Welcome to Willow Class!
Willow
Class Teacher: Mrs Anderson
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Huggins
Intervention Teacher: Mr Todd
Autumn term
Welcome back! We hope you've had a lovely summer and are ready to learn! This term we will be learning about poetry and story writing in literacy, number and place value in maths, mountains, rivers and costs in topic, states of matter in science and landscapes in art. Please see our Curriculum Overview below for an in depth look at what your child will be learning this term. Also, please remember to read at home every night and to go on TT Rock Stars and Mathletics as often as you can. Thank you!
General Notices
The children will receive 3 pieces of home work each Friday. They will need to complete maths, literacy and spellings over the weekend and return it by the following Wednesday.
P.E - The class will participate in sessions on a Thursday afternoon. They will require full P.E kit with appropriate footwear. For the first half term the children will be swimming, and therefore require a costume and towel. A reminder that children must not wear ear rings on swimming days and that any ear rings that are worn must be studs..
Year 4 have been learning about healthy life style choices - here's what they thought of this healthy fruit!
Year 4 love maths, check out our problem solving skills!
Year 4 enjoyed their Go Green topic all about rising sea levels - what can you do to protect the environment?
Wow Year 4, what amazing holiday homework! Thank you everyone !
2018 - 2019
4 pupils from the class had great fun taking part in the Times Up Challenge!
Year 4 had great fun making oobleck today - is it a liquid or a solid?! (The unusual name comes from Dr Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck story, which is well worth a read).
We are proud and excited to support Soccer Aid for Unicef 2019! https://www.socceraid.org.uk/
Year 4 enjoyed finding different ways of sorting organisms in science today.
Year 4 had great fun designing bags as part of their Fiver Challenge business!
Year 4 enjoyed their visit from solicitors Ben and Helen Haigh, who helped us understand all about the legal sector for our futures fortnight topic. Thank you!
A huge thank you to everybody who helped us celebrate Eid, we've had an amazing day!
As part of our Futures Fortnight, Ceramicist Kirsty Adams came to our school today to show us how we could get a job as an artist when we are older.
We enjoyed the fun run today!
We loved learning about the Romans at Arbeia!
Year 4 have been looking at food chains in science. What's the longest food chain you can think of?
We showed off our putting and chipping skills!
We identified lots of different shapes and had fun sorting them in different ways.
We enjoyed solving today's problem of the day!
The whole school enjoyed our World Book Day activities today! Here are Year 4 having fun :)
Year 4 enjoyed studying and recreating the watercolours of artist J.M.W. Turner!
Thank you for all your support #RedNoseDay2019!
We love learning to play the recorder.
Thank you Destination Judo!
Well done for the great costumes, happy World Book Day!
We had fun solving White Rose Maths problem of the day
Everyone had fun deciding when the famous designers that we are going to study this half term are from.
We celebrated Chinese New Year by learning Chinese dances! 新年快乐
We made ration books today in Year 4 to help us understand how hard it was to plan your weekly food shop during the Second World War.
We made carrot cookies to understand how rationing during WW2 changed eating habits - would you like one?
Check out our brilliant bar model skills!
Year 4 have learned some Christmas songs in British Sign Language today!!
Thank you parents and carers for a great turnout to our Christmas Crafts afternoon!
Year 4 had fun learning about electricity with the plasma ball today!
We enjoyed visiting the library.
Year 4 have been learning about OS maps and symbols - check out our awesome maps!
We had a great time at Beamish! Thanks to everyone for making such a fab effort with the costumes!
Year 4 have helped to launch Hate Crime Awareness Week in Gateshead by taking part in a Walk of Solidarity today. Children designed posters, which were made into a giant banner, met some Gateshead footballers, police men and women and walked around Gateshead Stadium in support of inclusion. For more information about the week, visit https://nationalhcaw.uk/
World Cup Fortnight
As part of our World Cup fortnight, the children have learned all about Poland. We have explored the different cities of the country and researched all of the tourist attractions in the capital city Warsaw. The children have enjoyed learning all about traditional polish fairy tales and loved making the traditional Polish soup borscht.
Felling gate Care home
Over the last half term, the children have visited the care home to help the residents zoop up their zimmer frames. The children have had a fantastic attitude talking to the people and finding out all about their lives.
GANSTA GRANNY
In literacy the children have been looking at Gangsta Granny. They have loved every second so far and I have just found out there is a performance at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle over half term.
THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
This half term the children will be learning all be learning all about the Amazon Rainforest.
We will be exploring the tribes that live within, the different layers and the species of animals.
Can you complete Mr Wearmouth's quiz?
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7B7969P
Welcome back.
The Amazing Egyptians
This half term, the children in Willow class will be learning all about the amazing Egyptians. We will be exploring the country, it's landscape and how it has changed over time. The children have planned the topic and want to learn all about the mummies, Pharaohs and the pyramids.
Can you beat the Egyptian quiz master?
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/quiz/history/take-ancient-egyptians-quiz/
Rocks and Soils
In Science Willow class have been learning all about rocks and soils. We have explored different kinds of rocks and how they are formed. During class planning, the children decided they wanted to learn all about fossils and how they are made. In the weeks gone by, we explored this process and today we even got to make our own fossils. Stay tuned to find out how they turned out.
Test your knowledge on the BBC Bitesize website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/materials/rocks_soils/read/1/
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Hartlepool's History
As part of our North East history fortnight, the children have been looking at the history of Hartlepool. We have explored the bombing of the town in World War One, the HMS Trincomalee, which is now docked in the Maritime museum and explored how the town has changed over the years. The children enjoyed their trip and have been very interested in the tale of the monkey hanging.
Our topic for the summer term is The Romans
We will be learning about both Ancient and Modern Rome and comparing both to our lives in Britain.
Click on the links below to discover more!
http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zwmpfg8
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/the_roman_army/
Recorder Lessons
Every Monday afternoon, we have been learning to play the recorder with Mr Barker . We are getting so good that we were able to show off our new skills for friends and family during assembly.
Watch our video clip to see us in action...can you name that tune?
Newcastle Climbing Centre
We visited Newcastle Climbing Centre in Byker with Year 3 to end our Mighty Mountains topic.
We were all extremely brave and everyone had a try...some even made it to the very top!
Measuring in Maths
We have been using different equipment to measure in our maths lessons; rulers and tape measures for length; litres and millilitres for capacity and grams and kilograms for weight.
We are also beginning to convert measurements by scaling up and down.
In our science lessons this term, we have been discovering more about sound.
We made telephones using paper cups and string and saw how the sound travels through the string when it is pulled tight. This makes the string vibrate which creates the sound!
Our trip to Beamish
We had a great day at Beamish where we learned even more about The Victorians.
We had a school lesson by a strict Victorian teacher, explored what it was like down the mine and visited the different shops from The Victorian period.
