How the half term has flown by! All of the year 4 teachers are incredibly proud of the passion, determination and effort put in by all of the children so far this year and we are eagerly looking forward to what the following term will bring...besides the cold weather!

In English, the children have just finished creating some fantastic suspense stories related to the 'Dream Giver' animation. They have specifically focused on what makes a good build up, using features across their writing such as onomatopoeia, hidden dangers, show not tell and fronted adverbials. Look out on Seesaw for their published pieces!

Within Maths, the children have been working hard to secure their knowledge on addition and subtraction these past few weeks and have enjoyed using practical resources to observe the process of crossing 10 and exchanging. We are looking forward to the coming weeks as we move onto the next two operations- multiplication and division- we really do have some Mathematicians in this year group.

Finally, within Art, the clay pots the children spent that last few weeks designing and making, have been glazed and had their final round in the kiln. See some photos of the process and the end result here. I am sure the children are really looking forward to bringing them home in the coming weeks. 

We hope you have a restful but proactive half term break- remember, 'Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star!'

Miss Keating-Bell  Y4 Team Leader

Well done Year 5 for completing your first half term. It has been great to see you all settle so maturely into your classes with your peers and teachers. Well done!

We had a great time at Longridge on our trip 2 weeks ago and we were amazed at how many children faced their fears of heights, had a go at new things and set themselves goals which they accomplished with ease. The children really showed great tenacity which we hope will transfer into the classroom. 

In writing, we have been busily writing, editing and publishing our scary stories with a focus on mood and atmosphere. The teachers have been impressed with how the children have lulled us in to a false sense of security and created suspense. I hope you had a chance to read your child's work at parents evening. We have come to the end of reading Asha and the Spirit Bird in our reading lessons and the children have really enjoyed it.

Written methods in addition and subtraction were covered over the last two weeks and the children have a good understanding with larger numbers. We have also been busy solving maths problems using these methods. 

We hope all of our families have a wonderful half term and we look forward to the next term.

Mrs Dean, Y5 Team Leader

It seems like yesterday that it was our first day in Year 6 and now here we are having completed our first half term! We have covered so much in such a short space of time and as a year group we have seen some brilliant teamwork, independence and resilience. 

We have completed our first class book 'When the Sky Falls' which linked with our History topic WW2. This book has had many twists and turns, highs and lows but has been thoroughly enjoyed across the year group. 

In maths, we have been looking at a range of written division strategies: short division, long division and division with factors (some were favoured more than others!).

In English, we have finished our writing unit on Holes where we have been focusing on speech for effect. We have turned this piece of writing into an audio chapter book which is accessible on seesaw. 

In computing we have been exploring learning how to add variables to code. The children have built codes to create compassess and number counters!

Have a wonderful half term Y6- not long to go until Rhos-y-Gwaliau!

Miss Morales, Y6 Team Leader