On your marks, get set, bake!
Today, Year 4 got into the ‘Bake Off‘ spirit. The children enjoyed making healthy muffins. It was great to hear so much mathematical talk happening during our lesson. We discussed scales, fractions, amounts, cooking times, measures and much more.
Apples fresh from Mrs Pearson’s garden added a healthy, fruity twist to our muffins. Thank you, Mrs Pearson, for the ingredients and all your help.
Lost property
School Council are involved in a project to try and reduce the amount of lost property we have at school.
Starting this Friday, lost property will be available to look through in the playground to hopefully reduce the pile we have already this term!
Naming your child’s items helps to get things back to their owners so we will also be offering a clothing name labelling service for 20p per item. Profits will go to our school charity, Make-a-Wish.
New additions to the library – thank you, school councillors
At their final meeting, our current school councillors spent time, using part of their budget, choosing new books for our library.
From sport books to science books, there’s a great selection. The books will soon be available to borrow from the library.
And relax….
Following a morning packed with learning, Year 4 spent ten minutes enjoying some mindfulness techniques.
Mindfulness can add to the quality of our lives in numerous ways, from nurturing a sense of inner peace to enhancing self-confidence and our attitudes towards others.
Mindful Hearing
In this exercise, the children were guided through an experience of paying attention to sounds.
Mindful Breathing
In this exercise, children were guided through a process of paying attention to their breathing.
- “I feel so relaxed now.”
- “My lunch time is going to be calm.”
- “I reflected on my learning.”
- “I listened to my breathing. It was like the waves of the sea coming in and out.”
Living & Learning
This week’s Living & Learning statement is – I understand that rights come with responsibilities.
The class explored the word responsibility. We discovered that responsibility means that we have a duty to deal with something. We discovered that the word rights means we have an entitlement to have or do something.
Some examples of this statement included:
- I have a right to go to the toilet but I have the responsibility to go at an appropriate time like break time and lunch time, where possible.
- I’m responsible when I remember my swimming kit.
- I’m responsible for doing my homework on time.
- I have the right to an education. It is my responsibility to learn as much as I can.
- I have the right to a clean environment so I have the responsibility to do what I can to look after the environment.
School Council elections
In our whole school assembly today, we launched this year’s School Council election process. Our School Council is one of the ways that children are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.
The election process allows children to develop an understanding of one of the British Values, democracy, with two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers.
Our current school councillors spoke about their role over the last year and the qualities needed to be an effective school councillor.
These included:
- use the 8 Rs for learning
- be respectful and polite
- help others
- be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)
- share and be confident with your ideas
- let others speak
- accept the views of others even if you don’t agree
- be friendly and approachable
- follow our school rules and make good choices in class and around school
Watch out for the whole school homework this week all about the election and democracy, ready for the elections next Thursday 25 October.
Remember…remember…
It’s a little early but, during our Time Travel topic, we’re hurtling through the history of Britain and we find ourselves in the year 800AD. In Britain, the Vikings are taking over. Meanwhile, in China, they’re creating an invention that will change the world: gunpowder.
This invention has had a huge impact on Britain and without it, the gunpowder plot in the 1600s would never have been formed. In topic, we’ve learnt all about the people involved in this devious (ask us what this means) plan and created some artwork inspired by it.
History of Britain…as an acrostic poem
After our visit from the Hobgoblin Theatre, we thought about how we could sum up a history of Britain and we decided to write acrostic poems. Our challenge was to rhyme and lots of us stepped up to this challenge successfully.
Enjoy!
Bike and run at the Brownlee Centre
The Brownlee Centre is a great facility on our doorstep.
These bike and run sessions, run by the Brownlee Foundation, are open to all children, any ability, aged 8-14. Why not give it a tri?
Ordinal Numbers
To learn about ordinal numbers, we took our learning outside. Racing in groups of five or ten, the children gained an excelling understanding of ordinal numbers. Plus, it was fun to take our learning outside and get active.
