The Monstars

In class 4 we are 'The Monstar,' a super class who work hard and are complemented by all for our fantastic behaviour.

We have our own golden rules that we obide by, ensuring that we are all able to achieve and suceed, whilst having fun and being included.

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 homework.
• 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 Mr Mynett.

Big writing

We do big writing every two weeks and I have to say, class 4 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.

So far we have created a range of big writing pieces- diary, story ending, explanation text, descriptive piece and even a poem!

Feel free to come into class 4 to see our brilliant displays and pieces of writing for yourself!

Term 1: The Ancient Egyptians

We had so much fun learning about the Ancient Egyptians, creating some fantastic pieces of work.

We topped off a great 1st term by visiting the Manchester museum where we had the oppurtunity to take part in an archaelogical dig!

Term 2a: The Dinosaurs

The new year started with a big new topic as a mysterious dinosaur came to Thurlstone!

Along with the other classes, class 4 were straight on the scene to investigate what the strange creature may be.

Having researched and then creating our very own tree branch databse, we discovered the identity of the creature as none other than the 'Vile Velociraptor'.

We then created our own information texts on the creature.

Following this we entered the world of Dilly the dinosaur through the eyes of his sister Dorla and created some superb pieces of writing.

Finally, we ended this term by exploring form in poetry, looking at performance, drama and imagery to create our own poems.

Term 2b: School of Rock

After the Febuary half term, class 4 will be kicking off our very own 'School of Rock' topic.

I'm keeping things close to my chest at the moment though so check out the website later to find out more!

Term 3a: Thurlstone (Our local area)

Starting just after Easter will be the perfect time to look in detail at our beautiful village.

Term 3b: The Anglo Saxons

Our locality topic will nicely lead to our final topic- The Anglo Saxons.

This will be our final topic before the summer holidays and will coincide with the whole school Olympics 2012 theme!

Our Mascots:

We've got Three! Jedward (two green monstars!)and Zoggy!

Which ever two children are class 4's 'Marvellous Monstars' of the week, get to take either Jedward or Zoggy home for the weekend.

Class 4 teacher: Mr Mynett.

You will also catch a glimpse of Mrs Ward, Mrs Jones, Mrs Penistone, Miss Meade and Mrs Gledhill from time to time!