Year 4 Thursday 8th June

I hope you all had a restful half term, ready for the rollercoaster ride that is the final few weeks!?

We began "show off " week this week with some reading comprehension and maths papers. The children have all approached them with great enthusiasm and resilience. We called it " show off " week because it is our chance to show just how brilliant we are! This is a great, fun way to look at these tests and the children have risen to the challenge - well done!

There are still a couple of museum/town house trip slips outstanding, for next Tuesday. It does say on the letter that the children should wear old play clothes on their bottom half, however we will be having our school photographs before we go, so please could they all wear SCHOOL UNIFORM, thank you! We also need one more volunteer to accompany us on Tuesday, please come and see me if you are able to help.

We launched our final topic yesterday and are approaching our learning as a collaborative project ; there is so much to learn about the Romans that this is a fun way to do it, whilst also learning valuable group work skills.

Mrs. J and the Year 4 Team.

Saturday 10th June - School summer fayre

The Prince of Wales Summer Fayre is this Saturday 10^th June 11-2pm! Do please come along, bring family and friends.

A football tournament, activities and games for children, BBQ, bouncy castle, skittles, prizes to be won! The event is solely to raise funds for our school and Pre-School. Finally, if you do feel you could help man a stall then do please sign up in the foyer of the main school or over at Pre-school. More helpers mean that everyone can enjoy the event.

Friday 9^th June – This day is a ‘non School uniform’ day – Please bring in chocolates and wine to donate towards the fayre tombola’s please. We do also need cakes for the café and teddies too!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mrs Mewett, Julia Nineham and the POWSA committee

Year 4 Monday 22nd May 2017.

We couldn't have asked for a better day..........the sun was shining, the fire burning........ a trip back in time..............
What a fantastic Celt day we had today - I am sure there were some very tired (dirty) children tonight!!!!!!!! We spent the day as Celts, doing drama, repairing the roundhouse and decorating it, cooking on the fire, making brooches and weaving - Boudicca sent us messages throughout the day and ultimately recruited us to help her fight the Romans!

I am sure you also heard about our superb rapping skills last week!!!!!!! Yes, we combined our poetry skills learned from Mr. William Shakespeare, with the story of Boudicca and created a rap based around the structure and some of the lyrics of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air!!!!!!! Impressive stuff!

We have a very exciting week, not only do we have our Samba Band lesson tomorrow, but our DT day on Friday!!!!!!

A HUUUUGE WELL DONE to the 10 children who represented the school in the Year 4 DASP swimming gala - we were VERY proud of you! We came second overall (with only 5 points in it for first place!), we even secured a place for the girls 4 x 25m freestyle relay in the finals (against the whole of Dorset!!!) Thank you, too, to our cheering squad - we definitely felt like olympians!

As there were only 2 people able to make the Jigsaw presentation this morning, I will run it again on the first Tuesday after half term, 9:00am in the hall.

The poems for the competition have been fantastic - tremendous effort has obviously been put into the home learning - well done! I can't wait to send them off!!!!!

Thank you once again for the excellent effort you all made today with your costumes - it really was great fun!

Mrs. J and the Year 4 Team (who stink of smoke from the fire!!!!)

Year 4 Friday 12th May 2017 - upcoming events

Hello Everyone!

Thank you to all of you who were able to make the 2 information sessions last week, I hope they were useful!

We are fast approaching half term and there are already A LOT  of things to mention................

Next Tuesday afternoon 10 children have been selected to swim in the Year 4 DASP swimming gala at 1610, those children will bring a letter home tonight. Parents are invited to watch, it begins at 1pm and will last approximately 1 1/2 hours, there is a £1.50 spectators charge.

Next Thursday the children have been offered the opportunity to have some bicycle training at school, please fill out the permission slip and return it to Mr. Macbean.

This Saturday 13th May is the DMS open morning, see the times on your letter.

We have also just begun our 10 week musicianship programme provided by the Dorset Music Service. This year we are lucky enough to be learning Samba Band, so no instruments will be coming home. Throughout the 10 week programme myself and the drum teacher will be looking closely for a group of children who may be offered the opportunity of continuing with 2 terms of music lessons, free, at their new school - what an exciting opportunity! We are very lucky!

FYI:
On Monday 22nd May we will be having a Year 4 CELT themed day. Please could they come dressed as a CELT for that day (do not go out buying anything, I have spoken to the children about what they could use for a costume from items at home!) You may also like to start thinking about a Roman costume for the second half of the term!

On Friday 26th May (last day) we will be having our DT day, we will be walking to Tesco in the morning and shopping for our pizza and toppings. We will also need 3 volunteers to join us for the morning, so if you would like to join us, please do come in and ask! The children will each need to bring in £2 so that their topic table has enough money! This can be brought in in a named envelope before the day - thank you!!!!!!

I told you there was a lot going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to all of you who have kindly been writing letters to me giving permission for your child to walk to or from school, I cannot emphasise enough how important this is in terms of safe guarding and welfare. If you would like your child to begin walking to or from school as part of the process of building independence for next year, then please put in writing the days that they will be doing this!

Many thanks for all your support,

Mrs. Johnson and The Year 4 Team.

A change into "outdoor working clothes" on Friday 28th Year 3 and Year4

A change into "outdoor working clothes" on Friday 28th Year 3 and Year4
This Friday afternoon, the children in Year 3 and Year 4 are going to be working with  the R.S.P.B. Outreach Team. We are going to be doing some work clearing out the school's pond. This is likely to be a bit messy, so we ask that the children bring a change of clothes (or, at least, "bottom half") and some suitable footwear,- preferably "wellies".
Any parents that would like to join us for the afternoon would be very welcome. Please contact Mr. MacBean or Mrs Johnson.
Many Thanks

Year 4 Cricket and volunteers

Request: 15 children have been invited to take part in a cricket festival next TUESDAY from 9:30-2:30, they will be bringing a letter home tonight with details. If your child is going, we do need 1 or 2 volunteers to join Mrs. Scott for the day, so if you are willing and able please let us know before Friday.
Thank you!
Mrs. Johnson

Year 4 Friday 21st April 2017

I would like to begin the final term by saying what a wonderful Spring Term we had - it was a rollercoaster ride from start to finish - you wouldn't think it was only a couple of months ago it was christmas!!!!!!!! Not only did we learn a multitude of new things, we also found time to rehearse and perform in the Year 4 DASP music concert, take part in sporting events, prepare a dramatic assembly and, of course, HOOKE COURT!!!!!!!!!

Year 4 were an absolute delight to take away - EVERY SINGLE child grew 50cm taller in self esteem and maturity!!!!!! They supported each other throughout the whole experience and POSITIVITY was the word that sprang to mind to sum up their attitude! I was humbled by their kindness towards each other and how they interacted with children from other schools. Other words that would make it onto a vocabulary list to describe them are: courage, respect, consideration, willing, happy, polite, friendly and............AWESOME!!!!!!!!! We were all so super proud of you all and a special well done goes to all those children who had never stayed away from home before "YOU DID IT!!!!!!!!" Yippee!!!!!!!

Well, the theme park theme continues with our final term as before you know it we will be at the end of term - rollercoasters all the way!

Let's fill our final term with learning, fun, happiness, building as many fond memories as we can and making every second count!

See you all on Monday!

Oh, and I said last term, if everyone in year 4 could have a pair of trainers in school, we are going to build up to running everyday in a bid to build our fitness and stamina they will need to keep their trainers in school).

Mrs. J and The year 4 Team.