Willow wb 23.06.25
Willow class enjoyed spending transition morning in their new classes for September. We were really proud of our Year 3 children who did an amazing job of setting an example to the younger children in the class by focusing, working hard and being supportive of others. Our Year 4 children loved their first experience of being the eldest children in the school as they went into the Year 5 class and met their new teacher Mrs Richards. They returned full of enthusiasm and had a lovely morning.
In science, we’ve been exploring how sounds are made and the role of vibrations in creating them. The children discovered that when objects vibrate, they produce sound waves that travel through the air to our ears. We carried out some hands-on investigations and even felt the vibrations ourselves! It was fascinating to realise how sound travels and changes depending on the materials it moves through. In topic lessons we have been learning all about the impact of WW2 on children and families. As part of our reading lesson, we researched life in the 1940s to support our topic lesson all about evacuation.
We linked our science learning to music by using GarageBand to play the xylophone. The children learned how tapping the bars creates vibrations, and we used these musical skills to accompany the classic Beatles song Blackbird.
In English, we’ve started planning our own stories using a story mountain, inspired by Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. The children have been working hard to include all the story writing skills they've learned over the past few weeks. In maths, both year groups have been busy with different topics. Year 4 have been comparing different types of graphs, learning how to interpret data and even draw their own line graphs. Year 3 have been exploring parallel and perpendicular lines. To bring our learning to life, we studied a piece by Kandinsky and searched for these types of lines in his artwork. We also investigated the properties of 2D shapes, discussing sides, angles and symmetry.
