The cogs are whirring at great speed!

Good evening,

The children have been busy learning about a multitude of things the last couple of weeks including; pie charts and carroll diagrams (reading and interpreting them making links to other learning with fractions too), complex sentences (ask them about Sammy crab and Alan crab), producing persuasive leaflets about Fairthorne using publisher, diary writing, exciting science focusing on materials and observational skills, athletics (javelin, discus and sprinting), in RE learning about Samsara, Karma and Moksha in Hinduism (life and death) and, finally, being introduced to the Celts..........phew - busy!!!!

The children may also have told you about our visitor last week, Holly a puppeteer. We made some amazing Macbeth themed puppets and Holly will be coming back to finish them with us next week. The reason we are making the puppets is that we have been invited to take part in the Dorchester Arts Week parade. There will be a slip coming out this week to see who will be able to join in the parade - we need as many of Year 4 as possible who can make it. The parade will take place on Saturday 24th May starting at the Corn Exchange at 11:30 and parading up the street to the Borough Gardens. I will be walking with the children and Mrs. Scott has said she will come as well. It would be lovely to have as many of you there as possible as not many other schools have been asked to join in so it is an exciting opportunity as well as a privilege to have been asked.

Keep up the electrifying learning Year 4 - your brains are soaking it all in and developing all the time!

Mrs. Johnson

Wheels to Go Sale at Summer Fair

‘Wheels 2 Go Sale’


Bring your unwanted bikes, trikes,

scooters, ride on toys etc. to sell at the

Prince of Wales School
Summer Fair

Saturday 17thMay11-2
All sizes please, toddler to adult!

You decide the price

50% for you,

50% for Pre-School

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Fairthorne!!!!!!!

I hope you have all recovered after our EPIC adventure last week! I know I'm still tired and aching in places I never knew existed! I can also honestly say that I have never had so much fun before - you were all a real joy to take away - great senses of humour, team spirit, resilience (especially in the face of some TERRIBLE weather), bravery, kindness and respect. I don't think your parents would believe just how brave some of you were - those activities were no mean feat! We saw some natural leaders emerge who were excellent at supporting their group and taking control of team activities in a fair, calm and logic manner - superb! Many of you overcame fears of some sort or another, whether it was heights, water, eating, the dark or sleeping away from home - and that new found bravery and skills that you have developed and learned to help you achieve these goals, is what it is all about! I am sooooooo proud of ALL of you!!!!!!!!!!

Ofcourse there were also some VERY funny moments, which I am sure you will all treasure and remember forever!!!!!

Please invite your parents to come in over the next couple of mornings to see the photos on the white board - we will also be displaying them in our cloakroom!

All that remains is to say a HUGE, GIGANTIC, MASSIVE, COLOSSAL THANK YOU to Mr. Farrington, Mr. Macbean, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Brown for giving up their time to join us and for making our trip sooooooooo memorable and fun - we couldn't have wished for better people to have shared our experience with - THANK YOU!

Ooooooo! Before I forget, it is the Year 4 information morning this Thursday at 9:10 in the hall!

Mrs. Johnson

Intrepid explorers............!!!!!!!!!

Evening all!

I hope you have had a fantastic holiday? I am sure you are also both excited and apprehensive about this week and our fantastic adventure to Faithorne.............tomorrow is the time to share any questions, or worries - I am sure everyone will be feeling and wondering the same things, so have a great nights sleep and we will all get excited together tomorrow!!!!!!

Year 4 Team!

Easter Egg Colouring Competition

Easter Egg colouring competition.  All entries need to be with the school office by Wed 2^nd April, to allow sufficient time to judge the entries and to hide them in the shops!  Sorry for any confusion caused.

"Everything is awesome!"

Hello there everyone!

Well, as usual, we had a busy week last week - reading week! We began our week with an exciting collaborative learning project where we joined up with Year 1. We wrote new Paddington Bear stories with our Year 1 partners - some great work was produced and much fun and peer learning and teaching took place!

Another activity that we embarked on this week, having learned about other children the same age as us who may have to spend time on the Kingfisher Children's Ward, was to write half a story that would be sent up to the hospital for the children to read and complete! 3 groups were given different age categories to write for. This was an exciting challenge, focusing on applying our writing skills with relation to the reader and the impact it may have on them.

Ofcourse, on Tuesday, we had a visit from Mike Brownlow an author and illustrator who was very inspiring. He showed us how he became interested in illustrations and how this developed throughout his life. Mike also gave us a master class in illustration - some very talented cartoonists emerged! Our creativity spilled into the classroom, where we continued a challenge set us by Mike, to design a treasure island with traps, along with a pirate crew.........some children went on to create a book too!

We even managed to squeeze numeracy into our busy schedule, with a big focus on mental maths!

How could I also forget Macbeth? We thoroughly enjoyed the strange, wonderful and creative adaptation of Macbeth set on Mars in 2070 after Earth had ceased to exist. The children were a credit to themselves and the school as they sat so engrossed for a VERY long performance. I am sure this will have also helped them to think of things they might add to their modern Macbeth play scripts!

A request: After Easter we have been lucky enough to have been selected, along with a small handful of schools and community groups, to take part in 2 puppet workshops during school time, leading to participating in a parade with our puppets, in Dorchester for Dorchester Arts Week, on the 2nd Bank Holiday Saturday in May (the first Saturday of the half term holidays). Firstly, we would be very grateful if you could gather any "thickish" card board, wool or fabric that may be useful for our puppets, and bring it into class by the 19th April. Secondly, If you think your child would be able to join in with the parade (I will be walking with them) please could you let me know ASAP - we will be meeting at the Corn Exchange at approx 10:30 and walking up to the Borough Gardens, so approx 1 hour! It sounds very exciting and lots of fun, also a great chance to be involved in a community project, also there will be lots of colourful, fun and exciting activities for all the family to join in with in the Gardens afterwards should you want to.

The farm visit is due to take place this Thursday morning, weather permitting, so the children will need to wear their "tatty" bottoms, school top and bring wellies in a plastic bag!

Thanks everyone!

Mrs. Johnson

Buy a signed copy and meet the author tomorrow!

Good evening everyone!

An exciting day tomorrow - as it is part of our reading week, we have arranged for a children's author/illustrator to come in and inspire the children about creating stories! He will be giving an exciting presentation/workshop to each class in the morning and then setting activities for them in the afternoon! The author and illustrator is, Mike Brownlow, author of Ten Little Pirates and creator of the TV series Little Robots.

More information about Ten Little Pirates

Ten little pirates set out to sea in search of adventure. But what will the ten little pirates do when they meet a hurricane . . . and a giant squid . . . and a HUNGRY SHARK? This fun-filled rhyming story, which incorporates counting backwards from ten to one, is great to share with young children who are learning about numbers. The colourful, humorous illustrations feature objects to spot and count on every page. With a bouncy, rhythmic text and lots of great sound words, this piratical adventure is perfect for sharing again and again. Short-listed for the Nottingham Children’s Book Awards and the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards, 2014.

Other books that will be on sale:

Make It! Rocket,

Make It! Robot, both published by Scholastic

Bad Manners! Benjie,

Dog Did It! both published by Piccadilly Press.

Mike will be selling copies of his books at the end of the day which you can buy and get signed as a special gift for your child. They will cost £6.99, and it would be appreciated if you could bring the correct money. The children will have a great day experiencing first hand how to create a book, and it would be a lovely, inspiring momento to take away! Check out his website!

We hope to see you at the end of the day tomorrow!

Mrs. Johnson