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Year 4

19 May

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 5

This week, Year 4 have started their Art project creating sculptures. We have been learning all about Clarice Cliff, who was an influential artist in the Art Deco movement. She has inspired us to create our own coil pots, which we have designed and produced...

12:02 / Art and DT / news 19.05.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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12 May

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 4

This week, Year 4 explored a character's internal struggles with a conscience alley. Our character, Issa, must choose between his friends, who are marching for freedom in his country, or his family, who disagree with his ideas. We were able to see both points of...

12:05 / news 12.05.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 4 / nbegum
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05 May

Geography Fieldwork

Last Friday, the children in Years 3 - 5 put their geography skills to the test and became geographers in our first ever Fieldwork Day! The children were able to draw upon their prior geographical knowledge to plan a walk in the local area which would...

12:08 / Humanities / news 05.05.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / School Trips / Year 3 / Year 4 / Year 5 / nbegum
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05 May

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 3

This week, Apollo Music visited us again! We discovered a range of wind instruments and how they work. We also used our knowledge from our science unit on Sound to explain how the air vibrates inside the wind instrument and then creates the sound that...

12:05 / Music / news 05.05.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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28 Apr

Spanish at SJSJ

Key words/phrases for this half term are: Week 1 - ¿Puedo ir al baño, por favor? Can I go to the toilet please? Week 2 - Necesito ayudo, por favor. I need help, please. Week 3 - ¿Te gustaría jugar? Would you like to play? Week 4 - ¿Cómo estuvo su fin de semana? How was your weekend?  Week...

12:08 / news 28.04.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Spanish / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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28 Apr

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 2

Year 4 were fortunate enough to go on two trips this week! We visited the Great Hall in Leyton, where we saw a concert from Apollo Music, and got an in depth explanation behind all their instruments. We were able to ask them how they...

12:05 / Music / news 28.04.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Religious Education / School Trips / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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21 Apr

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 1

This week, we began our unit on Relationships in Values. We talked about what relationships mean to us and wrote our friends’ names in a circle to show how close or far we are to them. We understood that it was normal to have friends...

12:05 / news 21.04.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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31 Mar

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 6

This week, Year 4 started a really exciting project for STEAM. We researched why we use yeast in bread and what food group bread belongs to. We then sampled different breads and vegetables that we could use for our bread. We then made our own...

12:05 / news 31.03.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Science / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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24 Mar

What’s happening in Year 4 – Week 5

For our Diverse Britain unit this half term, Year 4 have been learning all about immigration and the impact it has had. We were able to interview someone who immigrated to the UK as a child, who turned out to be Miss Flight's mum. We...

12:05 / Diverse Britain / news 24.03.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Year 4 / nbegum
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24 Mar

Science Fayre

Last week, SJSJ were looking at different enquiries that were all about connections for our science week. The children explored scientific questions through investigations and concluded their findings. They were able to find out how connections work in different ways that were linked to each of their science units this term. Have...

11:59 / Events / news 24.03.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Science / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 / Year 4 / Year 5 / nbegum
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St John and St James C of E Primary School,
Isabella Road,
Hackney
E9 6DX

Tel: 020 8985 2045
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Email: office@johnjames.hackney.sch.uk

Executive Headteacher: Joanne Smith
Head of School: Grace Gladstone

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