Race, where the class with the highest attendance this half term will earn a special class treat day! We’ve already secured the win for Week 1, so fingers crossed the germs stay well away and we can hold on to our top spot for the rest of the half term! 🤞
It has been lovely to have everyone back together, and the children have certainly thrown themselves straight back into their learning. With plenty to look forward to over the coming weeks, we are excited to see what the rest of this half term brings!
Well done on a great first week back, Year 4! ❤️
