Please find below a copy of our Newsletter and Curriculum Map for the second half of our Summer Term.
Ercall News
Final week before half term
What a busy week we have had, we started the week with a visit from a Jewish member of the community, sharing his knowledge and expertise about the Jewish faith, followed by a visit to willow art gallery on Thursday, where the children got to meet and watch a live artist and explore the art in the gallery. Year 4 were swimming and finally the queens jubilee celebrations. Thank you for all your support this half term and please enjoy the jubilee celebrations next week.
First Monday back is staff training / pd day therefore children will return to school Tuesday 7th June 2022.
A note from the swimming team- please can you take your children swimming over the holidays to build their confidence in the water. Thank you
Thank you
⭐️Star of the week 🌟
This week, we had TWO stars of the week it was so hard to choose so I went with both!
Firstly, we have Isla Smith
Isla is a star of the week for settling in well to our class. She has found a great little group of friends and is becoming a great asset to the class. She is passionate about her work especially the writing unit for whales -sharing her own knowledge with others. Well done Isla!
We also have Florence Cattley
Florence is also a star of the week for her dedication towards the year 4 multiplication check. She is making great progress towards this and always tries her best to beat her previous score! Keep it up Florence!
Summer Newsletter and Curriculum Map
Please find below a copy of our Newsletter and Curriculum Map for our Summer Term ahead.
A week in Ercall
Well where do I start, what a wonderful week had by all and this was topped off by winning the ks2 class attendance award.
We have started our new English unit and been writing a letter to David Attenborough sharing our facts about whales and asking him questions we would like to be answered. We also went outside onto the play ground and measured out 30 metres – the length of a Blue whale.
In maths we have be converting money, adding and subtracting amounts. We have also been buying items with a given amount.
For science, Year 4 have been growing cress to different types of music: rock, classical and no music to see if it has an effect on its growth.
For music we have been playing he the glockenspiel along side our dragon song 🐉 the children enjoyed playing the instruments.
We have no completed our Geography unit where we have been comparing Oswestry to Bologna. We have created a fa tile for bologna as well as a persuasive poster for Oswestry.
In RE this week we have focused on Holy Week and created Easter eggs to match each day.
Holy Trinity celebrate British Science Week 2022
Today, Holy Trinity celebrated the start of British Science Week. Each class are participating in their own exciting growth activities.Clee started to talk about ideas and what growth meant to them today. I have seen some wonderful seed planting in Earls Hill and beans are growing in Wrekin Class. Caradoc are going to be looking at the tadpoles growing in Mrs Morgan’s pond via video and pictures. Longmynd will be investigating plants and their functions, whilst Ercall and Hawkstone are investigating the effect of sound on the growing of cress seeds. Stiperstones are looking at the size of planets and will be investigating the growth of crators. Finally, Haughmond will be investigating the growth of mould and bacteria and the growth of penguins in the Antarctic.
In assembly this morning, we lear
nt about how growth can be explored in so many different ways, as well as the definition of growth – Growth can mean the process of increasing in size or the progressive development of something.
Each class have been given their own sunflower seed and we will be having a school competition to see which class can grow the tallest sunflower.
The children will hopefully have come home with competition details today on designing their own posters on anything to do with growth. The posters will be judged at school and the there will be one winner awarded to each class with a prize and then the winners will be put forward to a national competition. Entries need to be into school by Tuesday 12th April. Here is the link for more details on the competition.: britishscienceweek.org/ plan-your-activities/poster-competition
Have fun with your wonderful competition ideas. I can’t wait to see them.
Christian values champion in Ercall
Well done to Lola who is Ercall’s Christian values champion for last half term. The value was courage and Lola displayed this daily in all areas of the curriculum but especially maths.
We have been learning to multiply and divide 2 and 3 digit numbers, learning new strategies to help us. This was something the children found difficult but Lola persevered and never gave up. Well done and keep up the hard work.
World book day in Ercall 📚
Thank you to all parents, carers and children for their fantastic effort with World Book Day, here are a few image of the day.
We took part in a Puffin book zoom where we were able to listen to a selection of authors and illustrators about this favourite books.
The children came home with a pack to follow on from this.
From Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Slime, 101 Dalamtions to footballers and cats. We all had a fantastic day.
Ercall’s Newsletter and Curriculum Overview
Please find a copy of our newsletter and curriculum overview for the second half of our Spring Term.
Year 4 science in Ercall
Yesterday we had our final lesson for electricity. Over the unit, we have been focusing on simple circuits adding buzzers and switches. We have also identified which materials are good conductors, for this we tested a range of materials to see if we could get the bulb to light. For our final session we created a hoop game where we could get the buzzer to sound by creating a closed circuit. This is what the children achieved.
