Hampers of Hope

We would like to thank all the families who so generously donated so many items to the school’s collection for the Salvation Army’s Hampers of Hope. The children were very proud to carry up their donations at today’s assembly and know their donations will do so much for families who are struggling at this time of year.

Our Year in Review

To finish off our work on writing recounts for the year, the children have written reviews of what they liked about this year and what their wishes are for next year. They are a very honest account of their likes and dislikes and we hope you enjoy reading them and chatting more with your child about theirs. Continue reading

Our Assembly

Today, it was our turn to host the school assembly and the childrenĀ did a fantastic job as hosts. Here are some pictures to share with you from the event.

 

Looking Victorian and Fantastic Too!

We just thought we would share with you all some of the great costumes and some behind the scenes photos from tonight’s end of year concert performance. Many thanks go to all the families who supported us by sourcing all these great outfits so that the children looked so wonderful on stage!

A Quick Preview

I wanted to share with you all this lovely moment from this afternoon. After lunch the children were quietly finishing off some work and while they were working a couple of them were quietly singing the song we are performing for the end of year concert. Slowly the momentum built until all the class were quietly singing the song – no music or direction – just a group of fantastic children enjoying the fun of singing a song together.

They didn’t know I was filming until they were finished and I thought I would give you this lovely insight as to what it was like in our classroom this afternoon.

Concert Preview

What do you notice?

During our recent Child Protection Curriculum Day, one of the topics we covered was how children can keep themselves safe by being observant of their surroundings.

We investigated a website which presented the children with a photo analysis challenge, which they wanted to share with you all via the blog.

Here is the website and we challenge you to see how you go with the expert challenge!

photo challenge

Making Change

moneyOne of the areas of Maths we work on in year 3/4 is being able to give change using both notes and coins. We have been using a fun website to help us practice these skills and we thought we would share it here to make it easier for the students to find if they want to share their learning with you at home.

Follow this link to access the website

http://www.mathsisfun.com/money/index.html

 

My Favourite Time of Year

Today we shared with the children the song we will be performing at the End of Year Concert. With Mrs Morris’ class, we will be performing is a song called My Favourite Time of The Year by an English band called Florin Street.

We thought that this song was most appropriate given that both classes have been learning about the era in history in which the film clip is set. It also has beautiful lyrics about the positive feelings we all have around this time of the year

We have embedded the YouTube clip here for the children to view and start learning the words. They will also be given lyric sheets to help with this too.

We hope you all enjoy it as we are really looking forward to performing it!