Welcome back to the Summer term 1

 

Welcome back to the summer term everyone,

It has been wonderful welcoming your children back into school for the summer term. They are such a lovely class and a pleasure to work with. 

We have started our new unit of work 'Wonderful World' which has links with science, geography, art and literacy and aims to inspire children to be passionate advocates of our beautiful planet. 

In maths we have been looking at area and in science we are completing our learning on food chains, before starting our topic looking at living things and their habitats. 

As you are hopefully aware, I have gone to a 0.8 contract and so Mrs Johnson (from Reception) will come up to teach Year 4 on Wednesdays. Mrs Johnson is an experienced year 4 teacher and I know she is excited to work with the class as it is the only one in school that she hasn't taught (and I've told her what a great class they are!). Mrs Scott will join Mrs Johnson on Wednesdays. Mrs Scott is also very experienced with this age group and has got to know the class over the spring term. 

Wednesday with Mrs Johnson will have a poetry focus in guided reading and literacy and I'm confident the children are going to love their mid week poetry days.   

In guided reading we are continuing to read The Boy at the Back Of The Class. This book is about a refugee child that joins a British school and the children that welcome him. We read a chapter today that explained the fictional boy's experiences of escaping his war torn country and fleeing to England. We discussed the boy's feelings and emotions and how his schoolmates supported him.   

I then shared the news with the class that in May we'll be welcoming a refugee from Ukraine to join us in year 4. The children's reactions were beautiful and very moving. The class had lots of ideas as to how we could welcome them into our school and community. I am so incredibly proud of what a kind and caring group of children year 4 are and I know that they will welcome our new member of the class. 

Here are a few upcoming dates for your diary:

This Friday 29th April - Dorset knob throwing at the Prince of Wales school (after school)

Monday 2nd May - Early Bank Holiday Monday

Monday 9th May - 9am Year 4 Parent Information Session.

As ever, if you have any questions, comments or concerns please contact me or a member of the team.

Kind regards,

Ms Browne & the year 4 team