In English, the children have been busy editing their non-chronological reports on rainforests.  We use our Housman editing checklist that we created together and the children help each other to improve their work.

They have been using their computing lesson to do research about rainforests and practicing copying, pasting and re-sizing pictures. Next week, they will create their final drafts and include their pictures that they have chosen.

The children have ended the week with a treat!  They have had the opportunity to take part in an enrichment afternoon, zorbing!  I think there were lots of jealous adults that they weren’t able to do it!

Have a lovely weekend,

Housman team.

Happy 1st of May! Where is the year going!

In computing this week, the children have been practicing saving their work in specific folders and opening their saved files.  We have also been practicing copying and pasting rainforest images and resizing them.  This is to support them when they create their non-chronological report in English.

We have made the most of the beautiful weather by taking our Art lesson into the conservation area. The children used the area to take inspiration for an abstract piece that they created.  We are very lucky to have such a lovely space to learn and play in.

We hope you have a lovely extended weekend.

Housman Team 🙂

This week, Housman class have been taking part in lots of fun activities linked to Science Week.  They have had the opportunity to watch live lessons linked to cooking and farming, as well as additional activities during their lunch times.

Thank you to everyone that donated their milk bottles for our art work.  It’s great for the children to be aware of reusing and repurposing everyday items to reduce waste.  Their creations are an on going project which we hope will be finished by the end of term.

Next week, Housman will be doing our Spring assessments.  We have reiterated to the children that all we expect is for them to try their hardest and the results are for the teachers to know how to support them moving forwards.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns please get in touch.

Have a great weekend.

Housman team

Welcome back!

What beautiful weather we had at start of the week, it was almost starting to feel like spring!  We’ve got lots of fun things planned for this half term from science week to world book day activities and a theatre production.

In Art we are focusing on Environmental Artists and making art from recycled items. I apologise in advance if your child comes home scavenging in the recycling!

Just a reminder that PE days are now a Monday and Thursday.

Have a great weekend, see you next week.

Ms McLean

In English, the children have been working hard on their editing skills. They have worked with a partner to improve their journal and have enjoyed editing under the visualiser so the whole class can help.  In Housman, we make it really clear that our editing is to help each other and is never done in a negative way.

The children had a morning in their houses on Friday to round up mental health week.  They did mindfulness activities that had been planned by the house captains.  It was a great chance to slow down and talk to each other after a busy half term.

I hope you all have a wonderful week off and I look forward to seeing you after half term.

Ms McLean

This week in science, children continued building their own electrical circuits using a variety of components, including motors, multiple lamps or buzzers and LED’s. Children are becoming more confident in troubleshooting and working out why a circuit might not work, for example, changing a cell for a battery, systematically trying alternative components, checking crocodile clips are connected to the metal part of a wire not the plastic coating. This knowledge will be really helpful when children study electrical circuits at secondary school when equipment can be frustratingly problematic – they will hopefully be well-equipped at solving problems with their circuits when this time comes!

In Geography, the children have been learning about the features of the earth.  We used a key and discussed definitions of new words. We explored Atlas’ and used our new vocabulary to describe where a country was in the world using longitude, latitude and which hemisphere it was located in.  The children really enjoyed coming up with lengthy clues for their friends to follow!

The year 4’s are having a really big push on times tables at the moment.  They know which ones they find tricky so if they could practice at home on any maths games that would be greatly appreciated.

We have finished reading our book “Our Tower” in English.  We ended the week by looking at the features of a journal, particularly looking at which tenses we should be using.  As a class, we planned our journals and wrote the first two paragraphs together.  We have been working on editing each others work under the visualiser.

Have a lovely weekend, lets hope it is a little drier!

Ms McLean and Dr Roberts.