P4A spent time this week working to make symmetrical pictures using the nature around our school. One child was even heard to exclaim that, “This was the best maths ever!”

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Can you find our lines of symmetry?

We have had another busy week in P4. We are enjoying using our iPads and we are learning lots of new skills (teachers too!) Today, we did some problem solving in groups. We had to listen carefully, work together, take turns and make sure everyone was included. Mrs Belleville was very impressed with how well we worked together on this task. We will keep working on these skills in our groupwork 🙂

Well done to everyone who put themselves forward to be reps for p4b. The voting was very close and Daniel has been chosen as Sustainable Squad rep & Emily has been chosen as Pupil Council rep.  Congratulations!

We’ve had lots of new learning as well as lots of fun setting up various features of our iPads over the last couple of days.  The children have now created and named folders so that they can save their work in a structured way.   We have created a P4 team in Microsoft Teams and we are showing the children how this works and how to navigate around it.  P4a had a go at logging in today and everyone successfully accessed this weeks spellings.  Maybe they can give you a demo. We have also introduced the children to the Self Service function (which is essentially an SBC version of the App Store).  The children may install any app from there and occasionally they will be asked to install a specific one for a class based task.  We ask that this is done at home as it can take a very long time if there are 26 iPads all trying to install it at the same during the lesson. There will be teething problems as we go but this is just demonstrating how good at problem solving and how resilient the children are.

If you could ensure all iPads are charged daily and that you frequently check for updates – iOS 15.0 is coming very soon, if it’s not already available.  (You find this in Settings—–General——Software Updates)

This week we are continuing with place value and we are beginning to explore symmetry.  There are a couple of links on the Supporting Learning at Home tab so you can play some related games at home.

P4s have all received their iPads today. It was very exciting! All passcodes have been changed to pupil birthdays (day/month/year) eg (020413)

Most pupils have a charger but unfortunately, we were a few short. Pupils who have an older sibling with an iPad may not have a charger yet. They should share the charger with their sibling but new chargers have been ordered & will be sent home as soon as possible.

Pupils should make sure they charger their iPads each night and bring them into school each day. 🙂

Here are our spellings for this week

Please choose 8 spellings to work on this week.  You can choose all 8 from one list or you can mix and match depending on the level of challenge you would like.

This will have been discussed and suggestions will be made in class each week.

Today we looked at some of Quentin Blakes illustrations and had a go at creating our own cartoon style faces using some of his techniques.
We did some very quick sketches using some of the facial features he uses. We then put a watercolour wash over them and finally added the detail back in using a fine black ink pen.
I think the results are fantastic. The tidying up wasn’t too bad either. 😉

Welcome to P4a

What a busy start to the term we have had.

The children have all settled in brilliantly and it is so lovely to see them all ready to learn every morning.

We will use this page to share some of our learning with you and to give you links to various websites with games or activities you might like to do to support the learning taking place in class. (See the useful links tab)

We will also share the spelling words each week and hopefully we’ll have some super photo’s we can share with you too.

The children may have been talking about our class novel – Georges Marvellous Medicine, we’ve thoroughly enjoyed the story so far and we’ve had some good fun coming up with adjectives to describe Grandma and George.  We have been acting out some scenes from the book, creating  some dialogue of our own and recording it as a play script.  We are also looking at Quentin Blake’s style of illustration and using that to create some wonderful artwork of our own. (we’ll share that with you shortly).

In the mean time, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and keep an eye on the blog for more information.