Children in Need 2015

Children in Need is fast approaching. You should have all received a letter today explaining about Friday (13th).

 

The Children's Voice will be selling Children in Need merchandise from Monday in the area outside Year 1.

 

On Friday our dress up theme is 'Britishness'  (maybe they could dress up in the colours of our flag or famous British person)

 

Just like the country file team all children and staff at The Prince of Wales School will be partaking in a 1 mile ramble around our school grounds.

 

After school on Friday we will be having a cake sale. We would love to have lots of cakes (whole and cupcakes) and biscuits to sell. Please give all the cakes to your class teacher to store in the morning.

Harvest fundraising

Harvest fundraising.

 

To let you all know that a super amount of £350 pounds has been raised! This will be sent to UNICEF to buy water kits as the children requested.

Many, many thanks to everyone for the generosity towards such a needy cause.

Christmas, here we come!!!!!!

Good evening everyone!

I hope you all had a great half term and are rested and full of energy ready for one of my most favourite times of the year..........Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (We will start thinking about the Christmas show during this week and discuss auditions so don't panic just yet!!!!)

We will be using our spellings from 2 weeks ago to practise/learn this week and don't forget your times tables - some are on 6's and some 7's!!!!!!!

Get ready for the next few weeks, there are a lot of exciting events, activities and learning opportunities lined up - keep your eyes peeled for events that parents can come along to as well!!!!!

Running club will start again NEXT week. For PE please can children have a warm tracksuit and trainers in their PE bags as we will still be doing games outside as long as it isn't wet!

Swimming as usual this week. Those of you, you know who you are, that are taking part in the rugby festival, don't forget that that is this Wednesday.

Thank you to all the children who accessed e-schools to ind their home learning - some have managed to e-mail attachments to me, which is great as I can reply with your feedback, but if you have a hard copy that is fine too!

I look forward to meeting all your mums and dads at parents evenings this week!

Mrs. Johnson

Award assembly 22.10.15

Today we had our first of the year ‘Award assembly’. This is the assembly when we ask teachers and their teams to select children who they think have worked particularly hard during this first part of the year in subject areas; writing, reading, maths, ICT, Creative arts, PE and displaying our Citizenship qualities.  Some awards have a certificate and a trophy to keep for half a term! You may have found one of these when you got home!

For our Reception parents; the awards can stay at home with your child until we send a letter inviting it back in for our next ‘Award assembly’.

Happy half term everyone, we will see you all back on Tuesday 3^rd November!

Assembly and Nothe Fort.

Wowsers!!!!! I'm sure you'll all agree the class assembly today was fantastic - well done Year 4, you were confident, clear, showed excellent acting skills and humour too!!!!!! I was VERY proud of each and every one of you!!!!!!!!!

Next Tuesday is our trip to Nothe Fort - you will need to come to school in your WW2 evacuee costume (make sure it is WARM) - don't forget your packed lunch and drink, you were given an identity tag which you will need to fill out and wear too, also bring your gas mask box as well!!!!!
Please could any parents that have spoken to me about going on the trip pop in on Monday as I may not need all of you to accompany us!

Next Thursday morning is our trip to the farm, you will need WARM WATERPROOF play clothes, wellies and coats.

Finally, don't forget there is NO SCHOOL next Friday, so spellings and times tables need to be learnt for next Thursday!!!!!!!!!

Have a great, well earned week end!

The VERY proud Year 4 team! :-)

Class Assembly

Year 4 did us proud on Friday during the Harvest cafe - well done, lots of positive comments about you all!!!!

This Friday is our class assembly - 9:20 in the school hall! Unless the children say otherwise, they will need to bring in their WW2 evacuee costume, in a named bag BEFORE Friday - so that we can check everything is present!!!!!

Last week we worked on a collaborative learning project to create a Green Procurement Policy, this was towards our Green Flag status! The children thoroughly enjoyed this and it was lovely to see them all working together with great enthusiasm, encouragement, team work, positivity and maturity - totally independently and some natural leaders began to appear!

I look forward to seeing you at running club tomorrow - still spaces left for anyone that would like to join us - the benefits are fantastic...........fitness, focus ready for learning, raised self esteem and positivity!!!!!!!!

Home Learning!

Celebration, after celebration, after celebration!!!!!! The last few days have seen some amazing pieces of home learning brought in, from WW2 projects (bread and butter pudding, models, animations, posters............), to Harvest poems and home baked bread (which we were able to sample - scrumptious!)

Today, Mr. Farrington taught us all about Indian farming in Silvepura, we deduced similarities and differences, putting our powerpoint skills into practise to express our learning! Super work!

Please ask the children to explain what a main clause, a subordinate clause and a fronted adverbial phrase is (remind them of Baby Alan crab and Mummy Suzie crab!!!!!!) we have been learning about them and I hope to see them being applied to writing!!!!!!!

In art we have been developing painting skills in the style of Georges Seurat for our Harvest art - pointilism.

In numeracy we are developing our learning about time.

We hope to see you at the Harvest assembly and/or the Harvest cafe on Friday - children are able to bring in a small amount of money on Friday in order to buy something from the cafe.

Finally, if you use the play trail after school, please could you ensure your children are supervised and in sight, this is because there are often children playing unsupervised behind our classroom and unfortunately, more recently, they have been playing with sticks from the garden area and there have been some injuries as a result.

Happy swimming tomorrow!

Mrs. Johnson and the Year 4 Team.