Class 4 Blog

Hello Class 4, I hope you have had a fantastic half-term with the lovely weather! I can't believe we are in our final term already! As many of you know Red Class, Class 1 and Class 6 are returning to school this week which means our activities are going to be a little different. Message to parents:  Please be aware that this term you will notice that the activities posted on the class blogs will be a little different from what you have been used to previously, for example, they may not always include an English and Maths lesson. This is for several reasons, i) there will be a focus on Well Being for the children (in and out of school) as we move through the Covid-19 journey; ii) normally during the summer term we have a range of curriculum focus weeks; iii) to ensure consistency for groups both attending school, or remaining at home. This approach will enable teaching staff to manage providing the planning for both groups in a workable manner. This week, the school w

 Hi class 4 I hope you enjoyed your last day of term! I thought id share some more of your fantastic work! Ed has been working super hard this week. He made a great Thaumatrope of Zoompiggy in jail! Great work.   Ed also wrote a really lovely ode to his cat Scooter. I am really impressed with your descriptive language! Lots of great metaphors and similes! I can see that you put so much effort in to your Ode. Well done Ed. Ed also completed the Move More challenge by staying active with his family. Well done Ed! James T made a fantastic Star Wars animation, I love how you managed to add a wave and a backdrop! Well done James.     James completed the Move More challenge too by keeping active with his family too! Well done James. James also wrote an excellent version of Ananse's Surprise! I am really impressed with your use of adverbials James! You have included lots of detail in the story which makes it lovely to read. If you would like t

Hello Class 4, Our friends from Open the Book have very kindly told the story of "The Big Spender". I hope you enjoy. https://youtu.be/Qo_VmfTjMBo Miss Dimond

Hello again Class 4, We have made it to another half term! This term has flown by! Mr Hayden has very kindly come up with some fun outdoor activities for you to do over half term if you would like. Half Term outdoor actvities I hope you all have a fantastic half-term! You all deserve a well earned rest! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, Almost Friday again and another end to Half-Term too! Time is flying by! Here are your tasks for Friday:  Friday Tasks . I am going to upload a post with a list of activities later for you to do over half term if you are looking for something to do. I will also upload any work that I have seen this week to the blog tomorrow so there is still time to send me in any animations or any other activities 😊 Finally, thank you to all those that spoke to me over the phone this week. If I did not manage to get  hold of you and you would like to get in touch, please let the office know and arrange for me to call you at a time that is convenient. Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hi Class 4, There are few messages to send out for over half- term. The first one is a  PTA Logo Challenge! The PTA have challenged the pupils of Holy Apostles’ School to design a PTA logo.  The winning design or combination of designs will be made into a logo that will be used on our letterhead and social media pages.  The winner(s) will also receive a prize in the form of a £10 voucher of their choice. The logo should ideally • Include the words Holy Apostles’ Primary  School PTA • Not be too intricate • Be colourful Please take a good quality photo of your design and send it to   pta@holyapostles.gloucs.sch.uk . The closing date will be   Monday 1st June 2020. Also, r emember to post  photos of your sunflowers to the PTA Facebook page or send to  pta@holyapostles.gloucs.sch.uk

Hello again! I am just re-uploading the thank you poster from the Bay Tree care home. Once again, a big thank you to everyone who sent in a letter, we really appreciated it! Click on the link to see the poster: Thank you from Bay Tree Thanks, Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, Another day of lovely sunshine! I hope you've all had a good day. Here are your   tasks for Thursday . For the wider curriculum task you will be creating your animation on scratch. I have seen some lovely animations already so keep an eye out for those on the blog this week! Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you've all been enjoying the lovely weather. Here are your tasks for Wednesday:  Wednesday's tasks I hope you have been enjoying making your animations with your flipbook and thaumatrope! I've seen some great ones so far! Have a great day, Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, Did you enjoy making thaumatrope animations? In Tuesday's task you are going to have a go at flip book animations which I think you'll have fun with too. Here are your   tasks for Tuesday I have also started reading Gangsta Granny by David Walliams which you can listen to here: Gangsta Granny . I really enjoyed sitting down and reading to you all. I do have to apologise as I am new to reading to a camera but I hope you enjoy the story as much as I have. I will be aiming to read another two chapters later this week so keep your eyes peeled! Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, Is it just me or are the weeks going quickly? I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  This week we are going to have a go at animation. I have a feeling lots of you will enjoy these activities so I am looking forward to seeing any animations you make!  Here are  Monday's tasks . I forgot to mention in the maths task, for question 2 , you may have to draw the shapes out in your book. Here are your  spellings for the week. Try and practice every day if you can, even by just writing one of your spellings in your English tasks would be great! Don't forget that there are lots of ebooks on the Oxford Owl website if you would like to read more:  Oxford Owl   I have also been keeping an eye out on any more Harry Potter chapters being released. If you would like to listen to chapter 2, it appears that you need to create an account but here is  Chapter 3  , read by Eddie Redmayne and   Chapter 4  read by Stephen Fry!  Have a fantastic day

Hello Class 4, I hope you have had a good week. Another week of Home Learning almost completed. Well done. Here are  Friday's tasks for you. We came 63rd in the TTRS tournament! I am very impressed with how many pupils from Holy Apostles took part in the competition and each of you who played contributed to our overall score of 41,306. Well done. I hope this helped you with practising your times tables too and that you enjoyed yourselves. Our friends from open the book have shared another story for you to listen to this week:   https://youtu.be/WbjLy4f69OA . Have a fantastic weekend! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you are all well! Here are Thursday's tasks  for you. We are currently 59th in the tournament which is still great so well done to all those who took part today! Tomorrow is the last day of the tournament so it would be great if we could get as many of you to have a go as possible but please don't feel you have to. We have received a lovely poster from Bay Tree Care Home as a thank you to all those who sent in a letter. It was very much appreciated so thank you again Class 4. Click the link below to see the poster: Bay Tree Care Home poster Have a great day everyone! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I thought I would share more examples of what you have been up to over the last few days. It was great to see some of you show your appreciation for VE day in different ways. James celebrated VE day by having a social distance party with bunting. That sounds like such a great way to celebrate! James also wrote a fantastic poem about foxes today, I could see lots of secret strings being used alongside lots of descriptive language including similes. Well done! Ed built a solar panel robot and it looks fantastic! I have said before that I don't think I could make a robot so I am very impressed with your scientific skills!  Ed also designed and made a parachute as suggested by one of the VE Day activities. I can see that you put a lot of effort into designing, making and testing your parachute so well done! I hope it was successful. I love Alfie and Brooke's VE Day lego creation! such a creative way to celebrate the bank holiday. We

Hello Class 4, Here are   Wednesday's tasks  for you. I also want to say a huge well done to all those that took part in the tournament today! We made it into the top 50 out of I think 90. Great to see so many of you participating too. I have been looking at the leader-board for just our school and if I have been looking correctly, Class 4 are in second place behind Class 5, so all the practising you have been doing has really paid off. Well done! I have seen so many children in Class 4 have taken part and you have all helped get us into the top 50 so you should all be incredibly proud of yourselves. I certainly am! Don't forget the tournament is still running tomorrow so if you haven't joined today or would like to carry on, you can tomorrow. Have a great day, Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, Here are Tuesday's tasks Just a quick reminder for those of you wanting to take part in the 'Gloucestershire Rockstars Championship' - it will run on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week from 10am - 1pm each day. All you need to do is log on and answer as many questions as you can during these time slots. You can still play outside of these times but those points won't count. You can play in any of the game modes - garage, studio, soundcheck, festival or arena and you'll gain a point for each correct answer. You should be able to see the individual and class leader-boards and I'll keep you posted with how our school is doing overall. Check us out in the video: Gloucestershire Rockstars Championship I can't wait to see how you do. Good Luck everyone! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the bank holiday. Did you learn anything new about VE day? Another new week of Home Learning already! Well done for sending in your letters, it has been lovely to read about what you have been up to whilst not at school. Our extra -curricular activity for the week is Music. We will be using mainly BBC Bitesize to help us. Here are  Monday's tasks . Here are your  spellings . Don't forget about the Times Tables Rock Stars tournament coming up this week on the 12th-14th May if you would like to take part. You all worked so hard practising your times tables at school so this will be a fun competition to take part in against other schools in Gloucestershire. Have a good day, Miss Dimond

Hi Class 4, I have more excellent work to share with you this week. I had no doubt that Class 4 would all be kind enough to write to Bay Tree Care home but again you have continued to amaze me with your brilliant letters. They will be being sent out early next week and I am sure they will be loved by the residents so thank you. There is still time to send in letters if you would like to and haven't done so already. Lets see what you have all been up to... Finn has been baking dough balls to go with his pizza! They look  really delicious! I hope you enjoy your pizza night tomorrow! It's nice to see lots of you helping out at home!   Charlotte has worked incredibly hard on her Anglo-Saxon village and it looks amazing. It took Charlotte a few days to make her model and I have to say I am very very impressed. Well done!   James did a fantastic design of an an Anglo-Saxon village with lots of interesting facts. How interesting that the Anglo-Saxons built houses

Hello Class 4, The 8th May 1945 was a very important day in British History. It was the day Germany surrendered from World War II and Britain celebrated the end of the fighting in Europe. I can only imagine how people across Britain must have felt that day. That is why tomorrow (Friday) has been marked as a bank holiday so although this is a good opportunity to have a day off from all the hard work you have put in, please take a moment to think about this day all those years ago. Here are some   activities that Mrs Davies kindly prepared for you to have a go at during the Bank Holiday. There is no expectation to complete all of the activities, you can choose from any of the four activities. I picked ones I thought you would enjoy the most. Have a great weekend, Miss Dimond

Hello Everyone, We just wanted to tell you about the ‘Gloucestershire Rockstars Championship’ that you’re all going to have the chance to take part in next week. It’s a tournament against lots of other schools in the area that will be played using Times Tables Rock Stars. The tournament itself will run over three days from 12th– 14th May between 10am and 1pm each day. The idea is that you will try to answer as many questions as you can during those times. You’ll earn a point for each correct answer and these will be used to work out the highest scoring individuals, classes and schools. This event is optional, but it would be brilliant if we can get as many of you involved as possible. You don’t need to be on it continuously, just go on for as long as suits you between 10am and 1pm. Every point will count - we’re aiming for the top of the leader boards! We’re going to be sending an email out to your parents about this too. In the meantime, please try and get in some pr

Hi Class 4, I have a few messages to post today so keep an eye out on the blog. I know how much some of you love Harry Potter so here is a link to the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone read to you by Daniel Radcliffe! I really enjoyed listening to the story so I hope you do too!  😊 https://www.wizardingworld.com/chapters/reading-the-boy-who-lived Enjoy! Miss Dimond

Good Afternoon Class 4, Here are  Thursday's task 's for you. I'm afraid I have set another investigation for you, but  it is a simple one so I hope you enjoy it. I have found that you need to be patient for this experiment, it takes a while to see any results. You may want to come back to it later in the day. Another option is to think of ways you could make the process quicker, maybe by raising the temperature some how? Make sure you are with an adult if you are around anything hot.  Great to see I have received lots of letters today already! I am going to spend the rest of the day reading through them. Thank you for taking the time to write to the care home. The residents will be so pleased. Great job! Finally, there will be another assembly hosted by Nala, who will be teaching you the Circle of Life song on Thursday Morning at 10 am on the TES youtube  channel:   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-gOKwgu5_g9Pm1YBMb5G_A   It will be available on the

Hello Class 4, Here are Wednesday's Tasks Wednesday's tasks require some investigating! You will need some ice for your experiments so make sure you have some ready in the freezer😊 We have also decided to enter our school into a Times Tables Rock Star tournament (details to follow) so if you are interested in taking part, log in to your TT Rock Stars account and have a practise as much as you can. Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, Here are Tuesday's Tasks: Tuesday's Tasks For your science activity, you will need a little bit of chocolate. Try and complete tasks 1 and 2. I have also provided an extra activity for an investigation that you can do only if you would like to . You don't have to do this experiment but you are also more than welcome to have a go if you find yourself looking for something else to do but make sure you complete the investigation with an adult. The worksheet for the extra investigation is just a guidance - you can write the prediction/keywords/results/conclusion in your book. Don't worry about underlining or circling words on the sheet. You may have seen my blog post regarding sending letters to people in the Care Home. I know Class 4 will have lots of lovely things to say in their letters so I am looking forward to reading them! Just a reminder that we need them by Friday 8th May. If you find that writing a letter is too much on top of t

Good morning Class 4, In school, we’ve been talking about ways in which we might help others in the community. As you may have seen on the news, many care homes across the country have had to close their doors to visitors to help to protect the people staying there. This means that the residents can’t have visitors as they normally would. We thought it might be nice if they received a letter to help to cheer them up. Therefore we are asking everyone in the juniors to write a letter to the residents of the Bay Tree Care Home. This could replace an English or Wider Curriculum activity one day this week. We have emailed your mums and dads with who we would like you to write to. In your letter we would like you to think about the following things: An introduction to who you are - Age - Who you live with - Interests/hobbies -What you enjoy at school Lockdown - What have you been during so far during lockdown? - How do you feel about it? Questions Find out about the p

Hello Class 4, I hope you have had a lovely weekend. Welcome to another week of Home Learning. This week our topic is Science 🔬. We are looking at states of matter which is fun! I have given a few tasks for Monday's Science activity so don't feel you have to complete them all, they are just activities I thought you might enjoy. Here are Monday's tasks:  Home Learning - Monday Here are your spellings for the week:  Year 4: Week 3 Your spellings are getting more and more tricky so make sure you practise as much as you can 😊 Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Ed has written a fantastic version of How Tortoise Got His Shell. I really enjoyed reading this and liked that you added a new character using your knowledge about Zeus and his children. Well done for using lots of descriptive language too! Karmah, what a great Anglo-Saxon village you have made using Lego people! Great idea. I am very impressed with your Anglo-Saxon settlement too, it looks very realistic. You must have worked very hard. Well done!