Welcome to the Year 4 Blog
On Tuesday 21st May, a small group of Year 4 children were selected to take part in an orienteering event at Rough Close, Coventry. Other schools also took part in this activity to add an element of friendly competition in a fun environment. This event was an Olympic themed, scavenger hunt activity and was a great opportunity for the children to put into practice the skills they learnt earlier in the year during PE. A lovely afternoon was had by all.
Year 4 Culture Week
As part of culture week Year 4 are learning about the country of India. So far this week we have created colourful art on the Indian elephant, learnt about and designed Mendi patterns, used henna to create beautiful artwork on our hands and wrote our names in Hindi.
On March 14th, year 4 took part in our Roman Day.
This WOW day was created as a chance for the year group to; dress like a Roman, find out about Roman money (creating their own Roman coins with clay), sample a selection of food similar to what the Romans would have eaten, try their hand at some weaving and take part in a Roman battle using their wonderful shields that they made as part of their homework.
It was a great day! The children really impressed us with their weaving skills and their enthusiasm at trying the range of food provided. It’s amazing how many things they were willing to try with the addition of honey.
The children worked in pairs to weave their owls, they did an incredible job!
Year 4 were very lucky today to take part in a financial literacy workshop lead by Kennedy from Skint2mint and sponsored by Coventry Building Society.
The children learnt about what a want is and a need is. They also learnt about budgets.
They were given a task of identifying which items they would need to survive on an island. They were given a budget of £50 and had to select 5 items they think they need to survive.
The children absolutely loved this and learnt alot!
It was a wonderful experience for pupils, parents and carers from year three to year six to hold Coundon’s Christmas Carol Concert at Coventry Cathedral. The choir were a credit to the school singing beautifully at the front, with a beautiful duet from Ruby and Eva – all brought together with pupil’s readings and a tableau of the first Christmas.
A huge thank you to everyone for supporting the Art Gallery.
We were blown away by the quality of work and it was lovely to see and hear children’s pride in their art work. The gallery looked professional and really gave status to the children’s work and skills.
This morning, officers Glenn Hartwell and Katie Darby spoke to the children in whole school assembly about road safety. They discussed safety around the school and dangers of speed. They also introduced a competition – look out for more information in the Friday Focus….
Year 4 took part in a Maths Morning today. The children took part in lots of exciting activities and loved the moring. The looked at matchstick puzzles, money problem solving and reasoning challenges and created animals and creatures from triangles.
Here are some of 4GW’s amazing work!
This morning, Sara from the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust visited school. She ran a whole school assembly about the Sherbourne River and the role of Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. She also talked to the children about how we can make our world better for the animals around us. She then ran workshops with Y5 to look at rivers in more detail.
It was wonderful to see so many of you attending our Firework Display this week. It was a fantastic event which brought the school community together. Asher S was the lucky winner of our raffle, pressing the button to launch the fireworks.
