What a wonderful week in Kingwood!

The children have had an amazing week on their residential trip. Every single child has learned so many new skills. They have all taken part in a variety of activities which has challenged them and given them the opportunity to work as a team, be resilient, be aware of the environment, gain in confidence and make new friends.
The children have all had a go at pushed themselves, facing their fears and showing a determination to overcome them. They have help each other and their behaviour has been outstanding even at bedtimes! They are a credit to St Vincent's. It has been a pleasure to take them away.
Despite the adverse weather conditions which were challenging at times, the children and staff have had a brilliant time. Thank you to all the staff who gave up their own time to make this trip possible.

We are looking forward to sharing our stories and picture with the other children. We are also excited to hear how the Y3 children got one with their work on the River Mersey.

Next week the Y4 children will deliver a presentation about their trip. Certificates will be awarded to the campers of the week!

We will begin researching Monet for our Art lessons linking with the topic of water. In Science we will be investigating the changing state of water.

English will be more poetry about monsters.

Y4 will do time in Maths.
Y3 will look at Fractions.

There will be a spelling test on Friday where the children will repeat the spellings from their assessment before the holiday.
The projects are also due in on Friday.
It will good to be back together as a team next week.

Please check the Twitter feed on the website for photos of the trip.

This week we had Merseyside gateway in doing an assembly.  It was so interesting finding out about all the different types of bridges and how the new bridge is progressing and how they are building each stage.  The children remembered so much information and asked relevant questions.

English:

The children were brilliant this week .  They managed to learn their section of the poem and put very creative actions to it.  Then we began to make a story map to help us remember the poem. The children really enjoyed this and will continue with is next week looking at monster poems.

Y3 will be working on their comprehension skills this week and grammar including apostrophes and spelling patterns.

Y4 will use their experiences at Kingswood to write reports, instructions and diary entries next week.

Maths:

Y3 will work on time this week and complete real life problems using timelines.
Y4 will continue with statistics this week before they go to Kingswood and complete a mental maths test.

Topic:

The children have all written their plan for the chocolate investigation which will take place this week, where the children will carry out the investigation to determine which temperature melts the chocolate most quickly.  They must ensure the test is fair and make observations to complete thier results table.  The children have discussed variable and they know everything has to be the same for each test apart from the change in temperature.

Y3
While the Y4 children are away the Y3 children will complete a mini project about the River Mersey.  They will use ICT to carry out their research and present their findings to their peers.

Y4 will leave for Kingswood on Wednesday at 12.15pm.  All the staff have made lots of preparations and given up their own time to make sure your children have a trip to remember.  Watch this space for photos and recounts from the children about their experiences.

Some of our poetry performances...

Have a great week!

Welcome back to the Summer Term

We have so much to do and look forward this term.


This week...

English:

This week we will be looking at poetry.  The children will learn a variety of poems and explore their different forms through performance, role play and story mapping.  They will use talk for writing to invent their own poems based on ones they have studied.  They will analyse the poems to develop their comprehensions skills.  They will complete their spelling assessment tests and bring home weekly spellings and English homework.

Maths:

Y3 will be practising timetables to aid multiplication of bigger numbers.

Y4 will be studying data handling, creating tally charts and interpreting data from a variety of graphs and charts.  They will have homework relating to this on Friday and x tables to learn for the 6 and 12 x tables and division facts.

Topic:

We will begin our topic on Water this term. The children have two weeks to produce a project to present to their class on the subject.  It can be on the water cycle, rivers, oceans, pollution, reversible changes of water, rainfall etc.  The projects can be in the form of a poster, model, written report, power point or report from a trip or visit.  Please hand in on Friday 6th May.


Please contact your child's class teacher with any medical updates for the trip to Kingswood or for any other information or questions. The trip is from Wednesday 27th April to Friday 29th April.

There is a FOSV cinema evening on Thursay 21st April 3-5pm.

This week was fantastic as we went to the air raid shelters.
The children looked at real artifacts...they tried on gas masks, clothing, they learnt WW2 songs, they experienced first hand how it would have felt to be in the Blitz in a real public shelter, with 2 thousand bed spaces;they were plunged into blackness as the lights went out under 40 feet of sandstone! This experience gave the children the ammunition to write brilliant persuasive leaflets to promote the trip.

After the holiday we will be studying poetry in English, we will be revisiting a variety of areas of maths. The new topic will be geography based...'Water'.  We will look at the water cycle, rivers, oceans, bridges including the local area.  The children will be asked to produce their final project on this topic and it will be due in on Tuesday 3rd May.  Again this can be done in a variety of ways such as a power point, a poster, a model, a piece of writing (in their own words), a drawing etc.

There will be a meeting this Tuesday after school about the Kingswood trip.
The next Sacremental programme session for Y4 is on Tuesday 26th April in church.

Have a great holiday children!

We had a very busy and exciting week leading up to Easter.

The children leaned about the Easter story in class and through watching the Easter Service led by Mrs Long's class,  Well done to all the children you were superb and only prepared for the service over a week.  The singing was beautiful and those children who had lots of lines to learn you really worked hard to learn them all.  No body made one mistake and the lines were delivered with clarity and full of expression.  The dancing was very moving and the girls learned it in two days! I am very proud of all of you, well done!

The Easter Gardens were all amazing and so creative well done to all the children who took part!  It was impossible to choose the best as they were all so clever.

Next week the children will have their end of Spring 2 assessments.  They will have a Maths paper, a Spelling, grammar and punctuation paper and a reading paper.  Their writing will be assessed using recent pieces of independent writing.

We will all go on our trip on Wednesday where the children will be taken back in time and treated like a real evacuee for the day.  The will learn about the role of the Air- raid wardens and learn some traditional WW2 songs.  Should be an exciting experience they will all remember.

The Kingswood meting will take place next Tuesday in Mrs Long's room and the children will finish that day for the Spring holidays.  After the holiday we will give them their final project on our summer term topic..'Water'.
Spellings, x tables and reading will continue as usual and this Friday we will add some more maths tasks onto My Maths.

Have a good week!

This week there will be the Easter Service led by Mrs Long's class. It will begin at 9.15am on Thursday.  Everyone is very welcome to join the celebration. 

The children have been working hard this week learning songs and practising the drama and prayers. 

The children have continued to up level their evacuation letters and develop their Blitz pictures using a variety of different materials. 

The trip will take place a week on Wednesday, 30th March to the air raid shelter. The children will wear their uniform and take a packed lunch in a plastic bag. They will return to school at the normal time. 

Homework this week in English is to finish off a partly started story.

Maths for year 4 is a shape worksheet based on last weeks lessons. 

Sports relief was a success as children took part in a carousel of activities in their classes - activities included: tag rugby/cross country around the field/basketball shooting/football skills and team building. 

Wednesday is the KS2 Easter gardens competition. 

The Wake and Shake is really taking off and Y3/4 put their heart and soul into it.  Keep it up you are doing a fabulous job!

Last week we worked very hard in many areas and have produced some pieces of work to be proud of.

English

We have been learning about recounts and the children have all written a letter as an evacuee.  The children were asked to include all key features of a recount and set it out in the style of a letter.  They had to include time connectives, past tense, 1st person, paragraphs, adjectives and put it in chronological order.  This week we are going to focus on up leveling these letters and then they will be redrafted to be displayed on our history displays in class.  The children will continue with comprehension skills, handwriting and spelling practice.

Maths

We have continued to look at 2D shape and classifying triangles.  The best part of the week was when we all took part in Whole school Maths day.  The children used clues to solve a mystery using heir Maths skills.  They enjoyed practical maths outside where they use data handling to collect information on a group who were shooting baskets and keeping up a tennis ball on a racket.  Another group measured standing long jumps and converted the measurements to mm,cm and m.  The children worked very hard and really enjoyed the activities.  The mathematician of the day in each class will receive a certificate next week.

Topic

The children will use pastels to create Blitz pictures in Art and begin to look at jobs on the home front.  They will write an advert for a job and include a job description.

There is the next Sacramental meeting in church on Thursday at 6.30pm, all Year 4 children must attend.

Mrs Long's class has been asked to lead the Easter Service this year so they will begin practicing this week.

Here are some pictures of the Maths Day: