Harvest celebrations 7th October

Thank you to everyone who took part in The Prince of Wales Harvest celebrations yesterday. The children did a great job in presenting their songs, poems and art work to parents. Also the children have been busily cooking this week using our produce from the orchard, the goodies were sold in the café during the afternoon and they all went down a storm!

The harvest art work will be up next week so do please pop by the school hall to look at your child’s work if you were unable to come along.

The local food bank received two boxes of food from the school and it is looking like a good amount of money has been raised for the Kingfisher ward, who has asked the school to purchase some electrical equipment for children’s bedrooms.

We will keep you updated.

Year 4 Tuesday 4th October 2016 - Harvest week so far!

Yesterday we learned about fishing and sustainability with relation to our harvest and farm to fork week. We also developed our painting and pastel skills in creating an under the sea inspired picture - beautiful.

Today we had some visitors from India who taught us about harvest in Silvepura, we were also lucky enough to work on a whole school art project and to learn a harvest dance performed at festivals. We shared our dance and work in a finale at the end of the day.

All of this wonderful work , and more to come this week will be on display during the harvest assembly on Friday and at the cafe in the afternoon. The cafe is open for the children from 1:30 (they may bring about 30p to have a cake and drink), you are invited to come along to the cafe from 2:30pm - you may collect your child from Year 4 to join you in the cafe - they must be signed out from the class. The Year 4 children will be helping to serve and run the cafe in turns throughout the afternoon! We look forward to seeing you on Friday!

The children kindly offered to help hand out the letters on Friday afternoon, it seems that there were several left over/behind - if you did not get all of them then please pop in and see us - the most important ones were the home school agreement - this is very important and  we are collecting the reply slips in class, also a letter form DMS about and open morning.

Tomorrow we are going to be continuing with our creative skills, composing poems and more harvest art!

See you all for swimming!

Mrs. Johnson and the Year 4 Team!

Wednesday 28th September Year 4 Class Assembly..........dates again!

Following much confusion.............for me as well, I have since discovered today that our class assembly IS STILL ON THE ORIGINAL DATE OF FRIDAY 21ST OCTOBER (just before we break for half term) as I said at the parents information morning.
I apologise once again!

Mrs. Johnson

Year 4 Tuesday 27th September - confusion over dates/gas mask box - please read me!

I have 2 apologies to make, firstly it seems that on the Nothe Fort letter it said the children needed to make a gas mask - it was meant to read a gas mask BOX! Washing tablet boxes or cat food boxes are ideal shapes/sizes for this.

Finally, there seems to have been some confusion over the Year 4 Class Assembly date, on the letter it said Friday 21st October and on the calendar it says Friday 4th November. I can confirm that it is FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER 9:20 in the school hall. I am sorry for the misunderstanding and any inconvenience this may have caused.

Look forward to seeing you all for swimming in the morning!

Mrs. Johnson

Sunday 25th September 2016 Literacy links for all!

If you would like some literacy based activities or ideas that you can do together with your child at home why not try this website.
Either google the National Literacy Trust and access the parents/families section or search
http://www.wordsforlife.org.uk

Have fun exploring!

Mrs. Johnson

Year 4 Sunday 25th September 2016

It was great to praise Mason, Ewan and Elsie during praise assembly for their stunning pencil portraits of Edward Elgar. I also praised Isaac for his communicative nature, sharing his historical knowledge with the class. Bruno was also praised for his mental maths work in a "beat the teacher" challenge!!!!!! Well Done!!! Ruby was also praised last week for her literacy.

We had an excellent literacy lesson, embarking on an extended piece of writing based around our WW2 drama - I look forward to reading them at the end of the week when they are finished! Everyone was engrossed and fully absorbed - you could have heard a pin drop! Fabulous working atmosphere!

In the home learning folder you will have found, along with their spellings, a maths sheet to complete and hand in in the folder, then a times tables help/practice sheet and a spellings strategy sheet - please do take these out of the folder and keep them at home with the spellings so that you can refer to them and practise. I don't need to see those, just return the maths sheet and the project, which is due in in 3 weeks!

A reminder that children will be set reading to do for home learning for the following guided reading session - please could you check that they are doing this so that they do not fall behind during the next session! Many thanks!

Mrs. Johnson and The Year 4 Team

This Friday 23rd September is "Scoot to School Day".

This Friday 23rd September is "Scoot to School Day".

Our SUSTRANS cycling officer, Jonathan Dixon, is running a "Scoot to School Day" and we are encouraging as many children as possible to come to school on their scooters.
We will be counting the scooters and sending our tally to Jonathan to contribute to his South Dorset challenge.

DM