Big Pedal!!!

Oooooops!!! Nearly forgot........Big Pedal starts on Monday!!!!! Cycle or scoot to school as many times as you can, I will record the class results each day........(a good data handling maths opportunity too - I feel some line graphs coming on!!!!)

Get cycling/scooting!!!!!!! (Not that I'm fiercely competitive or anything!?!?!) :-)

Mrs. J

Home Learning and reminders!!!!

Home Learning: spellings and times tables will be your holiday ones for next Friday, as I like to work on them during literacy and we haven't had the usual opportunities this week. Also make sure you know your song words for lots of practice this week-fingers crossed my voice returns so that I can sing with you!!!!!!

FYI: you should have a note tonight informing you that our class assembly has moved from Friday 13th March to the second Friday back after Easter-see online calendar!!!! This is due to a VERY busy week that week, including our concert and comic relief dress up day too!!!

Yr 4 DASP singing concert is Wednesday 11th March at St Osmunds Sports Hall - drop off IN THE MORNING by 9:30 where The Year 4 Team will meet you, we will walk back to school in time for lunch,0. In the evening ALL children are expected to take part and will need to be dropped off in the same place by 6 pm ready to start at 6:30 pm. You are all invited to stay and watch free of charge, there will be a collection at the end!!!!!

Have a great week-end!!!!!

Mrs. J

The Poet Laureate

We truly are a very lucky school to have such wonderful opportunities-today was another superb day full of drama, poetry and writing. Mr. Sanders and Mr. Cartwright, students from Plymouth, lead a great day, the children showed just how outstanding they are by freeze framing each stanza of the Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson " Charge of The Light Brigade " (GCSE level work I'm sure!!!!)  Before they knew what the poem was, they were shown some images - some children even managed to remember back to Year 2 and identified The Crimean War!!!!! We then went on to write letters sent home written by a soldier the day before they went into battle with the learning objective to use emotive language!!!!!!

Brilliant, moving letters!!!!! A super big well done!!!!!!

Please keep practising your song words!!!!!!

Thanks again Mr. Sanders and Mr. Cartwright!!!

Mrs. Johnson and The Year Four Team

"Whatever Next!"

We had a superb day mixing up with Reception for half the day, doing drama based activities inspired by the book "Whatever Next" by Jill Murphy!!!!! We visited the moon, wrote letters from the moon, encountered and created life size aliens, designed a more interesting plant and created sketches based around a new use for baby bears card board box............this included thrones, a shopping trolley, a helicopter, an aeroplane, a supermarket..........and many more creative ideas!!!! ( I always say you are so lucky because you have the best imaginations-we seem to lose them when we become adults!!!)
This afternoon we created a front cover and blurb for a new "whatever Next" story to give to Reception!

Well done! Tomorrow we have another exciting drama day lead by 2 Plymouth Student Teachers!!!! Watch this space for an update on the fun and learning that will take place!!!

There is a display of some of the work produced as a result of our excellent drama day with Mr. Stone and The Iron Man, in the main corridor-pop along and have a look!

Mrs. Johnson and The  Wonderful Year 4 Team

Comics!

Today, we finished the gripping story of The Iron Man, which had been left on a cliffhanger - such a brilliant ending - very dramatic!!!!!

The classroom was transformed and we spent the day with a partner in our very own writers workshops - we explored comic writing and creating. With our partner we chose a section of the story that we wanted to tell and set about creating characters and planning/writing our comic strips!!!!!! It was far more tricky than we thought - short pieces of quality text coupled with careful drawings to portray exactly what you wanted of the story!!!!!

(I hope you all locked up your workshops properly and set your security alarms - there are valuable pieces of writing in them!!!!!!!)

Mrs. Johnson

Big pedal

Swimming starts this week!

Running club will start again next week!

Next week sees the start of The Big Pedal - 3 week competition to see how many people can cycle or scoot to school every day over those 3 weeks - last year we were pipped at the post, coming 2nd in the whole of Dorset!!!!!! Come on Year 4 I know you can do this - we want to win!!!!

Todays thrilling adventure!

I don't know about you Year 4 but I think I have now found my new favourite book after todays drama...............The Iron Man by Ted Hughes!!!!!

Sooooooooo exciting and inspiring...............the sculptures were amazing and your drama skills retelling the story and even reinventing the story were fantastic!!!!!! It was left on a great cliffhanger for us to discover tomorrow...............The dragon!!!!!!

Great work - well done!!!!

Thank you Mr. Stone for your brilliant workshop!

Mrs. Johnson

Bring in your metal tomorrow!!!!

Cling,clang.........don't forget any bits of metal you can bring in tomorrow for our exciting drama day workshop with Simon Stone!!!!!!

Let it Be lyrics

When I find myself in times of trouble

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

And in my hour of darkness

She is standing right in front of me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

And when the broken-hearted people

Living in the world agree

There will be an answer, let it be

For though they may be parted

There is still a chance that they will see

There will be an answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Yeah, there will be an answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Ah, let it be, yeah, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

And when the night is cloudy

There is still a light that shines on me

Shine on until tomorrow, let it be

I wake up to the sound of music,

Mother Mary comes to me

Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Let it be, yeah, let it be

Oh, there will be an answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be

Let it be, yeah, let it be

Whisper words of wisdom, let it be

Get learning, sing it in the shower, whilst eating your cornflakes, in the mirror..........

Muddy fun!!!!

What a superb day working at the roundhouse!!!! Daubing, cooking venison stew on the fire, taking the fence down and breaking it up and sowing seeds in the newly ploughed area outside Year 4 (a science experiment we are going to follow!)

The children were amazing, working enthusiastically and resiliently in all that rain!!!! They absolutely loved it working tirelessly showing excellent team work skills. The stew was scrumptious-their next task is washing their clothes for you.......!!!!!!

A big thank you to Mr. Mistry Dyer, Mr. Duncalf and Mrs. Goodwin!!!!! Real troupers!!!!!

Well done!!!!

Bring back The Beatles!!!!

Home Learning for the holidays:

Spellings which will be given out tomorrow, as well as 7 x tables! Also please keep learning the songs for the Year 4 DASP singing concert! We will be having a big focus on these when we come back.
Challenge........we have decided for our individual school song that we will be singing "Let it be" by The Beatles!!!! Can you find it, listen to it and see if you can start learning it!?!?! You'll definitely find it on the internet (or in your parents/grandparents music collections!!!!

Good Luck and get singing!!!!!

Mrs. Johnson

More metal please!

Help!!!!

More metal needed-urgently!?!?! First Monday back is our iron man drama which we have been asked to bring along any old metal items?!?!? If you have anything, please bring into class tomorrow or on that Monday!!! Thanks Georgia for your contribution!!!!!

Merci!

Merci Bien!!!!!

Thank you to everyone who attended our French cafe! C'etait superb!!!! Lots of French spoken (with excellent accents I must say!), everyone enjoyed our coking, great French dancing in Year 3 and brilliant ICT-a very successful French afternoon!!!!!

Don't forget wear old play clothes tomorrow and bring school uniform to change into!

Year 4 Team!!!!!

Iron man.........metal please!!!!!

How strong are you feeling??????

During the first week back after half term (drama week), we will be having a workshop run by Simon Stone - the Year 4 theme for that day is based around the story of Iron Man!!!!!! Simon has requested that we bring in any odd bits of metal!!!!! If you could bring in some either by the end of this week or on the first day back that would be great..........tinfoil packaging, trays, solid metal (safe!) big or small - that would be great!

Thanks!

Year 4

Reminder and noodles!!!!

As you know this week is a themed week - Farm to Fork and our more specific "Welcome to Europe" focus. Yesterday, we finished our collaborative learning projects based around Paris, London and Seville and we also explored the art of various impressionists - Monet, Degas..........creating art in the style of one of them (all will be displayed at our French café on Thursday)

We enjoyed a fantastic trip to Wagamammas today learning about Japanese history, art, food and geography. The children each got to select their own combination of fruits to juice as well as each eating a noodle based meal!!!!!

A reminder about Thursday - home clothes in red, white, blue and as French as you like! Please come and join us from 1:45 in the hall - get practising your French conversational language! (children don't need to bring any money - adults will be buying their food and drinks! - you can visit the Bureau de Change in the hall if you need to exchange your pounds for euros!!!!)

Don't forget old WARM play clothes to wear in to school on Friday (with a change of clothes in a bag if they get wet/muddy + a change of foot wear)!!!!!!

Apologies to Year 4

I know Year 4 had a great time today at Wagamamma's but we also know the visit clashed with our "Love Your Bike!" assembly. If your child took the trouble to decorate their bike and then was disappointed not to show it off in assembly, we do apologise!

Farming in Silvepura

This afternoon, Mr Farrington worked with the Year 4 class during Farm to Fork Week. The children worked on preparing a powerpoint or word document including pictures, focusing upon similarities and differences in farming in the UK and in South India. The children were fascinated by the fact that farmers in Silvepura (the village visited by Mr Farrington in 2008 and 2012) can grow vegetables all the round, that they still use bullocks to plough single furrows in their fields and they grow a cereal crop called "Ragi", a type of millet, which forms part of their staple diet. See what the children can tell you about these photos!

This is a story all about how...........

Firstly, just to clarify, we are going to Wagamammas on TUESDAY 10th and will be back in time for lunch! (just a mis-print!), so swimming as usual on Wednesday. Secondly, Mr. Farrington blogged about next Friday - the children will be working on a rota basis for that day: 2 lessons inside with Miss.Howard and Miss.Pearce, and 2 activities outside at the Roundhouse - I suggest they wear their "old" play clothes, for the mucky outside work, to school with a change of clothes incase it's needed - a change of footwear essential for when they come back inside!!!!

This week we have been reinforcing our work about speech marks and time connectives. We also became international rap artists in the style of Will Smith "The fresh Prince", composing raps themed on Romeo and Juliet following Will's structure! Can they tell you what a quatrain is? What is a rhyming couplet? Can they tell you any similarities or differences between a sonnet and this rap?

We have chunked and chunked and chunked!!!!! (Home learning to come tomorrow) we will also be doing some maths tomorrow continuing from science today!

Don't forget to think about your French outfits for next Thursday! Rouge, bleu et blanc!

Also, keep practising your song words for the Year 4 DASP music concert ( coming up after half term! )

Please can you ensure your child does not run on the raised beds, outside of year 4, in the morning before school - we will be planting in them soon and need to look after them! Thank you!

Mrs. Johnson and the Year 4 Team.

Repairs and maintenance in the roundhouse area!

Friday 13th February: Year 4 shall be busy repairing a broken fence, daubing the walls of the Viking longhouse and sowing wheat, barley and peas. We might be able to do some outdoor cooking as well!

Old playclothes and wellies are essential for this day please!

If any parents are happy to help, you will be very welcome as long as you don't mind getting really dirty!!!

Ooooooops!

Ooooooops! The time would be good wouldn't it????? Cafe from 1:45 - 3:15 in the school hall!!!!!

French Cafe and Clothes!

Calling All Parents.............

Next Thursday, 12th February is the KS2 French Cafe!
You are invited to join us to buy and enjoy some French delicacies that we have been making as well as have fun practising our French.

The children may come to school wearing home clothes BUT, it MUST be red, white and/or blue and feel free to add anything to your outfit that makes it more "French". (Parents - join in with your outfits if you wish!!!!)

There will be a currency exchange booth for you to exchange your pounds into euros!

Please come along!

Year 3 and Year 4

Reply slip.

What a chilly weekend!!!!!!

Please could we have the Wagamammas allergy slip back asap if you have not already popped it in - thanks!

The children composed outstanding sonnets last week - very creative and romantic!!!!!
We began learning chunking - written methods for division which will come home as home learning this Friday.
Miss. Howard lead a fun afternoon of science learning the importance of observational skills, so if they have come home keen to make experiments.........that's why!!!!!
We had an exciting PE lesson lead by Yr 8 young leaders from DMS which was inspiring for our children!

There are still a few children not bringing in PE kits or appropriate outdoor PE kit - please could they be in school all week.

Thanks!

Mrs. J and the Year 4 Team!