Our star this week is Nelle for her fantastic writing.

In Literacy, we have written been looking at how to create suspense varying sentence length. We have written Halloween story openers including similes, personification and a range of vocabulary.

We have been working hard on factors, multiples, primes and rounding in Maths.

In Science, we have been researching gestation periods and competing to find the animal with the shortest gestation period and the animal with the longest.

We have been learning about the Trojan horse in History.

In RE, we have looked at the training required to become a priest and the Sacrament of Ordination.

Our star this week is Owen for fantastic effort with his writing and Maths.

In Literacy, we have written our own fables based on Aesop’s fables. We have also been focusing on punctuation.

We have been working hard on dividing by 2 digit numbers and subtracting in Maths.

In Science, we have been looking at the life cycle of ducks and comparing it to mammals and plants.

We have been researching Greek gods in History.

On Wednesday, it was World Food Day. We created posters to inform people about it and created drawings of fruit using pastels.

On Tuesday, nine of Class 4 took part in a Tag Rugby tournament. They played exceptionally well and were commended for their respect on pitch. Well done!

During assembly on Friday, the class received their certificates from John Muir Trust recognising all of the hard work that they have done towards the Award.

Our star this week is Archie who inspired us with his newspaper headlines.

Our star this week is Jesse for prefect presentation and excellent effort.

In Literacy, we have written biographies on Jane Goodall and explanations of how caterpillars become butterflies.

We have been multiplying by 1 and 2 digit numbers in Maths and working on place value to 1,000,000.

In Science, we have been looking at life cycles of mammals and researching our favourite animal’s life cycle.

We have been thinking about God’s unconditional love and forgiveness in RE, focusing on the story of the prodigal son.

We have had great fun printing flowers in Art onto fabric.

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Our star this week is Yasmin for her positive attitude towards learning and excellent work ethic.

In Literacy, we have been learning about Jane Goodall and her fascinating work with chimpanzees. We have written adverts to persuade people to donate to her charity – The Jane Goodall Institute.

In Maths, we have been continuing with place value, looking at increasingly larger numbers. We have also been solving addition and subtraction problems.

We have been using pastels in art to create beautiful pictures of flowers on black paper.

We have been looking at the life cycle of plants in Science.

On Tuesday, we led a whole school assembly to share what we have done and learnt during the John Muir Award.

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Our star this week is Nelle for excellent effort in Maths.

We have been focusing on the John Muir Award this week.

In Literacy, we have written biographies about John Muir and explanation texts on pollination.

In Science, we have been looking at the differences between insect pollination and wind pollination.

On Tuesday, we worked with Alice Grieves from OASES on clearing litter from our local wild places and then we planted some wild flowers.

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In Art, we have been sketching plants, concentrating on shading and colouring.

In Maths, we have been focusing on place value- comparing and rounding numbers.

On Wednesday, we had a fabulous time taking part in Crystal Conundrum where we had to solve a range of mathematical problems.

In History, we have been timeline detectives and have ordered events from Ancient Greece.

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Isla is our star this week for being on fire since returning to school- answering questions and producing fantastic pieces of work. Isla has is also our website photographer. As well as taking the weekly Star photos, Isla downloads them ready for displaying on our website every week.

In Literacy, we have been writing autumn poems and creating posters and poems for our John Muir award.

We have been delving in place value in Maths, reading and writing numbers up to 10,000,000 and identifying the value of each digit.

In Art, we have been focusing on drawing plants and in Science, we have been looking at the parts of a plant.

In RE, we have been thinking about how God is like a shepherd. On Thursday, we had a very interesting visit from a young Muslim lady who lives in Bishop Auckland. She taught us lots about her religion but also told us about her experience of being Muslim in our local area.

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Welcome back to school everyone and a special welcome to our new member of Class 4, Sophie, who has settled in so fantastically that she is our star this week.

Our stars this week are three young people who every week work hard to support farmers around the world to get a fair price for their crops. These fabulous, determined and independent people are our Fairtrade group: Lucy and Isabel.