As part of our topic on the environment, Year 4 are hoping to visit the Fontaine Recycling Depot and Waste Segregation Site, Longue Hougue Reclamation Site, Mont Cuet Landfill Site and Chouet on Friday 13th April. We aim to raise the children’s awareness of what happens to our waste and get them to consider issues to do with landfill sites. We hope to depart school at 9:15am and return to school by 3pm.  We are just waiting for confirmation of buses for the trip – further details to follow on Wednesday (please check the blog).  It is possible we will have to change the date if the buses are unavailable.

We will need at least 5 helpers for our trip – please can you let your child’s class teacher know asap if you can assist.

Many thanks

Year 4 teachers

Year 4 Weekly Update for week beginning 26.03.18

Last week of the Spring term! And what a term. Highlights being the introduction of the Daily Mile, an amazing ‘Feel the Force Day’ and our incredible Easter Performance. The children have been brilliant this term with some fantastic teamwork and great learning.

 

Here’s what will be happening over the next 2 ½ days:-

Numeracy: We will be finishing off our Rainbow Targets.

Literacy: Finishing special books writing

Year 6 Spring Fayre: Tuesday 27th March Children can be collected from their classrooms by an adult at 14:30 for the Spring Fayre. Children are welcome to come unaccompanied after 3pm.

 

Last day: School will finish on Wednesday 28th at 1pm. A packed lunch is not needed but children can bring in a snack for break time. Games can also be brought in for the children play on the last day.

 

On Wednesday we will bid a fond farewell to Mrs Judd our deputy head teacher and an amazing year 4 teacher.  I’m sure you join us in wishing her all the best as Headteacher at La Hougette, we will miss her very much but know she will be fantastic in her new role.  

Many thanks for all your support again this term, have a great Easter Holiday, relax and eat chocolate-you can always burn it off doing a daily mile?

Year 4 Team

I would just like to say a personal thank you for all the support and best wishes you have sent me this year. I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of this year group and I am really going to miss you. Happy Easter to you all.

Mrs Judd xx

Dear parents/carers,

thank you for coming to watch our amazing Easter Performance today. I hope you saw how proud we were of the children and all their hard work-it was truly their show.

Please could we ask that any photos or films you took this afternoon are not posted on any social media or public sites as we have some children that do not have permission to be photographed. Please only use for private use.

Many thanks and have a good weekend

Year 4 team

Year 4 are very much looking forward to welcoming you to our Easter Service tomorrow, Friday 23rd March. The service will begin at 1:45pm in the school hall.

There will be parking on the playground.

The children have worked really hard and we are extremely proud of their efforts. We would just like to advise you that the story and performance is perhaps not appropriate for very young children.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Year 4 team

Year 4 Weekly Update for week beginning 12.3.18

The children have all shared a piece of work that they are proud of on their Google Drive today. Please encourage them to log on and show you their work and enjoy!

The children’s homework this weekend is to learn their song and script words.  This is vital!

Our Easter Service Rehearsals are underway and the children’s singing is already sounding great. However, the church is having some electrical work being done and this won’t be completed in time for us. Therefore, we will be rehearsing and performing our service at school in the main hall. Please see the following schedule:-

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12QrCbjwzNDc2EyYw0RQ7v050ni0nlU0NbZ7NG6L7SvM/edit?usp=sharing

Literacy:  Writing our own version of ‘The Black Box text’.

Numeracy:  Shape and angles.

Have a lovely weekend and thank you for your continued support, we’re looking forward to seeing you next week at your parents’ appointment (please get in touch if you haven’t made one yet!)

Year 4 team

Year 4 Weekly Update for week beginning 5.3.18

We hope you have all had fun in the snow this week and enjoyed a few extra days holiday!  Thank you for all the lovely snow work shared on Google Drive.

Parent’s Evening appointments:  You should have received an email to book an appointment with your child’s class teacher.  If you would like any help with this, please contact the School Office or your child’s class teacher.

E-safety:  Safe and Secure Online  Come along to a free presentation of Safe and Secure Online on Wednesday 7th March at 7pm in the school hall, presented by Matthew Parker, an Information Security professional. Safe and Secure Online is a global initiative to help educate parents and carers of some of the risks our children face whilst online.  Matthew will present for about an hour including the following topics:

•         The risks of Online Gaming
•         Social Networks
•         Sexting and mobile phones
•         Cyberbullying
•         General Cyber Security

Please note that due to some of the content the session is not suitable for children to attend it is solely aimed at adults.

Literacy:  We will begin our unit on Science Fiction stories, looking at a short story called ‘The Black Box’.  In Guided Reading we are also reading ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes.

Numeracy:  We will be continuing with our work on division and will be carrying out a termly assessment.

Home Sharing Day:  St. Martins will be having a special home sharing day on Friday 9th March.  Children will be sharing a ‘Work Selfie’ from the week with you on which they will upload to their Google Drive account.  They should be able to log on to their account themselves and show you!

Have a lovely weekend!

Year 4 team

If your child would like to attend two free squash training sessions and a festival, please fill out the form below and return it to The Guernsey Sport’s Commission.

Squash Festival 2 2018-18wngwt

 

 “Snowmwork”

Dear parents/carers,

Hope you are all safe and well, we are missing the children! But is cabin fever setting in? Are the children starting to get bored?

Following the decision to close schools and with the prospect of further disruption here are some ideas you might want to do at home to keep those brain cells going:-

Curl up under a blanket in your Onesie and read a good book, magazine or newspaper!

The Olaf challenge! Build a mini snowman and design a box/package that will keep it frozen for as long as possible!  This is a science based activity that we will be exploring more next term.

Useful Links:-

BBC Science clips

Bitesize

What does a conductor do?

Insulating a beaker

Testing an ice cube

Suggestions for materials

How to make your own Thermos

The science behind a good thermos

Quiz

What materials are good cold insulators?

Snow art

Paint/sketch a snow scene, make a snowflake out of plasticine/playdough, take photos and make a collage or use PicCollage.

Snow poetry

Write a poem based on snow or ice. Click on the link for examples https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/snow-and-ice-2/

Snow maths

Remember the family measures homework? Can you do something similar?

E.g. height of snowman, time taken for a snowball to melt, differences in temperatures (good negative number work here!) Present how you like!

Please keep up the Mathletics and Timestables Rockstars as well!

Learn your words for the Easter Service:

Click on the links:-

Script

Song words

You can take photos of your work and save them on to your Google Drive, or do it straight on Google Drive or just bring your work in when we see you next!

These are just suggestions for you if you are getting bored! It is optional!

Please stay safe and warm. Hope to see you soon!

Year 4 team

 

 

We hope you are all having an enjoyable half term, well deserved after all the children’s hard work! Here’s what’s coming next  week:-

Easter Service: Parts have been given following some awesome auditions and children will be given scripts and song words to start learning.  Please see below for rehearsal and performance dates and inform your child’s class teacher as soon as possible if your child will be absent for any of the final performances.  We will also be starting rehearsals at the church in the coming weeks. If you can help with escorting us to church and back please let your class teacher know. Here are the dates and times we are due to be rehearsing:-

Friday 9th March 9.30 – 11am

Monday 12th March 1-2.30pm

Tuesday 13th March 1-2.30pm

Friday 16th March 9.30 -11am

Monday 19th March 1-2.30pm

Tuesday 20th March 1-3pm

These are also the dates that we are performing:

Wednesday 21st March 10.45 – 11.45 (dress rehearsal to year 1 and 2)

Thursday 22nd March 1.45 – 2.15 (dress rehearsal to year 3, 5 and 1 year 6 class)

Friday 23rd March 1.45 -2.15 (final performance to parents/carers)

Please make sure your child has a warm coat (the church can get cold) and sensible shoes.

Numeracy: We will be looking at division word problems.  Remember to keep working on those times tables and Rainbow targets!

Literacy: We will begin the week assessing reading and then moving on to looking at Science Fiction stories.  Any reading of this genre would be helpful – why not have a look in the Guilles-Alles library?

Science:  We will begin our topic of ‘Keeping Warm’ which will involve the children planning an exciting investigation.  

First Aid:  Two classes will have their first First Aid session on Tuesday, the other class will have theirs the following week.

Many Thanks

Year 4 Team

A reminder that School Councillors are selling the eggs tomorrow (Thursday).  Don’t forget to bring your £2 if you would like to take part in this competition.