This morning, Dragonfly class had a visitor from Shropshire Fire and Rescue! Firefighter Barry came to give the children a fire safety talk. We learnt about what we should do in the event of a fire, how we know if there is a fire and what to do if we catch fire. The children asked some excellent questions, we really enjoyed the visit!
Welcome back to both new and returning Dragonflies! I hope you have had a fantastic summer, full of fun, and hopefully some sun?!
I’m super excited to be starting off a new term with you all and I’m really looking forward to seeing what adventures we get up to this year!
This is our timetable for this term: Dragonflies timetable autumn 1
PE this term will be on a Monday and Tuesday- please come dressed in the correct clothing for PE.
Homework will be handed out on Wednesdays and will be handed in the following Wednesday. As part of the homework, children will given spellings that they must learn to be tested on on Wednesday mornings. Practising times tables on TT rockstars will also be expected as part of the homework.
Reading diaries are to be brought into school every day and will be checked weekly that children are reading at home at least 3 times a week.
Below is an overview of the topics we will be covering this autumn term
Autumn 2024 Topic planner Dragonfly class
Please find the knowledge organisers for subjects this term below. The knowledge organisers will tell you what the children will be learning and some key vocabulary they will encounter this term. I hope you find these helpful!
Dragonflies – Computing systems and networks—
Dragonflies_-_Online_Safety[1]
LKS2 – What is it like to follow God
Magnets and forces Dragonflies
If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to pop to see me on the gate!
Miss Hindley
If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to pop to see me on the gate!
Miss Hindley
We have had an excellent couple of days in Dragonfly class getting to know one another! We have had a jam packed two days full of activities! We have played team building and getting to know one another games, made self portraits with things that are important to us inside them, and even managed to use marshmallows in maths to make 3D shapes!
We have had a busy week in Dragonflies this week! With arts week in full swing we have had the chance to have a go at lot’s of different Mexican themed arts. To start our week off on Monday we had the opportunity to have a go at Mexican dance. We learnt the Mexican hat dance where Miss Hindley was extremely impressed with their Dance moves! Throughout the week we have been creating traditional Mexican pattern’s through the technique of Batik, which requires us to draw a pattern on to material using wax and then paint our design with fabric paint. We have had a go at making Freida Kahlo Piñata’s and flower crowns. We have also experimented with clay to make traditional Mexican sun faces and finally we have LOVED making Ojos de Dios ( God’s eyes) out of sticks and weaving wool, we found this therapeutic! Well done Dragonflies you have worked hard this week!
In science we are looking at sound. This afternoon we were exploring how sound can change over a distance. As part of this we created string telephones to demonstrate how sound travels. We discovered that we could hear clearly through the cups as the string and the cups are solid, so the particles are much closer together than the particles in the air, which is a gas. The sound energy can travel from particle to particle far easier in the solid string telephone, so the sound of our voices were louder over the same distance than it was in the air. We had a great time discovering how sound travels over distance! 
Welcome back Dragonflies Class, we hope you all had a lovely Easter break!
We have got lots of exciting things to look forward to this term; swimming, Liverpool for year 4 and school trips just to name a few! Below is our timetable for this term.
Our topic this term is ‘Would I rather live in Mexico City or Shrewsbury?’ We will be learning lots of interesting things about each place through comparison.
We will start swimming lessons from Friday 26th April, so everyone will need to be in PE kit and bring their swimming kit with them on Fridays. We will no longer have PE on a Monday afternoon, but PE will continue on a Tuesday.
Please find the knowledge organisers for subjects this term below. The knowledge organisers will tell you what the children will be learning and some key vocabulary they will encounter this term. We hope you find these helpful, please let us know if there is anything you would like to discuss.
Dragonflies – Creating Media Photo EditingSummer term year 4 sound
Miss Hindley and Miss Lloyd- Jones
Church Street
Ruyton XI Towns
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY4 1LA
