Monday 13th July

Welcome to our last blog of the year.

This will be the last blog I write for 3 and 4 and I am sad to leave the year groups but am looking forwards to new challenges. It has been a pleasure to teach with all the Key Stage Two staff especially Mrs Morgan and Mrs Sarsfield. We welcome Mrs Edwards and Miss Backhouse into the team and I am sure it will be a fantastic new start and successful year.

This week the children will be doing lots of work for their records of achievement and will be completing some work to take home too. The children will be doing some follow up work on Chester zoo.

Lost property 

There is such a lot of lost property in the Juniors and especially in the lost property bin in Mrs Harding's cloakroom. Please could you come in and check as we will not have it over the summer holidays. Thank you.

Leaver’s Mass
The Leaver’s Mass will be on Tuesday 21^st at 9.15am. Please remember that this is a very special event for our year six children and space is a premium in the hall.

On behalf of the 3 and 4 team I would like to thank you for all your support and we hope you have a lovely summer.

Mrs Harding

Mrs Sarsfield
Mrs Morgan

Monday 6th July

Welcome to our very nearly last blog of the year.

The children enjoyed visiting their new classroom last week and I am sure it will help them in the transition into their new class in September.

We have sent out homework and the children should have received Maths homework. There are three activities on my maths too. We are all testing the age related spellings for the whole year. There are some children who need to learn them. However, lots of children now know all or most of them. Well done children.

We have sent home the full list of age related spellings.

Art Exhibition
Pictures are available to buy for seven pounds for the next week.

 Chester zoo trip

We will be leaving just after nine and are due back at four o clock traffic permitting.
The children will need a waterproof if the weather is due to rain. The children will need sun cream as we will be outside all day. The children need a disposable packed lunch. They can bring up to ten pounds and this can be used to buy extra drinks while we are there.

 

RE

In RE we will be thinking about special places. We will be thinking in detail about special places for Jesus and all the different Bible stories related to this. We will be completing an RE assessment too.

 

English

This week will be doing lots of writing activities. We will be completing a writing activity to send up to the children’s next teacher. We will be testing the children on the age related spellings too.

Maths

Mrs Morgan/Mrs Harding
This week the children will be reviewing Roman numerals and start work o number problems such as:

"I'm thinking of a number.  If you multiply my number by 5 and then add 6, you will get 51.  What is my number?"
(ans = 9)

The children will learn how to solve the question by going backwards through it and changing the signs to the opposite.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

 
Maths
Mrs Sarsfield.

The children will be continuing to learn about angles and turns and start to learn about algebra too.

http://www.everyschool.co.uk/maths-key-stage-2-algebra.html

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

 

 

Have a good week,

 

The 3 and 4 team.

 

 

Monday 29th June

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Welcome to our blog.

The children practised Sport’s day last week and are looking forward to Tuesday morning. Sport’s day starts at 9.30am. Please remember that the children need to wear the correct colour tee shirt for their team. The weather is going to be excellent so the children need sun cream, bottle of water and a hat too please.

Mrs Harding’s Y3

Mrs Morgan’s Y4
Mrs Jackson’s Y5
Mr Hughes’ Y6

Mrs Sarsfield’s Y3

Mrs Harding’s Y4
Mrs Millington’s Y5
Mrs Jackson’s Y6
 

Mrs Morgan’s Y3

Mrs Sarsfield’s Y4
Mr Hughes’ Y5
Mrs Millington’s Y6

We have sent out homework and the children should have received Maths homework. For English homework we are all testing the age related spellings for the whole year. There are some children who need to learn them. However, lots of children now know all or most of them. Well done children.

We have sent home the full list of age related spellings.
Art Exhibition
Pictures are available to buy for seven pounds for the next two weeks.

Chester zoo trip

Please could the remaining consent forms and also the monies be sent in as soon as possible.

RE

In RE we will be thinking about special places. We will be thinking in detail about special places of Jesus and all the different Bible stories related to this.

English

This week will be a short week in our year groups. Therefore, we will be teaching three days of poetry and animal silly poetry. We will be learning about syllables and rhyme. The children will be producing their own poetry too.
http://www.allaboutanimals.org.uk/PK-Poetry.asp

Maths

Mrs Morgan/Mrs Harding

This week the children will be reviewing subtraction with and without regrouping. The children will be practising when to exchange a ten and when they do not need to.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/interactive/subtraction.htm

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

 

Maths
Mrs Sarsfield.
The children will be continuing to learn about different forms of data handling such as bar and line graphs.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

 Science

This week we will be learning about the life cycle of a plant which includes germination,  flowers, photosynthesis, seed production and seed dispersal.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html

Have a good week,

The 3 and 4 team.

 

Monday 22nd June

Welcome to our blog

Last week the children completed all their end of year assessments and these will be reported to you with their reports in July.

Age related spellings homework
We have sent home the full list of age related spellings and these are being tested every Friday. Please could you spend some time helping your child learn these as they MUST know them.

Art Exhibition
The children have been really busy and have been producing a piece of art work . This art work will be mounted and framed and you will be able to purchase and order  it along with other copies on Thursday after school until 6.00pm.

Chester zoo trip

Please could the remaining consent forms and also the monies be sent in as soon as possible.

 RE

In RE we will be thinking about special places. The children will be thinking about their own special place. They will be learning about special places of Jesus too.

English

The children will be learning about persuasive writing and arguments. They will be thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of different types of holidays. The children will be reviewing connectives and how to structure an argument.

Maths

Mrs Morgan/Mrs Harding
This week the children will be learning about finding the area and perimeter of different shapes such as rectangles and squares.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

Maths
Mrs Sarsfield.
The children will be learning about different forms of data handling such as bar and line graphs. The children will also be learning about angles too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/shape_space/angles/play/

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

Science

This week we will be learning about parts what a plant needs to grow such as nutrients, water, air and warmth. Also the children will be learning about how fluids move through the stem and leaves of a plant. We will be setting up an experiment with food dye and also food colouring to show the movement of fluids through the different parts of a plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4oOsxCY_uA

Have a good week,

 
The 3 and 4 team.
 

Monday 15th June

Welcome to our blog

This  week we will be assessing the children to see how much progress that they have made during the last academic year. The children will be sitting test in reading, writing and maths. It is really important that the children have full attendance as the children perform their tests much better when they are sat with their groups or classes.

Age related spellings homework

We have sent home the full list of age related spellings and these are being tested every Friday. Please could you spend some time helping your child learn these as they MUST know them.

RE

In RE we will be continuing with our new topic on choices. The children will be listening to the story Jesus told of the man and the two sons. The children will also be watching a part of Pinocchio and thinking about consciences and how we think and deal about things.

English

The children will be having a reading test that consists of a short and a long test. The children will also writing a long piece of writing to assess what level they are.

Maths

Mrs Morgan/Mrs Harding
This week the children will be having a written maths test and also a mental maths test. The children will also be adding decimals  and working with measurement of length using centimetres, millimetres and metres.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/adding-decimals.html

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/levels/zbr9wmn

Maths

Mrs Sarsfield.
The children will be reviewing lots of topics and then sitting their written maths tests well as their mental maths test.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/levels/zbr9wmn
 

Science

This week we will be learning about parts what a plant needs to grow such as nutrients, water, air and warmth. Also the children will be learning about how fluids move through the stem and leaves of a plant. We will be setting up an experiment with food dye and also food colouring to show the movement of fluids through the different parts of a plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4oOsxCY_uA

ART

This week we will all be finishing our work on our individual artists. This art work will be displayed for you to purchase at the end of June. The children will be copying the style of an artist such as Paul Klee or Georgia O Keefe or African art.

 Have a good week,

 

The 3 and 4 team.

Monday 8th June

Welcome to our first blog of the final half term which I am sure will go extremely fast.

Over the next two weeks we will be assessing the children to see how much progress that they have made during the last academic year. The children will be sitting test in reading, writing and maths. It is really important that the children have full attendance as the children perform their tests much better when they are sat with their groups or classes.

Homework will start again next week. Spellings will be sent home.
RE

In RE we will be starting a new topic on choices. The children will be thinking about good and bad choices and the consequences of choices in life.

 English

The children will be reviewing lots of concepts such as adverbs, inverted commas,  adjectives etc. They will be writing their assessed piece of writing at the end of the week. This will tell us their level and where they are in relation to age related targets for English.

 Maths

Mrs Morgan/Mrs Harding

This week we will be reviewing lots of concepts such as money problems, data handling, decimals, fractions and fractions of numbers, division and number lines.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/data/

 http://nrich.maths.org/9032

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/data-handling

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/

 

Maths

Mrs Sarsfield

The children will be reviewing lots of topics too such as number work, shape, data handling , fractions etc.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-tools.html

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/angles.html

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/

 

SCIENCE

This week we will be learning about parts of a flowering plant and the children need to be able to identify parts as well as knowing their functions This includes petals, sepals, roots, stigmas, stamens, anthers etc.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html

 ART

This week we will all be working on an individual artist’s techniques and style. This art work will be displayed for you to purchase at the end of June. The children will be copying the style of an artist such as Paul Klee or Georgia O Keefe.

 Have a good first week,

The 3 and 4 team.

Monday 18th May

Welcome to our blog

Homework was sent home last week and the children have spellings to learn and a comprehension to complete as usual. Please make sure that it is sent in on Thursday so it can be marked. There are my maths exercises to complete before the end of the half term. Thank you.

Sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation

The Year Four have a busy week ahead of them.

Monday

Walk to church at 1.00 pm and we will be back before home time. Thank you to all the parents who have said that they will walk up to church on Monday afternoon. See you at 1.00pm.

Thursday

Service starts at 6.30pm. The children will need to be in church before then at 6.00pm.

Friday

Photographs and Communion party.
The children will be having their photographs take in school by the school photographer. The children should bring in a contribution of food such as cakes, biscuits, soft drinks etc. No fizzy drinks please. After the party the children will be allowed to change out of their clothes so please provide a coat hanger! The children may change into their own clothes afterwards. They can bring in board games to play with too.

RE

In RE this week we will be finishing off the topic of ENERGY. The children will be thinking about their energy and the energy of special people and the energy of the disciples when they were given the gift of the Holy Spirit. We will also be thinking about the sacrament of confirmation that the Year Four will be making on Thursday too.

English

The children will be completing a comprehension, learning and commas and prefixes. The children will also be completing work on question marks.

Maths

Mrs Morgan/Mrs Harding
This week we will be completing money problems and be learning about different forms of data handling. The children will be learning about Venn diagrams, Carroll diagrams and bar charts.

http://topicbox.net/mathematics/money/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/data/

http://nrich.maths.org/9032

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/data-handling

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/

Maths

Mrs Sarsfield
The children will be learning all about angles. The children will be learning again about right angles, triangles, quadrilaterals and the different types of angle such as acute, reflex and obtuse.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-tools.html

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/shapes/angles.html

http://www.mathszone.co.uk/

 

Topic

We will be continuing our topic on the ANGLOSAXONS. The children will be learning about village life and learning about different Anglosaxon jobs. They will be writing about the different jobs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/

http://www.thekidswindow.co.uk/News/Anglo-Saxons_in_Britain.htm

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/saxons.htm

http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/kids/sax.html

SCIENCE

This week we will be learning about different food groups and healthy meals and linking this to the body and the heart.

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/health_growth/read/1/

http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/heart.html

 
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/humanbody/heart.html

Have a good week everyone and enjoy two weeks off.

The 3 and 4 team.