A favour!

As parents of children about to leave our school, I would like to ask a favour. Please help us by completing the questionnaire on Ofsted's Parent View giving your opinion about 12 aspects of our school. From the school website, click on the Ofsted Parent View icon. Then click on "Give your views". You will need to register by providing your email address and confirming that you have a child at a school. you will then be sent a password. You then need to go back into "Give your views" enter your email address and password and say which school or schools you wish to give your views on. There are then 12 questions requiring a selection from 5 options, similar to our school's paper questionnaire.

Namaste!

Namaste!

Well, as promised, last week was a rich and vibrant learning experience and I would like to say a huge Thank you to Anjali, Sushma and Mr. Farrington for their energy, passion and knowledge and expertise - Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed the week and were fully immersed in the culture and customs in India!

So, this week : Tuesday morning is the music assembly, Wednesday is our film project day where Mr. Scott from THS is coming to film for us and, of course, Thursday is Transfer Day!

Next week : Healthy Me themed week including Sports morning, swimming gala and then our trip to Lings to see our Leavers book being printed!

Final week: Ancient Roman Day on the Monday (dress up as a Roman) NO LUNCH NEEDED we will make a Roman lunch! Sleep overs and Leavers Assembly!

PLEASE CAN EVERYONE MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE CORRECT PE KIT IN SCHOOL SO THAT WE CAN PRACTISE FOR SPORTS MORNING - TRAINERS BEST FOR RUNNING PLEASE!

See you all tomorrow!

Mrs. Johnson

Culture!

Good Evening,

What an exciting couple of weeks! Last week we had 2 trips, one to Cranborne and one to the County Museum - both of which enriched our learning about The Romans, experiencing daily life hands on, handling real artefacts from archaelogical digs in the local area, contextualising our local history.......and much more!!! Get your child to take you to the Roman Town House or Museum and tell you all about it - I learnt so much too!

This week we are having an India week, and already today we had a visitor in who taught us dance, art, hand gestures and answered our many questions! A very vibrant and fun day! Keep asking each day for an update! You can join the school on Friday afternoon in the hall for an Indian Cafe, buy food made by the children, and to watch the dances that the children have learnt this week.

Also, not forgetting the musical soiree on Wednesday evening! And what a talented musical class we have in Year 4 - I can't wait!

Tune in on Friday for more updates on our exciting week!

Mrs. Johnson

INSTRUMENTS in school during day time Weds 25th June please!

I plan to see and hear all the children who will be taking part in the summer soiree that evening during the day of Wednesday 25th June. PLEASE check that your child has their instrument and music in school?

Many thanks!

Mrs Mewett

The week ahead!

I hope you managed to get along to see the carnival, Prince of Wales was very well represented-great costumes too!!!!!!

Cranbourne tomorrow-don't forget your packed lunch and to wear home clothes that you don't mind getting dirty ( I don't advise flip flops-sensible footwear please! )

Friday is the museum visit, packed lunches again!

Well done to the swimmers-you should be very proud of yourselves for representing the school in such a huge volume!!!!!

See you tomorrow!

Year 4 Team

A couple of things.....

Evening All!

A reminder: You are welcome to join us with guided reading this week, from 11:50 to 12:30 daily.

Also, a huge thank you to Fiona Staddon who has kindly made discs, for all the children, of Fairthorne photos, so the children will get to bring one home on Monday. I would ask though that the photos are for personal viewing and NOT to be shared on the internet via social networking - thank you. Also Fiona doesn't want any money for the discs but thought that if you wanted to make a donation to POWSA then that would be appreciated - if you are able to make a donation, bring it on to me!

Thank you

Mrs. Johnson

Reading and Romans

Thanks for think link Lindsay! :-)

FYI:
If you would like to come along to see our Guided Reading lessons next week, then please pop in, we read at 11:50-12:30 every day, you are more than welcome to join in with the adult lead groups, or find out what the independent groups are up to and listen to readers!!!

So far this week we have immersed ourselves, with great excitement, in the Romans! We discussed the fact that, while we will be learning lots of facts, our main learning will be skills (I likened skills to a tool kit for learning).......reasoning, investigating, enquiring, communicating, prioritising and many more. The key question spanning the 6 week project is : Why were The Romans so important that we have to learn about Roman Numerals in Numeracy?

The children instantly began using enquiry skills, generating other questions........How did they go to the toilet? Why were they different to us? Why did they end and who came after them, why? Why were they called The Romans? Why were they so good at battles? Brilliant, broad, deeper thinking questions! And so we have begun a huge mind map, answering these questions and adding more on the quest to prove or disprove the key question!!!!! The children are working in groups to design and produce exciting information books with pop-up pages, lift the flaps, moving mechanisms, tough and feel elements and so on-Great stuff!!!! We have also proved to be excellent at cracking Roman Numerals.........get them to show you, it's lots of fun! We are now in the process of designing a new Roman Town and an Emperor's garden which we have a budget for, a shopping list to choose from and a map to plan!

Pre-warning: in a few weeks time towards the final week we will be having a Roman Day when we will be asking the children to dress up as a Roman for the day!!!! (Start searching for old sheets!!)

See you all soon,

Mrs. Johnson

School Photos

School Photographs - all orders for photographs need to be handed into the school office by Friday 13th June. Thank you.

A quick note!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you have had a great half term!? Here comes a very exciting and busy final half term.........lots of learning, fun, reflecting on your fabulous time here and looking towards your blossoming future - enjoy every second that these 7 weeks bring!!!!!!!! I won't tantalise you with what is in store, but it will be encouraging independent thinking and learning, skills and application!!!!!!

Thank you to all of you who supported us, despite the weather, for the Dorchester Arts parade - you were all stars........you can see a film clip as well as photos and the story on the Echo website!

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow - fingers crossed for sun!

Mrs. Johnson