​We are absolutely delighted to announce that Mr Green, our exceptional new teacher, has been honoured with the Pearson Bronze Award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year!  His unwavering dedication to his pupils, innovative teaching methods, and positive impact on the school community truly make him a standout educator.
Mr Green's commitment to fostering a love for learning and inspiring his pupils to reach their full potential is truly commendable. His passion for education shines through in everything he does, making him a remarkable asset to our school.

Today, I am excited to share with you my favourite math lesson: coordinates. It's like a secret code that unlocks the hidden treasures of the math world! Remember, the x-axis comes before the y-axis, just like the plot points on a line graph. It's all about connecting the dots to reveal the big picture. 
It reminds me of when we were on a treasure hunt for 6 lolly sticks, there were 9 teams. Let me tell you what we were supposed to do. 
Instructions 

1. We needed to write our team’s name on the lolly sticks. 
   

1. Secondly, we needed to write on each lolly stick 1 of the words from our sentence (and no we didn't write a sentence in our books). 
   

1. We needed to write the coordinates/location on our sheet for our lolly sticks. 
   

1. Then we needed to hide all our lolly sticks in the playground. 
   

I was in team 1, we all showed magnificent team work even though we could only find 1 lolly stick. My teammates were starting to give up, but I motivated them to continue. 
(4NM Sarita) 
 
In English, we do this thing called sentence stacking. Sentence stacking is where you have different sections (LC1, LC2, LC3) and you plan in your section (Jotting chunks). When you have done your planning, you write a sentence with your words, phrases or sentences. When you have finished all your sentence stacking lessons, you write all of your paragraphs and it will turn into a story, poem, diary or play script. My favourite piece of work was the play script about the plague because learning about the plague was interesting. Also, when I read back through my work, I found it really fascinating.  
 
In maths we are learning about coordinates. Coordinates are sometimes a little bit hard (depends on what we are doing). Since we are doing coordinates, I think we are going to go outside more because the playground is bigger than our classroom (and it’s so hot in class). Coordinates are ok but I sometimes get a bit confused by it all. Today we wrote a secret message in groups and put it on lolly sticks. We then wrote the coordinates on a sheet and hid the sticks so that other groups could find them. 
 
In Art, most people like it because we get to use our creative skills. Like how we were inspired by the Egyptians; we made Papyrus and Zines using coffee to give the paper a brown effect. We tried to use tea but that just made it wet (especially mine). 
Faheema and Kaitlyn (4NM) 
 
In maths, I really liked practising my times tables for our year 4 times tables test, I think I did well. At the start of our lesson, we do flashbacks, this really helps me to remember what we learnt the day before. We have been playing rounders in PE; I really like catching the ball and running. Once, I hit the ball and got all the way round and didn’t get out. In reading skills, I really liked The Twits because Mr Twit was a ‘right wrongun’.  
Lilly (4NM) 
 
I think school is a good educational place where kids can learn Maths, English and more. It’s a place where people can make friends, have fun and use skills and talents.  
Reice (4NM) 
 
I liked learning about Ancient Egypt and learning how they lived, it was very interesting. I enjoyed doing experiments in science and learning more about states of matter. PE is really fun, and I like doing sports, recently we learned to play rapid fire cricket. I don’t like reading skills that much or doing reading tests. Learning about coordinates and the X and Y axis is fun, especially the lesson we had today outside. I don’t like French that much. 
Abigail (4NM) ​