Structural engineers in the making...

This week has seen a great deal of team work and perseverance through reasoning activities and maths.  We have been learning how to measure accurately, read scales and most importantly convert between different units of measure.  

Team work was put to the test on Wednesday when the class were challenged to build the tallest and strongest tower out of just newspaper and masking tape. Each group showed excellent communication skills, determination and perseverance.  

A special ‘Well Done’ has to go to Phoebe, Conrad, Callum and Josh for the tallest and strongest free standing tower which was just excellent, very well modelled on the Burj Khalifa in Dubai

I have been astounded once again by the writing skills of Class 4 this week.  You are in for a treat when you come to Learning Conferences next week as their imagination, creativity and range of language features just continues to grow and grow.  We have been using a picture story book, set in Mexico, to help us with our writing.  We used nearpod, an online program, to help us look at the pictures and write responses to questions about character’s feelings at different points in the story.  Whilst I am proud of every single child, a special 'Well done' must go to our wonderful writers this week: Lily, Phoebe, Joshua P, Saxen and Emily Co.

We are all getting excited and prepared for World Book Day on Thursday and look forward to sharing the day with you, purely celebrating the joy of books, which links to this weeks home learning task.  Page numbers for the maths and English homework tasks are: 

Year 4 Maths: Measures units (pg 42/43 ) English: conjunctions (pg 22/23 )

Year 5 Maths: Metric Units     (pg 44/45)  English: conjunctions (pg 22/23)

Wishing you all a happy weekend, 

Mrs McMillan

Mexican Art

Class 4 have a had a week packed full of Mexican art and culture.  They have produced some absolutely outstanding pieces of work. 

Using two pieces of art by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier and My Godfather's Sons, children had to scale up a small section of the painting to create a class piece. 

Class 4 also enjoyed looking at different pieces of Mexican street art and enjoyed using a range of media to produce their own.  Here are just a few. 

 
 

 

 

The Mexican craft continued with beautiful paper flowers. 










































































Class 4 also found time for amazing English work throughout the week too.  They have produced excellent information leaflets about many different parts of Mexico.  We had practised using generalisers and conjunctions to add additional information and they have tried hard to use these in their writing.  The final leaflets have been presented absolutely beautifully. 

And to finish off the week, it is all up on display in the classroom too. 

It just remain for me to say a HUGE thank you to Mrs Allen and the Fordham team for taking such great care of class 4 this week as well as producing so much amazing work.  I can't wait to see everyone and share their hard work after half term. 

I wish you all a restful and happy half term. 

Mrs McMillan