Happy Mother’s Day!
In art, Chestnuts made beautiful Mother’s Day Cards.
We think they look amazing.
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Chestnuts came dressed as their favourite book characters. Don’t we look amazing?
We also chose new books as part of our whole book swap.
During the afternoon, we entered a competition to design a new book token and Blossoms class visited us. We read stories to each other; it was lots of fun!
Chestnuts visited our new sensory room in the hub today.
It was lots of fun as we played with the lights, games and sounds to explore what we could see, hear and touch.
Some children even used the microphone to sing a song!
This week, Chestnuts began their new art topic about landscapes.
We made a first attempt at drawing a landscape after looking at some very famous pieces of art by Monet, Van Gogh and many others.
Look at some of our lovely art work below.
In Willows our topic for this term has been Rocks, Relics and Rumbles. This half term we have explored how earthquakes and tsunamis happen and we have become volcanologists to find out more about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
To link with our Geography topic, Willows have studied the book ‘Escape from Pompeii’ and have produced their own newspaper reports about the devastating eruption of Vesuvius.
In our science topic, Rocks, the children have been finding out about; how mountains are formed, different rock types, how fossils are formed and the different types of weathering.
Our focus for RE has been all about Lent and why it is an important time for Christians. The children have found out why and how Christians celebrate Lent and the meaning behind it.
The children have sculpted and painted some fantastic ammonites. They look so realistic!
For Red Nose Day this year in Willows we celebrated by having a crazy hat and hair day at school.
All of the children came in with some very wacky hairstyles and funky hats!
We created a Joke Trail with lots of brilliant jokes and Hawthorns came to read them all.
This half term Willows have been as busy and as hardworking as usual. In fact, we’ve been non-stop!
Our topic this term is Rocks, Relics and Rumbles, so we have been learning all things volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis.
The children carried out their own investigation into the properties of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.
To match our explosive topic, we have been reading The Firework Maker’s Daughter in English where we have followed wannabe firework maker, Lila, on her perilous journey to Mount Merapi to meet the Fire Fiend…
In science, the children have been investigating magnets and forces; looking at how different magnets are used, magnetic fields and the different types of forces.
The children have also been busy artists this half term. They have drawn volcanoes, used printing techniques and sculpted 3D ammonites. Don’t they look fantastic!
What a busy half term it has been in Willows!
There has been so much going on and lots of great learning has happened.
The children have been reading The Great Kapok Tree in English and linked this to their Rainforests topic. They have produced some fantastic pieces of writing such as; rainforest setting descriptions using the 5 senses and they carried out their own research about a rainforest animal to write a non-chronological report about it.
Science this half term has been all about plants. The children have carried out an investigation to explore the ideal conditions for a plant to grow strong and healthy, explored the parts of a flowering plant and found out about the process of pollination.
At the start of this half term we celebrated Remembrance Day. Using Purple Mash software, Willows created some Remembrance themed pictures.
During the run up to the Christmas holidays, the children went to see the pantomime, had a Christmas jumper day and enjoyed a Christmas dinner too!
Bonjour!
On 12th November the whole school participated in an afternoon dedicated to all things French.
In Willows the children had a go at learning some well-know French songs. They gave their best efforts to learning ‘head, shoulders, knees and toes’ and the actions too!
We then explored the colours and made our own rainbows… or rather arc en ciel.
We learnt about France and some of its most famous landmarks and traditions.
To end our afternoon we had a French feast with the children being very brave and trying some (rather smelly!) camembert cheese.
Say Cheese!
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On Tuesday 13th July both of our year 4 classes, Chestnuts and Willows, took part in their sports afternoon. Sports coach Adam had prepared lots of fun and exciting events for the children.
The events were: Sprinting, ‘Egg and spoon’, Obstacle race and a rounders match. All of the children gave the events their all and had so much fun taking part. Even the teachers got to join in!
Have a look at them in action…
