What a great week we have had for our animal enrichment! We started the week with a fabulous animal based English session with Ellie Jackson, created animal artwork for our new hall display and we finished the week with our whole school trip to Paignton Zoo. It was a lovely day and the children were all a credit to our school.

Some of our highlights included watching the baboons being fed, the array of monkeys swinging in their enclosures, peeking through the meerkat domes, the Lemur Wood wobbly bridge and various talks from the zoo rangers throughout the day.

This week, some of our class also took part and did exceptionally well in a netball tournament, where, as a team, we scored the most goals.

We hope you have a lovely half-term break. We return to school on Monday 30^th October.

All the best,
Class 4 team 

Points to remember:

• Class 4 PE is now Wednesdays and Fridays
• Year 6 'Bikeability' 2nd week back to school 

Thank you for all the kind food donations at our harvest festival on Monday. I think you’ll agree, the children sang their hearts out. Many of the songs were new to me this year and have been stuck in my head ever since.

This week in our English lessons, the children have been learning to write descriptively. They have been learning to include all of their senses and figurative language to create a clear image for the reader. They will be writing a narrative with a flashback in, based on an animation clip set on a planet which has turned to ruin.

In our maths lessons this week, red group’s main focus has been learning to use long multiplication whilst yellow have been using rounding and inverse operations to check their answers for addition and subtraction problems.

This week in our science lesson, we continued our learning about how animals are classified. We used classification keys and then made our own classification keys. In groups, we then tried to complete an online quiz against the rest of the class all about animal classification.

In our music lesson this week, the children continued to learn about various music styles. They had previously discussed which styles/ genres of music they like. This week they experienced reggae focusing on the song Erie Canal. After discussing its tonality, texture, articulation, tempo, time signature and style they then used instruments and learnt to play part of the song using, D, E, F, G, A. They wrote their own notations for the song and used this to support their performance.

During art this week, the children have continued to explore drawing techniques using various media.

In our French learning, the children continued to improve their listening, reading and speaking skills focusing on habitats in French.

As part of our PSHE learning this week, the children have continued their focus- successful learning linked to their behaviour choices.

Class 4 team

Points to remember…

• PE on Tuesday - PE kits may be worn or brought in.

·       Zoo trip Thursday. Children to arrive at 7:45am. We aim to arrive back to school at 4:15pm. No afterschool clubs on Thursday.

·       INSET day Friday

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If you have any glossy magazines suitable for school, we’d greatly appreciate them for our art project this coming week.

Any old t.shirts or shirts (adult size) that we could wear during our art lessons would also be greatly appreciated.

During our writing lessons this week, the children finished writing their non chronological reports. They are extremely proud of their final pieces with many children showing significant handwriting improvements.

In our maths lessons this week, yellow group continued their addition and subtraction topic, focusing on written methods and rounding to make estimations. Black group started to learn about rounding. Red group learnt about divisibility and prime numbers. Year 6 children also had a go at some past SATs papers which we will use a bench mark for progress across the year.  

In our art lesson this week, the children continued they focus on improving their mastery of drawing. They gained experience with various drawing techniques and then experimented with various drawing mediums.

In our science lesson this week, the children learnt some of the science behind global warming including learning about greenhouse gases. They used this understanding to make predictions and to carry out an investigation simulating global warming. After carrying out the investigation and recording measurements, the children made conclusions compared to their original predications and made suggestions on how they could improve the investigation.

In our French learning, the children continued to improve their listening, reading and speaking skills focusing on habitats in French.

As part of our PSHE learning this week, the children have been learning about successful learning linked to their behaviour choices.

During our basketball PE lesson, we became much more confident with the rules of basketball and applied our understanding to small sided games. In our hockey lesson we also played small-sided games. We were learning to keep the ball away from defenders.

It is our harvest festival at the church on Monday at 2.30pm. Please see Mrs Oliver’s post about food donations.

This week we also have our parent consultations. If you are yet to book an appointment please email Mrs Thompson on secretary@pelyntprimary.co.uk

Class 4 team

Points to remember…

• PE on Tuesday and Fridays - PE kits may be worn or brought in.
• No after school clubs this week due to parent consultations.

<---- Look at the amazing pieces of artwork that the children have completed this week (other pictures below). Each child drew 3 bees with different levels of support. The children should be extremely proud of their final drawings, as seen on the right-hand side of this picture. Their improvements were incredible and gives us a point of reference to how much they can improve with the right mindset and tools. 

It was lovely seeing some of you on Wednesday for our meet the teacher session. As mentioned in the meeting, each child has a sheet of ‘KIRFs’ which are half termly year group maths expectations of ‘Key Instant Recall Facts’. There are useful website links to help support these facts so I will upload the document to this blog entry as soon as I can. Each child should have also come home with log in details for their weekly homework. Any problems please email : )

In our maths learning this week, each group has been continuing their focus on place value. 

During our English learning, the children continued their poetry focus and wrote thought provoking poems giving endangered animals a voice. Following this, each child generated their own ideas for an animal ready to write their own non-chronological report on it. The children developed these ideas in their sketchbooks which they can refer to during our writing stages next week.

In PSHE, the children learnt about what it means to be a global citizen. They compared their own lives, and dreams to a child working on a cocoa plantation in Africa.

During PE the children focused on dribbling in our hockey session and dribbling and passing in basketball.

Class 4 team


Points to remember

·       PE on Tuesdays and Fridays- PE kits may be worn or brought in.

·       Clubs start this week. Please email/ring the secretary if you missed vital club information sent out on the 5^th of September.

•         Thursday - wear PE kit into school- National Fitness Day- Danceathon
•         Wednesday- Student council elections