Topaz Class

Welcome to Years 4 and 5!

In Topaz Class, we pride ourselves in being caring, considerate and a hard-working team.

Reading

Your child will be given a reading book and diary to take home and read. Please ensure that they are in your child’s book bag every day. It is really important that your child reads as much as possible. We ask that you try to read with your child each night, even if it’s just for 5 minutes. Your child will also have lots of opportunities to read and enjoy books throughout the week in school.

Currently, our PE day is Monday. Please send your children into school wearing their PE kit. During the Winter, children should have both tracksuit bottoms and shorts as we could be outside come rain or snow! Girls should bring tracksuit bottoms too as they are not to wear tights underneath shorts.

Playtime

At present, during playtime, the children are using the field. Please ensure your child has a change of footwear and a pair of tracksuit bottoms to change into.

Homework

After October half-term, homework will be set on a Wednesday and is due back in on the following Tuesday. It will be marked on Tuesday and therefore, it is important that it is handed in on time to ensure it is marked. Homework is either linked to our learning in Maths and English or will be topic based. It should take no longer than 20 minutes for each piece. If it is a longer piece, the children will be told before hand.

Spellings will be handed out each week on a Thursday to be tested on Thursday the following week.

Volunteers

At Sound, we always welcome volunteers to come and read with the children, work alongside the class or even volunteer for clubs or special activities. If this is of interest to you, don’t hesitate to speak to the office or the class teacher and they will point you in the right direction.

(At present, due to COVID restrictions, we cannot have parents in school to help, however, as soon as these restrictions are lifted we will be in touch. Thank you)

Meet the Teachers

Mrs Allen and Mrs Wagg are the teachers in Topaz Class.

Mrs Allen teaches on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning and Mrs Wagg teaches on a Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday and Friday.

Mrs Allen

Mrs Wagg

Our fantastic teaching assistant in Topaz Class is Mrs Kyle.

Mrs Kyle

Class Blogs

Topaz Class – Sound and District Primary School blog

Christmas Crisis Geography Challenge in Topaz December 16, 2020
The children have been testing their geographical skills to locate the countries which celebrate Christmas
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM November 11, 2020
SOUND MACHINE! November 5, 2020
Today Topaz class had their first bucket drumming music session! We had sooooo much fun practising our first rhythm and learning about how the different parts of the bucket create different sounds and how to correctly hold our drum sticks. We are going to be unstoppable! We hope to share our progress with you over […]
Sneaky Peek! October 9, 2020
Shhhhh! We have finished painting our Christmas card designs today!!!! I know it is early but we have to allow them time to be made. Further information will be sent out soon. There wasn’t a paint brush in sight!!! The children used a fork and cotton buds to create this super effect! Happy Christmas from […]
Science investEGGation!!!!! October 8, 2020
Today we set up our science investigation to find out which drink causes the most tooth decay? We have put eggs in cups and covered them in a range of different drinks. We used eggs as they are one of the closest and most similar surfaces to our teeth. We didn’t think it was a […]
Covid 19 Art Project September 30, 2020
Way back through time art has been used as a way of recording thoughts, feelings and to document history. As we started back in September Topaz Class used art to document an aspect of COVID -19 and this unprecedented time in history. We talked about how masks are an outward sign that life has changed […]
Somewhere over the rainbow… September 30, 2020
When leaving school this evening I was greeted by the most beautiful and bright double rainbow. Did anyone else spot it?
What is the digestive system and why is it so important? September 16, 2020
Today in Science we had a lot of fun learning about the function of different parts of the digestive system. We used a slice of bread to help us understand what happens at various stages. It got a bit messy at some points!!!!
Maths Games June 10, 2020
Year 4 have been creating maths games this week. Here are some examples of their fantastic Home Learning.
BRITISH SCIENCE WEEK March 12, 2020
This week Topaz class spent their Science lesson investigating ‘Our Diverse Planet’, which is the theme of this years British Science Week. We focused on the question: Is everyone’s body the same? As a class we investigated who had the longest legs and the biggest hands. We investigated if our arm span was the same […]