Welcome to Sapphire Class! 

Year 3/4

4th July 2025

A ginormous well done to everyone for a great Dress Rehearsal of Dragon Days today! Everyone is now very excited for our final performance on Monday evening. Another big well done for all your efforts during Sports Day on Tuesday, it was very warm and everyone did so well!

27th June 2025

Another busy week this week, Sapphire Class had a great time at Forest School on Monday and a big well done to everyone who took part in District Sports on Tuesday!

We've also been very busy practising for our Dragon Days performance and we can't wait to share it with you all on the 7th July (please see newsletter for more details).

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

 

20th June 2025

We had an amazing day on Monday learning all about Ancient Egypt with our visitor. We learnt how to read hieroglyphics, count in them too, and talked about pharaohs, gods and monsters! It was a great day!

 

 

17th June 2025

13th June 2025

Firstly well done Year 4 for your incredible efforts in our Times Table tests last week and this week, you've all done amazingly! We've now started our rehearsals for Dragon Days and so get learning your lines, you'll need them soon! 

Letters about what costumes you'll need also went home today, just let me know if there are any problems.

6th June 2025

We've had a wonderful first week back, topped off by an amazing time at the KLB Science Fair yesterday. We looked at air pressure in session 1 trying to get an egg into a beaker, seeing what would happen to a marshmallow in space and experiencing air pressure ourselves by getting into bin bags and being vacuum packed! Then we investigated fireworks and looked at the different colours chemicals can turn flames before heading to session 3 where we made our own diving octopus out of water bottles, pipettes and bolts.

23rd May 2025

Wow, what a busy last week of term! Monday we went to Forest School and built pyramids, then we came back and sculpted Canopic jars out of clay in the afternoon. Tuesday we had a very active afternoon at the QuadKids event at KLB. Wednesday it was back to KLB again, this time taking part in some Geography fieldwork with Year 10. Then Thursday we were back up the hill for our swimming lesson and finally Friday we had visitors from FGR teaching us all about sustainability. Well done everyone, you've earned a good break this week!

Year 4s - don't forget out times table test is coming up after half term, keep going with your practicing!

16th May 2025

Well done again for another brilliant week, we had some great pieces of creative writing about living desserts! Everyone is continuing to do so well in our swimming lessons too. Don't forget it's Forest School for us on Monday next week, it will be warm so please bring hats and sun cream.

 

9th May 2025

We had a lovely time making victory bunting for VE day yesterday and learning about it. We also had great fun starting to think about making Canopic jars out of clay and practising different techniques we'll use for our final work. Lastly, in History this week we learnt about the following significant events in Egyptian history!

7500 BCE – The first Egyptian settlers

3000 BCE – The first Egyptian government was created and rules the whole nation

2780 BCE – The first pyramid was built

2555 BCE – The Giza Pyramids were built from 2555 – 2450 BC

1539 BCE - The Valley was used for burials from 1539 BC - 1075 BC.

1314 BCE – King Tutankhamen became king at age 9

51-30 BCE – Cleopatra VII was the last pharaoh of Egypt

July 1799 – The Rosetta Stone was discovered

November 1922 - Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen

2nd May 2025

Welcome back everyone! It's been a very warm and very lovely week, we had the excitement of our first swimming lesson yesterday (which everyone enjoyed on the hottest day of the year so far!) We have also started our next topic which is all about Ancient Egypt and we are all very excited to get stuck in to it. We will also be looking at some lovely clever nonsense poems in English and attempting to create our own before the end of term.

 

11th April 2025

Happy last day of term! We've had another amazing week with our trip to the park on Monday, violin concert on Tuesday and the finals of the poetry competition on Wednesday! Everyone has worked incredibly hard and I hope you all have an amazing Easter break! Don't forget to have fun, practice your times tables and I will see you all in Term 5!

 

4th April 2025

Well done, everyone has worked very hard this week completing our Reading, Maths and Spelling assessments, as well as auditioning for the poetry competition! You've all earned a relaxing weekend in the sunshine. We've got an exciting week coming up too and we're all looking forward to performing the violin for parents on Tuesday in our mini concert.

21st March 2025

I am so proud of everyone in Sapphire Class this week, you all did an incredible job at Cheltenham Town Hall on Monday performing your violin songs for many other schools! You were all so brave and professional you were amazing!

14th March 25

Well done again this week, everyone has been working hard on creating new characters and writing their stories in English, starting our division unit in Maths and learning about our teeth in Science!

7th March 25

This week has zoomed by us! We've enjoyed learning about relative clauses in English this week and carrying on with multiplication in Maths. We also had a lovely World Book Day today focused on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, creating new characters that could have won a golden ticket and thinking about what terrible things could happen to them in their story!

28th February 25

We had a lovely first week back! We have started looking at a strange creature called 'It' in English, found out how our bodies digest food in Science and we had our first Chance to Shine cricket lesson in Friday's PE. Well done everyone!

 

14th February 25

We've all had a lovely end of term, well done to everyone for completing your encyclopaedia pages on the water cycle in English and I am really proud of all of you for the hard work you put into the RememberIt tests we did this week too.

We had a lovely relaxing PE lesson yesterday, being different underwater creatures while learning some new yoga moves!

Have a lovely half term everyone!

24th January 25

We had a great time learning more about the water cycle on Wednesday, with students from KLB teaching us about evaporation, condensation and how clouds work with precipitation!

17th January 25

Everyone did so well this week in our first whole class violin lesson and we're already looking forward to the second one next week! 

 

10th January 25

Welcome back everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas holiday and a great New Year too!

Well done on a great first week back, everyone has enjoyed starting our new topic Roots Shoots and Poops. We started by learning about the Water Cycle in Science and we're looking forward to doing a science experiment next week!

 

13th December 24

We've has a really enjoyable few weeks in Sapphire class! We all loved going to the pantomime last week and starting some Christmas crafts this week! Everyone has been practising their carols really carefully and are looking forward to performing for everyone on Monday.

Sapphire class managed to fill our gem jar so we also had the fun of bring your own toy in day on Tuesday.

1 week to go, everyone has worked so hard and we are looking forward to the holidays!

 

22nd November 24

We had a lovely (and chilly!) trip to Forest School this week, seeing how many triangles we could make using just 9 sticks and then making dens in our free time. Everyone is very excited to go back on Monday.

We also got very excited when it snowed this week, and enjoyed playing in it.

Next week we are looking forward to our MfL week and learning about different countries around the world!

15th November 24

Children in Need today! Thank you to everyone who donated and dressed up in sports kit, we had lots of fun in our wake and shake-athon this afternoon. Sapphire class have worked really hard in Maths this week with our new adding unit and thinking about how we can use different sentence types for different effects in English.

Don't forget Monday is Forest School and it's looking like rain so make sure you wrap up warm and bring some spare clothes!

8th November 24

We've had a very exciting week this week making our healthy sandwiches. We chose from a range of fillings, chopped them all up and then took them home to enjoy!

We also started looking at suspense stories in English, particularly The Grotlyn and The Skull. We managed to work out joust how the authors built suspense in their writing and we're looking forward to using those strategies in our own writing next week.

 

25th October 24

Well done for making it to half term! We've packed a lot in this week from thinking about our DT project to writing information texts in English, doing Maths tests and writing some lovely emails in Computing.

I hope everyone has a restful and relaxing half term break, to come back refreshed for the next one!

18th October 24

This has been a jam-packed week of learning this week, from rounding and geometry in Maths to studying the physical and human features of our local area in Geography to starting to look at healthy food in DT.

Another big well done to everyone, we've all worked really hard this week and I hope you have another great weekend.

 

11th October 24

Well done to everyone for an amazing Harvest Service this morning! The songs and poems were lovely to hear. We've had another good week in Sapphire class topping it off this afternoon with learning about famous people from Victorian times.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

2nd October 24

We all really enjoyed our trip to St Fagan's National Museum of History this week. We got to experience what a day in a real Victorian school would have been like including taking part in reading, writing and arithmetic lessons and looking at some of the ways the children could be punished! We then finished off the day looking around at some of the other shops and houses they have at the museum.

25th September 24

We had a great (if slightly soggy!) couple of weeks at Forest School, we made dens for the animals that live around there and enjoyed splashing around in puddles this Monday!

We've had an amazing start to the term, everyone has been working so hard and we are looking forward to our school trip next Tuesday.

 

13/09/2024

Well done for a great first week back everyone! We've worked really hard to get settled in and we are looking forward to Forest School on Monday.

 

Welcome to Sapphire Class! I hope everyone had a restful and fun-filled summer, it's so nice to be back in school at the start of a new year. This page is where you will find updates on what we've been up to in Sapphire class so keep checking in to read all about it!

 

 

21st June 2024

We had an amazing trip to the Mosque on Monday, the children were fascinated and engaged for the whole morning. We practiced washing our faces, hands and feet and even got to try on some traditional clothing.

A massive well done as well to everyone who took part in and supported the children at district sports events this week - you all did amazingly!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Moving Up

Please find below the meet the teacher presentation from last week as well as social stories for moving up to either Beech or Birch class.

14th June 2024

A massive well done to all of the Year 4s these last couple of weeks, you did so well in the Multiplication Tables Check and I'm so proud of all of you!

We had a lot of fun making string telephones for our Science lessons yesterday and practicing with them today, learning about vibrations and how we can hear different sounds.

24th May 2024

What an incredible week we've had!

Monday saw us burning our Viking long ships on the fire at Forest School, followed by a Viking feast of marshmallows and biscuits. We then went back to school to build rockets for the Science Fair.

Tuesday we had our final swimming session for this year - everyone worked so hard and has made so much progress!

Wednesday we had great fun in the morning constructing Anglo Saxon pots out of clay and practicing our coiling techniques.

Thursday morning was the best one yet - we went up to KLB for the Science Fair where we got to investigate a murder mystery, build our own spectroscopes, build paper rockets and even look at a real life animal heart! We then got to test our rockets against those from other schools. We followed this in the afternoon with some more art - finishing off our pots by sealing them with a varnish to make them nice and shiny.

Well done everyone - you've been amazing this term. I hope you all have a lovely half term break (full of times tables of course!)

10th May 2024

We've definitely been enjoying the sunshine this week! We had a great PE session on the field this morning practicing some athletics skills with Birch class.

Yesterday we also investigated how shadows are made then created our own puppets for a shadow theatre! (Photos below)

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we are looking forward to forest school on Monday.

3rd May 2024

Well done to everyone this week, we've done some great learning! Year 3 have been conquering time this week and Year 4 have been amazing at working through fractions.

A big congratulations to you all for showing respectful behaviour around the school, it's been noticed!

We've also had some great swimming sessions already this term with lots of bravery to go in the deep end. 

I hope you all have a lovely, restful long weekend.

8th March 2024

We've had a very exciting week this week, starting of with a very squelchy visit to Forest School on Monday! We all worked hard to match photos of animals an plants to their names, then made some very impressive dens.

On Wednesday Mrs Peacock kindly came in and celebrated International Women's Day with us by showing us the exciting world of Human Bioscience before we made our own arms using different materials.

Yesterday we all had fun celebrating World Book Day and it was amazing to see so many children bringing in and sharing their favourite books from home.

Well done for all your hard work this week and I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
 

23rd February 2024

We've had a great first week back after half term this week, full of exciting things! We all really enjoyed our Cricket lessons on Monday and are looking forward to our second lesson next week.

We also had an amazing forest school session, we worked together to create a web linking living things to the oak tree onsite and discussed what would happen if the tree was cut down. We then got nice and muddy building our own shield and stratovolcanoes before making one of them explode!

9th February 2024

Well done for a great last week everyone! I'm so proud of all your hard work in our Maths assessments this week - good job! Also a big thank you to everyone who contributed to our poetry competition, the finals this morning were lovely to watch.

I hope you all have a restful half term, see you all for Term 4!

2nd February 2024

Well done everyone for another great week! Thank you to everyone who contributed to our poetry competition this year, it was lovely to hear some of our creative efforts this morning.

We've all worked hard this week on our exchanging in our subtraction lessons and everyone has put great effort into including relative clauses into their writing.

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

19th January 2024

We've had a really good week in Beech class this week, well done to everyone who took part in the dodgeball tournament, and everyone who didn't for being so supportive!

We had some challenging Maths lesson this week that everyone persevered with and we had some high praise from our violin teacher today so a big well done to everyone.

16th November 2023

Well done to everyone practicing our Christmas carols this week, we're all looking forward to performing at the carol service in a few weeks time!

We also had a great time at forest school this week building dens and making our own charcoal to do some cave drawings.

19th October

This week we've been working hard to write our non-chronological reports all about the Iron Age - researching facts and learning new information! 

In Science we have learned how rocks become soil over hundreds of years and we will be going on a soil hunt to investigate what types of plant and animal matter we can find.

I hope everyone has a good weekend!

Miss Taylor