Class 4
January 2019
Welcome back to school. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and would like to wish you all a very happy New Year! I can't wait to hear about all of the things you got up to during the holidays and the wonderful presents you got from Father Christmas! Thank you all for the extremely generous gifts, cards and good wishes that I received, they are very much appreciated.
We start this term with a very busy term with lots of exciting opportunities and I will endeavour to keep you all well informed of activities taking place in school via the website.
Our topic this term is a Local Study and we will be looking at Rocks and Fossils and States of Matter in science. We will also be looking at various texts in Literacy, including poetry, information texts and Myths and Legends. A copy of the class timetable can be found below and subject planning is located in the 'Planning' section.
Could I remind all parents to make sure that their child has an indoor AND outdoor P.E. kit in school every day. This should include a warm tracksuit, separate outdoor P.E. trainers, shorts, T-shirt and plimsoles (which also make fantastic indoor shoes!) Make sure all clothing is clearly labelled with your child's name. Please also check regularly that items still fit your child and are in good condition, including trainers.
P.E. Kits should be at school every day please.
Please could you also ensure that your child has a named drink bottle at school every day.
Your child will receive regular homework. The homework will be linked to the work covered in school and is meant as a reinforcement and extension activity. Occasionally your child will be asked to conduct research at home for a class project. Feel free to support your child with this work, and I will endeavour to make the tasks as enjoyable as possible!
If possible, we would like your child to read at least twice a week, either independently or to an adult. Please do not forget to make a quick comment and note of the pages read in their reading diary. If your child needs to change their books, they should let me know first thing in the morning and we will try to change them at some point during the day.
There will be a small quantity of focus spellings each week, adhering to the spelling patterns and rules within the National Curriculum, as well as High Frequency and Common Exception words. These will be practised during class time, but a copy of the spellings will be sent home for your information. Spelling tests will be conducted each Friday to enable the monitoring of progress. A list of spelling patterns being learnt each week and the accompanying words to be learnt will be available below for your information.
We have lots of exciting activities coming up this term and we will keep you informed of each one as it approaches. Please also see the calendar below, so you can keep important dates in your diary.
I hope you all find this information useful, but if you have any concerns or questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Andrea Wagg
Welcome back to school. I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and would like to wish you all a very happy New Year! I can't wait to hear about all of the things you got up to during the holidays and the wonderful presents you got from Father Christmas! Thank you all for the extremely generous gifts, cards and good wishes that I received, they are very much appreciated.
We start this term with a very busy term with lots of exciting opportunities and I will endeavour to keep you all well informed of activities taking place in school via the website.
Our topic this term is a Local Study and we will be looking at Rocks and Fossils and States of Matter in science. We will also be looking at various texts in Literacy, including poetry, information texts and Myths and Legends. A copy of the class timetable can be found below and subject planning is located in the 'Planning' section.
Could I remind all parents to make sure that their child has an indoor AND outdoor P.E. kit in school every day. This should include a warm tracksuit, separate outdoor P.E. trainers, shorts, T-shirt and plimsoles (which also make fantastic indoor shoes!) Make sure all clothing is clearly labelled with your child's name. Please also check regularly that items still fit your child and are in good condition, including trainers.
P.E. Kits should be at school every day please.
Please could you also ensure that your child has a named drink bottle at school every day.
Your child will receive regular homework. The homework will be linked to the work covered in school and is meant as a reinforcement and extension activity. Occasionally your child will be asked to conduct research at home for a class project. Feel free to support your child with this work, and I will endeavour to make the tasks as enjoyable as possible!
If possible, we would like your child to read at least twice a week, either independently or to an adult. Please do not forget to make a quick comment and note of the pages read in their reading diary. If your child needs to change their books, they should let me know first thing in the morning and we will try to change them at some point during the day.
There will be a small quantity of focus spellings each week, adhering to the spelling patterns and rules within the National Curriculum, as well as High Frequency and Common Exception words. These will be practised during class time, but a copy of the spellings will be sent home for your information. Spelling tests will be conducted each Friday to enable the monitoring of progress. A list of spelling patterns being learnt each week and the accompanying words to be learnt will be available below for your information.
We have lots of exciting activities coming up this term and we will keep you informed of each one as it approaches. Please also see the calendar below, so you can keep important dates in your diary.
I hope you all find this information useful, but if you have any concerns or questions, don't hesitate to ask.
Andrea Wagg
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Here are some dates for your diary:
Teacher Training Day 4th January Term starts 7th January After-School Clubs start w/c 7th January Young Voices 17th January School Nurse 'Drop-in' Session 17th January Swimming Lessons start 23rd January Recycling Workshop 13th February Teacher Training Day 15th February Half Term 18th - 22nd February Shoe Sale after school 28th February Pancake sale after school 5th March World Book Day 7th March Science and Engineering Week 11th - 15th March Red Nose Day 15th March School Nurse 'Drop-in' Session 28th March Parents Evenings 2nd-3rd April Experiencing Easter 3rd April Easter Church Service 9th April Egg Rolling 10th April End of Term 12th April N.B. Ironbridge Residential Trip 29th April - 1st May Year 3 & 4 Show 23rd May |
This Week's Star of the Week: 
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TIMETABLE
Spellings:
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Our focus spellings for week beginning 28th January , tested on 15th March:
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Year 3
battle article struggle possible capable settle humble terrible example adjustable forwards grammar Try these websites to help you learn the new spellings!
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Year 4
invention injection action hesitation completion stagnation nomination migration conservation selection peculiar ordinary Our Spelling Shed Champions this week:
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Planning
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Homework
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Homework set - Choose at least one activity from the homework grid to complete for each hand-in date. Try to complete a range of activities, e.g. art/English/Maths.
Hand in: 1. 25th January 2. 14th February 3. 8th March 4. 22nd March 5. 5th April Weekly Homework:
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Why not try to improve your times tables skills using the times tables speed test challenges!
Click on the buttons below to start
Click on the buttons below to start
Or you could try learning your times tables with these catchy songs!
Our Times Tables Rockstars Leader Board.....
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Our Top 10 Rock Stars this week:
Rank Name Average Speed 1 Owein 1.32 2 Edward 1.64 3 Billy 1.65 4 Lucia 1.92 5 Imogen 2.07 6 Fearne 2.70 7 A-J 3.97 8 Brooke 4.55 9 Lacey 5.77 10 Arthur 6.32 |
Our Rockstars of the week - For completing the most games!
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GALLERY
Christmas Party Day!
Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas dinner.....Yum!
Christmas Decoration Day
Going the extra mile homework........
Here are a few examples of our 'Going the extra mile' homework.
Delivering harvest biscuits in the village...
Making Harvest Biscuits...
Here are some of our Royal Wedding cards....
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The winning cards for class 4.......
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Artist Workshop
On Monday 16th April, we were visited by an artist Paul Gent. He showed us some of his sketches and explained some of the techniques he used. We then went out into the village to sketch some of the buildings and interesting architecture around Wymeswold. It was a beautiful day, and we really enjoyed sitting of the bank of the brook sketching.
Paul will be back later in the month to do some work on using water colours with us.
Paul will be back later in the month to do some work on using water colours with us.
Science Week Challenge Day.....
Author Visit - Linda Chapman
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we had a visit from a local children's book author - Linda Chapman. Linda introduced us to some of her characters and stories that she has written. She then read some of 'Sopie and the Shadow Woods' to us and told us how she had come up with the ideas for this series of stories. She asked us to help her plan a new character for Sophie to battle; a Bat Goblin! We then went back to our class to plan our own 'Sopie' story, including the new Bat Goblin character.
Our Science experiments to find out about rocks and soils.
Aspiration Day
Thank you to all of the parents, friends and family that joined us for our Aspiration Day. We had a fantastic range of careers represented, from pilots to stunt men, authors to builders. The children had also put a lot of thought into their future careers, including vets, fashion designers, engineers, hairdresser and footballers.
