Hello everyone!

Welcome to Sycamore Class! We hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer break. It has been good to see the children getting back in the swing of things in school – they’ve adapted brilliantly to the new procedures and habits in school.

This week, we have been thinking about our Class Charter and working out what we can remember from the last time the children were last back in the classroom!

As they did in Year 3, the children have PE on Thursday afternoons. They will need to have clothing for both indoor and outdoor PE as the weather becomes colder and wetter. They will need to arrive to school in their PE kits on Thursdays. Children also need to make sure that they take their earrings out before they do PE. This is for their safety during those lessons. Children are very welcome to have their water bottles in class – we encourage them to drink as much water as possible throughout the day. We would also like the children to bring in their reading books each day. Due to current procedures, we will be changing reading books on a Tuesday only. We know that this is not ideal but we hope that children will have enough time to read their new book and, if they choose, can read a book from home as well. Homework takes shape in the form of the project sheets which are similar to those from last year. This will be checked each Friday. The children will also be given spellings and will be tested on those on a Friday.

I think that you children have settled in very well so far considering the vast amount of time they have had away from school. It has been fantastic meeting them all and I am sure that we will have a great year this year!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Martin

Hello everyone,

I hope you’re all keeping well. I cannot believe that we are at the end of the school year. It has been such a bizarre year and I never imagined in September that the year would end up like this. It has been wonderful teaching you all – you have all worked so hard and I am proud to see the progress that you are making.

Thank you to everyone who has sent me work via our class email address. I know that it has been difficult trying to work and concentrate in different cicrumstances.

Finally, I wish you all the very best for Year 5 and beyond. Keep working hard and be kind to everyone! Enjoy the summer holidays and we will see you all in September.

Take care,

Mrs Brunyard

Hello everyone,

I hope you’re all keeping well and staying safe. I hope some of you have managed to have a go at the Joe Wicks PE lessons. Exercise is a really good way to keep yourself healthy both physically and mentally. It’s also good to try and go for a walk to get some fresh air as well (just make sure you keep two metres away from other people).

A great website for resources is Twinkl. If you follow the link https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents there are lots of resources aimed at each of the specific year groups. There is all sorts on there which are linked to most subjects.

Another website is RadioBlogging which is run by a group of current and former teachers. Pie Corbett (the guru for Talk for Writing which we do in Literacy) is also part of it. https://radioblogging.net/?fbclid=IwAR3d2J6YVVtaFHa01RYhPY-tWqV6snGuP55hM4L56lO9oZk1f-wXfDA-ii8

The children can also access Mathletics, Espresso and NumberGym from home as well.

I hope you’re all well and looking after each other. Read plenty, enjoy the rest, learn a new skill and be kind.

Take care and hopefully see you soon!

Mrs Brunyard

Hello everyone!

This has been a very strange and anxious week for all of us! I can imagine that some of you are starting to get a little restless as we are now very limited as to what we can do. There is a fantastic range of activities to do online that you can do at home. I am sure lots of you have heard of Joe Wicks’ daily PE lessons. They are free to access and are on YouTube – just search ‘Joe Wicks PE lessons’ or ‘The Body Coach TV’. They run at 9am every Monday to Friday.

There is also another great activity if you are particularly keen on drawing. If you go to http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob there are regularly-updated, short videos of how to draw different animals/characters. I particularly like the Gregosaurus one!

The DfE has also released an ‘Activity Passport’ which has lots of different activities to do both indoor and outdoor. There are all sorts of ideas of things that you can do – you don’t have to stick to the Year 4 ones! More information can be found following the link:  https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/772070/My_Activity_Passport.pdf

Energize for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin has also put together a site which has lots of different websites that you can access to keep yourself busy and active. https://www.energizestw.org.uk/energize-resources

The work set on the 20th March should last another week. We will then set some more work for you to do after the Easter holidays. I know that it has been really tricky to stay inside and at home during this last week but it is so important that you do. We all find it difficult to stay at home and not go and meet family and friends but everyone needs to try their best to prevent the spread of this terrible virus.

I hope you are all staying safe and well.

Take care and look after each other,

Mrs Brunyard