On World Book Day Year 2 were visited by the Year 4’s. We really enjoyed them coming downstairs to share a book with us! Hopefully we can do this again soon to share our love for reading.
Over the past 2 weeks, Year 4 have been working on their Journey Project across all areas of the curriculum. In maths, we have been working on 2D shape and looking at some artwork by Karla Gerard, discussing how she uses shape to create her masterpieces. We had a go at creating our own artwork in her style with a Brooklands Farm twist.
In Literacy, we had a go at creating some poems in the style of Tony Mitton’s ‘I wanna be a star’. We thought about what we wanted to achieve in Year 4 and how much we have already achieved in our Journey at Brooklands Farm.
This Journey Project culminated in our Year 3 and 4 performance, which we very much hope you enjoyed.
You can find a copy of the Year 4 Home Learning and Spellings below. It relates to our next Project – Extreme Environments!!
The teachers very much hope you have a lovely break!
Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper, Miss Courtney, Miss Gilders and Mr Kerin
Two children in 4A achieved their Year 4 pins this week. All the children have been working very hard to make sure they know what they need to complete their target cards.
Well done 4A!
Year 4 had an amazing time this week on their Ignite days! We started the day by reading some Roman fact books and giving ourselves Roman names. We got to experience so many great things, such as, cooking a Roman pizza, creating Roman helmets, shields and mosaics, going on a Roman march and buying our food and equipment at a Roman forum after learning about roman numerals and making roman coins. We all had a great time in really high learning zones!
Mr Kerinus, Miss Blissa, Miss Coopera, Miss Courtneya and Miss Gildersa
Year 4 have had a busy week this week as we begin our new project – The Romans! It was great to see everyone dressed up and in character for our Roman Ignite.
We created Roman helmets and laurel wreaths which we bought with the Roman money we created. We also made some extremely tasty Roman pizza with feta cheese, honey and oil on top – yum! We had some grape juice which we crushed with our hands (which got a little messy). In the afternoon, we visited a Roman Forum to buy our goods and we were drilled outside by General Kerinus as Roman soldiers!
In Literacy, we continued with our Invent character descriptions. We are almost ready for our Hot Task next week and are looking forward to seeing the improvements in our writing following the last teaching sequence!
Now we have all become more confident with addition and subtraction, we are ready to move on to multiplication and division. Can you think of any way you might use multiplication over the weekend?
Our homework this week includes spellings and a diary entry or recount of the ignite day.
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper, Miss Courtney, Mr Kerin & Miss Gilders
The Year 4 Roman ignite days at Countess Way are next week!
Teachers have had lots of fun planning the Ignite days today and are very excited about sharing the day with the children.
We have decided to make some Roman style pizzas – please check the ingredients list and let us know if your child CANNOT eat or touch any of these due to allergies.
Remember to dress up as a Roman or wear some Roman accessories for the day too!
Miss Bliss and Mr Kerin’s classes are Tuesday and Miss Gilders and Miss Cooper’s classes are Wednesday.
Please arrive at Countess Way for 8.20am. Please pick up from Countess way at 3.15pm.
If your child attends breakfast club, they can have this at Countess Way. If they attend after school club, they will be walked back to fen Street for 3.30 with a group of teachers.
Have a nice weekend and we will see you next week.
Year 4 have had another positive week with their learning.
Highlights this week include:
Growing our knowledge and understanding of addition and subtraction, solving word problems.
We have grown our sound knowledge in science.
We have been writing out own character descriptions of our favourite animals.
Homework this week is below. We are really looking forward to seeing all your Roman outfits next week.
Have a lovely weekend Year 4.
Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper, Mr Kerin, Miss Gilders and Miss Courtney
It was a very proud day at Countess Way on Thursday the 6th of October as four teams came to play in a football tournament organised by Mr Spence. It was history in the making for more than one reason as for the first time the grass field at Countess Way was being used for a sporting event. Secondly it was the first time that Countess Way had ever had a team in a competition. Although the results didn’t go the way of the home side, it was a momentous occasion and even more so in the last match. It was the big ‘derby’ when the clash of Countess Way v Fen Street came together.
We are incredibly proud of the year 3 and 4 children who played with an open mindset to something new, who grew their understanding of what it means to play in a team together and they had to have plenty of belief in themselves and their team-mates to believe they could achieve!
Below is a photo of the history makers and the two Brooklands teams!
Well done!
Year 4 have been considering what makes a Quality Learning Environment. We were all really excited about being a part of the worlds biggest lesson looking at the Global Goals, of which Quality Learning Environment is one of them! Some children from each class visited a school which is in the process of being built. They shared their learning with us after their trip! Design ideas for how we could make our balconies into quality learning environments were discussed, votes were collected, and winning designs were made using lots of recycled materials in all shapes and sizes. We are looking forward to seeing these ideas being grown and developed next week
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Excitement is brewing ahead of our Roman project. We are really looking forward to seeing your costumes for our ignite day.
Next week we will be looking at Sound in Science. What different sounds can you hear over the weekend?
Miss Cooper, Miss Bliss, Miss Gilders, Mr Kerin and Miss Courtney
Year 4 have had another positive week with their learning. We have all had more than our fair share of sugar this week due to the Roald Dahl themed curriculum tea! Thank you to everyone for their time and effort baking – they were really fantastic.
Highlights this week include:
The beginning of Roman shield making in DT (Fen Street).
Growing our knowledge and understanding of rounding, addition and subtraction.
Developing our understanding of what makes a quality learning environment and having an impact on our own space.
Developing our vocabulary for our Michael Morpurgo character description competition.
Have a lovely weekend Year 4.
Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper, Mr Kerin, Miss Gilders and Miss Courtney
