We all had a great time at Chester Zoo on Thursday. We saw penguins, a jaguar, aye ayes, orangutans, sloths, lions and elephants just to name a few! It was a brilliant day.

Before half term, class 4 showcased some of their work during their Going Places assembly. Each child was given a plane ticket to a different capital city to learn about and research. We learnt about lines of latitude and longitude and how to find the co-ordinates for their different capital cities on the world map. The children also shared some writing, computing and art. Well done for all of your hard work class 4!

Today class 4 took part in a competition to see whose World Book Day character was the Ultimate Character Champion. We first scored our character a score out of 10 for their kindness, sense of adventure, agility, intelligence and their strength. We then pretended to be our character by acting out their characters skills. We focused on our facial expressions and freeze frames. Each child wrote a speech explaining why their character should be the Ultimate Character Champion, before we then battled in groups to find our final four characters. It was a great morning!

Yesterday, 9 boys from class 4 took part in the South Shropshire School Games Athletics event. Everyone worked really hard and we had a great time! A massive well done to the boys for their amazing sportsmanship throughout the afternoon.

During PE today, Class 4 have been practicing their athletics skills ready for the two events this week. The boys will be taking part on Tuesday and the girls will be taking part on Thursday. We practiced our relay technique, speed bounce, long jump and chest push. Good luck class 4!

Last Thursday, Class 4 went to RAF Cosford to take part in a World War Two workshop and to explore the museum. In our WW2 workshop, we learnt all about the Battle of Britain and we got to explore different WW2 artefacts and try on some WW2 clothing. We also got to go in a mock Anderson Shelter! After the workshop, we explored the museum where we all got the chance to sit in a cockpit of a Phantom and we did a 4D flight experience. We all had a great day!

This afternoon, class four had the opportunity to look at/try on Denison smock replica from World War Two. This would have been issued to British airborne forces for D-day and Operation Market Garden. This one had the markings of a Sergeant in the Glider Pilot Regiment. We also were lucky enough to have some real World War Two medals to look at. We discussed what each medal would have been awarded for and each had the opportunity to have a closer look at them.

Today class 4’s forest school morning was linked to our WW2 topic. The children started by putting on face paint to camouflage themselves before they had a go at making Anderson shelters and weapons. We all had a brilliant time!

During computing, class 4 made their own semaphore flags and they then each had a go at transmitting information to each other in semaphore. They used the reference sheet to help them communicate their words.

Last Thursday, class 4 took part in a cross country event at Carding Mill Valley. We all had a great time taking part and cheering each other on!