And just like that, we have reached the end of our first half term in Year 4!
What a busy, productive and memorable eight weeks it has been. We have certainly packed a lot into our first half term together!
In Maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1,000, and we have been so impressed with everyone’s progress and newfound rounding skills! To put them to the test, our class treat box was locked with a six-digit code, which could only be discovered by using the first digit of the answers to a series of rounding questions. Well done to Purple table, who cracked the code and unlocked the treats! Yum! In English, we have worked incredibly hard to edit, refine, publish and share our classic fiction narratives.
Our stories, inspired by our little Borrower friend Arietty, were finally ready to share with our friends in Year 2. They were very excited to hear all about what Arietty had been getting up to in the Year 4 classroom and we thoroughly enjoyed becoming authors and sharing our very own stories aloud.
In Science, we have brought our unit on Living Things and Their Habitats to a close by exploring the positive and negative ways humans can impact different environments. In Geography, we have been busy becoming Route 66 tour guides! We are currently recording our group tour guide presentations, ready to share them through QR codes, with a little technological help from Mr You!
We also shared in a very special Rosary Service, led by Father Paul in Church on Thursday during this special month of the Holy Rosary. The children were wonderfully prayerful and reverent throughout the service and we were incredibly proud of them.
This week, we also said farewell to Miss Sonja, who has been the wonderful lady behind our tasty school meals for an incredible eight and a half years. As a special goodbye, Miss Sonja left some golden tickets hidden underneath chairs around school. Congratulations to Isabel, Harrison and Thomas who found them and enjoyed some fabulous treats! We wish Miss Sonja all the very best for her next adventure and thank her for all her care and kindness!
A huge well done to Joseph and Bethany, our Year 4 Superstars this week, and to all of the children who received praise postcards. We also have a very special congratulations for Joseph T, who has earned his very well-deserved pen licence – the first of the Autumn term in Year 4! We have no doubt that there will be plenty more closely following behind watching how quickly the children are progressing.
Well done also to our fantastic team of Year 4 children who played Tag Rugby no Monday, winning four games and drawing one. They put in some excellent performances, demonstrating great teamwork, sportsmanship and respect throughout. Well done to everyone who took part – you should be incredibly proud of their efforts and the fantastic way you represented our school!
Some of our girls also braved the rain to take part in a football tournament at the AT7 Centre. For some, it was their very first experience of playing in a football match, making their performances even more impressive! The team had a fantastic tournament, winning three games, drawing one and losing just one. They showed great determination, teamwork and enthusiasm throughout, doing themselves and the school proud!
On Wednesday, 14 Year 4 children split into two teams to take part in a values dodgeball competition. Alongside their performances on the court, children were rewarded for demonstrating key values, including teamwork, respect and honesty. Both teams performed superbly, showing great sportsmanship and supporting one another throughout the event. One of our teams finished in an excellent second place, taking home a well-deserved silver medal! Well done to all 14 children for their efforts and for representing our school so positively.
Looking back over our first eight weeks together, it really has been wonderful to see how much we have grown as a class. We have got to know one another, built relationships, worked hard, made progress and created lots of special memories along the way. It was also lovely to meet so many of our parents too at parents’ evening to share in celebrating the children’s successes so far. Now it’s time for a well-earned rest! We hope you all have a wonderfully restful half term, ready to return refreshed and determined to continue making progress, creating memories and growing academically, spiritually and personally as we head into the second half of the Autumn term… and, of course, edge ever closer to the big C — Christmas!
Thank you, as always, for your continued support.
Happy Half Term, Year 4!
What a wonderful blog ! – a fabulous summary of all that the children have learnt and experienced over the past eight weeks .
Thank you for putting in the time and effort to create this lovely blog.
Enjoy your well deserved half term break !
Lovely pictures! I listened the Darcy’s story last night, she was very proud. She’s had a wonderful first half term!
Amazing! Loved reading Ella’s story and she has loved this term
happy friday everyone
well done every one on completing are borowers story
i loved this week
Such a fun week!
this has been an amazing time in year 4
yes
This was a wonderful half term!
my story was brillient I am very proud of it
Really good stories everyone.They are really detailed.
PE and computing yes i love Fridays!!!
i loved my story
i am so proud of my story
happy friday Mrs heartwell
really nice handwriting everyone really like it
well done flynn for getting rock hero
happy friday everyone it was so good at ruby
Were is everybody
im going ice skating on sunday!
so fun well done to everyone that wrote there story
I loved everyones Arriety work!
i loved last term
i cant wait for computing
it was so fun
my story was the best
thomas
well done to everyone that did dodge ball.
hi everyone happy friday ruby was so good
The sumer was great.
but I had ahead acke
orange table is going to win stars well done!!
or green well done to!!
i enjoyed doing english
actually 8.5 (:
Happy friday everyone I am in two pictures at the rosary service at mass hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i loved that day but i did meet Siena from year 1. I got a lot of pepole out by my caching. Sadly, I did not get the meadle but, i belive the other team desirv it.I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yep orange table is.
amazing work year 4 so proud of you keep pushing.
i rate school 9.5 out of ten
oh actually green is they have got 53 stars and also Aldric I have been ice skating 2 times already how many times have you?
Anette do you know MRS HARTWELL CAN SEE THIS AND MRS MCGRATH!
I loved that day and i also met Siena but sadly i didnt get the medel but i ,fink the other team dezerv the meadel more.And happy friday year 4.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i loved everbodys Arritey story and i loved year 2 listening because they were so cute also rugby girls and boys did you have fun also do you know who won tell me also congratiolations to the dogeball you guys were amazing you got second place well done the rosary service was good but it was distracting with people shushing talking and even wishpering
thats good pheopbe i liked your nice comment
no Green table is going to win so proud of every one in year 4
Wait Siena was there oh I wanted to see her.
whoo green table has 53 stars on the chart while orange has 49 stars hopefully we can win happy friday
welldone rugby and the peopel who won the golden ticet.
hope every one had a good week end
i love that worck
i love this lesson