Welcome to our Primary Four class page. Mr Gray is our teacher this year and our fabulous classroom assistant is Miss Rhodes.

Have a look around and see all of the fantastic work we have been doing so far this year. We are exploring topics such as Minibeasts, Extreme Weather, WW2 and Local Study all about Downpatrick. We thoroughly enjoy many outdoor learning lessons through these topics. 

We are working hard in the area of Numeracy this term and have loved exploring data handling using Just 2 Easy to represent data on a range of charts and tables. We are also working hard learning are times tables and are confident using different operations within and up to 1000. We are quite competitive when it comes to our Mathletics points and aim to get at least 1000 points a week. We have been improving our problem solving abilities by using RUCSAC and we love the challenge of  a maths investigation. We are learning to identify 2D and 3D shapes within our environment.

In Literacy this year, we are developing our writing skills in a range of genres such as recount, persuasive, report, procedural and narrative writing. We are also continuing the use of the Linguistic Phonics programme to improve our phonics skills too. We are enjoying reading a range of Minibeast stories currently and love our daily guided and shared reading sessions.

We really love our fun and active PE lessons with Mr Gray. This term, we are focusing on Gymnastics and Games this term. We also participate in the Daily Mile challenge to keep fit and active.

We are thoroughly enjoying our class Music lessons each week with Mr McVeigh every Monday. We have been developing our listening skills as well as our performance skills. We love showing these off during our class assemblies and showcasing off project work. We will be exploring different elements of ICT this year too and hope to develop our skills as we use a range of different apps.

Enjoy this snapshot of our P4 class as we learn and grow together in St Brigid’s this year!