Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
On Monday, the children visited Binchester Roman Fort to extend their learning from our Spring term history unit and to prepare the children for their learning about the Anglo-Saxons this term; a period in history following Roman Britain.
During our visit, the children had the opportunity to complete a range of different activities. This included creating Roman mosaics, solving problems using Roman Numerals, furthering their learning about the Roman bath houses, cleaning Roman artefacts found at Binchester and having the opportunity to dress up as a Roman.
The children then had a tour of the grounds where they discovered excavated areas and learnt about the history of the Romans in Binchester. They showed great curiosity, asking lots of questions about the excavated areas to further their knowledge. The staff were also extremely impressed with the knowledge the children already had about the Romans.
Finally, the children had the opportunity to create their own clay pots. They were very creative creating unique designs and carving interesting patterns into their pots.
We had a brilliant day and the children made us so proud with their exemplary behaviour!
Today the children have had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day and we have seen some brilliant World Book Day costumes for the occasion!
This morning, the children spent some time in the role of an author by writing their own stories. They then shared their stories with a friend.
We also took part in a World Book Day quiz, guessing different characters from stories, naming the authors of stories and even answering questions about the lives of the characters in the stories.
The children then stepped up to the challenge of thinking about different ways in which they could read their reading books in an unusual way. These are some of the ideas they came up with...
Finally, the children enjoyed listening to stories from the storyteller Rogan Mills who came to visit our school for the day.
We have had a brilliant day! Well done for all of the effort the children have made to celebrate World Book Day!
Today, children expressed themselves by wearing their own clothes to celebrate Children's Mental Health Week.
Children's Mental Health Week- Express Yourself
Welcome back and Happy New Year!
To kick off 2024, the children learnt about how to record sound in our computing lessons. We used input devices to record our voices and output devices to play back our recordings. The children then created their own podcast about a subject of their choice which they recorded on the Chromebooks.
Following this, the children used Chrome Music Lab to create their own music, and we added this to their podcasts.
The children learnt about what makes a good audio recording and worked hard to ensure their recordings were clear for their listeners.
We hope you enjoy listening to their podcasts.
This week we have finished off our week in style with the Christmas Party in Year 4. Everybody got dressed in their best outfits and had a blast! The children looked really smart and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
We had an excellent time playing games, dancing and eating our party food.
Next week, the Year 4 Christmas performance will take place on Tuesday at 11am. We look forward to seeing you there!
Miss Lee
Miss Golightly
What does it sound like to be fluent in times tables?
What does it mean to be fluent in times tables?
Why do children need to be fluent in times tables?
What does it sound like to be reading at the expected standard in Year 4?
What does it mean to be a fluent reader?
Reading fluency - a combination of the following components:
What to look out for:
How many words per minute should your child be reading?
The following figures are based on the child reading this amount of words in an age appropriate text. Some examples of age appropriate texts can be found below.
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End of the Autumn term (by Christmas) |
End of the Spring term (by Easter) |
End of the Summer term (by Summer) |
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Year 4 |
110 |
120 |
130 |
Year 4 texts:
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