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Coventry Building Society’s Young Writers Competition Winners 

We are proud to announce that 2 of our pupils were named as finalists in this year’s  Coventry Building Society’s Young Writers competition:

Evelyn W (Year 3) for her story ‘‘The window of food’

Jacob S (Year 4) for his story ‘The Mystery of the Missing Detective’

Both were invited to attend an awards ceremony at Coventry Building Society Arena on Thursday 2nd March,  along with Mrs Maude and their families. The competition received 2,020 entries, with the number being reduced down to 20 for the finalist’s event.

Evelyn and Jacob had an amazing time, with a special tour of the arena before attending the ceremony.  Both children were highly commended for their writing and received a certificate and a goodie bag.

What an amazing achievement!

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World Book Day 2023

Today, the children in 4GW enjoyed a slightly more relaxed day. We started the day with a ‘Booky Brunch’, sharing some information about a chosen book whilst enjoying a snack. Later, we participated in a live lesson from an author and illustrator, who shared their top tips for creating their own animal character profile. They then used their character to create a story board and a mini-book!

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Maths Photo Competition

During this week, your child has participated in maths activities related to Coventry, including its history.

As part of this, we are running a maths photo competition ‘Looking at Coventry Through Maths Eyes’. The aim of this is to help everyone realise that maths is all around us and our local environment is mathematically rich. Using the things around us is a superb way to engage your child in talking about maths.

Over half term, we would like you and your child to take a photo/snapshot of familiar things that capture some aspect of real-life mathematics in and around Coventry.  We would like you to send your photo into us with a mathematical question (see examples below).  There are prizes up for grabs!

Please send your ‘Looking at Coventry Through Maths Eyes’ photos/questions to Mrs Walton by Wednesday 1st March to [email protected]    Please state clearly your child’s name and class.

I looking forward to seeing all your photos,

Mrs Walton

Maths Standards Leader

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National Story Telling Week

For homework in Year 4, the children were asked to read part of a story and send in a video as part of National Story Telling Week. These are now available on the Year 4 Teams page.

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Warwickshire Wildlife Trust 30.1.23

This week is National Story Telling week. Duing our session today we completed some activities linked to this. First, we created our own story sticks by going on a walk around the school grounds and collected things to attach to our story stick. Next we listened to the sounds around us and created our own sound story maps using symbols to represent the noises we heard.

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Warwickshire Wildlife Trust 23/1/23

This week, we used the forest school to get in touch with out senses. First, we used a senses hands to find items that felt tickly, rough etc. Then we sat quietly and listened to all the sounds around us. Next, we created our own badger scents by collecting different items around us and mixing them up. Again, great fun!

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Warwick Wildlife Trust 16.1.22

Today, Year 4 looked at the art work of Andy Goldsworth and used things from around forest school to get creative and create their own art work. Then, they created their a textured caterpillar. Very cold but great fun!

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Year 4 Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Over the next half term, Year 4 will be working with Katy from the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. Today we learnt about birds. We used binoculars to search for birds around the school grounds, we then used natural resources around us to make ground nests for our fluffy bird friends. Finally, we made bird feeders from cheerios. All the children had a wonderful time and learnt lots!