A great trip to the Tower of London

The children in Year Four, parents and staff all thoroughly enjoyed visiting the Tower of London on Tuesday 23rd November 2011.

Helpful station staff assisted us onto the trains at each platform which made the journey to and from the Tower of London easier.

When we arrived at Tower Bridge station, there was only a short walk to the Tower. The children were excited to see all the different things they had been learning in school.

As they entered the tower gates, Class 4V and 4M took separate routes and rejoined at the end of the day. The children visited the White Tower, Beauchamp Tower, Salt Tower, Bloody Tower, Tower Green and the most exciting Jewel House. In addition to this, the children had an eventful session with a costumed character, exploring imprisonment, escape and execution in the Tudor times.

Although the Tower of London was not built as a prison, it has, over the centuries, acquired a fearsome reputation as the worst prison in the country. In the session, the children put themselves in the shoes of a prisoner and heard exciting stories of the Tower's dark history. Where would they have been locked up? What were the prisons at the Tower like? What crime might they have committed? This session especially supported skills of historical interpretation and historical enquiry by examining prison cells in the historic environment.

The children left the Tower of London full of knowledge and enthusiasm for learning.

Miss Man commented "We had a wonderful day trip to the Tower of London. The weather was really nice and everyone had so much fun."

Visiting a Synagogue

A great first hand experience, a lovely sight and a super afternoon!

The children had a great time at the synagogue and their behaviour was exceptional.


On arrival, the children waited quietly and patiently for Rabi Davis. When entering the synagogue he distributed a skull cap called the Kippah to all the boys. A Kippah is worn as a sign of respect.

Rabi Davis explained who and what the synagogue was used for, the history behind Judaism, stories about the great founder and showed us the Torah.

Thank you to Rabi Davis for allowing us have the priveledge to come and see the wonderful place of worship. The children througholy enjoyed the experience and learnt a lot from the session.

Wonderful 4M Class Assembly

On Tuesday 9^th November, Class 4M performed an excellent class assembly to the rest of the school and their parents.

The assembly covered a variety of topics that showed everyone what we have been learning about. We started off with singing a French song “Bonjour”. Then we talked about what we have learnt in our science, showed some of our art work and finished with a dance and song that we had learnt from our Samba lessons.

We worked extremely hard, trying to practise as much as possible to make it perfect.

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

Welcome to Year Four 2010 - 2011

Miss Man, Mrs James and Mr Venner would like to say a big welcome to the children in 4V and 4M.

There are many exciting and fun things they will be learning about throughout this term. Our two main topic theme this autumn term is Lights, Camera, Action and the Tudors. We have organised a very exciting trip to the Tower of London and to a synagogue.

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

Happy New Year

Welcome to 2010 in Year Four.

The teachers and staff in Year Four would like to welcome everyone back to school and to a brand new year.

We hope the children will enjoy all the up and coming events that the teachers have lined up for them throughtout this year.

Let us all have fun and work hard.

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)