Class Teachers: 2023 - 2024

Fountains
Miss Cowperthwaite

Learning Support Assistants
Mrs Raviraj

Gideon
Mr Gibson

Learning Support Assistant
Miss Hickey

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The latest news from Fountains & Gideon

Our Roman Homework

This term, year 4 have been learning about the Romans.Here is some of our amazing homework!

Roman Day

World Book Day

World Book Day - Pipette Art

World Book Day - Plate Designs

Sponsored Walking

4 Fountains World Book Day

How does it feel to be blindfolded?

Year 4 had a very busy morning developing their skills. They were blindfolded and had to work together, listening carefully to sounds to find each other. They discussed the feelings of being blindfolded and how their other senses have to work harder. In the nature area, the children made necklaces and lard balls to feed the birds. They even saw a variety of birds come down to find the food they had left. Year 4 worked together to build dens and find nature area insects.

Pancake PE!

Nature area adventures

4G had a busy morning in the nature area today. They enjoyed playing games, building dens and investigating insect, bird and animal life. This morning, Year 4 enjoyed bananas and melted chocolate - delicious! They re-used the banana skins, lathering them in lard and popping on some seeds and fruit for the birds to enjoy. Finally, Year 4 pretended they were a fighting unit for the Roman army, producing a battle formation and using catapults to fight the enemy.

Climate Change

VR Climate Change Workshop

Roman Mosaic

Our Sugary Drinks Experiment

Learning to play hockey

Exploring the nature area

4 Fountains had a breezy afternoon in the Nature Area. They enjoyed smores around the fire and discussed what a fire needs to burn - heat, oxygen and fuel. They also discussed ways of keeping safe around the fire.

The children explored the nature area and noticed many changes since their last visit, they climbed trees, built dens and played games this afternoon. Thinking about looking after our local environment, they undertook a litter pick to help the creatures that live there.

Sugar Cube Science Experiment

Today, the whole school took part in a Science Experiment. Mixing water and food colouring together, they then began to stack sugar cubes observing what happened next. The experiment moved onto testing the stack of sugar cubes with foil, clingfilm and kitchen roll between each cube. Testing more, meant wrapping the sugar cubes in the materials. and observing closely. The children were amazed and very descriptive after observing using and widening their scientific vocabulary.

We were ably assisted by 14 St Thomas More boys who joined each class to help/observe and ask further questions. My thanks to Mr Jones (their teacher) and the boys for giving up their time.

Our Carol Concert

4 Gideon - Gymnastics

String Telephones

Year 4 had a busy morning. They made string telephones discussing the Science behind them - vibrations, sound waves, how sound travels through solids and whether it was louder and clearer the further or closer they were to the other person!

They moved onto Gymnastics where they were practising the synchronisation of moves and making their body perform with style and grace.

School of Noise

Essex Cricket

Tag Rugby

Sound Waves Experiments

Enjoying the Beach

Visiting the Pier Museum

This week in science, we have been using instruments to identify and describe high and low sounds.

This week, we have been learning how to use computers to record audio.

News from 2022 - 2023

Farmer Carl visits

4G Sports Day

4F Sports Day

4F Nature Area

Investigating how to change solids to liquids by melting them

A busy morning

4G spent an enjoyable morning in the playground and nature area. Starting with an Otter, Salmon and Eagle game, the children refined their observation and reaction skills. Moving into the nature area, the children rotated round three activities - bug hunting, building dens for themselves and friends and lastly, adding to our sensory garden.

4 Gideon Class Assembly

Introducing solids, liquids and gases

In Science we have been investigating how much gas weighs

In Geography we have been learning how clouds are made, we enjoyed spotting them too!

4F visit Anglian Water

4G visit Anglian Water

Invertebrate Hunt

Solids and Liquids

4F had a busy morning in the nature area. They started by making a non-newtonian fluid-mixing cornflour and water. 4G were amazed that this mixture behaved like a solid when energy was imparted on it and a liquid when left alone in their hands. Also they investigated animal and insect life in the nature area.

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Liquids, solids and gases followed by shelters, trees and games!

4G had a busy morning today. Firstly, they discussed liquids, solids and gases, observing how a non-newtonian fluid reacted. This was a mixture of cornflour and water, putting energy on the mixture made it become a solid, when left, it acted as a liquid. Moving to the nature area soon after gave 4G the opportunity to build shelters, climb trees, develop games and hunt for creatures. Well done 4G for an excellent morning.

Music Workshop by Southend Choirs

Our wonderful homework

Romans Day

Food chains and webs

4 Gideon looked at the connections between the animals in the world around us by investigating food chains and webs of increasing complexity. We got in a bit of a tangle working out what happens when changes in our environment cause increases or decreases of certain predators or prey in the food web!

Team Work

4F had a busy morning in the nature area and using space on the field today. Their focus was working together as a team and listening to each other. They started by hiding teddies and giving each other clues to find them. Next, was the blindfold challenges, working together to trust and look after each other. Lastly, they moved to the nature area where they worked together to play games, build dens, make food and generally have fun. This morning, 4F demonstrated excellent teamwork to achieve common goals. Keep it up.

4 Fountains Science Week

Throughout Science week, we have been looking at connections. We have learnt about how different animals are connected in food webs and what would happen if we lost animals from these webs. We have connected to each other by making string telephones and learnt how the vibrations of the sound waves travel down the string so that we can hear them clearly. We also looked at the connections between different materials by using chemical reactions between vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to make fizzy colours.

Nature Art

Year 4 had a busy day in the Nature area. They collected various natural materials and designed and made a picture using these. They used the art of Andy Goldsworthy as inspiration and produced some outstanding pictures. I was so impressed with their concentration levels, discussion and team work. Why not have a look at this video and try this at home with your own children.

Cooking orange cakes in the nature area

4F experienced a busy and very cold morning in the Nature Area. They cooked orange cakes which were tasted and mostly enjoyed by all. Looking out for other users in the nature area, they litter-picked and tidied the whole area. Thank you 4F. Lastly, they made special fat balls to feed all the wildlife who use this area as well as us!

4 Gideon Dance Session

This half term we are learning Dance as part of our PE curriculum - The children are making amazing progress in working together to develop their routines to the Scissor Sisters song 'I don't feel like dancing'.

Orange Cakes

4G had an extremely busy morning in the nature area. Before embarking on the hard work of moving the chip bark and placing it around the nature area to stop it becoming too muddy, Year 4 enjoyed making orange cakes. They hulled out an orange either eating the insides or leaving it to the wildlife. Inside they put some cake mix, put the lid of the orange back on top and wrapped it in foil. They left these cakes approximately 15-20 minutes and then had a taste testing session! Most of Year 4 enjoyed making but didn't like the taste of the cake. Year 4 also fed the wildlife who visit the nature area and even had time to play Eagle Eye.

Mrs Miller wants to say a big thank you to the children in 4G who helped her shift chip bark. What a job you did today!

Our anti-bullying display

4 Gideons had a fun scientific afternoon building working electrical circuits and found the whole process rather 'illuminating'.

Performing Playscripts

This week, Year 4 have started their learning about playscripts in English. This has meant reading a script of Jack and the Beanstalk in groups, deciding on particular acting and vocal expressions and then performing them outside to a wonderful Year 1 audience!

School of Noise

Sound Telephones

Great Gymnastics

4 Gideon make some noise!

4Gideon worked hard today in our Science Sound topic learning the difference between pitch and amplification and working out how to change the pitch of different instruments - rather noisy but a lot of fun!

Coastal Erosion Prevention

Tag Rugby

4 Gideon putting into practice all their learning to play a mini Tag Rugby Tournament against each other - some real talent emerging in the class!

Investigating Sound Outside

4G had an enjoyable morning in the nature area and field, discussing their Science topic of Sound. Firstly, they were all blindfolded and worked together to follow a sound. After this, they were all given an animal sound. They made the noise and had to find the other members of their animal group using just sound as they were all blindfolded. Great fun was had by all!

"It was a tricky activity as you had to make the sound but listen at the same time. It took me a while to hear my sound above all the other noise."

Later in the morning, they moved into the nature area, making windchimes. These are now decorating their classroom.

A beautiful bouquet for our beautiful Queen

4G hard at work studying how vibrations carry sound as part of our Science topic.

4G had great fun making Equadorian Worry Dolls as part of our return to school activities.