Year 3/4 phase assembly!

By Chris Mumby3rd December 2020

What a wonderful catch up in year 3 and 4 today. Staff gave shout outs to crew members that had gone above and beyond this week in our HOWLs of ‘working hard, being kind and getting smart’. This week a lot of discussion was around children demonstrating hard work in their assessments. Well done to Crew Mumby this week, you narrowly won this week’s Howl point challenge and spun the wheel to win DOUBLE FUNKY FRIDAY TIME!

The challenge is now on in each crew to work hard, be kind and get smart in all that you do to win a spin of the wheel!

I wonder: Discuss with your crew leaders prizes that you’d like to see on our wheel of fortune! Leave a comment below if you wish.

 

Well done, Courtney!

By Chris Mumby26th November 2020

I have been really impressed with Courtney’s work this week. She has grappled with tricky concepts and has worked incredibly hard! I have attached her high quality work from today. Well done Courtney you are today’s Learning Legend!

 

We are scientists! The water cycle!

By Chris Mumby25th November 2020

Well Crew Mumby have blown me away with their scientific knowledge this week! This half-term we’ve been learning about changing states and this week focused on the water cycle. We used active games to learn the key vocabulary that we added to our anchor chart. Using the anchor chart, every crew member created their own mini cycle based on the learning. I was very impressed by their articulation of the cycle and the way they could use scientific vocabulary. If your child is in year 4, please ask them the following questions to further their learning at home:

 

  • What is the process called where the liquid becomes a gas by heat? Clue- it begins with an E

 

  • What causes the gas to become a liquid again?

 

  • What is the scientific word for rain, sleet, snow, hail? Clue- it begins with P

 

  • Give an example when condensation occurs 

Challenge question:

True or false?

Water evaporates faster with more heat.

Can you explain why?

Feel free to comment below for extra Howl points for ‘working hard’ at home

 

Thanks,

 

Mr Mumby

Collaborative English work

By Aime Shaw18th November 2020

The children were picking out features of non-chronological reports today, ready for their extended writing. To recap the features they needed to find, they worked collaboratively to discuss what they meant and examples of each. They really surprised me with how well they supported their crew members to think of and find examples of these features in the example texts.

Super work as always class 14

Mrs Shaw x

Year 4 Mayan research

By Aime Shaw17th November 2020

Year 4 have been learning all about the Mayans this term and they used their English lesson today to research more information about them. They have read reports, watched educational videos and made notes, which class 14 can use in their extended writing on Friday.

They really showed maturity and used a lot of different skills, most importantly peer collaboration, in order to discover a lot of relative information. Well done, super work as always class 14.

Mrs Shaw x

Children in Need!

By Chris Mumby13th November 2020

A fantastic effort from both parents and children to this years Children In Need. Thank you for getting involved!!

Lest We Forget

By Aime Shaw11th November 2020

This morning we celebrated remembrance day by drawing a poppy onto some wooden boards and writing a message on the back to say thank you for people’s sacrifice during the war. The children have shown a mature attitude towards the celebration and enjoyed their art work too 🙂

They are hanging down the year 3/4 corridor and you can see them through the window if you wanted to see your childrens art work

 

Mrs Shaw

Jasper’s superb home learning

By Chris Mumby9th November 2020

Thank you Jasper for sending me these wonderful pictures of the baking you have done. Jasper has learnt about the science of baking- just like the class will in case study 3. The cupcakes look fantastic , Jasper and I’m told that they were delicious too. Keep up the great work 👍

Brownie packaging in Crew Mumby

By Chris Mumby8th November 2020

All I can say is WOW! Our crew have had our ‘designer’ hats on during D&T this week to create packaging for the brownies we will bake in case study 3. Children did a great job of working to a design brief to create these appealing packaging. Like in the real world, the children made multiple drafts to ensure that the design was the best it could be.

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Design and technology

By Aime Shaw8th November 2020

As part of our phase expedition this week we designed a Mayan draft that we would like to transfer to our final products. There were some inspirational artists and I was blown away 😍

For those of you that don’t know, our product is going to be a box filled with professionally homemade brownies, made by each child in years 3 and 4, with the help of a fabulous lady who is going to help us. Check her facebook page out – sugar rush – and you will see what to expect!

These boxes of brownies will then get delivered to NHS, care and key workers in our community.

The children cannot wait!!!