This morning, Year 4 have joined in with Scholastic’s Dav Pilkey workshop to think about inspiration for stories, creativity, practice and persistence and have begun to create their own graphic novel stories. You can find more activities related to the workshop and Dav’s books at this link.

Two groups of children in class 9 have recorded short podcasts to discuss the books they have completed in Guided Reading. Hopefully as part of their ICT and computing work they will go on to make further and edit these tracks.

This term’s book in year 4 has been The BFG so as part of their activities today, Class 9 were set the challenge of making a giant from the boxes they have collected this term.

Thank you to everyone at St. Mary’s Church who made Year 4 very welcome at their Christmas experience yesterday (Thursday 9th December). The children participated in activities and reflection based upon the Christmas story.

Thank you to the parents who were able to join us for Year 4’s performance of Christmas songs this afternoon. If you weren’t able to make, here’s a recording of rehearsal –

To reinforce their understanding of the water cycle, the children in year 4 have made their first attempts at creating paper animations. They discovered it’s hard work and you need to be disciplined to make sure each step is moved carefully. You can see their efforts below.

Featured image from Poems to Live Your Life By by Chris Riddell This week the school has been celebrating poetry and Year 4 have been performing and writing poems. Below are some first draft performances as these will be improved by the pupils in the weeks to come by editing and adding additional audio in […]

For one of our PE lessons this week, Class 9 continued their outdoor learning lessons and completed orienteering activities in the school grounds. On Friday afternoon, the children investigated the mechanisms used in interactive storybooks and pop up books. They then created their own which some of them hope to link to making models of […]

This week Year 4 participated in workshop led by the Telford and Wrekin Multicultural Service and the charity, TAARC about the Windrush Generation as part of celebrating Black History Month.