Week beginning 24th May 2021

Date: 19th May 2021 @ 10:09pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

What another hardworking week we have had!

 Star of the week goes to: Isabel C

 Top Table award goes to: Riley

This week in worship:

We had a lovely class visit to Church and to meet Vicar Andrew.

We have played a board game to highlight the importance of water and to have an opportunity to enjoy playing with our friends. Our school councillors launched a competition to make a poster about saving water. These can be done at home and are due in on the first Tuesday back after half term.

We have shared some of Mr Cliff’s answers to our ‘Big Questions’ we asked as part of our Ethos work before Easter.

We enjoyed using our first P4C (Philosophy for children) stickers to prompt our discussions. Your child will wear a sticker home every now and again to prompt a family discussion!

Our No Outsiders focus was on including everybody and the special facemasks for people who are deaf.

English- We have looked at different tenses, completed a zone of relevance with key vocabulary from the book and recapped using speech punctuation.

Spellings- we will be focusing on words with the sion suffix

Words to learn this week:  explosion, television, collision, division, invasion, decision, erosion, confusion, decision, revision.

Please work with your child to ensure he or she understands the meanings of the words and can use them in a sentence as well as being able to spell them. There are different suggestions of activities to do each week to support practising the spellings.

Reading- We have explored the layout and organisation of non-fiction books and how they can support our understanding of a topic and this has helped us expand our technical vocabulary. We will continue to use the book to investigate how a volcano is formed, erupts and becomes extinct.

Maths- we have been brilliant at use partitioning to support the division of 2-digits by 1-digit and moved on to 3-digit numbers, understanding how a remainder is created. Next week we will link our understanding of multiplication and division to finding the area.

The official Y4 multiplication check has been postponed until next year, however, as a school we have made the decision to trial it for ourselves this year. The game below is almost the same as the format for the multiplication check we will do in June. Please support your child to practise using this at home regularly alongside TTRock Stars

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

This week we will have another go at the official practise site to become familiar with how it works and what we have to do.

 Science: this week we have continued about the importance of making healthy snack and drink choices and about how to look for the sugar content on food labels as part of our Change 4 Life focus. We have set off another investigation into the effects of different drinks on eggshells (which are very similar to the enamel of our teeth) and made predictions as to what will happen to the eggs after a week. Next week we will find out what has happened, record our results and learn about tooth care.

 RE- we have continued to explore the theme of Discipleship.

History and Geography- we have compared and contrasted the similarities and differences of the ancient civilisations to find out what made them some of the world’s greatest civilisations. This week we will begin to discover where Ancient Greece fits in on the timeline and in the world.

Art- We have all used the techniques of collage to make a unique sunflower petal to form part of a whole school display. We have also all contributed to a beautiful piece of shared art for the Northwich Arts festival on the theme of ‘Belonging’.

Music- we are really working hard in our final few Ukulele lessons.

German- this week we learn and practise colours names of the week.

PE- this half term will focus on Athletics and Striking and Batting games (rounders and cricket). It will continue to be on Monday and Friday afternoons. Please ensure your child wears the Lostock Gralam PE uniform and has long hair tied back and earrings removed or covered please.

As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the school admin email if you wish to discuss anything.

Mrs Evans