Y5 Heart Dissection

5th May 2022Tom Ambler

During our next case study, Year 5 children will be learning about the heart and circulatory system as part of their science curriculum work for this expedition. The children will get the chance to dissect a lamb’s heart. In the past, children have found this session extremely beneficial and gained a greater depth of understanding of the organ and how it functions. We understand, however, that there may be some children who will not feel comfortable with this, and so we will ensure that only children who want to take part in the activities do so.

We will also take all the necessary safety precautions required, purchasing hearts of food quality and making sure that the children wash their hands thoroughly after the activity. Please could you ensure that your child brings into school an apron or an oversized old shirt to protect their school uniform. These activities will take place on Wednesday 11th May. If you have any concerns regarding this activity, please contact your child’s class teacher or through the Y5/6 phase email [email protected]

Thank you and best wishes

Y5 team

XP Outdoors – Year 4 Reminder

25th April 2022Sophie Myers

Just a quick reminder that Year 4 will be starting XP Outdoors every Tuesday morning with Mr Kershaw.

Children will need to bring a spare change of clothing including suitable footwear to change into for the session.

Also, thank you to everyone who have returned their permission slips. Please can any remaining letters be returned to Crew Leaders so that children are able to take part in all of the activities.

Many thanks,

Miss Myers, Mrs Faulding and Mr Oldridge

Producing beautiful work in year 4!

22nd April 2022Amy Faulding

I just had to share some of the beautiful work that the children produced yesterday in one of our hook expedition lessons. These gorgeously illustrated posters show the production of sugar and how it transforms in to the sugar that we know it as in the shops.

Well done everyone, I’m so proud of the time you’ve taken to produce these!
You stars! ⭐️

Getting ‘clever’ with coordinates!

22nd April 2022Amy Faulding

We’ve had a great start to our week by grappling with coordinates. It’s been good fun making links between coordinates and the game ‘Battleships’ as well as working collaboratively as we were beginning to plot coordinates on a grid. Well done everyone, it’s been fab to see you grapple with this together as a crew!

Product designers in Class 12!

22nd April 2022Amy Faulding

To hook us straight in to our new expedition, ‘Why isn’t sugar so sweet?’, we’ve wasted no time in getting our design caps on and our creative juices flowing in the process of designing our final product. Despite our product not being created until later on in the term, it’s so important that we know what it is and what it will look like right at the start of our learning journey. That way, we know what all of this is for, and how each case study links together.

I loved seeing your individual, bespoke designs and I’m so excited to see them come to life in the next half term!

Mrs Faulding x

Times Tables Rock Stars day!!! (International dance day) – Friday 29th April

20th April 2022Luke Oldridge

On Friday the 29th April, we will be having a rock star dress up day in years 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1. Times Tables Rock Stars is an excellent site which helps children practice and improve their times tables. All children in these year groups have a login. To promote it’s use across school, we are encouraging children to dress up as rock stars on the above date. Not only will children have the opportunity to use this site on this day, we will be linking it to International Dance day which falls on the same date. Therefore, in the afternoon, children will also be dancing and crews will be making ‘rock-style’ music videos. Pictures and videos of the day will be blogged by each crew.

Red Nose Day 🔴

19th April 2022Jake Taylor

Well done to the winners of the ‘Design a Red Nose’ competition! There were some fantastic entries but the school council voted and decided that these would be the winning entries. Well done to all who submitted an entry.

We are also pleased to announce that the school managed to sell £300 worth of red noses in the run up to the event before raising a further £301.58 through donations when wearing something red. Thank you to every one for your generous donations!

Spring ‘Reading Raffle’ Winners

31st March 2022Amy Faulding

A big well done to our four Reading Raffle winners today! Enjoy your Easter goodies!

Hard work pays off when you’re scoring 80% or more on your Accelerated Reader quizzes. The more quizzes you pass, the more raffle tickets you get to put in the pot!

I wonder who will be our winners next term?!

Mrs Faulding x

Year 4 Family Learning/Celebration of Learning

30th March 2022Amy Faulding

We had a fantastic afternoon yesterday celebrating our autumn Year 3/4 product- our TikTok videos. Children loved seeing all of their hard work payoff by watching themselves and their crew on screen in the hilariously creative, but factual short clips about the Roman Empire. We hope that you all enjoyed them too? Don’t forget that if you would like to share these clips with family and friends they are on our Green Top School you tube page.

We also had our family learning event yesterday afternoon too for our most recent expedition ‘Why should we protect our beautiful planet?’. We linked family learning to Case Study 3 which was a music focus and of course had a music quiz!! There was such a lovely buzz in the air with excited and enthusiastic children (and grown ups) all ready to test their musical knowledge.

Thank you to everyone who came, it was great to have you all back in school, face to face to celebrate the wonderful work that our children work so hard to achieve. Your support is appreciated, as always!

Year 4 Teaching Staff- Mrs Faulding, Miss Myers, Mr Oldridge and Mr Overson x