A massive well done to all of the children below that attended the basketball Barnsley finals today. They did incredibly well and played 4 games, winning 3 and losing one. This has meant that they have finished top of the group and will be progressing to the South Yorkshire Finals (normally held in Sheffield at the EIS). Our children love basketball at Kexborough and all of the hard work that they have put in during break time and dinner time really does show. Well done to everyone!
Today, we went to our first swimming lesson! We were all assessed to see how confident we were and what our current ability levels are. We have been put into 2 groups and from next week, we will look at exactly what we need to improve on to reach the end of KS2 goal for swimming. All of the children are really excited and loved their first lesson.
Today, as part of our Geography Topic on Europe, we have looked at finding the capital cities of some of the main countries within Europe. We knew some already but for the ones that we did not know, we used an atlas to locate and find them. We discussed the differences between continents, countries and cities. Today, we have been looking at square numbers in Maths. We have represented them using counters and translucent tiles. 22 children proffered the tiles and 1 child preferred the counters to represent them. We looked at how the arrays for square numbers create square arrays. This was a great way to learn about our square numbers but also to understand the reasoning behind it.
Yesterday, we went up to Darton College and we took an unprecedented 54 children to a basketball tournament. With it being so close, we did not have to worry about travel costs and we could take a steady walk up. It was AMAZING to see so many children taking part in some inter-school competition and I was proud of everybody for taking part! Thank you to all members of staff as always for all of your hard work! This half term, our novel is Treasure Island. This is also our driver for our writing. We have already read the first 6 chapters and have looked specifically at vocabulary that has been used which is unfamiliar. All of our lessons have a quick recap on the previous day's new vocabulary and the children have done exceptionally well at retaining this knowledge. In writing, we have also started completing diary entries from the perspective of Jim Hawkins. As the children know, and enjoy, the story so much, they are flying with the modelled diaries. Over the next week, they will complete an independent piece from the perspective of Long John Silver.
Year 4 are smashing it in terms of attendance this year. We have won the attendance award a staggering 9 times which results in us having 2 and a quarter hours of free time. Our class are not stopping there though and want to receive 22 stars which would give us an entire day of free time. The challenge has been set and I know we can do it!
This half term, we have been learning about the digestive system. We have learnt about the types of teeth and spoken about dental hygiene. We have also looked at food chains including the following vocabulary: producers, predators and prey. We have looked at different organs including: large intensities, small intestines and liver.
Congratulations to the children below that have all received WOWs this half term. Some have been for work they have produced in the classroom and some have been for representing the school so well as part of the choir! Well done everybody!
Today, Year 4 wrote up their masterpieces for their setting descriptions. All half term, we have been looking at the novel, "The Fireworkmaker's Daughter" and we have completed work around that including character and setting descriptions. We wrote up our final pieces today and they were amazing. The children were able to use expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials with a comma and a range of sentences including simple, compound and complex. Well done to all of the children for all of their work this half term. Next half term, we will be learning about a new novel which is always a favourite. I am not going to say what the book is called but I will give a clue. The main characters are called Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver!
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