Blog by Lucinda Croston

Today is World Book Day, hooray! All the children of Beech class have made a huge effort to dress up as a character from a book. Click to see more photos.

Today, we tested out our board games that we have designed and made. We evaluated our partner’s instructions using a success criteria. We had lots of fun and the games that we made were amazing!

This half term in science, we are learning about rocks and fossils. In this week’s lesson we observed lots of different rocks and sorted them by different categories such as colour, texture, size. 

This week in gymnastics we got the climbing frame out, hooray! 
The children all had a brilliant time exploring the climbing frame. They listened carefully to the rules and a couple of children showed off their spidey skills by climbing to the top of the rope- a very tricky challenge.

Fliss has been working very hard crafting and recently she brought in a new game for games club. She sewed the pieces all by herself and stitched a piece of material to make a noughts and crosses game board.  She has very kindly donated this to our games club. Thank you! 

Amelia has wowed us today with her creative skills. She has learned how to sew and has made these beautiful bean bags which she would like to donate to our class. We used them this morning to count in different multiples for our times table lesson. Well done Amelia and thank you for the lovely…

In history this week, we were learning about Anglo Saxon writing and illuminated letters. Here are our illuminated letters for the initial of our first name. 

We had great fun today learning about capacity in a practical way. We measured out different amounts filling and emptying the containers using blue water and talked about what we measure volume in.

Click to see more photos! Today in PE we carried on with our gymnastics unit and progressed by getting out more equipment. Our challenge was to create a sequence that started with a balance, then travel along the bench, climb on to the A frame and hold a balance on top. Then climb down and Perform…

We had our games club again on Tuesday and we have had some games donated so the children had some different games to play with. It’s great to see how well they play together and help each other understand the rules. Mila is giving everyone a chess lesson! If you have any unwanted games at home,…

Year 4 children have typed up their own Science Blog about the activities they have completed during the Autumn term. Please CLICK HERE to read it, there are lots of lovely photos to see as well. 

This week in Beech Class we have started a new lunch time club. The children came up with some ideas of what club they would like and then we voted for our favourite. Games club was the most popular and on Tuesday we had our first session. There were lots of different board games to choose from…