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It has been another busy week in Y4 Stingrays. We have been doing lots of new learning and trying our best in all areas. We have had some super writers and mathematicians this week and are very proud of all of the children this week.

Take a look at what we have been learning…

Our story focus this week is 'Incredible You'. The children have loved reading this story as they have related to a lot of the example in the book. For example, being loud like a lion, and cheeky like a monkey. We have picked out key vocabulary such as 'incredible' 'interest' 'hobbies' and…

This week in Jellyfish we have been working really hard on showing the school value respect through everything we do. We have spent time thinking about what respect is and how we show it at different times and in different ways. 

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In English this week we have been working towards our…

For the next few weeks we are using the song 'head, shoulders, knees and toes' as our focus is all about ourselves. Our main focus this week is our faces, what colour our faces are, what facial features we have and what colour these features are. We are also starting to think about our differences…

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This week the children have been worked to develop their skills, focusing on prepositions of place, sentence openers, conjunctions and use of adverbs, alongside learning about the sequence and structure of a story. They have worked with models from the class teacher and then have used…

We ordered the plot of Girl of Ink and Stars to show understanding ready for our narrative retell.

Our Maths lessons have revolved around the topic of addition and subtraction, and using the bar and part-whole methods to help us break down tricky questions into manageable calculations.

Our…

This week, despite the sniffles that the cold weather has bought on, we have worked tremendously well in all our learning. We continue to be the best that we can be!

In English, we are aiming to write a character description of the wolf from the story Little Red Riding Hood. We will be writing…

This week we have made so much progress in all areas, I’m so impressed with Penguins attitude this week, well done! 
In English we have started our new genre - a Wanted Poster to describe. We are going to write a poster describing the villain of our story (the wolf) so that he can be caught! We…

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In English this week we have been working on writing a character description. Earlier in the week we completed a guided write for Daddy Bear describing both his appearance and personality. We worked to include all the features of a sentence including capital letters, finger spaces and…

This week, we have explored Scandinavia, learnt about global biomes and sequenced key events from a text. Intrigued? Read on to find out more. 

In History this week, we dissected the reasons Vikings left Scandinavia. We learnt that there were four key reasons they set sail across the North Sea…

Another week done and only 3 left to go until half term, it's amazing how fast time is flying by.

In English this week, we have started our second writing genre, a third person re-tell. We decided to do ours based on Chapter 3 of Rumaysa where we see her first interaction with the witch. We…

I can not believe we are at the end of week 4 already. The children have worked exceptionally hard this week and as always I an extremely proud of each and everyone one of them. Our value this week has been respect. We have talked about what this means and how we can show this in and around the…