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Happy Friday!
It's the end of term, after some very busy weeks, it's finally arrived - the Summer holidays. The children have been brilliant this week, we have worked through until Thursday morning and then spent some time tidying and preparing to move classrooms for next term. Today, we have enjoyed games and a film, as well as snacks. Please make sure that you all have a great holiday, with lots of family time, experiences and rest. I look forward to seeing you all in September as year 5s! Have a great holiday. Mr F Happy Friday everyone. We are at the end of what has been a very busy week for the children - lots of sport this week, three P.E. lessons, so a super fit year 4. We have also worked hard to complete our work on the Lion and the Unicorn and our time work, beginning to work on Shape in Maths. Also this week... On Monday, the class looked at Human Anatomy in Science, explored healthy lifestyles in PSHE, worked on our fielding and striking skills in P.E. and showed off our reasoning skills when discussing time and shape in Maths. In the afternoon, we were lucky enough to watch the dress rehearsal of the year 5/6 performance of Aladdin Trouble - which was awesome! On Tuesday, we had P.E. with year 3 and French and Geography with Mrs Nuthall. On Friday, we were lucky enough to be visited by a group who have worked with the children to prepare for the Whiddon Down Music Festival. The children had a great time, playing games to help them warm up their voices and then there was some spectacular singing. The children are working on songs to sing in a concert in September, when they are in year 5. Next week, in preparation for the Summer holidays, the children will be clearing their trays and bringing their books home on Tuesday, so could they have either an empty school bag or a carrier bag with them on Tuesday please. They will have their Move Up Morning on Wednesday. We will have P.E. on Tuesday with Mrs Jordan our P.E. coach and on Friday, after our Leaver's Assembly, there will be an opportunity for children to bring in games and we will watch a film, which we will vote on early next week. Have a great weekend, see you on Monday. Mr F Happy Friday everyone. We are at the end of what has been a very busy week for the children - lots of sport this week, including Sports Day, which was very well received by children and adults alike. Well done to Miss Collins for organising a spectacular North Tawton Community Olympics. Also this week... we have been working hard on our English writing task of writing in role as an evacuee. The children have really used the skill of empathy to put themselves in the mindset of somebody being evacuated and the emotions that they would be experiencing. Their writing has been truly powerful to read and they are currently compiling their writes into an extended piece. On Monday, the class looked at Human Anatomy in Science, explored healthy lifestyles in PSHE, worked on our athletics skills in P.E. and showed off our reading skills when exploring our new class book Poems from a Green and Blue Planet and finally, created and flew some very colourful kites on Rainbow Day, whilst wearing clothes to express ourselves. As always, please read with and practise times tables with your children, the Maths home learning sheet will be out on Wednesday, as will spellings. Please practise, sing, talk about and chant times tables as often as you can as this makes such a difference to our children's fluency and ability to solve problems quickly. Next week, we have a busy week, with P.E. on Wednesday and Friday. We will complete work on our excellent English text The Lion and the Unicorn and Mrs Nuthall will continue our Geography topic of Natural resources and our Science topic of Human Anatomy. Have a great weekend, see you on Monday. Mr F Happy Thursday everyone. We are at the end of what has been a very busy 4 day week for the children - lots of writing, using the Shirley Hughes text, The Lion and the Unicorn as inspiration. Also this week... we have been working hard on our English writing task of writing in role as an evacuee. The children have really used the skill of empathy to put themselves in the mindset of somebody being evacuated and the emotions that they would be experiencing. To facilitate this, we used a drama technique called Conscience Alley, which the children found really powerful, as it helped them to get into the mindset of the character and the questions that they would be asking themselves at that point in the story. Their writing has been emotive to read and I know that Shirley Hughes would be proud to add it to her book. On Monday, the class looked at Human Anatomy in Science with Mrs Nuthall, as well as creating a description of the walled garden from our English text, using ambitious vocabulary. We worked on our athletics skills in P.E. in preparation for Sports Day next week, and showed off our reading skills when exploring our new class book Poems from a Green and Blue Planet - this week focusing on proverbs and the imagery that poets create through the language that they use. In Maths, we have focused on Money and Time this week, so please talk to your children about time and share reading the time with them. Today, we learnt the following rhyme to help us remember the amount of days each month has: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one, Except February, twenty-eight days clear, And twenty-nine in each leap year. An oldie but a goodie! We finished the week with art, the children used the artistic technique of perspective to add depth to the landscapes that they will create in the style of Cezanne and add paint to next week. (See photos). As always, please read with and practise times tables with your children.. Please practise, sing, talk about and chant times tables as often as you can as this makes such a difference to our children's fluency and ability to solve problems quickly. Next week, we have a busy week, with P.E. on Tuesday - all day as it's Sports Day and Friday. We will continue to explore our excellent English text The Lion and the Unicorn and Mrs Nuthall will continue our Geography topic of Natural resources and our Science topic of Human Anatomy. Don't forget that this weekend (Saturday 29th June 11.00-5.00), sees our PTA - FONTS presenting FONTs Fest. This will be a brilliant community event, with lots of activities and entertainment available. Please buy a ticket and come along to support FONTs as they do such an excellent job of raising vital funds to support educational experiences and projects that benefit our children. Have a great weekend, see you on Saturday, if not, Monday. Mr F Happy Friday everyone. We are at the end of what has been a very busy week for the children - lots of sport this week, including a visit from OCRA to hold the Quad Kids event. I have been really pleased with the effort that Ash class have put into this, there are some talented runners, throwers and jumpers in year 4. Also this week... we have been working hard on our English writing task of writing in role as an evacuee. The children have really used the skill of empathy to put themselves in the mindset of somebody being evacuated and the emotions that they would be experiencing. Their writing has been truly powerful to read. On Monday, the class looked at Human Anatomy in Science, explored healthy lifestyles in PSHE, worked on our athletics skills in P.E. and showed off our reading skills when exploring our new class book Poems from a Green and Blue Planet, a beautiful class photo on Thursday morning - look out for the order form, it's coming soon and finally, created some very colourful kites in readiness for Rainbow Day on the 5th of July As always, please read with and practise times tables with your children, the Maths home learning sheet will be out on Monday, as will spellings. Please practise, sing, talk about and chant times tables as often as you can as this makes such a difference to our children's fluency and ability to solve problems quickly. Next week, we have a busy week, with P.E. on Wednesday but not on Friday, as we have a non-pupil day. We will continue to explore our excellent English text The Lion and the Unicorn and Mrs Nuthall will continue our Geography topic of Natural resources and our Science topic of Human Anatomy. Don't forget that next weekend (Saturday 29th June), sees our PTA - FONTS presenting FONTs Fest. This will be a brilliant community event, with lots of activities and entertainment available. Please buy a ticket and come along to support FONTs as they do such an excellent job of raising vital funds to support educational experiences and projects that benefit our children. Have a great weekend, see you on Monday. Mr F Happy Friday everyone. We are at the end of what has been a very busy week for the children - Assessment week. I have been really pleased with the effort that Ash class have put into these. I am very proud of them all as they have really given their best this week. Also this week... we have been working hard on our Summer term assessments and our official times tables check in Maths (results will be sent to schools on Monday 24th June), looked at Human Anatomy in Science, explored healthy lifestyles in PSHE, worked on our athletics skills in P.E. and showed off our reading skills when exploring our new class book Poems from a Green and Blue Planet, created our own Dartmoor inspired impressionist landscape in the style of Cezanne, and finally, we have used Turtle Academy to help us with our coding skills. We finished the week with a short piece of drama - an air raid in the style of a World War II air raid. The children have then gone on to write about this in either third or first person, with some very pleasing results. As always, please read with and practise times tables with your children, the Maths home learning sheet will be out on Monday, as will spellings. Please practise, sing, talk about and chant times tables as often as you can as this makes such a difference to our children's fluency and ability to solve problems quickly. Next week, we have a busy week, with P.E. on Wednesday and Friday and our Class photo on Thursday, so best hair and smart uniform please! We will continue to explore our excellent English text The Lion and the Unicorn and Mrs Nuthall will continue our Geography topic of Natural resources and our Science topic of Human Anatomy. Have a great weekend, see you on Monday. Mr F Happy Friday everyone. We are now officially five sixths of the way through the year and the children have been working hard this week after half term, getting back into the swing of school. This week, we have continued working on decimal numbers and times tables in Maths, looked at why some animals are adapted to life in their habitat in Science, explored different learning attributes in PSHE, worked on our athletics skills in P.E. and showed off our reading skills when exploring our new class book Poems from a Green and Blue Planet, created visual biographies for the artist we are studying Cezanne (see photos), and finally, we have used Turtle Academy to create Geometric shapes using coding. As always, please read with and practise times tables with your children, the TTRS sheet will be out on Monday, as will spellings. We will be conducting the official check next week, so please practise, sing, talk about and chant times tables as often as you can! Next week, we have a busy week, with P.E. on Tuesday and Friday, NFER assessments for reading and maths taking place, as well as the official Multiplication Check happening all week. We will continue to explore our excellent English text The Lion and the Unicorn and will begin our new Geography topic of Natural resources and our Science topic of Human Anatomy. Have a great weekend, see you on Monday. Mr F Happy Friday everyone. We are now officially five sixths of the way through the year and the children have been working hard this week to get things finished for half term. it does look like it is going to be a nice one too! This week, we have created our own civilisations in our final write based on our English text Weslandia, continued working on decimal numbers and times tables in Maths, looked at why some animals are adapted to life in water in Science, explored different learning attributes in PSHE, worked on our teamwork, agility and rounders skills in P.E. and showed off our reading skills when exploring our class book The Firework Maker's Daughter in Book Club. After half term, as the children will be entering year 5 and upper key stage 2, I will be asking some of them to take on some extra responsibilities. I would like to train some of them to be peer mediators, they will then be friendly faces that children who have a problem at playtimes and lunchtimes, can seek out to help them mediate and solve themselves. I have had some really nice pieces of home learning this week (see pictures) we have some talented carpenters and model builders in our ranks (parents too!). Thank you very much for these and look out for next half term's, which will be out in the first week back. As always, please read with and practise times tables with your children, the TTRS sheet that I sent out on Monday has half term on it. We will be conducting the official check in the second week back after half term, so please practise, sing, talk about and chant times tables as often as you can! Please make sure that you have a peaceful and restful week as the remaining seven weeks of term will be busy ones, with lots going on. Have a great week, see you on Monday 3rd June Mr F Happy Friday! What a week, Dragon eyes, atmospheric writing and hundredths! As the Sun is upon us and getting slowly hotter as the weeks pass, can I please remind you to send children in sun-creamed, with hats and a water bottle - remember Slip, Slop, Slap! This week, we have continued work on our unit on decimal numbers in Maths. This week we have concentrated on hundredths and the place value of decimal numbers. In English we have explored using adverbials and noun phrases to write about the civilisation of Weslandia. We worked on our cricket skills in our P.E. coaches session and our Fielding and striking skills in outdoor P.E. through rounders. We continued our Adaptation work in Science and in History, we studied the Vikings with Mrs Nuthall. We have also been learning about the classroom and the things that are in it in French. In our Book Club book, The Firework Makers Daughter by Phillip Pullman, we have been exploring how we can use synonyms to change a sentence but not its meaning. The highlight of this week for me has been the superb atmospheric writing that we worked on with some of year 3 on Thursday, it is superb. I was really impressed with the results so well done Ash class! (See examples in photos) Next week, we continue our work on Vikings in History, complete our Dragon eyes in art, we are doing some work around Growth, or Positive Mindset in PSHE and will continue our work in R.E. on Pentecost. We have a very creative Music topic based around imagery and poetry, which the children will be completing with Miss Penny. We will also have P.E. on Wednesday, and again on Friday. In terms of home learning, can I remind everybody that the expectation is that children read for at least 10 minutes at home everyday, this can be magazines, newspapers, manuals, cookery books, as well as their reading books, as it is all reading. I would also like children to spend time working on their times tables, which are vital in so many areas of the Maths curriculum, I have set them 25 minutes worth of TTRS time as home learning. This can be done as a block, or it can be spread across the week, so that the children do 5 minutes a day. I have been really pleased to give out lots of Dojo points to people who have been completing their time! I recommended some apps and websites to help with Maths as the Year 4s have a Multiplication Tables Check to do in June: One Minute Maths by White Rose Maths Ten Minute Tables by Dorling Kindersley URBrainy.comMTC for a practise version of the check. White Rose Maths Parent booklets which you can reach through the Maths page of our school website or here: https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/free-downloads Spellings will be out on Monday for the test on Friday. There will be a new TTRS sheet on Monday, some great scores this week even more 25s! I had more certificates to give out for people scoring 20 or over in our Soundcheck, so keep practising. With this in mind, try watching the following on Youtube to help learn those vital tables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16Szjg59Sg&t=3s Wider Curriculum Home Learning is out in paper form and is also available here and on Dojo, I have already received some great examples, including Viking long boats and some great designs for Sports Day. Remember that this is due in by next Thursday - 23rd May. Have a great weekend, see you on Monday. Mr F Happy Friday! What a week, Rounders, civilisations and pirates! Finally, the Sun is upon us and it really does provide a lift. With this in mind, can I please remind you to send children in sun-creamed, with hats and a water bottle - remember Slip, Slop, Slap! This week, we have continued work on our unit on decimal numbers in Maths. This week we have concentrated on tenths and the place value of decimal numbers. In English we have explored using adverbials and noun phrases to write about the civilisation of Weslandia. We worked on our cricket skills in our P.E. coaches session and our Fielding and striking skills in outdoor P.E. through rounders. We continued our Adaptation work in Science and in History, we studied the Vikings with Mrs Nuthall. In our Book Club book, The Firework Makers Daughter by Phillip Pullman, we have discovered the pirates in the story and their side-line - the Jungle Grill. The children have really enjoyed the story so far and we will continue to read it next week. The highlight of this week for me has been the stunning Dragon Eyes that the children have produced, they are not quite finished but they will be going on display in our art corridor soon - well done Ash class! Next week, we continue our work on Vikings in History, Dragon eyes in art, we are doing some work around Growth, or Positive Mindset in PSHE and will continue our work in R.E. on Pentecost. We have a very creative Music topic based around imagery and poetry, which the children have been enjoying with Miss Penny. We will also have P.E. on Tuesday, with our coach Mrs Jordan and again on Friday. In terms of home learning, can I remind everybody that the expectation is that children read for at least 10 minutes at home everyday, this can be magazines, newspapers, manuals, cookery books, as well as their reading books, as it is all reading. I would also like children to spend time working on their times tables, which are vital in so many areas of the Maths curriculum, I have set them 25 minutes worth of TTRS time as home learning. This can be done as a block, or it can be spread across the week, so that the children do 5 minutes a day. I have been really pleased to give out lots of Dojo points to people who have been completing their time! I recommended some apps and websites to help with Maths as the Year 4s have a Multiplication Tables Check to do in June: One Minute Maths by White Rose Maths Ten Minute Tables by Dorling Kindersley URBrainy.comMTC for a practise version of the check. White Rose Maths Parent booklets which you can reach through the Maths page of our school website or here: https://whiteroseeducation.com/parent-pupil-resources/maths/free-downloads Spellings will be out on Monday for the test on Friday. There will be a new TTRS sheet on Monday, some great scores this week I had more certificates to give out for people scoring 20 or over in our Soundcheck, so keep practising. With this in mind, try watching the following on Youtube to help learn those vital tables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p16Szjg59Sg&t=3s Wider Curriculum Home Learning is out in paper form and is also available here and on Dojo, I have already received some great examples, including Viking long boats and a design for Sports Day. Have a great weekend, see you on Monday. Mr F |
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