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Keep up to date with what we have been getting up in Years 3 and 4. Also, any important information about dates and events will be posted here.
Only children who have photo permission will be able to have their photos posted on our website- please make sure this is up to date information with the office.
Spring 2
Comic Relief
A little change from the usual blue. Thank you for support comic relief.
Parents Evening
Please come and sign up to a time slot- sheets are outside classrooms. If you are unable to attend either Wednesday 26th March or Thursday 27th please speak to the class teacher to arrange a suitable day/ time.
Attendance
Wahoooo Cuffay class finally won the attendance award this week with 95%. 15 minutes extra play!
Mental health and well being
For mental health week, North class enjoyed exploring the flowers within Forest School. We were feeling connected to nature - hugging trees, smelling flowers, breathing in fresh air and plenty of laughs and smiles in the spring sunshine.
Reading Champions
WINNERS- Well done Cuffay for winning our whole school reading competition- recording 152 reads on Boom Reader. Keep up the reading this week!
World Book Day
What a fantastic day! Thank you for all your efforts supporting the children to dress up and coming to our stay and read session. We had lots of fun, completing Meadows Library competition, making reading rivers, everybody read, swapping teachers for story time and finding out who won the first reading champions trophy.
North class - drop everything and read on World book day!
North class - Reading Speed Dating on World Book Day!
Art
North class have loved painting their water colour backgrounds for their bird in the trees collage. We are excited to apply different materials next week to create texture - watch this space!
Geography
Sorry if the children came home smelling of shaving foam. They were exploring tectonic plates; divergent plate boundary, transform play boundary and convergent plate boundary. They learnt what happened when the boundary plates moved either causing earthquakes, volcanoes or forming mountains.
Library Visit
North class had a great time at Meadows Library and chose some fantastic books to read at school! We are so happy with our choices.
Spring 1
We did it!!
Well done Cuffay class on winning the whole school times table competition. This has made Mrs Nock very happy! :D
A extra well done to this guy- scoring the most points in the whole school- he is rapid!!
TTrockstars
Cuffay class didn't want to let their lead slip this morning- class effort.
Winners
A huge well done to our young writer competition winners who will be having their writing published in a book. What an achievement! We are very proud of you!
Mummification
Today, we learned about mummification and why Pharaohs were important in Ancient Egypt.
Science
We have been learning all about our skeleton and muscles and how muscles work. Also, how we look after our body. We carried out an investigation to see if whether longer femurs made you jump further.
Number day
Thank you everyone for dressing in digits on Friday. The children had a great day doing all things maths!
A huge well done for another Mathematician award. Fantastic work in maths, showing resilience when solving tricky problems, presenting her work beautifully and attending times table booster even though she doesn't need to!
Another year 4 child whizzing in their times tables (25/25)!!! Keep it up everyone. Remember to keep going on TTrockstars to practice, we want to beat Tagore!
DT
In DT, we have been researching (and playing with) pneumatic toys. We were observing how they worked and evaluating their effectiveness before designing and making our own Egyptian themed pneumatic toy.
Maths award
A huge well done on receiving a maths award from Miss Dean (our maths lead) for fantastic multiplication work using the grid method!
Headteacher awards
Well done to children in Cuffay on receiving a headteachers award for either getting 25/25 on practice MTC test or making incredible progress in their scores- we are very proud of you!!
Times table competition
Current standings in our whole school times table competition! Come on year 3 and 4!!
Autumn 2
Christmas Party
We had the best time partying on Wednesday (sorry we didn't get many photos). Thank you all for your kind party food contributions! What a fun afternoon it was!
Christmas Dinner
A massive thank you to our amazing kitchen staff who cooked our children a delicious Christmas dinner!
Winners
A huge well done to this terms work hard, be kind and be scholary winners from North, Cuffay and Bowden Class. Very well deserved awards. What wonderful role models!
Reader of Autumn 2 term
Huge well done to our reader of the half term- for reading the most times at home.
He enjoyed choosing his book on planes.
Art
Cuffay class have been practicing their sketching skills, looking at proportion, composition and pencil pressure to draw a still life piece of a fruit bowl.
Readers of Autumn 1
A massive well done to these boys in Cuffay class who recorded the most reads on BoomReader last half term.
It will start again from this half term (so don't worry if you didn't access it last half term).
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The two girls found the golden tickets but said we could all come to the chocolate factory with them. We visited the invention room and tried lots of different chocolate, sweets and drinks, Also, we carried out small experiments to see what happened when we put two things together.
We used our senses to describe what we could see, hear, taste, touch and smell to learn new vocabulary that we can use in their writing.
Parents evening
Wednesday 13th November
Thursday 14th November
Please come and sign up for a time with the class teacher. We look forward to seeing you all!
Sleep Workshop
Autumn 1
Torches
In DT this week, Cuffay Class have made their torches. They made switches so that they could turn them on and off.
Escape Room
Cuffay class managed to escape the cave with one minute to spare before enrichment. They demonstrated their knowldge on our rock topic, answering the different questions to crack the code.
Cuffay library visit
Library visits
Wednesday 16th October- Cuffay Class
Wednesday 23rd October - North Class
Wednesday 6th November- Bowden Class
If you are able to come and support this visit please your child's class teacher know :D
We will be leaving around 1.10pm and we will be back before the end of the school day.
Thank you.
Bottles
Reminder- please bring in any bottles the size of the one below (one I drank earlier) for our DT projects. We would like to start these next week. Thank you in advance.
Book bag folders
Please make sure your child brings their reading folder with their reading book in it every day.
Thank you.
Food festival- get involved :D
Published Writing
Our fantastic authors in Cuffay Class were busy publishing their writing last week. I am sure you will agree they look amazing. They have worked incredibly hard during the sequence of writing, building up to their final piece of writing. Very well done :D
Maths scrapbook
Just a reminder the children need to complete their family maths homework which is sent in their new maths scrap books every Monday. These then need to be returned completed the following Monday.
DT- researching circuits for our torches
This week Cuffay class have been making circuits. They have made their own switches and investigated which materials are good conductors and which ones are good insulators.
Parent meeting
Thank you everyone who attended it was great to see so many faces from year 3 and 4. We hope the meeting was useful.
Fabulous Forest School
10.09.24 - Cuffay and North class had a fantastic forest school session. We used sticks, stones and leaves to create our own Stone Age shelters. Wow we had so much fun!
