Happy end of Spring term

 

Hello everyone,

What a wonderful Spring term we have had in year 4. The term concluded today with a theatrical history show revising the children's learning about Mary Anning. 

In preparation for the new book the Humans that we will be reading next term, the children have been invited to think about their favourite human inventions for their home learning. As ever, if you are able to also find time for them to read and practice spellings and times tables, this would be very beneficial. 

Upcoming Dates:

Monday 15th April - All children return to school.

Tuesday 16th April - Middle school places announced 

Wednesday 17th April - SCARF life education session (please see email for details) 

Friday 19th April - Springfest

Thursday 25th April - Parent information session 9 - 9.30am

Friday 26th April - Year 4 Samba drums lessons start (weekly for 10 weeks)

Friday 26th April - Year 4 Class assembly (2.30pm). 

We hope you and your families have a good break. Hopefully the weather will improve soon. 🌞🌻🐥

Kind regards,

The Year 4 team

Farm visit tomorrow

 

Please remember it is year 4's farm trip tomorrow (Monday). Children should bring to school:

- Wellies

- Rain jacket

- Home trousers to change into for the farm.

Thank you,

The Year 4 team.   

Farm visit and this week's spellings

Hello everyone,

What a wonderfully busy few weeks we have had  - the children have wowed us with their World Book Day costumes, incredible singing at the Singing festival and their cooking skills at Wagamamas  to name a few recent activities. 

Next week is the last week of term before the two week break and we have the farm visit on Monday and a Mary Anning fossil show on Thursday. 

Farm Visit

On Monday, the children will be going on their last visit to the farm. Please could all children bring into school:

- a pair of wellies

- a waterproof jacket or coat

- a pair of home trousers to change into

If you would like to volunteer for this visit please email myself or Mr MacBean. 

This week's spellings:

  

Upcoming events 

Monday 25th March - Farm visit

Thursday 28th March - Mary Anning fossil show (in school)

Friday 29th March - School holidays 

Monday 15th April - All children return to school 

Friday 19th April - Springfest

Friday 26th April - Year 4 Class assembly (2.30pm). 

Tag Rugby

 

On Thursday 14th March a group of year 4 children will be involved in a tag rugby activity. 

Here are a few reminders for the day:

- Please send children into school wearing PE kits including the sports top that was sent home on Tuesday. They could wear this with something underneath and / or have a warm jumper to put on when they are not running around. 

- Children should come into school wearing trainers but bring in football boots to wear.  

- Children should have a lightweight waterproof coat. 

- Children should bring a change of clothes for when they are in school not taking part in the rugby activities. 

- All children should have a drink, snack and packed lunch. 

Parents and carers are warmly invited to come and watch their child. 

The children know if they are taking part in the activity. Please see the letter sent home for more information. 

Home Learning, Spellings and Dates

 

Hello everyone,

Key events this week are World Book day on Thursday and Non school uniform day on Friday (see the end of the blog for other upcoming dates). 

Home Learning

The Home learning for this week is for the children to think about what makes them them. What are their interests and hobbies? What are their favourite foods or colours?  In the week beginning 19th March the children will make a collage to represent themselves. It would be really helpful if you were able to start collecting pictures and (non precious) items that they could use in their collage to bring in on Monday 19th.  

Spellings

Here are the spelling for this week. 

Upcoming events 

Thursday 7th March - World Book Day

Friday 8th March - Non school uniform day

Monday 11th March - Start of the big walk and wheel

Monday 11th March - Wessex Singing festival

Thursday 14th March - Bike it breakfast

Friday 15th March - Comic relief & non school uniform day

Monday 18th March - Bikeability sessions

Tuesday 19th March - Class trip (see letter sent home for details and consent form)

Monday 25th March - Farm visit

Thursday 28th March - Mary Anning fossil show (in school)

Friday 29th March - School holidays 

Monday 15th April - All children return to school 

Friday 19th April - Springfest

World Book Day, Teeth, Collage items and spellings

 

Hello everyone,

On Thursday, we celebrate World Book Day where all children and staff are invited to dress up as a character from a book that they have enjoyed. The book choice is key - even if it's just a prop or a clue, please make sure your child is referencing a book rather than just in non school uniform (Please see the emailed letter for more information about the day). 

We are looking for some mystery readers to come and read to year 4 at 3.15pm from Tuesday to Friday. If you are available please let me know as soon as possible.  

Teeth Home learning

This week's home learning links to the children's science learning. In addition to the normal spellings, reading and tables practice, the children have been asked to either create a poster showing the names and functions of the different teeth or to log on to Purple Mash to complete a teeth to do activity. 

In class we have been discussing the importance of looking after your teeth and we watched an NHS video which has a recommended method to teeth brushing. I told the children I would share the video with families and the children will be challenged to demonstrate correct teeth brushing techniques next week using our model teeth. The NHS video can be accessed here.    

Collage

During our Art lessons the children have been learning about collage and have studied artists like Henri Matisse and Beatriz Milhazes. The children have been creating artwork inspired by these artists and it has been wonderful to see them experiment and develop their creativity. 

Next week, we will be looking at the work of Kurt Schwitters. Schwitters was famous for using random items that could be seen as rubbish in his artwork,  like sweet wrappers, bus tickets and old envelopes. On Tuesday the children will be creating their versions of Kurt Schwitters work Pine Trees (picture below). If you have any old items that we could use, we would be very grateful if you could send them in on Tuesday please. 

Spellings

Here are the spellings for this week:

Upcoming Dates:

Monday - Friday - Mystery Readers for Book day 

Tuesday 5th March - please send in your collage items

Thursday 7th March - World Book Day

Friday 8th March - Non school uniform day

Monday 11th March - Wessex Singing festival

Monday 18th March - Bikeability sessions

Tuesday 19th March - Class trip (details to follow shortly)

Thursday 28th March - Mary Anning fossil show (in school)

Friday 29th March - School holidays 

Monday 15th April - All children return to school 

Friday 19th April - Springfest