This Wednesday (26th) the Children's Voice have arranged a Bring and Buy Sale to help fundraise some more money for Children In Need.
We are hoping that you have been able to have a sort out of any unused, unwanted; toys, clothes, books etc ready for Wednesday.
Please bring any items for the Bring and Buy Sale to Mrs Thorpe in Year 1.
The hall will be open to parents from 3pm on Wednesday afternoon so that you can have a look around without your children! Then the sale will carry on until around 4.30pm (unless we have sold everything!)
Items will be reasonably priced from 20p- £2.
We hope to have lots to sell and raise as much as we possibly can for children who need our help.
I meant to write in the last blog about our visitors last Thursday afternoon!
We were very lucky and privileged to be visited by Jenny and Granny Belle (Mrs. Thorpe's Husband's Aunty and Granny). Granny Bell's brother was the 2nd in command in the 617 squadron, chosen for the very dangerous and important mission - The Dam Busters. We learned all about John Hopgood, which was mesmerising. We learned of his incredible courage and bravery as he died during the mission, having tried to give his crew time to escape the burning Lancaster. Two survived thanks to him!
A huge "well done" to all of you who performed, greeted or spoke to HRH Prince Charles today. You were charming, polite, mature and really were good ambassadors for the school. I think he was very impressed with all of you! You can see photos and a video clip on the Dorset Evening Echo website - a true memory to treasure!
Thank you to Mr. Ray who came in last Friday to teach us more about WW2 and set us a very entertaining quiz! This showed how much you have learned - well done!
This week we are continuing our learning about journalistic writing and features of a newspaper. Today our grammar focus was understanding complex sentences - main clause and subordinate clause using "Gimme 5" to help! Ask your child about the "crab family" - Suzy and baby Alan (and the bit of fish hanging from his claw)!!!!!!!!!!!
In numeracy this week we are carrying out investigations and problem solving. Keep learning your x tables - we will be resuming those as normal this week!
In guided reading we are completing our reading comprehensions - it would be good if you could focus on inference skills when you are listening to your child read.
Clarinet is back to normal this week.
Don't forget that auditions for the Christmas play - Ebeneezer are being held this week so make sure you have prepared either a song (if you are auditioning for the singing) or a passage, poem or drama if you are going for an acting role!
I would like to begin by saying a HUGE well done to Year 4 for their tremendous cake baking home learning, superb dancing today and brilliant hosts! It was a really fun afternoon drawing our learning about WW2, nearly, to an end. I would like to thank all of the families that were able to support our party today, I know the children were really proud of their efforts and new skills and were really keen to show you - thank you for helping to create a wonderful memory for each child that will never leave them! WOW!
Last Friday, as I am sure they told you, we had a stone carving expert called Bec come in to work with us. You may have noticed a large piece of stone at the front of the school - Bec is going to set Year 4 a competition to create a design that she will carve onto it. She was so impressed with, not only their behaviour, manners and kindness but also their ability to carve Bath Stone cuboids. The children drew a design, then carved it and painted using acrylics. They are displayed in the corridor and the classroom - please have a look!
After composing WW2 themed Haiku and Tankas Monday and Tuesday, we are going to be learning about journalisitc writing. We will be having a big focus on spellings and handwriting across ALL writing from this week on - the pen licence tick list will be making an appearance too!!!!
In maths we are learning to read and interpret data. Keep learning those times tables!
We have 2 more visitors this week, so keep reading the blogs to find out more.............
NO CLARINETS THIS WEEK!
Well done again for some superb home learning!!!!!!
Thankyou to Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Long, Miss. Pearce and Miss. Howard for all their hard work today, setting up and serving.
Thank you to all of you who were able to make it to parents evening - it was incredibly valuable and great to see you all! I will endeavour to tackle tasks that I spoke to some of you about, next week! If you were unable to make it then please come in and arrange an appointment with me - I think there were only 6 families I didn't meet!
This week we have been learning to understand and add/subtract through zero - using negative numbers! In literacy we have been creating fireworks poems, learning to use onomatopoeia and personification (ask your child to explain what they are!) - some truly amazing poems have been created!!!!!!!! In RE we began our new topic about how Christians use symbolism at Christmas. Our Science saw us finishing our electricity topic - as Isabelle put it "Mrs. Johnson, I thought Science was awesomely hair-raising!" (static electricity - great joke!!!) In French we learned more masculine words and are able to construct a sentence with an adjective.......C'est un perroquet bleu! (How do the French use adjectives differently to the English? Tell your family!!!!)
I hope you received the information about our VE Day Tea Dance Party on Monday afternoon from 2pm in the school hall. Home Learning was to make some fairy cakes/a whole cake, decorate it with a WW2 theme and bring it/them in on Monday morning. Please come along and join in the fun. Children also NEED TO WEAR THEIR EVACUEE OUTFIT FOR THE DAY.
Talents that we have seen in school this week include Georgia and Elise wowing us with their amazing recorder playing, Amy, Polly, Mollie and Georgia singing to us - very tunefully and confidently may I add (super impressed!) and Ben, Shannon and Erin singing and playing for us today.....keep the talent coming!
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Miss. Howard and Miss. Pearce to Year 4. They are PGCE students from Plymouth University who are spending 5 weeks this half term with us and 6 weeks after Christmas with us, teaching the class at various points beginning with small groups and lesson inputs, gradually working towards whole class teaching.
Thank you for all the wonderful Poetry competition entries - deadline tomorrow - I look forward to judging them!
Roll up, Roll up, Roll up..................don't forget the Great PoW Poetry Competition is in town!!!!!!! A reminder that the closing date is this Friday, so you still have a week to get your creative master pieces in to your class teacher.
Check back on the last blog for details, remember the theme is Autumn/Winter, there are no limits, only to say - be as creative as I know you can be!!!!!!!!
I can't wait to read them all and choose a winner from each class!!!!
I hope you have all had a restful half term - refreshing yourselves for the exciting and busy Christmas half term!!!!!
Remember we are not back in school until Tuesday, also there won't be any running club this week as clubs all start back after he first week!
During one of our PE lessons we will be embarking on tag ruby so it will be essential that the children ALL have a warm tracksuit in their PE kits and trainers too as we will be outside weather permitting!
FYI - Next Tuesday the children will need to bring their WW2 evacuee costumes into school. In the morning we will be visiting the War memorial to lay our wreath and in the afternoon you will be invited to join us for a VE Day Tea Dance in the school hall from 2:30pm.
Clarinets continue for another 5 weeks so keep practising and watch this space for info regarding a small celebration concert.
A reminder that everyone should have water bottles in school and, in year 4, they are allowed to have them on their tables so they can easily drink when they need it! This is really important and does have an impact on learning.........those children that regularly have theirs in school are always asking to refill them during the day which is brilliant!!!!
Finally I look forward to meeting you all at parents evenings this week!
