Our Wonderful Christmas Spectacular

On Tuesday 15th December, Year Four had a Christmas Spectacular in the Infant Hall at 9:15am.

The Christmas Spectacular was a Year Four Business and Enterprise Challenge (BEC), to raise money for the year group to subside the forth coming trip to the Tower Of London.

What is the Christmas Spectacular you ask???

The Christmas Spectacular is a Coffee and Chat morning with a Christmas twist. Parents from Year Four were invited by the children to come along and celebrate this festive time of year.

There were workshops for the parents to do with the children’s supervision, such as making Christmas cards, paper chain challenge and making Christmas decorations. In addition to this, the children provided the parents with refreshments (for a small charge) and entertainment.

For three weeks, the children worked very hard on their BEC project. The children were split into six groups:

Advertising

Refreshment

Entertainment

Decoration

Treasurers

Workshop

Each group were responsible for organising their particular area of the event (under the supervision of the teachers and LSA’s).

All in all, it ended with a very successful and enjoyable morning. The children are delighted to have raised a small profit.

Everyone had fun and we would like to say “A BIG THANK YOU” to all the parents and family members, as well as staff, who have supported the children and attended this very special event.

4M's Spectacular Class Performance

On Tuesday 17th November 2009, Class 4M performed a wonderful assembly about Silent Movies and Varjak Paw.

Varjak Paw is a story that we have been studying in our Literacy lesson. We turned the beginning of the story into a silent movie.

We worked extremely hard, trying to practise everyday to make it perfect.

The parents, children and teachers were over the moon and enjoyed every minute of the performance.

Some children in Class 4M commented the following:

“The performance was really good and when someone did something wrong, it looked like it was part of the play” (EM)

“It was good fun performing it and it was good to see the younger children laughing” (EL)

“The play that we performed was really good and exciting for the parents to see” (OA)

“I really enjoyed doing the play and the acts were really funny. I can’t wait for the next one” (TJ)

“At the start I thought it was scary but in the middle of it, it was okay. I thought the assembly was really good” (SK)

“At the start I felt very scared and in the middle I enjoyed it more” (DM)

“At the assembly, I felt really shocked that the infants were laughing to our funny scenes” (MF)

Year Four Harvest Rap

On Wednesday 30th September at 10:45am, KS2 children from Manford Primary went to St Paul's Church for a harvest celebration.

Year Four pulled off an amazing Harvest rap based on the tune of 'Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air'. The reviews from staff and pupils from Manford Primary, as well as the members of St Paul's church community have commented favourably.

We changed some lines from the original lyrics of the ‘Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ and practised this song everyday. We designed CD covers for our rap in our I.C.T lessons.

Children made the following comments about the performance:

‘I felt scared at the beginning of the song and then I started to get happy because it didn’t seem so bad once we started rapping’ (C.E)

‘I felt quite shy because I had to perform it in front of the whole of Key Stage 2 but once I got really into it, I started to feel ok’ (E.M)

‘I felt nervous but at the end I got the hang of it and enjoyed it’ (J.V)

‘I thought that the rap was fun but nerve wracking to sing in front of everyone’ (D.K)

We enjoyed our rap performance at the church and look forward to Harvest 2010.

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Welcome to Year Four 2009-2010

Miss Man, Mrs Wix, Mr Rhodes and Mr Hall would like to say a big welcome to the children in 4R and 4M. We have lots of interesting topics to keep the children interested and entertained.

The Year Four topic theme this autumn term is Lights, Camera, Action. Here the children will be learning about silent movies, light and shadows, and many more exciting things.

We hope all the children will work hard and enjoy this term.

Samba drumming

This year 4M and 4K have enjoyed a 14 week project (on one afternoon per week) learning the art of Samba drumming. This can be a very noisy activity (no complaints fron the neighbours yet!) but the tutors are very professional and coach the children into producing a wonderful Samba sound. They not only use drums as the title suggests, but also other musical instruments and part of the experience includes learning traditional Samba rhythms and rhymes.

Y4 At the Tower of London

On Thursday 7th May 2009 4M and 4K went to the historic Tower of London. All the children were very excited to find out more about Tudors for their history topic.We travelled by train to Tower Hill and arrived at about 10:15.The children consolidated their knowledge on Henry Vlll and the Tudors by looking at artefacts and seeing Henry's full body armour for real!The children also took part in a drama workshop where they performed in small groups to the pubilc.Over all, it was a fantastic day and many children were saying how much they would like to return.