Well done on all your hard work and continued commitment towards your home learning! We couldn't be more proud of the way you adapted to remote learning and the enthusiasm you have continued to show. We literally cannot wait to have you back on Monday 8th March at the new time of 08:40 and I know you are all keen to catch up with friends. Alongside our usual curriculum, we will be having a focus on mental, physical and social well-being. There are plenty of engaging, fun activities to look forward to in our first week such as Naan bread tasting, Indian Block Making, Indian Dancing, PE with coach Lucy, Digestion and Friday Fun day (baking and crafting). We will continue to share pictures of all our learning with you.
Please remember to have your PE kit in school everyday from Monday.
Our day finished at the new time of 14:55 too.
Take Care,
Mrs. Harrison
W/C 15th March
Back to school ....
PSHE Mental Wellbeing - Don't Worry be Happy
Feel Good Friday
Much more exercise - Perseverance
Science - Digestion
DT Designing and Making Naan Breads - What are they? Recipes?
Investigating herbs and spices
Taste Testing Naan breads before designing own ingredients
Dance Unit - Cheerleading and Indian Dance
Class Reading
Dear All Year 4 children,
We cannot believe how quickly and well you have adapted to the remote learning. You have really risen to this new challenge and we couldn't be prouder. You are amazing!
Celebration of Home Learning
World Book Day Challenge - Potatoes to Characters
Perimeter
Lowry - Skills in Watercolours and Printing
First Week of Maths
Explanatory Text - Context (Water Cycle and Tooth Decay)
Science - Teeth and their roles in animals (humans)
Information Text - Focus on fronted adverbial, conjunctions, determiners and layout
Science - Solids, Liquids and Gases
Geography - Countries and Waters surrounding India along with physical features
Cheerleading Routines and Motifs
Pointillism - The Skill of Stipling
Class Reading
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Investigating and Appreciating Traditional/ Modern Indian Music and Instruments
Navenby C of E Primary School - Class 4 - September 2020
A Very Warm Welcome Back....
I am absolutely delighted to be teaching this class and have been excitedly preparing the classroom and lessons ready for a great year together! Although I have worked at the school for many years, I might not have met all of you yet so please feel free to introduce yourselves so that I can put a face to a name. We just wish to reiterate to parents that it is essential that your child feels happy and settled back in school so that they can enjoy all the exciting learning opportunities. In the first few days back at school we have been focusing on well-being within class and new routines within class to help the children deal with the mixed emotions they maybe feeling. If you have any worries or concerns over the course of the year, please do not hesitate to come and talk to us at the gate, as we will be escorting the children out at the end of each day, or email me on deirdre.harrison@navenby.lincs.sch.uk.
Who’s who?
Similar to last year, I will be working full-time in Year 4 and we are very lucky to have the support of Mrs. O’Brien as our teaching assistant four mornings a week and two afternoons.
Meet us and our families!
Left (Mrs. Harrison with her son Dan and godson) and Right (Mrs. O'Brien with her sons)
Our classroom for returning
PE Kit
Due to the support by sports specialists and swimming throughout the year, the days that we do PE will vary from term to term. Also the weather or other events can alter our set days therefore please ensure that every Monday morning your child brings in their fully labelledindoor and outdoor PE kit it place in their lockers, especially as Autumn is approaching. PE kit will come home on a Friday to be washed. This term we will be doing PE on Tuesday and Fridays but it is also my intention to complete a mile a day on Monday, Wednesday and Thursdays afternoon as well.
Lost Property & Cloakroom Space
We have a lost property box in our class cupboard, but let’s hope that we keep our belongings safe! All children have their own lockers in the corridor where they can store all personal items.
Reading
As last year, the children will be given plenty of opportunities to read within school. We are placing a strong emphasis on group guided reading activities, which will take place 3 or 4 times a week. This will ensure that all children in the class will be listened to by the Teacher and also another adult throughout the week. Here, the focus is on exploring a variety of texts at a deeper level in order to develop inference and deduction skills for reading comprehension. Also there is daily reading of text within Active English sessions as well as engagement with Class Books.
Parents/carers still have a huge part to play in their children’s reading development, so all the help you can continue to give is greatly appreciated. Children will have a chance to renew 'Home' books every Monday and it is requested that any returns be made on Fridays in order for books to be reissued after the weekend. If you need to keep a book for a few weeks that is absolutely fine. We have given each child a book already but will be reviewing reading challenge over the next couple of weeks.
Homework - Posted each week on this website
Homework has to be set by the class teacher each week in accordance with whole school homework policy. In Year 4, and throughout Key stage 2, we have a strong focus on learning times tables as there is a new government test on these in Term 5 and so we ask that children practise these at home as well. Each week I will post an online multiplication link or a worksheet to complete. Last year, all children in the school became used to our system of spaced learning for spellings. Their personalised spelling list shows you the spellings that they will focus on each week until the end of week 5 when when they will be tested again. Lastly, the children will have a short ‘topic’ based task that should not take more than 20-30 minutes. The only exception to this homework routine in when the children are asked to do ‘Homework Projects’ which is part of school policy for KS2 children too. These occur later in the Autumn term and in the Summer. Plenty of time and explanation will be given in advance. With any of the homework given, if there is any confusion or concerns please pop in to see me.
Website Page:
This is regularly updated and contains termly overviews of learning, homework and weekly updates on our learning and progress. It also contains useful links which will support your child’s learning.
Below is a template from FONS for you to use if your child wishes to design a Christmas card over half-term. I will be emailing you individually a copy of a design done by you child at school this week if you would like to use this one instead.
There is a very quick turnaround for these FONS orders as they have to be sent back to school by Monday November 2nd.
If anyone needs me to print off their child's Victorian Marbling Design in colour, please email me to arrange.
Our Autumn term topic is entitled ‘Victoriana.’ Here we share the life of children in our country 150 years ago and look into how the changes came about in order to appreciate what is provided for us all today. It includes a class visit to a coal mine to experience working life for families during the era. A case study of Queen Victoria is undertaken and children question, investigate and formulate opinions, based on research, about this monarch that led the British country and empire towards significant changes. We also consider our current rights and responsibilities at school and at home. Linked also with the great inventions of the 19th century, Class 4 will carry out investigations into changing sounds, particularly in relation to wind and string instruments. There will also be much philosophical thought underpinning our work and many more exciting threads to our challenge question!!!
Our Reading Area (Please email me with more pictures)
Investigating Our Rights and Responsibilities
Class Charter
Our Reflection Area - Thankfulness (we all drew a hand to represent our uniqueness to make this masterpiece)
Our Reflection Area - Thankfulness
Our Art Gallery (please send in any more masterpieces to add)
Maths - Place Value
Orienteering (PE and Geography)
RE - Expressing Faith through the arts
Art - Drawing skills
Science - Sound
Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell, renown for inventing the forerunner to the modern telephone, was actually a sound expert?
We have been developing our knowledge about sound too.
How can we make the most successful telephone?
Testing the material connecting the phone cups
The wire allowed for the best transfer of sound
Unit on Victorian Street Scene Music Using Percussion Instruments
Music Using Body Percusssion
A VICTORIAN TRANSFORMATION FOR THE MOBILE
History - The Changing Rights of Children and the role of Reformers
History - Changing rights of children and the role of Refoermers
STREET CHILD - In literacy we have interrogated the text and used a variety of drama techniques to help us understand the action and the thoughts/feelings of characters as well as their motivations. This has really helped us when we have written recounts, playscripts and list poems.
Literacy - Historical Recount and Poetry (Street Child)
Literacy - Historical Recount and Poetry (Street Child)
William Morris Inspired Stain Glass Windows
INSTRUCTION WRITING FOR STOCKING MAKING
Electricity and how to adapt circuits
Morse Code - Electrical Circuit
Spring Term 2020
Spring Term
Our Spring Term has certainly seen our classroom transformed once more with vibrant burst of colour as we compare and contrast life in Navenby to a village in India, Chembakoli. Whilst tackling location and climate, we will also be unpicking the processes at work in the water cycle, creating explanatory text to show our understanding. This learning will be enhance be further investigation into the nature of solids, liquids and gases! Our India topic is also centred round respecting and celebrating differences as we investigate the beliefs and practises of the Hindu Faith, decorating our own classroom shrine with images of Hindu Gods and artefacts. The walls will also be adorned with the steps towards successfully designing Indian Block Print Cushions and the creation of Indian Music Samples as we explore Rag, Tala and Drone!! We looked forward to visit from a range of people in our community to support our learning such as a local gardener explaining how to grow our own herbs, Sunita Patel returning with the Indian Experience, a Dental Practitioner advising us on tooth care and a number of local authors discussing the writing process during World Book Week. Plenty to look forward to!
Indian Day
Indian Costume and Traditions
Dancing and Festivals
Indian Chalk Art - Rangoli Designs
Learning the Hindu Religion and Challenging Stereotypes
Meditation and Well-being
Thank you Sunita for a great day supporting a Great British Value
Creating our own Indian Music
Investigating, creating and performing
Starting to investigate Hindu Beliefs and Practices
Our class Hindu Shrine
Our Hindu Beliefs and Lifestyle Learning Journey
Investigating Puga
Showing Racism the Red Card
Celebrating Differences - Indian Kite Day
Indian Kite Day - 13th January
Seeing out the Winter & welcome to warmer weather
First we researched why it happened
The Race ..and the Champions
Indian Block Printing Design
Exploring explanatory text and creating our own for the water cycle
We also tested to see which was the most successful material and size for the listening cups as well as what length was best for the connecting lines. Our conclusion was that the best phone would have large, metal cups with short connecting wires!!!
Starting Point - Locating India and Chembakoli leading towards non-chronological text about this village.
Non-chronological report on Chembakolli
Digestion and Teeth - What we have covered so far!!
Information Text about Teeth
Explanatory Text about Tooth Decay
Practical Digestion
Design and Technology - Making Naan Bread (Research and Tasting)
Tasting Sample Breads
PE - Unit on Cheerleading and Indian Dance
INDIAN PLAYSCRIPT WRITING
Reciprocal Reading - The Picky Princess
Numeracy - Fractions and Decimals
Multiplication and Division (A build up to written methods)
Our Reflection Area - The Christian Value of Faith
Respect (Courage and Encouragement)
World Book Day - Dressing up and enjoying authors (David Walliams)
Recounting the story of Dribbling Drew by David Walliams
Use of Apostrophes - Grubby Gertrude (David Walliams)