We had a very busy and exciting week leading up to Easter.

The children leaned about the Easter story in class and through watching the Easter Service led by Mrs Long's class,  Well done to all the children you were superb and only prepared for the service over a week.  The singing was beautiful and those children who had lots of lines to learn you really worked hard to learn them all.  No body made one mistake and the lines were delivered with clarity and full of expression.  The dancing was very moving and the girls learned it in two days! I am very proud of all of you, well done!

The Easter Gardens were all amazing and so creative well done to all the children who took part!  It was impossible to choose the best as they were all so clever.

Next week the children will have their end of Spring 2 assessments.  They will have a Maths paper, a Spelling, grammar and punctuation paper and a reading paper.  Their writing will be assessed using recent pieces of independent writing.

We will all go on our trip on Wednesday where the children will be taken back in time and treated like a real evacuee for the day.  The will learn about the role of the Air- raid wardens and learn some traditional WW2 songs.  Should be an exciting experience they will all remember.

The Kingswood meting will take place next Tuesday in Mrs Long's room and the children will finish that day for the Spring holidays.  After the holiday we will give them their final project on our summer term topic..'Water'.
Spellings, x tables and reading will continue as usual and this Friday we will add some more maths tasks onto My Maths.

Have a good week!

This week there will be the Easter Service led by Mrs Long's class. It will begin at 9.15am on Thursday.  Everyone is very welcome to join the celebration. 

The children have been working hard this week learning songs and practising the drama and prayers. 

The children have continued to up level their evacuation letters and develop their Blitz pictures using a variety of different materials. 

The trip will take place a week on Wednesday, 30th March to the air raid shelter. The children will wear their uniform and take a packed lunch in a plastic bag. They will return to school at the normal time. 

Homework this week in English is to finish off a partly started story.

Maths for year 4 is a shape worksheet based on last weeks lessons. 

Sports relief was a success as children took part in a carousel of activities in their classes - activities included: tag rugby/cross country around the field/basketball shooting/football skills and team building. 

Wednesday is the KS2 Easter gardens competition. 

The Wake and Shake is really taking off and Y3/4 put their heart and soul into it.  Keep it up you are doing a fabulous job!

Last week we worked very hard in many areas and have produced some pieces of work to be proud of.

English

We have been learning about recounts and the children have all written a letter as an evacuee.  The children were asked to include all key features of a recount and set it out in the style of a letter.  They had to include time connectives, past tense, 1st person, paragraphs, adjectives and put it in chronological order.  This week we are going to focus on up leveling these letters and then they will be redrafted to be displayed on our history displays in class.  The children will continue with comprehension skills, handwriting and spelling practice.

Maths

We have continued to look at 2D shape and classifying triangles.  The best part of the week was when we all took part in Whole school Maths day.  The children used clues to solve a mystery using heir Maths skills.  They enjoyed practical maths outside where they use data handling to collect information on a group who were shooting baskets and keeping up a tennis ball on a racket.  Another group measured standing long jumps and converted the measurements to mm,cm and m.  The children worked very hard and really enjoyed the activities.  The mathematician of the day in each class will receive a certificate next week.

Topic

The children will use pastels to create Blitz pictures in Art and begin to look at jobs on the home front.  They will write an advert for a job and include a job description.

There is the next Sacramental meeting in church on Thursday at 6.30pm, all Year 4 children must attend.

Mrs Long's class has been asked to lead the Easter Service this year so they will begin practicing this week.

Here are some pictures of the Maths Day:

A fabulous week this week at St Vincent's! 

Maths

We are really getting to grips with shapes and developing our understanding of lines and angles. We will continue with shape with a focus on symmetry this week.  There are 5 activities to be getting on with on My Maths. Some activities on work we are doing in class at the moment, some work we have done already and some to help with work that is coming up. 

English

We continued to work on our spelling patterns, grammar and comprehension skills last week. This week we will look at features of recounts and include these and our new skills in grammar in an independent piece of writing as an evacuee writing a letter home in WW2. 

All the children had a class photo taken this week with their teachers! They all looked very smart! 

We were also very impressed with the quality and effort that went into the costumes for World Book Day! They all deserved house points for effort. Check out the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners below; well done to all of the children who took part! 

It was lovely to see so much support for the children in church on Thursday as they embark on their programme for Communion and Confirmation. I have packs for the children who could not attend and I will pass them to the children on Monday. Anyone who hasn't brought in their Baptismal certificate could you bring it in on Monday to school so it can be photocopied and sent to church? 

Thank you so much for your support

Year 3/4 Team