Friday 14th October

I am very sorry we have not had a blog for the last few weeks. This has been due to technical problems with my computer. I will now add add some pictures from the last few weeks.

This week in school we have been continuing to work on the 'Food for Thought' project. We produced posters in our English lessons to explain what we have done so far. Some of us presented them to our parents in our Harvest church service this Friday. 

We have been also been enjoying our music lessons as well as topic 'Greeks,' our Big Writes and our science lessons.

Home Learning

Friday 14^th October

English- This week we have been learning about the Greek Gods. For your home learning I would like you to create your own Greek god. I would like to see a picture of your god or goddess and then at least 2 paragraphs of writing (5 lines minimum) to explain how your god/goddess acts, what people and other gods and goddesses think of them and finally describe what they look like.

Maths- This week you have a selection of mental maths questions to complete. 

Friday 14^th October

Spellings this week are:

1.     Embarrass

2.    Equipped

3.    Environment

4.    Especially

5.    Exaggerate

Class 4 have had another fantastic week and have been very busy as always. Some of us have been earning our bike ability award, while others having been creating books about Egyptians and learning how to give change in their maths lessons. We also had two visitors in our class this week, with a teacher from Bungay High School come in to discuss his school with us as well as our regular visits from Adnams to see how we are getting along with our 'Vegetables R Us' project. In our topic lessons this week we have been making some Greek Vases. Take a look at the photos from this week.

Friday 23^rd September

English- This week I would like you to complete the sheet in your book on homophones. These are words that sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings. We need to know the appropriate homophone for the sentence we are writing.

Maths- This week we have been adding money and giving change. You have a sheet to complete with money word problems. I have also modelled to you on your sheet the different ways we have worked it out in class.

Your Spellings this week are:

1.     Bargain

2.    Bruise

3.    Communicate

4.    Community

5.    Competition

Make sure you have practiced all the spellings I have sent home as your spelling test is coming soon.

Well done for a fantastic week of work. We have been solving crimes in our Science lessons with Mr and Mrs Bowles, solving a light investigation, as well as collecting lots of house points for our houses, writing fantastic persuasive non-fiction books with Miss Dekker and we also created some fantastic artwork for the school to celebrate Roald Dahl's 100th birthday. At lunch time we had a lego club under the trees in our field; this is what we made.

                                                                      Home Learning

Friday 16^th September

Maths- This week we have been learning the value of numbers with decimals. We have ordered them, rounded them and multiply and divided them. Have a go at either of these brilliant websites to practice more at home. We will be using our active learn accounts again soon, but they need a little bit of administrative work to sort out our new classes at the moment.

Decimals - 10-11 year olds - Topmarks  (ordering decimals)

www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=maths/decimals

Decimal Math Games - Math Play (rounding decimals to the nearest tenth, hundredth, thousandth)

www.math-play.com/decimal-math-games.html

English- This week it has been Roald Dahl’s birthday. We celebrated his birthday by talking about characters in his books and created some lovely art work. This week I would like you to write a book review for your favourite Roald Dahl book. Think about writing in paragraphs, using your best handwriting and including as much detail as possible. You could write about what is happening in the story, favourite part, favourite character and who do you think would enjoy the book the most. A book review is similar to your persuasion writing you have been doing this week. You can use the same techniques to persuade people to read your favourite book. (Adjectives, in my opinion, I believe, I am certain you will strongly agree.)

                                                             Friday 16^th September

Your spellings for this week to practice are:

1.     Apparent

2.    Appreciate

3.    Attached

4.    Available

5.    Average

When you are practicing, remember you can make it fun and think of a rhyme, write an acrostic poem with each letter being the start of a line, write in different coloured pens, write in bubble writing or any other fun way you can think of to learn your spellings.

Welcome to a new year. We have had an exciting start with children coming back with a great attitude to their learning. We started our new term with some wacky or extreme reading. We had lots of fun taking these photographs. Our 'Food for Thought Project' got underway with a big harvest of courgettes, cucumbers, tomatoes, apples and plums. Adnams was very pleased with what we had grown for them!

Tuesday 13th September we look forward to Roald Dahl Day. We will be celebrating Rolad Dahl's 100th birthday with various activities based around his books. Class 4 will be doing some artwork based on his books that will be displayed around the school. The theme of the artwork will be based on our British Values along with the wonderful characters in Roald Dahl's books.

Home Learning

Friday 9^th September

Maths- This week we have been recapping over place value and ordering of numbers. For your home learning you have a sheet to complete with some questions for you to practice at home.

English-Our new topic this half term is Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. We have already started to find some facts out about these exciting times in history. This week I would like you to use your own knowledge and to research some more facts to help you create a facts file. You may find you want to complete your fact file on one of the countries or to do both on one page. It would be great if we could put these on display so make sure you have great presentation and your page is full of interesting facts.

Spelling to practice this week from Year 5/6 List

1.     Accommodate

2.    According

3.    Accompany

4.    Achieve

5.    Ancient

Remember double consonant rule (double letter if the vowel before is the sound)

Remember ie before I except after c. (There are some exceptions!)

Friday 8th July

Class 4 have worked extremely hard this week. We have completed our end of term assessments demonstrating all the progress that we have made. We had a visit from Ofsted yesterday and I would just like to say that every single one of you made me proud with your enthusiasm and hard work. Well done for being your usual lovely selves whilst under pressure. J

Times Table Challenge

Our times tables should be secure now; we need to focus on our speed. I cannot stress enough how important speedy times table recollection is. Maths in High School is significantly easier if times table knowledge is not an issue. Please please please continue to practice at home. Well done to Charlie and William for completing the 100 table weekly challenge in under 5 minutes – come on the rest of you!

Spellings

Our words to learn this week are:

language

leisure

lightning

marvellous

mischievous

Please remember that the full list of spellings can be found at the front of the homework book. Please take the time to learn them. 2 house points go to every pupil who achieves 5/5 in their spelling test.

Home Learning

Maths home learning this week is problem solving. English home learning is to watch the news (either local or national) at least once ready for ‘in the news’. Home learning is due in on Thursday and House Points can be earned if home learning is handed in early.

Friday 24th June

Class 4 have had another great week this week. On Tuesday we joined the rest of our Pyramid schools to take part in an outdoor learning day. The weather was very kind to us and we thoroughly enjoyed all of the activities. We have done lots of art this week too. We painted seagulls for the Southwold Arts Festival and we drew pictures for the Wenhaston Village Hall collage.

Times Table Champions

The 11 times tables are so well known know that we can consider them to be done.

Our Tables focus for the remainder of this half term will be random tables; we have covered all of the times tables in homework now so we need to practice them.

Spellings

Our words to learn this week are:

interrupt

immediate

individual

interfere

identify

Please remember that the full list of spellings can be found at the front of the homework book. Please take the time to learn them. 2 house points go to every pupil who achieves 5/5 in their spelling test.

 Please remember to get your reading journals signed ready for Monday, another house point is up for grabs!

Home Learning

Maths home learning this week is a times tables challenge. English home learning is to write a summary of the Pyramid outdoor learning day. Home learning is due in on Thursday and House Points can be earned if home learning is handed in early.

Golden Book

Well done to Stanley who earned his place in the Golden Book this week with a fantastic piece of work about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Friday 17th June

Class 4 have had an exciting week this week. On Tuesday we walked with Class 3 to Thorington and watched the Aviva Women’s Cycle Tour go past. It was great fun the motorbike police all put their sirens on for us and waved. We were amazed at how fast the cyclists passed us and how they could all ride so closely together. We shouted ‘allez! allez! at the tops of our voices and had a brilliant time. We also had a visit from a Bungay High School teacher who helped us to design our own sweets and wrappers for them with advertising which we enjoyed a great deal.

Walking to Thorington

Waiting patiently...

The official car and escort motorbikes

"Allez! Allez!"

Times Table Champions

The 11 times tables are clearly well known now as all of the following achieved 12/12 in their tables test this week.

Freddie, Louis, William, Cameron, Stanley, Arlo,Toby, Daisy, Ajay, Rosie, Rebekah, Joe and Charlie. Keep up the good work!

Our Tables focus this half term is the 11 times table, please spend a few minutes each day learning them.

Spellings

Our words to learn this week are:

frequently

government

guarantee

harass

hindrance

Please remember that the full list of spellings can be found at the front of the homework book. Please take the time to learn them. 2 house points go to every pupil who achieves 5/5 in their spelling test.

Home Learning

Maths home learning this week is practicing calculating the perimeter and area of shapes; it has been set on Active Learn. English home learning is to write any style of poem about Dad. Homework is due in on Thursday and House Points can be earned if home learning is handed in early.

Golden Book

Well done to Rosie who got a place in the Golden Book for showing perseverance and staying her usual cheerful lovely self when she had to miss out on the Aviva Women's Cycle Tour because of a badly behaved tooth.