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  • 19/12/24

    Friday 20th December 2024

    Year 4 have been getting ready for Christmas and making the classroom look Christmassy. They created a wonderfully picture with Mrs Bird, each colouring in one section at a time, then putting it all together to make one big picture on the window. The postbox for Christmas cards is filling up and the...
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  • 12/12/24

    Friday 13th December 2024

    Last Friday, 6th December, in preparation for our Advent celebrations, Year 4 visited St George’s Cathedral in Southwark to attend their Advent Mass. We joined many other schools from across south London boroughs in singing carols and telling the story of the Nativity. As always, the children...
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  • 27/11/24

    Friday 29th November 2024

    On Tuesday Year 3 and 4 enjoyed a special showing of the film Migration at the O2 Cinema. We arrived at the O2 just in time to pick the best seats and although the film lasted over an hour and a half it was so entertaining the time just flew by. Everybody really enjoyed the film! We were very lucky...
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  • 22/11/24

    Friday 22nd November 2024

    On Monday this week, Year 4 spent the whole day with Ian, John and Triby from Arty Party, creating lanterns in preparation for the parade around Greenwich on Wednesday.  It was a great day making three huge lanterns - two polar bears and the Snow Queen from The Lion, the Witch and the Ward...
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  • 14/11/24

    Friday 15th November 2024

    This week Year 4 have been writing diary entries.  We thought carefully about the features to include, for example, time conjunctions, informal language and writing in the first person.  We linked this with our class book ‘The One and Only Ivan’ by Katherine Applegate.  Th...
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  • 08/11/24

    8th November 2024

    The children in Year 4 have now started reading their new text for this half-term - The One and Only Ivan. It’s a based on a true story about a gorilla who lived in a shopping mall in the USA. So far, the children have been very descriptive in detailing the domain in which he lives. The cla...
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  • 24/10/24

    25th October 2024

    Year 4 have been writing poetry this week, as part of our celebration of Black History Month. The class recited "Overunderstanding" by Benjamin Zephaniah and wrote a cinquin, using the same theme of being kind, treating people fairly and living together in harmony.
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  • 17/10/24

    18th October 2024

    Year 4 has worked really hard in Mr Spalding's absence for a few days, particularly in making our class neurodiversity book about autism. The children wrote about autism and researched well-known people who are autistic. Their book will be in the school library for others to read. Mr...
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  • 11/10/24

    11th October 2024

    This month is the Month of the Rosary and Year 4 now have their own rosary beads to keep in class on our prayer table. The children have begun to learn how to use the rosary beads to pray, different prayers and decades.
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  • 04/10/24

    4th October 2024

    Mr Spalding gave in the children in Year 4 a design brief in Science this week: to make a circuit where a motor and a bulb can be turned on and off independently from one another. The children were successful in creating the circuit using two switches, where they could turn the bul...
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  • 27/09/24

    27th September 2024

    Every Monday for the next 4 weeks, Year 4 are receiving cricket coaching from Platform Cricket.  Their first session was a great success, with all the children practising their fielding skills, including throwing and catching.  They ended with a game and next time they will...
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  • 20/09/24

    20th September 2024

    In the first week classes wrote about their class Saint. Year 4 have been working so hard to produce a beautiful display about their class, St Peter, outside their classroom.
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