Welcome back

I hope you had a lovely Christmas and Santa was very generous.

This term our topic will be The Tudors. A new topic for us, which is exciting, and I am looking forward to learning lots of new information about our history along with you. Together we will find out about the most famous Tudor - Henry VIII. We will find out why he had six wives and what happened to each of them. We will also be looking at sources of evidence to discover life for ordinary people during the Tudor times.

Also this term it will be our turn for swimming. For some of you this will be your second time and you will remember how much fun you had! For those of you who are going for the first time, I am sure you will learn a lot and your confidence will grow enormously.

We will be having an art day at Christchurch Mansions and year 4 will be beginning their work towards their Arts Award Discover log book. Please look at the overview to find out more about the interesting and exciting work planned for this term.

Spellings

Each week children are given spellings to learn. They take them home in a little purple book for practising each day. One of the ways we can learn spellings is through Look/Cover/Write/Check.

Below is how this works:

Look, say, cover, write, check is a method of learning spelling, where children:

1. Study a word.
2. Say it aloud a few times.
3. Cover it up with a piece of paper or their hand.
4. Write the spelling next to the original word.
5. Check their version to see if they got it right.

It can really help with learning spellings. 

Welcome Back

Welcome back everyone!

Hope you all had a lovely summer holiday and feel refreshed and ready to go.

To start off our topic this term, we are going to be exploring Britain under the rule of the Romans. We are going to be finding out why their armies were so successful. We will also be looking for evidence of some of the the things we still have today that the Romans brought with them. To help us with our learning we will be going on a trip to Colchester Castle where we will find some evidence of the Romans living in Colchester nearly 2000 years ago. 

Our class book that we will be sharing together is 'I was there ... Boudica's army'. We will be reading the book together, talking about it and answering questions. Along with this, everyone will be taking part in the 40 book challenge. This is a challenge to read 40 school reading books throughout the school year. That is about 1 book a week. There are rewards to collect as you progress towards your goal of 40 books. Remember to record your reading at home in your home/school book.

Look at your learning conversation to remind you to tell your parents about what you did at school. Get them to sign your learning conversation to show me that you have shared your learning.

Each week we will be having two P.E. sessions, Monday and Tuesday. Please make sure you have full P.E. kit. This is plain black shorts or tracksuit bottoms, your house colour t-shirt with the school logo and plain, dark-coloured trainers. When the weather gets colder you might want to wear a school jumper or school hoody. All children with long hair must have it tied up and earrings must be removed or covered over with tape.

Homework will include reading, spellings - and for year 4 - learning your times tables. Of course if year 3 would like to get ahead then that would be great.

Don't forget to check out the term's overview to see what's coming up.

Lots of fun this term, but it is important to remember to work hard and always do your best.

Mrs. Giddings

Hello everyone and welcome back for the Summer Term. Congratulations! we are through to the semi-finals of the Suffolk Farming School of the Year Competition. We will be heading off to Ipswich to take part in different workshops, sharing our learning and aiming for a place in the final. 

Our topic this term is rivers and mountains and with our river right on the doorstep we'll be heading out to take a look to see if we can identify some of the features.

We'll be going to the cinema later in the term to watch our very own film that we are making! so keep a look out for the photos.

Our class book this term is Journey to the Last River - as we read we will follow the adventurer down the Amazon River looking for a secret, keeping our own journal of an imagined river trip of our own. Writing chapters and illustrating as we go.

Year 4 will be taking part in the Times Tables Check and I'm sure they will prove to be stars! We've got lots to look forward to and hopefully we can enjoy some long awaited sunshine too.

Autumn Term 2023

Welcome back everyone!

Hope you all had a lovely summer holiday and feel refreshed and ready to go.

To start off our topic this term, we are going to be archeologists and have a go at digging for artefacts.  We are going to be using some of these to help us find out all about the Stone Age, Bronze Age and then on to the Iron Age in our topic. We will be finding out about this period of prehistory, looking at their homes, life-styles and beliefs. In art, we will be exploring cave paintings and having a go at making our own.

Our class book that we will be sharing together is 'The Ice Monster' by David Walliams. We will be reading the book together, talking about it and answering questions. Along with this, everyone will be taking part in the 40 book challenge. This is a challenge to read 40 school reading books throughout the school year. That is about 1 book a week. There are rewards to collect as you progress towards your goal of 40 books. Remember to record your reading at home in your home/school book. Look at your learning conversation to remind you to tell your parents about what you did at school. Get them to sign your learning conversation to show me that you have shared your learning.

Each week we will be having two P.E. sessions, Monday and Wednesday. Please make sure you have full P.E. kit. This is plain black shorts or tracksuit bottoms, your house colour t-shirt with the school logo and plain, dark-coloured trainers. When the weather gets colder you might want to wear a school jumper or school hoody. All children with long hair must have it tied up and earrings must be removed or covered over with tape.

Homework will be given out on a Friday and needs to be returned to school by Wednesday of the following week. Try to have a look at the task over the weekend so that if you are not sure and need some help, you can come into school and ask me on Monday to go through it with you. Homework will also include spellings for you to learn throughout the week for a test on the following Monday. 

Don't forget to check out the term's overview to see what's coming up.

Lots of fun this term, but it is important to remember to work hard and always do your best.

Mrs. Giddings