Year 4 fun in the snow!!!!!!!!!!!

We decided to see what would happen if you painted snow.................

Year 4 Monday 12th March 2018

I do hope you all had a very restful weekend after an extremely busy week. I would like to say just how proud we were of you all, both during the rehearsal for the DASP concert but also for your performance in the evening. You represented the school with great maturity, confidence and pride, showing how much passion, energy and hard work you had for the team work required in order to perform. You sent many shivers up my spine and goose bumps up my arms when you sang!!!!!!! Well done!!!!!!


The talent did not simply stop there, you continued to excel during the rehearsals for our class assembly;being able to put on a performance like that in only 4 days was phenomenal!

Spelling home learning should have arrived home this evening, we are learning them every day in class. Please continue to read and practise your times tables too! This Friday there will be a project home learning piece.

This Thursday morning we will be participating in orienteering at DMS - rescheduled from Friday. PLEASE BRING IN A WARM TRACKSUIT AND TRAINERS TO WEAR FOR THIS.

As a school we have participated in 2 writing competitions run by DASP, the collaborative writing competition saw Ro, Faye, Emily and Jamie go through to the next round on Wednesday 21st March at THS and Katherine's comic made it through to the next round of selection at THS. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for our classmates!!!!!!!

Finally, a HUGE well done to Oona who was awarded with a large trophy at the weekend, having made it through to the second round in The Dorset Music Festival at Weymouth Pavillion - achieving "Most Potential" title!!!!! Wow you must have shown confidence, effort and no doubt a passion and enjoyment was clear to see on your face! We are VERY proud of you Oona!



See you all tomorrow!!!

Mrs. J and Mrs. Scott

Year 4 Sunday 4th March 2018

A MUCH warmer good evening to you all!

It looks for all the world like the snow never happened!!!!!!! However I hope you all enjoyed a magical, chilly couple of days! It was a real pleasure to be in school on Thursday and be a part of a magical snowy memory, as I think the last time we had that quantity of snow Year 4 were about 1 or there abouts!!!!!! This time they will certainly remember throwing snowballs at the teachers, making snow angels on the playground and catching the snow on their tongues with their buddies! Wonderful!


In the true style of The Greatest Showman..........and so a BUSY week begins - we will be rehearsing for the concert on Wednesday and our assembly on Friday!

PLEASE SEND IN REPLY SLIPS FOR WEDNESDAY IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY

We will also be going to DMS on Friday afternoon for our orienteering, as well as taking part in an ECO Schools Big Litter Pick Up and on Tuesday we will be meeting the Olympic Swimmer and carrying out our fitness activities..............busy, busy, busy!

PLEASE ALSO ARRANGE AN ALTERNATIVE CONSULTATION TIME IF YOU WERE UNABLE TO MAKE LAST TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY!

Thank you,

Year 4 Team!

Year 4 Wednesday 28th February 2018

Thank you to all of you that braved the cold and suffered sitting in the cold cloak room to wait for your parent consultation time. I enjoyed meeting you all and discussing your wonderful children - what a super class!

If you were unable to make an appointment, please call in and arrange a different time!

FYI: reminders,

• A letter came home today with regards to Hooke Court
• A repeat of the concert letter for those who have not returned the reply slip - concert NEXT WEDNESDAY drop off 9:20 at St Osmunds Sports hall and again at 6pm in the evening ready for a 6:30 start!
• World Book Day is tomorrow - the children have been asked to bring in 2 books, 1 to share with their buddy and one to recommend to the class.
• Friday = Bedtime story hour 6-7pm in the main school, come in your pjs with your dressing gown and teddy, enjoy a hot chocolate and a story.

APOLOGIES : YEAR 4 CLASS ASSEMBLY IS NEXT FRIDAY, 9TH MARCH 9:20AM.  I think there may have been a mix up with dates!!!!!!!

• After the assembly, in the afternoon next Friday we will be visiting DMS for an orienteering lesson with Mr. Treble.

We have been enjoying applying our area and perimeter learning by becoming Zoo Keepers responsible for designing a new enclosure for a given animal. The children had to measure out their animal outside in order to plan the size and shape of their enclosure. They selected the equipment they would need to carry this out and then have begun to draw scaled down versions of their designs.

In Literacy we explored the picture book Flotsam by David Weisner, which has sparked incredible imaginations and we are currently planning the story to go with it!

A very busy few weeks already!

Thank you for all your positivity, kind words and support expressed during the consultations.

Mrs J

A message from World Book Day and activities to do if you are snowed in!

We are aware that there have been school and nursery closures due to the inclement weather conditions across the country and expect these to continue tomorrow, on World Book Day. We’re so pleased that children and young people are looking forward to going to schools and nurseries to celebrate World Book Day but strongly encourage everyone to be safe and practical as they make decisions regarding changing plans. World Book Day is about encouraging children and young people to read and love books and, whatever the weather, 15 million £1 book tokens are already with schools and nurseries across the UK and Ireland. We will be extending the token redemption period beyond 25 March to ensure that everyone is able to use them so please do distribute them when you can. The extension period will be confirmed depending on the weather in the coming days. We know a great deal of teachers, nursery staff, parents, children and young people will have put effort into activities for tomorrow. We’re encouraging schools, nurseries and families to Share A Story and celebrate World Book Day as and when they can, in whatever way they can, so that children can celebrate reading, share stories with their teachers, families and peers, and so time and effort spent on costumes and activities does not go to waste. In the meantime, if you find yourself snowed in tomorrow, go ahead and celebrate World Book Day anyway, dress up if you’d like to, but most importantly, find time in the day to share a story, to read, to enjoy books. Here are some fun ways you and the children and young people in your school or setting can still join in and Share A Story at home: Tune in to our online book shows Encourage children to start our fun Reach For The Stars Reading Challenge Find out the results of our poll to find the nation's Top 100 Stories to Share Snuggle up on the sofa and listen to our 20 FREE FULL-LENGTH AUDIOBOOKS including The Lonely Beast, 13-Storey Treehouse, The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, Fish Boy and Rebel of the Sands For lots more fun activities, visit www.worldbookday.com/ideas/share-a-story/  You can participate on social media with #shareastory. We look forward to hearing how you're celebrating.

Happy reading and story sharing! World Book Day

Friday 23rd February 2018

FYI


During Friday afternoon, we will be holding our annual French Cafe and activities for the children in Years 3 and 4. They will be practising their conversational French with the opportunity to order crepes as well as other fun games and learning.

Mrs. J and Mr. Macbean

Year 4 Monday 19th February 2018

Good evening everyone,

Thank you for the replies that have been sent in with regards to the extra PE activities, however there are only 4 places available and unfortunately the letters were sent out to everyone - please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. The 4 children will be notified tomorrow!

We have a VERY busy few weeks ahead of us, please do sign up for parent consultation evenings taking place NEXT Tuesday and Wednesday, the forms are in the cloakroom!

NEXT Thursday is World Book Day when the children may come in to school dressed as a character from a book and we will be celebrating during the day, as well as the Bedtime Story Hour being held on the Friday evening in collaboration with Pre-School. This was really fun and well supported last year, so successful that we decided to open it up to the whole school! Come along in your pjs with a teddy and enjoy a story and hot chocolate.


Only 2 WEEKS until the DASP concert and our class assembly!!!!!!!!

Mrs. J and Mrs. Scott