After what I hope was a fantastic Easter, it is absolutely brilliant to see everyone coming back this week and we have hit the ground running! Here in Year 4, we have been immersing ourselves into our new expedition, ‘Why Is Sugar Not So Sweet?’ where we shall be exploring its historic roots, and flavourful present. We have been creating timelines, our own sugary products, and conducting a blind taste test! Over the rest of this final summer term, we have got so many great experiences planned, and I can’t wait to share all of these and all of our learning in the weeks to come!
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Back with a bang (of a bat)!
Post-Easter Catchup
After a well needed Easter break,6CC have hit the ground running, returning to school with an abundance of focus, resilience and a desire to soak up as much valuable learning as they can before their upcoming SATs assessments.
Maths
In Maths, the children have explored 2D and 3D shape, coordinates , translation, symmetry and reflection. Working with new partners as of the beginning of the week, the crew of 6CC has knuckled down and impressively supported each other in every area of learning. Well done guys!
Rounders!
Wednesday afternoon saw the children enjoy the chance to let off some steam with some healthy competition: our inter class rounders tournament not only refreshed the children’s memory of the rules of the game but also saw sportsmanship, respect and great team work. Awesome start to the new PE topic, Year 6!
And our new expedition is ……..
🥚🐇 Happy Easter! 🐇🥚
And just like that, another term has finished! It seems like we have only just come back from Christmas! But time flies when you’re having fun and I think that was certainly the case throughout NJS this term and in 4TE too. Our expedition, ‘What A Wonderful World’ was such an informative, relavent and enjoyable topic and gave the children fantastic experiences. To demonstrate this, over the term we filled our displays and corridor outside of the class. The children put great effort into making our environment an engaging place to be and it would be a shame for such effort not to be shared, as shown below! To celebrate the end of this expedition and this term, we had a superb last couple days…
To celebrate the end of this term, 4TE had a very busy last day. First, along side 5RS, we embarked on an Easter Egg Hunt around school. 76 eggs were tucked away for the two classes to work together to forage for. They successfully found all of the eggs and were given an egg each for their detecting skills. Then, we decorated some cookies and biscuits which we had baked yesterday, and following this created more delicious goods in the form of chocolate-covered cornflake buns! Then, later in the day, we once again joined together with 5RS to participate in some board games which had been created by the children of 5RS. We had a great time playing some brilliantly creative games which led us nicely onto the end of the day and also the end of this term. The children deserved such a fun day to commemorate all of their hard work from this term. So to conclude, I hope you all have a lovely Easter and are able to get outside in the sun too. Have a great break and see you soon!
Crucial Crew!
On the first of April, Year 6 took the annual trip down to Rotherham for Crucial Crew; a day of safety training and life skills practice. The children experienced a range of life scenarios, from a visit to the magistrates court to learning about the serious impact of hate and knife crime. All of the scenario leaders were from backgrounds relevant to the training they delivered who helped to make their training as engaging as possible.
After a busy Spring term which has flown by, the visit to Crucial Crew was a pleasantly different way to mark the end of term. We hope you all enjoy the Easter holidays and look forward to seeing you again in Summer!
🎤🎤 ‘The Band is just fantastic that is really what I think!’ 🎸🎸
This expedition has had a very heavy music focus this last half-term! This initially cultimated in a trip to the recording studio to record our verses for the Trust’s song ‘Dear World’. Recently however, we have taken the tune of ‘Dear World’, and wrote our own verses in order to create our own song! The version above, with exception of the chorus, was written fully by different children in the class, then their verses were put together to create class 4TE’s very own song! Then, in the space of an hour, we hastily rehearsed, practised and then recorded our song as you can see above. I think the children wrote some beautiful verses and given the short amount of time we had to practise, performed fantastically. Lovely stuff songwriters!
⭐️ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ⭐️
We have had a brilliant last week of term making music and playing Twinkle Twinkle’ on the glockenspiel. 3HJ excelled in keeping time, playing with tunes, tones and creating melodies. We have a whole class full of talented musicians,
Live, laugh and log!
Out in the idyllic South Yorkshire sunshine, our year six wood workers were grafting hard on Friday morning to sand down their wooden frames. With it being such a distinctly different design and technology task, all enjoyed the opportunity to smoothen their frames in preparation for decorating next week!
An Eggcellent Eggsperiment!
Today with Easter looming, 4TE were given a challenge… In small teams could they create a protective casing fit with parachute to protect an egg from mighty drop? The teams did a fantastic job working together to conjure up such incredible and fantastic creations as you can see! Overall, we had 3 eggs suffer crackings and 4 which successfully survived the drop! It was a great bit of fun and developed our teamworking skills and a good time was had by all!
Case Study 3 – Music
3HJ have thoroughly embraced our third and final case study. This week has seen us stacking ostinato, reading rhythms and playing them simultaneously using non-tuned percussion.