Welcome to THE SMARTIES' page!
Yes that what we've called ourselves...why? Because we're all BRIGHT and we're all DIFFERENT! of course!!
Want to know...
- what your child has been up to?
- what's coming your way this term?
- how you can support your child's school work at home?
Well this is where you can find out, and much more besides.
CLASS NEWS!!
A new term, new class and lots of new learning and enjoyment to be had!
There's always lots going on in class 4! Read on to find out!
As you all know, I (Miss Fenn) have recently taken over from Mrs Gibbins in Class 4. Whilst in Class 4, Mrs Gibbins always kept the class website up-to-date with pictures and information and I shall endeavour to be as a good at it as she was! All the hard work and fabulous pictures she put on will not be forgotten, so scroll to the bottom to see the previous Class 4 in action...
ANCIENT GREEKS!
Class 4's theme this half term has been the Ancient Greeks and as part of our literacy we have been studying Greek legends. We learnt about the Wooden Horse of Troy and learnt how to structure, link and pace our wokr using paragraphs.
As a class we wrote individual paragraphs and then linked them together to create a re-tell of the Wooden Horse of Troy. Here's Class 4's fantastic version - with extra thanks to Rhia, Jack H, Jack R and Charlee!!
The Wooden Horse of Troy
Centuries ago, legends tell of the endless and tedious battle between Greece and Troy. To help the Greeks win the battle, they pretended to retreat, but in actual fact they had rowed round the island, just out of sight. Cunningly, to convince the Trojans, the Greeks sent a present...It was a sensational wooden horse which had a Lilliputian eye.
Despite the Greeks sending the Trojans the wooden horse, they were worried it was a trick but Sinon (the Greek soldier) said he was against the Greeks but he was not. Sinon said “You must take this gift or the Gods won’t like it”. Although Sinon said this, one wise old man still disagreed.
Unsuspectingly, from the great, blue ocean, a colossal sea monster snatched the wise old man! After seeing this strange happening, the Trojans, who were surely in shock, took the marvellous wooden horse into the city centre.
After the Trojans had accepted the horse as a gift from the Greeks, they decided to have a great big party where they would dance and celebrate that the long war had eventually ended and they could have a normal life again. But that wasn’t so... meanwhile, the Greeks had escaped from the horse, where they had hidden as a trick to kill all of the Trojans and destroy their city. The Trojan’s were so drunk and sleepy they were in no fit state to fight the fearsome Greek soldiers. The Greeks won the battle and killed all the Trojans.
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KINGSWOOD 2009!
We all had an incredible time at Kingswood again this year, being daredevils on scary high rope activities like Zipwire and Leap of Faith and trying new activities that we haven't done before such as archery and orienteering. We did manage to pull ourselves away from the fun for a few seconds in order to snap some pics for you all to see...
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| Competition time on Aeroball... | Plucking up the courage! |
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| This was a LOT of fun! | "That's a long way up!" |
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| Looking relieved | You can do it!! |
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| Playing games with the Kingswood staff! | "Yoo hoo!!" |
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| Keeping snug! | What great teamwork! |
LOVELY PICS OF OUR CLASSROOM DISPLAYS
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| Shape display | Our Feelings Monsters |
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| Some maths work | Our Feel Good Book |
Good behaviour
The children will be given rewards, stickers and certificates if they are spotted doing any of the following:
- being warm and welcoming
- helping someone to calm down
- being brave or confronting a worry or fear (not in the slaying a dragon kind of way!!)
- solving problems - using their initiative
Encouraging these social skills at home will support our work here in school!
Ways you can help support work done in school
Here are a few simple things you can do to help out:
- When your child is reading, encourage them to read out loud with plenty of expression in their voices. This will help with drama work.
- Solving multi-step word problems in numeracy is always tricky. Give your child some money problems to solve.
- Encourage your child to be creative with their literacy homework - the new purple books help with that!
- Please feel free to write in your child's homework diary...your comments will be much valued and I'll do may best to reply as soon as possible! The diaries need to be in every Thursday.
- Try to get your child to practice their times table as often as possible...keep it practical though...get your child to make some simple matching games.
Contact us
If you have any specific queries about class four goings-on, please feel free to come in and talk to Miss Fenn.
Big writing
The children are making fantastic progress with their writing.
Big Writing focuses on the principle that good quality writing contains high standards in what is known as V.C.O.P or vocabulary, connectives, sentence openers and punctuation.
Come in to school and see our displays!
CLASS 4 (2008-2009)
Andy Goldsworthy Art attack!
Class 4 have been busy finding out about Andy Goldsworthy; an artist who uses materials from the natural world to create art in the great outdoors. Here's some of his art and some of ours!
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This art was created using leaves. |
This was created using stones. |
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The children used all natural materials to design and create their own Goldsworthy style masterpieces! |
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BEAST THEME TIME!
We had great fun here in class four! The children's investigating finally solved the mystery of the Beast and we're happy to say it is no longer a problem!
Here's some photos of the agents at work
The agents discovered purple feathers on the school field. |
They also discovered a huge footprint! It had a mysterious red powder in the print - the agents thought it could be monster blood. |
Here the agents share their photgraphic evidence and discuss their artists impressions. |
These agents have produced some initial artist impressions and are discussing them. |
The agents measured the footprint and discovered it measured 1.4m x 0.65m - What a whopper! |
Could thisbe the face of the Thurlstone Beast? The agents worked together to produce the ultimate artist impression in 3D! |
