Hello, I'm Mrs Makinde and I teach in Goldfinch class. My favourite subjects are English and Computing. This is my third year of teaching and my first year teaching here at St John's. 

In my spare time, you'll find me reading and exploring outside with my two daughters.

 

Other staff working in our class are:

Mrs Gauriilidis – Class TA

Ms Dean - SEND TA

Our weekly timetable:

Important dates for the diary this term for Goldfinches Class

Monday 30^th September – Maths Money workshop

Tuesday 8^th October – Individual photos

Trip to St Augustines Abby – Date TBC

 

Our learning this term

Maths

This term Year 4 will be deepening their place value skills. They will be looking at understanding and making numbers to 10,000 as well as rounding and comparing numbers. We will start addition and subtraction of numbers to 10,000 using manipulatives and the formal written method.

 

English

Our class book this term is Beowulf. We will be reading this exciting myth and writing our own myths too. We will be covering the genres of diaries, newspapers and narratives. We will be continuing our use of making our writing more exciting by using sentence openers, conjunctions and adverbs. 

Reading

While reading our class book, the children will be deepening their skills of answering questions about a text, focusing on inference.

Curriculum

This term we are exploring the historial theme ‘Casting a light on the dark ages’. We are learning all about the Anglo Saxons, who they were, when they came to Britain and the impact they had on Britain. We are excited to go to St Augustine’s Abby on a trip this term to learn about the impact St Augustine had during Anglo Saxon times.

 

Science

This term we are exploring Living Things and their Habitats. The children will be using and creating flow diagrams to sort animals based on their characteristics.

 

RE

This term in RE we are exploring the Creation story. Building on their learning from KS1, the children will be learning about what Christian’s learn from the creation story about how to live their lives and how to treat the world.

 

PE

Our PE topic this term is tag rugby. The children will be learning the rules of the game and playing as a team.

 

Learning at home for Goldfinch Class

• Reading expectation for year group
• Spelling shed
• TTS Rockstars
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Be ready for learning! In Goldfinch Class, your child will need to have these items in school:

• PE kit (to be worn on PE day) 

• Water bottle (no squash or juice) 

• Small rucksack (big enough to hold lunchbox and reading books) 

• Wellington boots (to leave in school) 

• Coat (weather appropriate) 

Please don’t bring other items into school, as we do not have space to store these, and it can cause upset if things are lost or damaged.

 

Highlights of our learning so far this year: