Class 4
Welcome to the Class 4 page.
I hope you find the information useful.
P.E. days in Class 4 are Mondays and Wednesdays. Children should come to school in their school P.E. kit of red t-shirt and black shorts. Swimming will be on a Tuesday. The children need their swimming suit/trunks with a towel and goggles in a bag, not a big back pack please.
Earrings should not be worn on P.E. or swimming days.
Spellings will be given out on a Friday for the test on the following Friday. Homework will also be given out on a Friday and must be handed in on Thursday of the following week.
It is still important that children read their guided reading books each night and for parents/ guardians to date and sign the record book.
Times tables should be practised regularly.
Please do not hesitate to speak to me if you have any questions or concerns.
Staff in Class 4
Class Teacher: Miss Cowin
Classroom Assistant: Mrs Farnaby
Topic Information
Activities Week
Ice and Fire workshop at Dynamic Earth
Bike Week
Our class visit to the Chain Bridge
We finished our 'Dragon's Egg Adventure' serial story. We are very proud of our work.
Working with Class 1 doing different activities.
As part of our Local Geography study, Class 4 looked at the three bridges in Berwick.
We went on a walk to look at the similarities and differences.
Telling a story using our violins for the sound effects.
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Number Talk. The children asked mathematical questions to guess the number I had chosen.
Science: Working together as a group to make a simple circuit.
Science Week
Class 4 had an amazing time in the inflatable Planetarium.
They looked in awe at the night sky. They saw the constellations, followed by pictures of the constellations projected onto the star constellations.
They saw the journey the ISS goes on orbiting the Earth.
They gasped at the close up of the moon.
Back in class with Finn, the astronomer from the Kielder Observatory, Class 4 ordered the planets.
The Sun, Earth and moon
Using models, Class 4 acted out how the Earth orbits the Sun while rotating on its axis. The moon orbits the Earth at the same time. We talked about how this makes the year and day and night.
Because of the snow we decided to have a Key Stage 2 investigation. Each class estimated the volume of water that would remain inside the jar after the snow melted. It also provided us with an opportunity to discuss states of matter.
Enjoying a morning in the snow
World Book Day
We have been writing musical compositions in three time
For local history we have been learning to recall facts about the Battle of Flodden
Skipping festival
We said a goodbye to Miss Short and we wish her the very best in her new job. We welcome Mrs Farnaby to Class 4 on some afternoons.
Finding the mystery number in maths using the clues.
In our Design and Technology lessons we taste tested some single layer biscuits. Some were too sweet and some too dry. We then designed our own biscuits. We had to decide what to add to the biscuits to make them more appealing. We added dried fruit or chocolate chips. We all wanted to decorate our biscuits with icing. We then designed the labels for the bags.
We discussed how you can't just sell biscuits for the price of the ingredients. You have to think about cost of electricity, time taken to make the biscuits and profit.
Visit to Tweedmouth Community Middle School for a dodgeball session as part of our transition. We had a great time meeting children from the other schools.
Arts Week- Dance with Chloe based on our story for the week 'Planet in a Pickle Jar'
The fire service came to remind us how to stay safe.
We competed in the virtual Multi-skills festival. We represented North Northumberland.
Science : Sound
We began our Sound topic by find out how sound travels. We used string tied around forks. The ends of the string was held to our ears. We then tapped the fork against different materials and worked out how the sound travelled through the medium of the string into our ears. We found that tapping the fork against metal made the clearest sound. We look forward to learning more about sound.
Christmas Party
Christmas Lunch
Making our Roman mosaics. We used painted dried pasta sheets which we then broke up to make the small tesserae tiles. We then created our own mosaic patterns.
Our completed mosaics
In science we found some food chains. Food chains start with the producer, usually a plant. However a consumer can also be prey or a predator.
Class 4 had a lovely 'Prayer Spaces' session with the 'Open the Book' Team. They looked at different parts of the Christmas story, talked about how the people in the story might have felt at that special time. They thought about how they feel at Christmas and about others in their own families.
Prayer Spaces Activities
Snow Day!
Autumn 2 Topic Plan
Enjoying our violin lessons.
On Wednesdays for the next few weeks we will be doing some dance and movement with Chloe. We had a great time in our first session and worked well together in groups. We made up dances to reflect sunrise to sunset,
Working together, to warm up before going into groups.
Our group dances.
Music Day with Berwick Music Partnership
Representing 4 digit numbers with arrow cards and place value counters.
