Upcoming carol concert and Play costumes

 

It only feels like yesterday that the children were dressing up as shepherds, angels, donkeys and wise men to take part in our yearly Christmas carol services. Now in year 4, it is the children's turn to read passages during the carol service and to sing as part of the choir. 

This week, Mr MacBean and I will be asking the children if they would like to be involved in doing readings in the service which will be held after school on Wednesday 13th December. We realise that it is a very busy time so if possible please discuss with your child to warn them if they will not be able to attend the service to avoid disappointment. 

If you know that your child would like to be involved and can attend on 13th December please email me directly c.browne@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk  

(details of the location and times are available in a recent newsletter).        

Finally, please can all costumes for our winter performance, no-one wraps like an elf be brought into school this Friday please. 

  

Spellings, Home learning and our Winter Performances

 

Hello everyone,

The rehearsals for our Winter performances are coming along but please can we ask that you practice your child's lines with them. With this in mind learning lines for no-one wraps like an elf is one of this week's home learning tasks. 

Homelearning:

1) Practice lines for our winter performance.

2) Complete times table booklets (these should be returned to school on Monday 4th December) 

3) Read regularly and record reading in reading journals (these should be returned every Friday please). 

Spellings:

Please see below the spellings for this and next week. Hard copied of spellings were given out on Tuesday 

Please get in touch with a member of the team if you have any questions or have any concerns about costumes for our performances. 

Kind regards,

the year 4 team 

 

Upcoming dates and activities, swimming update and potential present idea

 

Hello everyone,

The Christmas period has definitely arrived at The Prince of Wales School and I hope you and your child enjoyed walking though the wardrobe into Narnia on Monday. On Monday, the children started some inspired writing and on Thursday the children will be visited by the team from The Bank of Dreams and Nightmares for a creative writing workshop based on the characters from Narnia. 

This Friday, children are invited to wear either a Christmas jumper or dress up as an elf for the day our annual Christmas Jumper Day / Elf Day / Wear Something Christmassy Day /Wear Any Non-School Uniform Day! Children are encouraged to take part in their own way, in exchange for a raffle prize/donation to POWSA ahead of the POWSA Christmas Fayre on Sunday 3rd December 2023.

Also on this day we will be having our annual ‘Christmas Craft Day’ which will see children across the school working together in mixed-age groups to complete a range of craft activities. 

Christmas Performances

Key Stage 2 are currently working hard to learn our Christmas performance, No-one wraps like an Elf. Tomorrow (Wednesday), children should be coming home with a list of the costumes they will need. An electronic version of this can be viewed here.   If you have any concerns or questions about your child's costume, please get in touch. 

It would be very helpful if you could practice your child's lines with them at home please. 

Pencil Cases from Spring term onwards

After the Christmas holidays, children are welcome to start bringing in their own pencil cases if they wish. We will always provide the equipment your child needs but once your child is at middle school they will need to bring in their own supplies.  

Upcoming Dates

Please note that it is the last swimming session for year 4 will be this Thursday 30th November.

Friday 1st December - Christmas Technology Day / Dress as an elf / Xmas Jumpers

Sunday 3rd December - POWSA School Fayre

Week of Monday 4th December - Year 4 passport progress check 

Wednesday 5th December - Local visit to view their sculptures (information to follow)

Tuesday 12th December - Winter performances

Wednesday 13th December - Carol Service (year 4, Reception & Preschool)

Thursday 14th December - winter performances

Friday 15th December - Last Day of term and Party Day

Tuesday 2nd January - All children return

Monday 15th January - Closing date to apply for middle school (Link)

Wednesday 7th February - Shakespeare by the sea (tickets now on sale link)

If you have any questions or concerns please get in touch. 

Kind regards,

The Year 4 team

Home learning and play update

 

Dear parents and carers,

Just a quick updates about the upcoming year 4 plays. Casting for both Macbeth and our Christmas play have now both been finalised. Your child should know the name of the character they are in both of these plays although if you have any questions or concerns please get in touch. 

Home learning

Home learning is timetables practice and play scripts. Your child should start learning their lines for our Christmas play as part of their home learning this week please. Scripts were sent home yesterday but please make sure that scripts are brought into school everyday for rehearsals. 

On Thursday, children will also be sent home with their Square numbers times tables booklet. Please can you encourage your child to complete these booklets. They will need to complete sections 10 - 20 and the deadline for returning the booklets is Monday 4th December. Should your child complete these booklets before the 4th feel free to bring them back to school and continue to encourage your child to practice their tables as near to daily as you can manage. 

Upcoming dates:

Thursday 23rd November - School Disco

Friday 1st December - Christmas Technology Day / Dress as an elf / Xmas Jumpers

Week of Monday 4th December - Year 4 passport progress check 

Sunday 3rd December - POWSA School Fayre

Tuesday 12th December - Winter performances

Wednesday 13th December - Carol Service (year 4, Reception & Preschool)

Thursday 14th December - winter performances

Friday 15th December - Last Day of term and Party Day

Tuesday 2nd January - All children return

Monday 15th January - Closing date to apply for middle school (Link)

Wednesday 7th February - Shakespeare by the sea (tickets now on sale link) 

As ever if you have any questions or anything you'd like to discuss, email or come and see a member of the team. 

Kind regards,

The year 4 team. 

Plays, Home learning and upcoming dates

 

Hello everyone, 

This week, the children have been thinking about our Shakespeare play and have made choices about what size and what role they would ideally like to perform.  Whilst the Shakespeare play isn't until February, we will also have a Christmas performance in December. It is my hope that I can cast these two plays so that any child that would like a main role and misses out on having a main role in Macbeth, will be able to have a main role in our Christmas performance. 

All children will be given the opportunity to audition for their first choice role next week and have been sent home today with lines to rehearse. An electronic copy of these lines can be found here.   

Home Learning

This week's home learning supports the learning we are doing in Geography. All children have been given a paper copy of this learning but an electronic version can be found here. The children have been asked to identify countries around the world that their friends or extended family have links to. They also need to identify counties around the UK that they have visited or have links to through family or friends. 

Spellings

Below are the spellings for the fortnight:

Upcoming dates  

Monday 20th November - Christmas Box appeal 

Monday 20th November - Year 3 & 4 RE visit (see emailed letter for details)

Thursday 23rd November - School Disco

Friday 1st December - Christmas Technology Day / Dress as an elf / Xmas Jumpers

Week of Monday 4th December - Year 4 passport progress check 

Sunday 3rd December - POWSA School Fayre

Tuesday 12th December - Winter performances

Wednesday 13th December - Carol Service (year 4, Reception & Preschool)

Thursday 14th December - winter performances

Friday 15th December - Last Day of term and Party Day

Tuesday 2nd January - All children return

Monday 15th January - Closing date to apply for middle school (Link)

Wednesday 7th February - Shakespeare by the sea (tickets now on sale link)

          

As ever, if you have any questions or concerns please talk to a member of the team. 

Kind regards,

Ms Browne & Mrs Hall & Mr MacBean & Mrs Thomas. 

Home learning, School learning and upcoming events

 

Upcoming events:

Monday 13th November - Odd Socks Day

From Monday 13th November - Therapeutic Thinking week

Tuesday 14th November - World Diabetes Day (children in year 4 may wear blue nail varnish on this day if they wish Link)

Friday 17th November - Children in need day. (See emailed letter for more details)

Monday 20th November - Christmas Box appeal 

Thursday 23rd November - School Disco

Home Learning
For this week's home learning the children have some subtractions to complete. 
All the children were sent home with a worksheet but if your didn't make it home please follow the link here.   

Maths learning in class and beyond

In class at the moment, the children are learning how to subtract two 4-digit numbers, using the column method. As with most maths learning, any additional practice will help your child perfect this skill. Later on this term, and into next term we will provide addition and subtraction practice opportunities during early bird maths sessions but any extra practice at home that would be beneficial. 

During out maths fluency sessions, we are currently learning the square numbers: 2 x 2 = 4; 3 x 3 = 6, 4 x 4 = 16; 6 x 6 = 36 etc. Again any opportunities to practice these tables at home will be useful. 

I strongly recommend regular Times Tables Rockstar practice at home where possible, although some children may also enjoy using hit the button. On this site there is a square numbers game selection and the children need to chose the answer form a selection, which can help children gain confidence. 

For those children that may need some additional practice learning addition and subtraction facts, there is also an option on hit the button, or you may want to try Numbots. Numbots starts off slowly but as the children progress through the levels that addition and subtraction questions increase in difficulty. If you would like your child to access this follow the link and they can use the same login as they use for TTRS. 

If you have any questions or comments about any aspect of your child's learning or upcoming events, please get in touch with a member of the year 4 team.  

      

Autumn 2 - Dates and home learning

 

Hello everyone, 

We hope you and your child had a good break and are ready for an exciting Autumn 2 term.  

At the start of this term, children will be writing about the Gunpowder Plot in English and will be developing their addition and subtraction skills in maths. In science we will be looking at changing states on matter (water can evaporate or freeze for example) and we will have a Geography focus this term, looking at counties, rivers and the water cycle. 

Home learning

The home learning for this week has a short maths and English activity. The activities are deliberately short as I would like as many children as possible to complete their home learning as possible. A link to the home learning sheet can be found here. 

Spellings

We now only have two spelling groups. Those children that were previously in Trinkle will now be in Logan. For this term, spellings will be learnt over two weeks. 

   
Upcoming dates 

Please note Year 4 will continue to go swimming this term. 

Wednesday 1st November - Poundbury Art workshop (in class)

Friday 3rd November - Children present their ROAR innovations

Friday 10th November - Poundbury Art workshop (in class)

Sunday 12th November - Remembrance Sunday

Tuesday 14th November - World Diabetes Day (children in year 4 may wear blue nail varnish on this day if they wish Link)

Monday 13th November - Odd Socks Day

From Monday 13th November - Therapeutic Thinking week

Friday 17th November - Children in need day

Monday 20th November - Christmas Box appeal 

Thursday 23rd November - School Disco

Friday 1st December - Christmas Technology Day / Dress as an elf / Xmas Jumpers

Week of Monday 4th December - Year 4 passport progress check 

Sunday 3rd December - POWSA School Fayre

Tuesday 12th December - Winter performances

Wednesday 13th December - Carol Service (year 4, Reception & Preschool)

Thursday 14th December - Winter performances

Friday 15th December - Last Day of term and Party Day

Tuesday 2nd January - All children return

Monday 15th January - Closing date to apply for middle school (Link)

Wednesday 7th February - Shakespeare by the sea (ticket now on sale link)

Shakespeare

From next week, the children will start leaning about our Shakespeare performance. In a few weeks children will be asked to decide what sort of role they would like (main part, medium part or small speaking part). It would be helpful if you could talk to your child about the size roles they may like. They should be aware that for main parts there is an expectation that children will need to practice and learn their lines at home. 

As ever if you have have any questions or concerns please get in touch. 

Kind regards,

The Year 4 Team