P4a are feeling very proud of the corridor display showing all their wonderful George’s Marvellous Medicine art work.

Thank you Mrs Ryalls.

We had fun on Friday with our Halloween themed morning. We looked at the work of Yayoi Kusama and created pumpkins using polka dots. We played spider drive & musical Halloween shapes.

We got off to a super start to our block 2 learning and we have so much more to come.

Our writing focus this block is exposition (persuasion) and we have some interesting example texts to inspire our own writing.  I wonder just how persuasive P4 can be…… Through our reading we will be exploring the skill of skimming and scanning as well as learning a bit more about inference.

In maths we are continuing and developing our learning of addition and subtraction strategies and learning about money up to £20 and giving change from £5 and £10.  We will put links to some games you can play at home to consolidate this learning on Teams and the Supporting Learning at Home tab on this blog.

Our building resilience focus is Keeping Connected and more information relating to this was attached to the newsletter sent out  by Mrs Ward last week.  We will also be learning some basic first aid and what foods keep us healthy.

In Science we are exploring sources of energy, magnetism and electricity/electrical circuits.  We are looking forward to having a lot of fun with this.

It’s a busy term with lots going on and we are all looking forward to speaking with you all during our parents consultations in a few weeks time.

Welcome back and what a fantastic start to the new term we have had.  This week is European code week and we would like to thank Inspire learning and all the staff and pupils involved in bringing us a wonderful live session today.

The children were asked to come up with an idea for a new app, plan what it would do, create an icon for the app and finally create a prototype home screen for it.  You might like to ask to see some of their work at home – it’s all saved on their iPads within Keynote.  (with some finishing touches required – it was a very busy session!!!) They all had some brilliant ideas.

We would also like to say a huge thank you to the P7’s who came to give us a brilliant tutorial on using Keynote.  It proved very helpful ahead our session today.

We have been learning how to use an app on our iPads called Keynote. Some very helpful P7 pupils came along to share their knowledge of Keynote and help us to create our presentations. As part of EU Code Week, we are going to take part in a live lesson using Keynote.

In class, we have been thinking about all the different emotions we can experience. We worked in groups to think of strategies we can use to help us to cope with our emotions.  We realised that it is important to talk about how we are feeling and get support from people we trust.

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.