Class 4

It's been a whirlwind week in Class 4 at Richard Crosse, packed with learning, creativity, and some seriously thought-provoking moments. Let me tell you all about it!

Year 6 have been tackling their mock SATs booklets this week, and I've been so impressed by their resilience. Seeing them work…

With great enthusiasm, our class have enjoyed another week full of learning. From creating model structures of our blood (including platelets, white and red blood cells, plasma and salt) to learning about the impact of fossil fuels, we have been extremely busy. 

In our English lessons, we have…

Another week seems to have flown by! This week we have edited and published our letters to parliament regarding greenhouse gases and water pollution. These will be sent to London in the near future. In Maths, we have become increasingly fluent with long division. Becoming competent to deal with…

Class 4 have had another exciting week of learning.

Namely, in maths, we have been perfecting our written methods for long multiplication and recapping our written form of short division (bus-stop). With great enthusiasm and passion, we have been developing our persuasive letters to the…

Happy New Year!

With great diligence, it did not take long for Class 4 to get back underway and engaging in lessons. We finished our fractions topic and have begun perfecting our long multiplication. In English, we started our new topic based around the impact humans are having on our…

Our festive season is upon us and our final week has been a wonderful end to 2024. We have had great success finishing our units across the curriculum. More specifically: finishing our fair grounds rides in DT; Hidden Figures inspired memoirs in English; and investigated parachutes in science.
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Our penultimate week before the Christmas holidays is over and what a week it has been! We have continued with our exploration of Hidden Figures and have begun preparing for our memoirs from Katherine Johnson's perspective on 21st June 1969. In Mathematics, we have finished our subtraction of…

This week we have been learning about many things including Hidden Figures ,Fractions prepering for our Christmas Fare and Christingle Service. Hidden Figures is our english topic and it is all about the people left in the dark during the first moon landing mission with NASA. Maths as usuall is a…

The weeks seem to be flying by! This week has been a blast, with the children showing great pride and commitment towards their assessments. It has been fantastic seeing what our children know already so early on in the academic year. 

In Mathematics, we have been looking at fractions: more…

On Monday, we delved into the world of mathematics, exploring fractions and comparing denominators and numerators. In English, we were inspired by "Cloudbusting" to write repetitive poems. The afternoon was dedicated to physical education, where we focused on honing our basketball dribbling…

On Monday, in maths we were finding equivalent fractions and in English we started our new topic on Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman, making poems on a template. in the afternoon, we did PE looking at basketball.

On Tueday, we did maths looking further into equivalent fractions and after that…

On Tuesday, we were doing maths learning how to multiply by 10, 100 and 1,000 and then we were  finishing off our plans off for our non chronalogical report about Oceania and its key features. In the afternoon, we learned about jazz in music using instruments to make up our own in groups on our…