Author: Miss McGhee

Here are some of our highlights of the week;

Louise – In PE this week we were practising races for the sports day and playing some new games. The game we played was a bit like dodgeball however was a bit more tricky. We also played with the parachute.

Abi – This week we started the ‘BYOD – bring your own device’ in our class. We used our own devices to do research for our topic and for the global goals. We also used our devices to play sumdog and some other maths games.

Krystian – In IDL this week we learned about food chains. We learned that plants and grass are called producers because they produce their own food and animals and humans are called consumers because they eat plants and other animals.

Marcella –  The class got to present their project about endangered animals. Some children did power points and some children created factfiles, poems and even created animal habitats using junk materials. We all learned lots of new facts about some endangered animals.

 

Lewis – In reading this week we read non-fiction passage about Rhinos and answered questions about the text.

Lukasz – In Maths we have been learning about area. We have been looking at the area of a shape using cm2. On Friday we did our big maths and clic tests.

 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend

P4/5 and Mrs W

 

Wow! What a busy, exhausting but very exciting week for P4/5 during health week. Here are all of our highlights;

Lewis – My highlight of the week was the inflatable assault course.

Harley – My favourite activity was capture the flag.

Lukasz – I loved the inflatable assault course.

Louise – My favourite was the astro gymnastics

Joshua – The Karate was amazing.

Charlie – I loved the fun run today.

Caiden – Me too!

Marcella – The assault course was great fun.

Mirren – My favourite was the Karate.

Harry – I loved judo.

Daniel – Karate was my favourite.

Filip – Judo was super.

Maciej – I loved the football.

Oliwia – I thought the cheerleading was great.

Krystian – I loved playing capture the flag.

Oliwer – I really liked the assault course.

Oskar – Capture the flag was my favourite.

Abi – The inflatable assault course was great fun.

 

We will all sleep all weekend including Mrs Wassell.

Have a great weekend

P4/5 and Mrs W

Abi – “On Thursday we went to the Lanthorn for Ascension Thursday mass. We all sang a song about the Holy Spirit for the Children who made their confirmation.”

Lewis – “In writing this week we created an endangered animals poster to persuade people to protect the animals.”

Daniel – “In Maths this week we were learning about 24hour time. We paired up and we wrote down a 24hour time and our partner had to show the time on the clock using am and pm. We even got to do this activity in the sunshine in the garden.”

Marcella “For reading this week we read a non-fiction text all about fidget spinners. I learned that you should spin the spinner with your middle finger. Catherine Hettinger invented the fidget spinner to entertain her daughter when she was ill.”

Finlay “We created stain glass windows with the chalice and host for the children receiving Holy Communion over the next few weeks.”

Aria “We were doing short distance sprints in PE working on improving our pace and stamina.”

Lukasz “For the month of Mary, we have been reflecting on the hail Mary prayer and created a stain glass window.”

Krystian “This week we received rosary beads. Today to remember Our Lady we did a decade of the rosary together as a class.”

Filip “In Spanish we have been learning the days of the week and months of the year. We made a Spanish calendar.”

Have a fabby weekend in the sun.

P4/5 and Mrs Wassell

 

Wow! What a busy week! We cannot believe that’s another week flown past and only 6 weeks left in P4/5.

This week in Maths we have been learning all about time duration using analogue and digital time. We have enjoyed learning through our carousels and team problems. Mrs Wassell set us a time challenge all about Doctor Foster’s trip to Gloucester. We had to work out many time durations and there was a prize for the first team finished who worked well collaboratively. Lewis, Lukasz and Filip won the challenge. Well done boys!

In IDL this week we have been learning all about endangered animals and the causes of these animals becoming endangered. We mainly focused on poaching this week. It was a very heart breaking topic to learn about. We had lots of great discussions about this. We watched some videos about poaching and did lots of research. We learned lots of interesting facts.

Daniel “We learned that elephant tusks are very expensive. They are made of ivory. Some people use these tusks to make piano keys!”

Louise “Rhino horns are used to make medicines!”

For writing this week we wrote a persuasive letter to a poacher to express our concerns about what they are doing and ask them to think about their actions. We did a fantastic job!

P4 enjoyed going swimming to bubbles today for their assessment. 😊

We hope you all have a wonderful long weekend.

Mrs W and P4/5

 

A busy week in P4/5 this week. Here are some of our highlights;

Harley “In writing this week, we wrote a letter to Mrs Burchill (Chair of the Parent council) to ask for some help to protect endangered animals. We shared what we have learned so far in our topic. We talked about global warming, climate change, poachers and habitats being destroyed.”

Abi “Some of the children made camouflage art of animals. We had to make a design on the background and colour it in in a variety of colours. We had to colour the animal in the same colours.”

Lewis “We made the most of the sunshine this week and took our reading books out to the garden. We enjoyed reading in the sun.”

Mirren “This week the Sacramental children went to the Lanthorn to rehearse for their Confirmation. I am excited about Sunday to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.”

Lukasz “In Maths we have been working on time. We had to change analogue times to digital times using am and pm. I love learning about time. I can use what I have learned at home to tell the time.”

Finlay “In PE this week we were learning how to jump the hurdles. We did relay races using the hurdles.”

Louise “We also played capture the flag with some of the P4 children. We had to work together as a team to win.”

Harley “P4 Sacramental children had a Confirmation retreat day on Tuesday. We had to write a prayer to our Saint. We learned about how the Saints died. We had a quiz about a video that we watched.”

Oskar “Some of the children went to the library. We learned how the non-fiction books are put in order. Non-fiction books are in order of their number and are organised in groups. E.g. all of the animal books are together. After the library Mrs Wassell let us have a little treat and we got to play in the park.”

Oliwia “In reading we worked on our task maps to help develop our reading skills.”

Caiden “Mrs Young was in our class for Art. We had to draw a portrait of ourselves. We had to a patterned background.”

Looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday for the Children’s Confirmation.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs W and P4/5

 

 

 

 

This has been a short but busy week. We have been working very hard in class to prepare to receive the Sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Communion. Father Kenneth visited us this week to chat about our Saints and our rehearsal next week. We are all very excited about our special day. Here are some of our highlights from this week.

Abi “This week in writing we wrote a letter to Mrs Purdie to ask her to encourage the children in the school to help endangered by animals keeping our environment clean and healthy.”

Mirren “In IDL we learned about global warming and how this affected the animals.”

Lewis “We also looked at how global warming is affecting the climate. In the polar zones the ice is melting and the sea levels are rising because the climate is getting warmer. This means that the animals there are at risk of drowning and losing their habitat because there is not enough land.”

Finlay “Global warming is caused by pollution from factories and car fumes. Trees absorb CO2 however more trees are getting cut down which means the gases are rising and creating a layer around the world.”

Krystian “The sun rays heat up the earth but is trapped because the layer of gases and this causes the climate to get warmer.”

Lukasz “In PE we used the track out on the field to do relay races and we got to pick 4 teams of 4. We had to number ourselves. We were working on building up our stamina when running.”

Joshua “In maths this week we have been learning about time using am and pm. I know am starts from midnight until midday and pm starts from midday until midnight.”

Marcella “We also used many of the skills we have learned this year in problem solving. We used our knowledge of time, money, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.”

Charlie “In Spanish we were learning about animals and colours. We were using our Spanish vocabulary we have learned to write in sentences about the animals.”

Have a great weekend

P4/5 and Mrs Wassell

Abi “This week in maths we have been doing time. We revised months, seasons and how to use a calendar. We learned minutes past and minutes to the hour in 5 minutes.”

Aria “We continued with our new topic, endangered animals. We explored world climates and how these affected the animals. I learned that we live in a temperate climate because we have seasons and lots of different weather.”

Louise “In writing this week we wrote a letter to WWF to ask some questions about the endangered animals they look after. We had to use paragraphs in our letter.”

Lukasz “This week in PE we have been learning about shotput. I know that you need to keep your front leg straight; your back leg bent and hold the shotput close into your neck. You then push the shotput up into the air.”

Finlay “Also this week in PE we learned about the standing broad jump. Krystian got the furthest for the boy and Marcella got the furthest for the girls.”

Charlie “In reading this week we were exploring vocabulary that created atmosphere and setting. I enjoyed working with my group for this task.”

Oliwia “We worked on our task maps for our reading books. I had to read for clues to help me answer the ‘Infer what’s not there’ question.”

Daniel “We did some outdoor learning this week. We worked in pairs and had to use our senses to find something beginning with every letter in the alphabet. We were having great fun until hailstones fell.”

Joshua “For Sacraments this week we looked at 2 stories. We learned about Jesus’ Triumphant entry into Jerusalem and the Last Supper. We can make links with these stories to the mass.”

Have a lovely long weekend

Mrs W and P4/5

Finlay “In numeracy we have been exploring right angles in the environment.”

Abi “We know a right angle has a vertical and a horizontal line.”

Lewis “A right angle is 90 degrees.”

Mirren “We looked out in the garden and playground to find objects that had a right angle, bigger than a right angle and smaller than a right angle.”

Aria “We played a right angle game in class. Mrs Wassell put us into teams and then gave us a description of an object including how many right angles they had. We had to find the correct object in the class.”

Louise “This week for Art, we made a picture of a daffodil. We had to draw lines on the picture. We had to use warm colours for each part of the daffodil and cool colours for the background. They looked good when they were finished.”

Harley “For writing this week we went on a Spring walk. We had to use our senses to describe a spring setting. I saw daffodils that were as yellow as the sun.”

Lewis “I could smell freshly cut grass and could see tall, colourful tulips.”

Mirren “I could smell  fresh herbs growing in the garden.”

Lukasz “We started our new topic called ‘Endangered animals’. We learned that a leopard in danger of becoming extinct which is really sad.”

Joshua “We have continued preparing for our Holy Communion. This week we talked about the Passover. I learned that God told Moses to go to Pharaoh to let his people free and when he said no God send 10 plagues over Egypt.”

Harley “We also talked about the order of the mass.”

Oskar “This week in PE we played football.”

Abi “We played against different countries and it was lots of fun.”

We hope you enjoyed your Easter holiday.

Mrs W and P4/5

 

This has been a busy last week of term 3. We are all feeling tired and looking forward to spending time with our family and friends over the holiday. Here are some of our highlights for the week;

Mirren “On Tuesday we continued with our world cup tournament. We all enjoyed taking part. I am developing my football skills. I feel more confident in the midfield position.”

Abi “We played against different countries and we had some of the P7s as referees.”

Lewis “In our teams we had different roles. The coach had to lead their team for a warm-up with jogging and stretches. We also practised passing skills with the ball. My role was score keeper and I had to keep track of the score of each game my team played.”

Finlay “This week we have been doing a lot of revision in Numeracy. We have revised division, subtraction, addition and multiplication.”

Harley “We have also continued working on our fractions. I am getting a little more confident finding a fraction of a number. I can use my times tables and knowledge of division to help me.”

Louise “We designed Easter egg cards using different patterns. ”

Caiden “We learned about the stations of the cross and said prayers.”

Oliwier “We learned about the story of Easter. We were cutting and sticking pictures and put them in order of the story.”

Charlie “As a special treat and the end of our Viking topic, we have been watching ‘How to train your dragon’.”

Joshua “For reading this week we read a passage called ‘wings’. We learned lots of new facts about birds.”

We hope you all have a very happy and holy Easter holiday.

P4/5 and Mrs W