Class 4 is where the journey through Landscove reaches its finale. The teaching team consists of Mrs Neville and Miss Hart, with TA support from Mrs Pearse and Mrs Price. Mr Tanner is in on Mondays to lead PE.
We are looking forward to an exciting year, including trips, sporting events and a two-night residential.
In this class, the aim is to fully prepare the children for what lies ahead when they take those first steps away from Landscove onto the next part of their educational journey. It’s always an interesting time watching the children grow and prepare for their futures. We hope that we have planted lots of seeds that will flourish!
Please see our Class Meeting document below for information on PE days and homework expectations.
CLASS FOUR UPCOMING EVENTS:
2.5.25 Music Extravaganza
9.5.25 May Day Celebrations
12.5.25 SATs Week
16.5.25 Humanist speaker visiting
10.6.25 Football at Headlands
16.6.25 Bikeability
7.7.25 Residential
22.7.25 Leavers Service in St. Matthew’s
10th January 2025
Class four have made a great start on their new Video Production Computing Unit. They have practised different filming techniques and considered quality of sound.
Thursday 19th December 2024
The wintry weather did not stop class four from having the best time at forest school. We made festive wreaths, whittled mice, built dens, lit fires and baked chocolatey bananas. Whilst doing all of these fun activities, we enjoyed chatting about our highlights of the past term; there were many to choose from!
Class 4 finally got to test their parachutes this week. Having been given control of the investigation planning, their challenge was to carry out a fair test, changing just one variable. The parachutes were large, small and of various shapes. We borrowed the compare bears from Class 1 as perfect parachute passengers!
Class 4 have been busy threading needles, tying knots and practising blanket stick in preparation for assembling their soft toys in DT. They are very excited about the designs they have created and can’t wait to see the final product.
November
We are back inside for our PE lessons this half term and are polishing our gymnastic skills. In our first few lessons, we’ve been practising forward rolls, cartwheels and round offs. We are looking forward to putting all our skills together in routine at the end of the half term.
Science
We’ve been busy in science carrying out analysis of our data from the friction investigation. We checked for inconsistent results and asked, 'Which results were not reliable?’ We discussed that Scientists don't just produce results tables, they present their results, often to an audience at a conference or in a published paper. Therefore, as scientists, our next job was to produce a bar graph to make our results clear and enable us to draw conclusions. The children discovered that bumpy or rough surfaces have greater friction that smooth surfaces.
15th October
Visiting Author Simon James
Laughter and joy filled our classroom this afternoon as Class 4 met author Simon James. He made an instant positive impression with the children and they absolutely loved hearing about his creative process. They were full of questions for him as he took us through his writing and illustrating journey. We were thrilled that he created an illustration right in front of our eyes and left it with us, dedicated to the class.
Art Workshop
Class 4 were thrilled to have Courtney Arnold visit on Wednesday to deliver a Print workshop. Using Orla Kiely prints as a stimulus, the children created their own design to cut into tiles before applying layers of printing ink. The children absolutely loved the process and were so proud of their final pieces.
November: Book Club
Class 4 have a book club session each week where the children share a book they have read and answer questions about it. We’ve had a fantastic range of books this year so far, from comedy to mystery and graphic novels to old favourites such as The World of Norm. Keep up the fantastic reading Class 4!
1/10/24
Science
In our Science lesson this afternoon, children explored the force of friction. They started the lesson comparing how jelly cubes and ice moved on the table (great fun!) then moved on to the serious business of planning a fair test. The investigation was designed to discover which surface offered the least friction, using their shoes and Newton meters. Lots of Scientific vocabulary was used as they made predictions, controlled variables and recorded their results in tables. We'll look at our findings next week.
September 2024
Class Four have made an amazing start to their art project on William Morris by doing some research and exploration for home learning.
24/9/24
Science
Children had great fun this week exploring the Newton meters and finding out how grams and Newtons compared by exploring patterns in their results. They used their cross curricular skills to read scales and take measurements and pondered a FaB question about Sir Isaac's Newton's Christian beliefs.
17th September
Cross Country
The sun shone for a fabulous day at the cross country event at Stover. The children were full of nervous excitement and each and every one of them gave their very best. Congratulations to every member of the class for completing the race so enthusiastically.
12th September
Science
For our first lesson, we began investigating the force of gravity. After exploring the forces needed to make a collection of toys move, children tried to overcome the force of gravity by trying to lift a pingpong ball by attaching it to a straw and sucking. There was lots of laughter and several children managed it! We also discovered that two identical bottles with different masses of water actually reached the ground at the same time. This surprised most of the class and they quickly learnt that the force of gravity is the same regardless of an object's mass.
7th October
Writing
Class 4 had great fun in their English lessons this week trying out blackout poetry. The children selected words on a theme from the introductory paragraph of our beautiful new text (The Lost Words) and blacked out the rest. The results were amazing, and all the children created some stunning poems.