Well done to our star of the week- Leo

who has shown a mature and positive attitude towards school this week. He has been prepared every morning and ready to start learning. When entering the class, he completes starter activities set.

This week we had a visit from the dogs trust who talked to us about how we care for animals and how to keep safe. The children took part in scenarios, votes and discussions.

We also had a visit from St John’s Ambulance, this was an assembly about first aid awareness and safety. The children learnt about numbers to call when needing help, the recovery position, and CPR.

We have now completed our nests. We began by collecting leaves, sticks, resources from the school field and created our nest with clay. Adding resources and placing them safely in a tree for birds to use. A job well done by all.

In geography, we looked at biomes and the inner part of the Grand Canyon. We created the biomes making a replica in a box our own – we will present it to the class next week.

Star of the week Amelia, for her fantastic effort in her writing. Not only does she produce work to a fantastic standard but incorporates all grammatical features asked. Such as conjunctions, relative clauses and similes.

We have have a busy this week in Hawkstone. We began be learning new vocabulary linked to our new class text ‘ Arthur and the Golden rope’. We spent time  improving our dictionary skills by finding the definition of a word and matching images to the words.

In Art, we have been drawing nests using ink, for this we needed specialist pens and liquid ink where we were able to draw and flick the ink to create twigs and sticks.

In french, we learnt about family members and what nouns matched which image: mum, dad, sister, brother, pets etc.

In science, we created our own digestive system to see how each part functions. We used a bag for the stomach, tights for the intestines and passed food through the items to see how the body would absorb nutrients and pass waste.  We will be following this up by writing it up in our own words.

The children also had a visit from the air ambulance where they were able to have a look around the helicopter and ask questions.

This week in art we will be creating a nest out of clay and twigs using resources gathered from the school field.

Just wanted to say a huge well done to all the children for completing a number of assessments this week. You have all worked exceptionally hard and persevered.

Star of the week-

Georgia- This week we have focused on our presentation and handwriting and Georgia has worked hard to improve the size of her writing and the letter formation. Well done

This week we have been understanding more about our feelings and what colour each feeling is to us.

In computing we have been learning about output and input devises and how to record our voices.

We have been busy planning our designs for our stocking and will be completing the final stage next week with the help of our Holy Trinity Heroes- sewing team.

In PE, we have now completed the dance unit with a WW2 theme. The final week was the mourning after the battle scene. The children worked together to add emotion and feelings to the scene and perform a canon ( a routine where each person takes it in turn to repeat the action) .

Finally, we have been learning our class song for the church service. Please see link below to continue to learn the song – we three kings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI9S5Pecsco

This week we are celebrating 2 stars of the week- it was so hard to choose one so we had 2.

Elisa for her fantastic dialogue between two characters. Her positive attitude to learning is evident in every lesson. She never gives up and always thrives to provide work to an excellent standard.

Cameron has settled well in Hawkstone class, he is a delight to teach and is working hard in all subjects.

This week we have been learning to write a conversation between a wicked witch and Jub. The children wrote their own conversations based on an image, acted it out and then wrote  to down with added body language,  actions and correct punctuation.

In science, the year 4 children have been creating circuits with different components and drawing the correct image for the circuit.

For PSHE, the year 4 children are learning about the different feeling and how to manage them. We are basing our learning around a book called ‘Bottled’.

This is a bottle. You will have seen bottles before. What are you bottling up? Maybe now’s the time to explore… It is important to share our feelings rather than bottling them up inside. With Bottled, teachers Tom and Joe Brassington help children of all ages understand why and how they should express their emotions in a healthy way. A starting point for early, crucial conversations surrounding mental wellbeing, this book is an invaluable tool which parents, guardians and teachers can use to create emotionally honest spaces for children in their care.