YEAR 3 AND 4 JIGSAW – DREAMS AND GOALS

By Miss L STEWART10th February 2023

In our Jigsaw Piece of ‘Dreams and Goals’ this term Years 3 and 4 have read some inspirational stories which have enabled the children to identify that we can achieve the Goals we set ourselves and achieve our Dreams…

The children in Year 3 have explored the story ‘Me Jane…’ by Patrick McDonnell, which is the lovely story about the lifelong dreams and goals of Jane Goodhall to care for and work with animals in Africa.  From an early age, Jane had a wonderous love of nature and  animals and a curiosity that was endless. She read lots of books about creatures of the world and studied hard until one day her lifelong dream and goal came true! This enabled the children to agree that if you believe in yourself and work hard at the goals you set yourself that your dreams can come true. Below are a few of our Year 3 children’s ‘Dreams and Goals‘.

In Year 4, the children have explored the term ‘resilience’ through reading about the lifelong Dream of Michael Jordan the great American Basketball player who the story ‘Salt in His Shoes’ by  Delores Jordan is based upon.

We found that despite Michael’s journey to being a basketball player being faced with some challenges, we found that he never gave up as the people around him, his family, friends and teachers, all believed in him, supported and encouraged him to be resilient. From this we identified that being resilient was not giving up at the first hurdle and that if we want to achieve the goals and dreams that we have identified for oursleves (To get married; Own a House; Have children; Learn to Drive; Be a Teacher; Be rich; Go to University…) that we too, like Michael Jordan, need to be resilient, believe in ourselves, persevere and keep on trying. 

 

 

YEAR 4 MUSIC – HOW DOES MUSIC CONNECT US WITH OUR PAST

By Miss L STEWART10th February 2023

Year 4 this term have been learning the song ‘Looking in the Mirror’ with lyrics that help us to reflect upon not only our own lives but of those of our ancestors and the historic changes that have been made to enable our lives to be a little better today. To accompany this wonderful piece of music, we have been creating a little improvisation with our recorders and playing notes we have learnt in previous Music units of work in our own unique compositions.

 

Bravo Year 4…Encore!!!

Letter Writing in Year 2

By Miss P STATHERS10th February 2023

Year 2’s non-narrative unit this half term has been letters. They looked at different letters and identified the features of a letter. Then we learned about statement sentences and wrote our own questions and statements. As an end outcome, we thought of questions to ask King Charles III and wrote a letter to him. We then walked to the post box to post our letters! We hope that we get a reply!

HUB – Geography

By Mrs H HEBDEN9th February 2023

What is it like in London?

As Geographers, we wanted to know what London was like. Some of us have been there and visited attractions such as LegoLand in WIndsor but for the rest of the class needed to use digital tools to virtually explore. 

We looked at maps and used the key to find features of London….

We studied aerial photographs to explore what we could see…

We examined a range of photographs and compared London to places that we have been …

And..

We learned how to use QR codes to help us jump to websites that showed us the attractions in London that are popular with children and families. We would LOVE to visit!

safer internet day

By Mrs K SMITH7th February 2023

As part of Safer Internet Day, Year 3 created posters to remind each other about staying safe.

We talked about what it means to be safe online and the things we can do to keep ourself safe.

We knew lots about who we could talk to and who can help us is we don’t feel safe. We know how important it is to keep information private and safe when we are online.

We also talked about the many different ways we are online such as on our computers, games consoles, phones and even our TV’s.

We know how to stay safe and can remind our friends to do the same.

listen

By Mrs K SMITH3rd February 2023

This week in music year 2 have been looking at rhythms.

We began by appraising our new song ‘Listen’. We liked how the sound of this made us feel. It made us feel full of energy and wanting to join in. We could hear lots of instruments like drums and guitars. We could also hear people clapping rhythms and we could not wait to join in.

We practised our new song and had a go at copying the rhythm with our hands. We practised these in lots of different ways. We had a go as a table, individually, in partners, as boys and girls and also the back of the class and the front.

Some of the rhythms were pretty trick but we kept practising and got really good.

We even got to copy some rhythms with our voices, this was much harder as we had to think about the pace and the tone our voices made.

 

Length

By Mrs K SMITH1st February 2023

This week Year 3 have started our length unit in math.

We have been looking at different units of measure including millimeters, centimeters and meters.

We have used rulers and meter sticks to measure objects around our classroom and we have been concerting these measurements into equivalent measurements.

We are able to measure objects in centimeters and convert its size into millimeters.

We know there are 10 millimeters in each centimeter and that there are 100 centimeters in each meter.

This knowledge has helped us measure our objects accurately

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Making Equal Groups

By Miss P STATHERS31st January 2023

Year 2 have started a new unit in Maths this week; Multiplication and Division. First of all we recapped our knowledge on the vocabulary equal and unequal. Equal means that all groups have to be the same.  Then we learned to recognise equal groups. Today we have learned how to make equal groups! Here we are making equal groups in class:

Tomorrow we will learn to add equal groups!

HUB – Music

By Mrs H HEBDEN31st January 2023

Exploring Feelings Through Music – How does Music Make the World a Better Place?

 

In this weeks Music lesson, we listened to a piece of Music called Maple Leaf Rag that was over 100 years old! We said that it made us feel happy and that we wanted to dance and move our bodies to it!

It was composed by Scott Joplin, An American Musician…..

 

and was to be played on a piano or the pianola which was a self-playing mechanical musical instrument.

We then revised our song, “Music is in me” and accompanied it by improvising on the Glockenspiel using the notes C D E.

Have a listen…

HUB – Art

By Mrs H HEBDEN31st January 2023

This week we looked at portraits drawn by the Artist Julian Opie.

We talked about what we liked and disliked about these images and explored how the Artist had used simple lines to create such effective, bold portraits.

This week, we used pens to sketch and create bold black lines to and recreate some of the portraits. What do you think to our work?