Welcome to Blue Class September 2024 - July 2025
May 2025
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08.05.25 Year 4 had an amazing day celebrating todays freedom and reflecting upon VE day. The day began with the Brownies talking about a party they had been invited to the day before and how much they had enjoyed the tea party especially the cups of tea or hot chocolate. After a discussion about what VE day stood for and what happened 80 years ago, the children enjoyed reading and then performing VE day poetry. Much discussion was had about what made a good poem and what made a good performance. As a whole school, we took part in a 2 minute silence on the playground before listening to music from war time and enjoying an ice pole with our friends. In preparation for the assembly in the afternoon, we made union jack flags to wave. The afternoon was spent with some of our class in Rainbow club presenting a VE day power point to the whole school before creating electrical circuits that could have been used 80 years ago now that the black outs were no longer needed. We enjoyed our day together and at the end of the day, we shared what things we were looking forward to doing that evening with the freedom that had been granted to us. |
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We have already had a great start to this half term. We began our English unit by becoming archaeologists in a dig to find ancient Egyptian artefacts which inspired us to predict the theme and content of our unit this term. Our new book is the story of Tutankhamun. We have already written diary entries, telegrams and newspaper reports. We can’t wait to write our biographies which we are building up to. In science, we explored how to make different circuits work using bulbs, buzzers or switches. In groups, we discovered we needed a complete loop to make the circuit work. Within our tennis lessons, we have started to develop our skills in controlling the ball using our forehand and we have managed to start rallying successfully. |
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April 2025
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In DT, we looked at the history of weaving and created some of our own using a variety of thicknesses and colours of wool. At times, we found it a bit tricky to go in and out and not become tangled, but look at what we’ve created In art this half term, we have enjoyed reading and following instructions to make Bankurato horses from clay. We looked at the different skills we needed to create our masterpieces and then made our own individual art pieces. Look at how proud we are. On the last day before we broke up, we enjoyed sharing our hard work from this term with our parents during a book share. Thank you to all of the parents who managed to come. |
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March 2025
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14.03.25 - Science Week
Blue class had a wonderful week investigating adapt and change in Science. We began by in ICT, creating adaptations of habitats for Axoltls in Minecraft independently. We were all really engaged in this activity and we discussed how animals adapt to survive in their habitat. Four children following this lesson went home to conduct further research about the endangered animal and then presented the facts on Tuesday. For our next activity, we worked in pairs using the skills of logic and hard work to match animals to their correct adaptations. We all agreed that there are remarkable adaptations that allow animals to thrive in different habitats around the world in particular how polar bears survive in such chilly climates without freezing. Our final activity explored which materials were suitable to put down the toilet. We loved finding the answer to should we flush it away? as a whole class investigation. Lots of good predictions were made and we considered what would make a fair test. We discovered the conclusion matched our predictions. Only toilet paper should we flushed away in addition to our poo and our pee. |
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06.03.25 - World Book Day Year 4 had a lovely day celebrating world book day. We began the day in our pyjamas and comfy clothes completing a word search. The race was on to beat Mrs Smeeton in completing it first. We then loved hearing the different teachers come and read a variety of stories to us. We really enjoyed the revolting rhymes by Roald Dahl. Our favourite event was learning to rap in mixed ks2 classes and then getting to perform on the stage in front of the whole school. Lots of us enjoyed taking part in the extreme reading competition. Excitedly we left school with our £1 book vouchers. |
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February 2025
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28.02.25 On Friday 28th February, Blue class were fortunate to receive a visit from Sharon the storyteller. Sharon told us her stories are not found in books but are passed on through many generations . One of the stories that she told was set in Yemen, in Western Asia. It was all about a lady who had 12 children. Because she was poor, she stole a loaf of bread and as a result she was arrested following instructions from the king. We discussed the morals of this story. Sharon told us that a story teller tells the basic parts of the story which are important to them. After she told us the second story, we realised that there are as many stories as there are stars in the sky. We enjoyed listening to Sharon's stories and can't wait for world book day! |
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11.02.25 On Tuesday 11th February 2025, Blue class took part in the school safer internet day - too good to be true. We discussed possible scenarios we might see online and shared our opinions of whether they were: too good to be true, contact we didn't expect, asking for personal information, money or trade is asked for or if was not a scam. We agreed that sometimes there was more than one answer. We really enjoy our discussion times. |
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08.02.25 We started off the month with a very interesting road safety talk from an external visitor to our school. Nicole and Lily asked some very thoughtful questions. We were very proud of them.
As part our on going improvement of our maths reasoning skills , we looked at a rainforest illustration in groups to create mathematical questions and answers. Joanna cleverly thought of an if question, (if there was 42 animals in this part of the forest; how many would there be in 8 areas of the forest. ) we do enjoy our goals free maths discussions. In our science topic we explored different properties of different materials. This unit is very interesting! |
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January 2025
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What an exciting start to January 2025 for Blue class. In ICT we have been looking at writing for different audiences and have begun to use different fonts and sizes as well as different types of media to create newspaper reports. Look at how proud we are of our efforts. In PSHE, we discussed different scenarios that were dangerous or not. So we could all contribute to the sessions, we used different movements our thoughts. We had a really good discussion. |
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November 2024
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15.11.24 We had an amazing turn out to the book share on Friday 15th November. There were lots of smiles from both children and parents as work was discussed. Lots of parents said what great progress their children had made. Thank you for all the continued support. |
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October 2024
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16.10.24 On Wednesday 16th October, Year 4 set off on a fun filled day of learning about the Anglo Saxons to Carymoor Environmental Centre. The day consisted of many activities including the grinding of wheat to make flour, creating a human timeline, completing an orienteering quiz, solving a runes problem and weaving beautiful willow plates. Despite the rain, we had a marvellous time and had smiles from ear to ear. The children looked amazing in their Anglo Saxon tunics. |
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September 2024
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24.09.24
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16.09.24 Year 4 have had a very exciting start to the term. Alongside an interesting study into place value in maths and non chronological reports about the Sneaglegator in English, we have been transported back to Roman times to discover what happened as the Romans left and the Anglo Saxons settled. We have learnt lots of interesting facts and can’t wait for our trip to Carymoor. |
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Welcome to Blue Class September 2023 - July 2024
July 2024
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On Thursday 11th July Blue class travelled to the Ancient Technology Centre for our first residential. It took us about an hour by coach travelling through the beautiful countryside. On arrival we took our bags off the coach and met Andy, one of our guides. We walked to the camp and laid eyes on the longhouse for the first time. After packing away our things we found our Viking clothing and get dressed. We were ready for our daily chores! We split into 2 groups, group 1 ground the wheat for our bread, made butter for our lunch and washed and chopped vegetables. Group 2 worked outside chopping and sawing wood, mining chalk and making chalk bricks. Next, we stopped for our Vikings Ploughmans lunch! We had bread, cheese, ham, our own made butter and a range of salad leaves and pickles. We finished with prunes and chopped apples. In the afternoon the groups swapped places and Group 2 made our evening meal. After a long day we had our dinner, stewed vegetables with barley and stewed chicken. We had stewed apples and cream for our pudding. After that we had the long job of clearing away and washing up! Then we got a chance for a long playtime. Finally, we made our beds and put on our pajamas. We walked to the round house and Mrs Sherrard read us a bedtime story whilst we drank our hot chocolate. In the morning we were up nice and early! We had cereal and toast for breakfast and then packed away all of our belongings. We had a chance to have one last play before we got back onto the coach – tired, smelly but having had a great time! |
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May 2024
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Today Egypt came to Blue Class! We had a visit from South West Heritage who brought lots of interesting artefacts to our classroom. We learnt some more details about Ancient Egypt and then took part in some fantastic activities! We made some date bread (but took it home to bake!), we painted lucky scarabs and we became archeologists and dug for artefacts! Afterwards, we dressed in Egyptian fancy dress. To end our morning, we were able to watch real footage of Howard Carter and Tutankhamun’s tomb. It was amazing to see and hear the man we have been learning so much about! |
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YTFC came to visit us today with the winning cup! We enjoyed listening all about it and having a picture with the cup. |
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March 2024
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As always – what a quick half term! This half term we have been learning the story of Beowulf. This has helped us to consolidate our previous learning on Anglo Saxons and Vikings. We have put this knowledge to great use writing our own ‘Legends’ story. In Maths we started the term with measurement and have ended the term with fractions. The children have been busy learning about mixed fractions and improper fractions. As ever we have also had a big push on our times tables and it has been lovely to welcome some children to Early Birds Maths Club. In Science we have been classifying and grouping living things. We also had a fabulous time doing extra experiments for Science Week and were lucky enough to take part in a live lesson from the farm. This was very informative and we even got to watch a calf being born! Geography has seen us learning about rivers and mountains. We have examined the water cycle and the different altitude habitats of a mountain. We have finished our learning by studying the floods on the Somerset Levels. In Art we have been looking at animals in art. We used clay to make Bankura Horses. We then decorated these. As always thank you for your continued support. The children are all making excellent progress with their learning. I wish you all a happy, peaceful (and chocolate filled!) Easter Holiday and look forward to welcoming everyone back for the Summer Term. |
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October 2023
On the 11th October Blue class travelled to Carymoor and became Anglo Saxons for the day!
We started by sharing our knowledge with Beth at Carymoor. Next, we had the chance to dress in Anglo Saxon tunics. Some were a little itchy! We then went outside to the round house. It was very smelly as they had recently lit a fire. We took turns in grinding barley to bake bread. We tried 2 different methods, one required a lot more muscle than the other! Next, we went outside and completed an Anglo Saxon orienteering quiz – it took us a long time to find all of the answers.
We all enjoyed eating our lunch together, afterwards we spent time weaving some plates. We found this quite tricky and it required a lot of patience. Next, we went on a rune hunt. We had to find the symbols hidden in the garden and then unscramble the secret message. We were rewarded with chocolate coins! Finally, we ended our day by taking a walk back into the past to discover all of the different creatures that were living in England at that time. Our challenge was to name the creature by identifying their footprints.
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September 2023
Wow what a start to the new term! It has been lovely to welcome old faces and some new faces into Blue Class. We have a new classroom assistant Miss Hughes. We have had a busy week getting to know our new classroom and routine.
We have started our learning in English by inventing our own mythical creatures. In Maths we have been revisiting our numbers up to 1000. We have started our History topic by learning what happened to Britannia after the Romans left and we ended our week dancing and singing to ‘Mamma Mia’ – our music topic this term!
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Welcome to Blue Class September 2022 - July 2023
January 2023
Blue class are starting to learn about Robert Burns in preparation for Burn’s Night. We made the Scottish dessert of Cranachan using oats, double cream, honey and raspberries. We had a great time making it and really enjoyed eating it too!
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Blue class has had a lovely week using the new Trim trail.
The children from Blue class have been listening to a range of songs by ABBA. We performed the song Mamma Mia with glockenspiel accompaniment.
Blue Class had a fantastic Anglo-Saxon day at Carymoor Environmental Centre on Tuesday 4th October. After meeting our workshop leader Nat, we shared our knowledge about the Anglo Saxons and made a human timeline. It was then time for dressing up as Anglo Saxons. We went outside and ground barley using a saddle quern stone and a rotary quern stone. The next activity was completing a multiple choice orienteering quiz in groups. We had a go at weaving plates with strips of willow which was quite tricky. After lunch, we did a runes treasure hunt and we had to decode the letters. The letters spelt the words ‘GOLD COINS’ and Nat kindly rewarded the children with chocolate coins for their efforts. Before playing some Anglo Saxon games, we did an animal footprint trail around the field. The largest footprints belonged to an animal called the auroch which is now extinct. We all had a great day. Thank you to Mr Lancaster and Mrs Baggridge for supporting us on our visit.
September 2021 - July 2022
