Check out Pupil Links

Have you seen the Pupil Links page on the school website?  I've added lots of links to useful websites... why not have a look?

Off to the farm

We are very much looking forward to going up to Maiden Castle Farm on the morning of Tuesday 9th October.  Hazel and Thomas (not sure if he knows yet) will be guiding us through how a WWII harvest might have differed from today.  For this visit I thought it might be fun to go in our evacuee outfits and wellies of course!  We can pretend that we are East End evacuees seeing cows and sheep for the very first time.  A letter will be coming home next week with more details!

Home learning - 28th September 2012

Home learning – Year 4 – 28^th September 2012

This week we have been writing reports about World War II in response to our trip on Tuesday.  For homework I would like you to either improve the paragraph below, improve the sentences further down or write a report about something of your choice (something that really inspires you).

If you are improving you could add punctuation, words such as “because” and phrases to make it sound better.

If you are writing your own, don’t forget introduction, subheadings, writing in paragraphs and a summary.

1.        Improve this paragraph

in world war 2 they did washing on a monday they used lots of different tools like a dolly a potter and a mangle  they didn’t have washing machines  they had a clothes horse to dry the clothes on  a dolly was used to move the clothes around in the hot water a potter was used to push the clothes down a mangle was used to squeeze the clothes dry it was much harder than today.

Or

Improve these sentences

a mangle was used to squeeze the clothes dry

they did washing on a monday

it was much harder than today

Spellings 28th September - 5th October

Year 4 Responsibilities

We have had many children in the class today really making an effort with their responsibility jobs, lots of people were praised today for being caring for other people and for their school and classroom.  Well done!  I wonder which caterpillar on our charter we will be seeing most of tomorrow?

Super Home Learning

We have had everything from homemade potato and chocolate WWII cakes to wonderful evacuation propaganda posters this week.  Well done to all of you have been busy learning at home.  Keep up the hard work.

Health Care Plans

Please could you return all completed Health Care Plans for your child to the Office

Many Thanks
Mrs Hibberd

Parent View

Please let us know your views on the school by completing a short questionnaire. Follow the link on our website to Ofsted's Parent View!

FANTASTIC NEWS!

I am delighted to confirm that our school film 'Running Blind' has been
selected to be screened at the Co-operative Film Festival 2012.
Congratulations! The organisers of the Film Festival are currently in the
process of creating a programme for the festival and a letter confirming the
date and time of our screening (Thursday 1st November or Friday 2nd November)
will follow in due course. For more information about the Co-operative Film
Festival 2012 please visit: http://www.co-operative.coop/filmfestival/About-the-Festival/.
For more information about 'Running Blind' see our previous Blog post at: http://pow-office.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/film-premiere-big-success.html
and to watch the film click here: http://pow-office.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/our-paralympic-inspired-film-watch-it.html

Spellings - 21st to 28th September

Spelling – Year 4 – 21^st September 2012

Choose your list and learn these spellings for next Friday.  You can learn more than one list if you wish.

List 1 – this week's corrections

(Revision)

like

could

would

should

lick

any

going

List 2 – ou words

(Revision)

out

about

cloud

scout

found

pound

sprout

List 3 – Suffixes (ic, ary)

music

magic

logic

fantastic

library

canary

dictionary

List 4 – Suffixes

(al)

medical

mystical

chemical

seasonal

traditional

alphabetical

archaeological

Home learning 21st September

Home learning, year 4 – 21^st September 2012

This week I would like you to ensure that you have your evacuee costume ready for our trip on Tuesday.  We will be using the costume for this trip and for other drama activities through the term, including our class assembly (30^th November), so please keep hold of it!

Well done for all of the fantastic gas mask boxes last week.  We will be providing each child with a fabric gas mask to put into them for the trip, just incase!

As evacuees you will also need a label!  Please make a label showing your name and school so that the billeting officer knows where you have come from!

This week some of the children have also been looking at WW2 propaganda and how the government made evacuation look much more cheerful than it was.  I would like you to help the government with their campaign.  Using the photos on the back of the sheet, make a poster to persuade families to evacuate their children to the countryside!  Remember you need to make it sound like the best adventure ever!

Lastly, I have a PG certificate, children’s bbc production of “Johnny and the Bomb” on DVD.  The children are desperate to watch since I used a clip in Literacy last week.  Please could you sign and return the slip below if you have no objections to your child seeing the film.

Did you miss?

Did you miss our parent information session this week? If so, you can now watch a highlights version of the talk direct on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJAPrfhb00 or via the embedded player below. We hope you find this useful.

Visitors in Year 4

We welcomed two new faces to our class today.  Ria Mitcham will be coming in every Wednesday afternoon to help with reading and art activities, as an ex-pupil at The Prince of Wales School and after helping in last year's year 4 class she is keen to gain more experience of the role of a Classroom assistant.  Mr Chris Gibson will be supply teaching in year 4 tomorrow (20.9.12) whilst I am working out of school.  I'm sure the children will be helpful and show Mr Gibson what a hard working class they are!

Great Swimming

I have been very impressed with the standards of Year 4 swimming in the first two weeks of term!

Listen back to our pupils on Wessex FM!

Every morning this week Wessex FM are playing clips from pupils at the Prince of Wales First School as part of their Breakfast Show feature 'School Report'. This is currently going out each morning on Wessex FM at 6.30am and 8.30am (after the news). If you have missed the first two days, you can now listen back at: http://www.wessexfm.com/school-report.php. For more information about the pupils visit to Wessex FM, check out the Digital Leader Blog at: http://www.dl-pow.blogspot.co.uk/

How do Hindus pray at home?

Today we watched a video about a Hindu Family Shrine and then looked at a variety of objects used in worship. Can you find out some more about these things?
diva or arti lamps
kumkum powder
the "om" symbol
Which other objects can you remember were used for prayer?

Home learning 14th September

Homework – 14^th September 2012

This week I would like you to...

I would like you to make a gas mask box to use when we pretend to be evacuees over the next few weeks.   Evacuee children would have carried their gas mask where ever they went in a small brown box.  To make a gas mask box find a small box like a tea bag box. Cover in brown paper.  Use string to make a strap to go over your shoulder.  Mark on the box the words “Gas Mask” and your name, you might be able to find out what labels the box would have originally had by looking in books or on the internet.

I have also included some maths sheets to do with estimating and rounding. 

Home learning - Time Capsule

I have been so pleased with the number of excellent olympic inspirations I received for the time capsule this week.  There were some highly creative items.  I am now going to try and register our time capsule so that it will be remembered.  I wonder who will dig it up?  Well done everyone!

Make do and mend

Further to my last blog, the children have decided that they would like to recycle some old school uniform.  If you have any old school jumpers or polo shirts that you do not wish to pass on to someone smaller, please consider sending it in to year 4 where it will be transformed!

We are learning about Hinduism

Today Year 4 started to learn about Hinduism with Mr Farrington by looking at the holy writings of this ancient religion. The children may want to find out more and here are some possible areas to look into:
Sanskrit
The Mahabharata
The Lord Krishna
dharma
karma

WE LOVE A GOOD COMMENT!

We love it when we log in and see that a comment has been made on our blogs! It shows you are reading them and encourages all of us to write more! All comments made on the class blogs, through the school website, can also be read out to the classes during carpet time...which the children love! To make a comment simply click the blog title on the school website and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Fill in the comment box with your comment and sign in with one of several account options or just add your comment as a guest by selecting ‘name/url’. To publish your comment, click ‘publish’. Any questions, please see Mr. Spracklen.

Home learning 7th Septmeber

Home learning, year 4 – 7^th September 2012

The Olympic and Paralympic games will be finishing this weekend.  There are many things that have inspired us over the last month or so from the games.  Some of you have been lucky enough to go and see an event.  Others have watched in awe at the determination, courage and excellence that the athletes have demonstrated.  I thought it would be nice to put together a time capsule of our memories of the Cultural Olympiad 2012 and bury it somewhere in our garden for future Prince of Wales children to find! 

Please have a go at making a collage, picture, poster, model, power point presentation, or writing a paragraph or two about why it has been such an exciting and inspiring event.  We will include all of your work (as long as it fits – so don’t make it too big)!

Swimming

Swimming for year 4 will begin this Wednesday 12th September. The children should wait outside the Pavillion changing rooms where they will be met by the year 4 team and Mr Farrington.  Swimming will continue on a weekly basis at the old pool until further notice.

Make do and Mend!

We will be designing and making our own cushion covers and bags later in the term.  If you have any old cushions or fabric that you no longer need, it would be gratefully received.

A great first day back

We had a wonderful day in year 4, finding out about what we will be learning about this term.  Our first topic is WW2, so if you have any contacts or have knowledge of this period of History yourself please let us know!  The children have had a wonderful day and really thrown themselves into their work.

Year 4 Sweatshirts

All Year 4 children have been given a navy school sweatshirt this morning. This is a symbol of their status as the oldest and most responsible children in the school. They are symbols of the way we expect all Year 4 children to be excellent examples for the rest of the school: setting a positive example of all the DASP Citizenship qualities and the Olympic and Paralympic values. Parents: please put a name in the label! If your child grows out of the sweatshirt they have  been given, there are more supplies for purchase. However, the sweatshirt your child has been given is a gift from the school. The children can continue to wear the jade sweatshirts on some days if you wish.

Welcome to Year 4

It has been a long and relaxing holiday, but the year 4 team are ready to go!  We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to the new year 4!  See you tomorrow, ready to learn!

'Running Blind' to be shown in ICCI 360 Cinema

We are excited to announce that our Paralympic inspired film 'Running Blind' will be shown tomorrow (05/09/12) from 3-4.30pm as well as on Saturday (08/09/12) and Sunday (09/09/12) in the ICCI 360 Cinema in Weymouth. The ICCI 360 Cinema is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and more information about the cinema can be found at this link - http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/icci360.

Further information about our film can be seen below:

We have made our own animated film to celebrate a year of Paralympic activities in our school and we are now really proud to share it with the world! Inspired by blind footballer David Clark and ex-pupil and former Paralympic medallist Mark Newton, we have created Running Blind a Paralympic story with an agricultural twist featuring an angry bull, a Dorset farmer and the Team GB Paralympic training camp at Maiden Castle. Children across the school worked with a team of artists to write, draw, animate, voice and direct the three minute film which is being screened during London 2012 Paralympic Games. Blind goalscorer David Clarke faces the challenge of his life as he prepares for the Games. Players are baffled when a lost match ball is mysteriously heard moving around the pre-games venue at Maiden Castle.

With the help of other Paralympians, sharp-eyed schoolchildren help solve the riddle but getting that ball back takes all of the blind striker’s extraordinary skills. Project producer and drama therapist Sharon Hayden said the children had come up with some wonderful story ideas. “Through drama sessions and working with our scriptwriting mentor, they have produced a great story - and done it justice with some lovely drawing and animation. “We are incredibly grateful to funders First Light and West Dorset District Council who have given these children the opportunity to make something which will be seen by thousands of people.”

Assistant head Gary Spracklen said the experience had been one that would live with the children forever. “The team of artists from our production partner Nisbet Media have done a wonderful job and involved the whole school in this project. It has been extraordinary to see the different elements of the film come together.”

Running Blind is funded by the Lottery through the BFI's First Light initiative.

Film:

Making of film: