Today we came together as a school and hold our 2 minute silence in our classes, we also took part in the National Literacy Trust Zoom with other school nationally.

This week has been a creative week across the curriculum.  We have started our new dance unit where we are focusing on WW2. This week was to create a dance to an air raid siren and to the safety of a shelter.

In DT we have been exploring different styles of bags, their material, fastenings and purpose.

We started our new History unit where we looked at the term pre history and how archaeologists find and record evidence. We sorted the image of the equipment with a description and the title of their job role.

To finish our create week, in RE, we analysed the Trinity symbol and created our own new school Trinity badge with a focus on: God the father, son and Holy Spirit and hope.

Wellcome back the half term holidays, hope you have had a lovely week off.

The children came back to school ready to learn and what a wonderful week we have had, first we celebrate our Christian distinctiveness champion for last half term  of Thankfulness- Hanna, she has been such a wonderful role model for the other children with her positive attitude to learning in and out of the classroom.

We have started our new class txt and been making predictions what we think the book is about.

In maths, we have now moved onto addition and subtraction learning how to successfully add when exchanging.

In science year 4 for are learning about electricity and the use of appliances and in RE we have been learning about the Trinity .

Not only the wonderful class work but some children took part in bike ability where they pass3 the level one of the course – learning to ride with confidence.

This week we have parents evening – see letters which have gone out.

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

Hawkstone Newsletter and Overview

Hawkstone Newsletter autumn

Hawkstone curriculum map autumn 1

Another successful week by all.

Our star of the week this week is Kobie, she has an outstanding attitude to extra curricular subjects and is now learning the violin, recorder and has joined choir at lunch time. It’s lovely to see the enthusiasm.

This week has been busy with the harvest service at Holy Trinity Church, the children learnt  Makaton for a wonderful world. It was such a lovely turn out by all and we’ve never seen the church so full. All food donated will be given to the local food bank.

This week in computing and PSHE we have been learning about networking, how the internet works and how to keep safe while using the World Wide Web.

In french we are learning numbers to 20 then linking this to times table snow balls.

In RE, following on from the harvest service, we made a class covenant for our wonderful world and how to make it a better place.

Thank you all for your continued support and I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Well done all for the hard work and dedication this week.

Well done to Amelia, who is our star of the week this week for her fantastic attitude to learning. She has asked for extra home work to pass her times tables, completed all English to a fantastic standard and been such a great role model to others with her behaviour.

We have been busy learning about place value in maths this week, a lesson in particular the children really enjoyed was 1/10/100/1000 more or less. We used resources to help us understand the concept.

This week in RE we have been understanding more about a Christian Wedding, with the focal point being the vows, the commitment and promise made.

In science, we have been learning how to group and class living things according to their characteristics: we used a classification key where we have to come up with our own questions.

Another wonderful week and we have been busy with many different lessons.

Pshe this week (for year 4) is based on online respect where we discussed many scenarios and how to deal with online bullying.

In English, we have been learning about Annie Taylor – the lady who successfully plunged over Niagara Falls in a barrel. On Monday we will be writing a character description. We have been using a dictionary to understand new  words for descriptions.

In Geography, we used maps and atlases to identify where in the world rainforests  are focusing on the equator and the tropics. We have also been learning the different between tropical and temperate rainforests and the climates of each.

PE this week was very active where children have been learning how tag in tag rugby, the children had to work with a partner to attack and defend their tags.

And finally in art, we have focused on an artist called Sol Lewitt, who creates are by following rules. This is called wall drawing  #118. 

Im exhausted just thinking about all the work we’ve covered and the fun we’ve had.