Click the heading to find lots of ideas on what you can do during the Easter Holiday break.
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Welcome to Swallows
We are a team of Year 4 children who love to learn. We have amazing talents and skills inside and outside of school. Like the Swallow bird, Swallow class show endurance and soar high. We know that we can transform ourselves with hard work and good listening. Our learning this year includes a topic on Darkness and Light and we will be making Shadow Puppets to perform a script that we will write ourselves. We will also be learning about animal teeth, digestion and food chains to make sense of where we get our energy from. Later in the year, we will be travelling back in time to discover the secrets of Ancient Egypt. We are also planning a trip to see Warhol’s Pop Art exhibition at the Tate Modern and we will end the year learning about Creation and retelling how the world was made through animation.
We are a team of Year 4 children who love to learn. We have amazing talents and skills inside and outside of school. Like the Swallow bird, Swallow class show endurance and soar high. We know that we can transform ourselves with hard work and good listening. Our learning this year includes a topic on Darkness and Light and we will be making Shadow Puppets to perform a script that we will write ourselves. We will also be learning about animal teeth, digestion and food chains to make sense of where we get our energy from. Later in the year, we will be travelling back in time to discover the secrets of Ancient Egypt. We are also planning a trip to see Warhol’s Pop Art exhibition at the Tate Modern and we will end the year learning about Creation and retelling how the world was made through animation.
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Our teacher is Mrs Di Giorno and she is good at showing our school values too - she always listens and tries to help. She has challenged us to grow as readers and writers as we know that these subjects help us learn and communicate in all areas of the curriculum. We love to listen to stories and we are currently reading A beautiful lie by Irfan Master.
You will spot members of our class on the playground by looking for the children who are compassionate, playing games - we love to play hide and seek and racing. We know how to keep ourselves in school and out and about in Banbury. We work hard to earn house points and marbles by making good choices and helping each other to learn. We have chosen our 2019 -2020 marble rewards; |
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Heads down thumbs up and apple pie game for 10 minutes |
20 minutes field time to play together. |
Dress up day - theme to be agreed. |
Class Party with games and treats. |
We look forward to sharing our learning with you so come back to this page to find our home learning, photos and other exciting news throughout the term.
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MOVE IT! Spring 2
This term our learning is connected through the project of ‘Move it’. In Science, this will focus on forces - where we will;
We will utilise our history, science and DT knowledge in English to explain how ancient Egyptian made use of their knowledge to build the pyramids.
This term our learning is connected through the project of ‘Move it’. In Science, this will focus on forces - where we will;
- compare how things move on different surfaces
- notice that some forces need contact between two objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance
- observe how magnets attract or repel each other and attract some materials and not others
- compare and group together a variety of everyday materials on the basis of whether they are attracted to a magnet, and identify some magnetic materials
- describe magnets as having two poles
- predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on which poles are facing
We will utilise our history, science and DT knowledge in English to explain how ancient Egyptian made use of their knowledge to build the pyramids.
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To help us write our explanation texts we will be researching pyramids using this text.
We will be reading a variety of books that incorporate a portal as part of an adventure story Our class text is "Secrets of aSun King" |
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Website links
Websites to support our project Move it!
Pushes and Pulls clip compilation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zkw8q6f
What is friction?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsxxsbk/articles/zxqrdxs
Magnets and their invisible force clip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zk9rkqt
Levers and linkages video
https://youtu.be/lueqE0lxLyc
Forces challenge
http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4058
BP website- you will need a code for each resource;
https://bpes.bp.com/forces-treasure-hunt-activity Student code 52723
https://bpes.bp.com/air-resistance-online-experiment Student code: 93433
Websites to support phonics and reading
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
www.starfall.com
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Websites to support GPS
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-368706.htm
https://spellingframe.co.uk/
Websites to support times tables
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/
http://www.learnyourtables.co.uk/en/index2.htm
Websites to support maths fluency
http://www.arcademics.com/
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular
Websites to support computing
Coding
http://code.org/
http://scratch.mit.edu/
http://https://www.codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/
Touch typing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr
Purple Mash
Visit the school portal for St Mary’s Purple Mash and use your username and password to access a wide range of resources to support the whole curriculum. Please see your class teacher if you need help with accessing
Websites to support our project Move it!
Pushes and Pulls clip compilation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zkw8q6f
What is friction?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsxxsbk/articles/zxqrdxs
Magnets and their invisible force clip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zk9rkqt
Levers and linkages video
https://youtu.be/lueqE0lxLyc
Forces challenge
http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4058
BP website- you will need a code for each resource;
https://bpes.bp.com/forces-treasure-hunt-activity Student code 52723
https://bpes.bp.com/air-resistance-online-experiment Student code: 93433
Websites to support phonics and reading
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
www.starfall.com
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/5-7-years/letters-and-sounds
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Websites to support GPS
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-368706.htm
https://spellingframe.co.uk/
Websites to support times tables
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/
http://www.learnyourtables.co.uk/en/index2.htm
Websites to support maths fluency
http://www.arcademics.com/
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular
Websites to support computing
Coding
http://code.org/
http://scratch.mit.edu/
http://https://www.codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/
Touch typing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr
Purple Mash
Visit the school portal for St Mary’s Purple Mash and use your username and password to access a wide range of resources to support the whole curriculum. Please see your class teacher if you need help with accessing
ParentMail
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Please make sure you have registered with ParentMail. Contact the office for more information.
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St. Mary's Church of England (VC) Primary School Southam Road Banbury OX16 2EG
Headteacher: Victoria Woods Tel/Fax: 01295 263026 Email office@banburystmarysschool.co.uk |
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