Year 3 Christmas Party

The Year Three children had lots of fun at there parties yesterday.  They played various games such as Pass the Parcel, Musical Statues, Musical Bumps and Pin the Nose on Rudolf. This was an opportunity for the children to team build and have fun.

We hope the children have enjoyed the fun activities of the last few days and we would like to say a big thank you for all of our lovely presents and cards. 

We look forwards to seeing you all in the New Year

Year 3 Awards 14.12.18

These children from Sequoia class received a 'Reflective' award this week. Keep up the great work.

Elvis & Elfie McMagic’s latest Antics...

While Miss Estall is still recovering from her shocking disappearance and ultimate rescue last week, the year 4's have no doubt that it was the work of a Christmas elf. But they still have many questions as to the motive behind Monday's mysterious events. They are busy writing their newspaper articles covering the bizarre story. Meanwhile, there are now 2 elves causing mischief in year 4. They are definitely cheeky, but also do not like messy classrooms! We wonder what they have in store for us over the next few days before Christmas break!

Year 4 Certificates 14.12.18

Presentation: Megan, Sophia

Reciprocity: Vinnie, Amandeep, Emily

Resilience: Florence, Ameerah, Leo

Resourceful: Keira

Reflective: Nina

Made my Teacher Happy: Riley, Rayne

Marvelous Mathematicians In Year 4

Year 4 have been developing their fluency, reasoning and problem solving in maths, and it's been all about the 6 times tables this week! Children used their reciprocity and resilience skills to create number lines of the 3 and 6 times tables. They were able to find many patterns and connections between them. 

"I can see that every number in the 6 times tables is also in the 3's" Kyla 

"I notice that if you know your 3's all you have to do is double it to know your 6's" Florence. 

"The 3's go odd, even, odd, even, but the 6's are all even" Harry.

Then partners tried hiding numbers to see whether their partner could figure out which was missing. We also played a number of games that required critical thinking and a secure knowledge of fact families to guess the number placed on their head. 

We ended the week with some reasoning problems which got those brains boggling!

"These one make my head hurt!" exclaimed Ruben

Remember, students should be practicing their time tables each day, and can use their online times table rock stars to improve their heat mat!

Year 4 Certificates 7.12.18

Presentation - Sajida, Leanne
Reflective: Naz, Roxy, Joshua
Reciprocity: Ruben, Hollie
Resourceful: Kiera
Resilience: Olivia
Teacher Happy: Ameerah

Year 4 Spellings 10.12.18

Year 3 Spellings 10.12.18

A                                 B

carbohydrates	carbohydrates
believe	lake
build	make
breath	fake
busy	rake
business	wake
picture	we
creature	can
capture	are
adventure	up
pictured	had
vitamin	vitamin
fat	fat
protein	protein
exercise	exercise
muscle	muscle
energy	energy
mineral	mineral
bones	bones
calcium	calcium
fuel	fuel

Artistic fun in Year 3

The children have been designing the front cover for the carol concert flyer.  The children were asked to draw a picture that symbolized Christmas for them. These children demonstrated great resilience, taking great care over their work and ensuring they added detail.   

Year 3 Awards - 7.12.18

Freddie and Ellie were resourceful when the way we do morning work changed last week. Blake found out a fantastic fact, Molly-May has been putting in so much effort and Jolene and Riley received a presentation award.  Good job to all of you, keep it up!

Miss Estall Taken!!!

Well, it is safe to say it has been an eventful day in Year 4. 

It all started pretty normal: morning work, maths, assembly and break. Then, mysteriously, after break Miss Estall was nowhere to be seen. She had vanished! 

Quickly, the children were on the case looking for her. But soon after, Miss Hamlin got a bizarre email telling Birch class to "check the blue drawer".  There they found an envelope with a letter in. Take a look...

The poetic letter spoke of someone from Year 2, who wore bells on their feet... The children soon deduced that this could be the work of a Christmas Elf but there wasn't one in sight. So, they passed this information onto Ash who also searched their classroom and they found the Elf! 

The Elf was sat naughtily holding a piece of paper saying "I've hidden her!" 

Immediately, they began investigating. They searched high and low and interviewed many people asking who had seen Miss Estall and when. Here is just some of the information the children managed to source: 

"Miss Chappel said she last saw her at the photocopier" 

"She was on her way to make a call  in the office" 

"Miss Chance said she was talking to her then she went to make a call but she never came back like she said she would"

"She went missing between 10:40 and 10:45 because she was seen before then and we came in at 10:45"

A few minutes later, Miss Hammond entered the class looking for Miss Estall too! She has a suspicious package addressed for Year 4. It was a code which needed breaking to discover the location of Miss Estall. So of course the children got straight to work to crack the code. 

It read "Complete me and you'll see where she be..."

The code led the children to the Year 1 area and Miss Estall was eventually found, with an elf jumper shoved on her head and wrapped in tinsel in the cupboard! She had no recollection of the events apart from being on the phone and feeling something cover her head! The next thing she knew, she was in the cupboard!

Shocked and disorientated, Miss Estall emerged from the darkness. 

This is now an on-going investigation in Year 4. We are yet to agree exactly how this happened or who the culprit is. Miss Estall is convinced that the Year 4 children had something to do with it but the children are certain it is the magic of the Christmas Elf!

The children have been investigating and piecing the  clues and witness statements together. 

Watch this space for any updates! 

Year 4 Spellings 3.12.18

A	B	C
Atrocious	Atrocious	Atrocious
poisonous	curious	try
courageous	hideous	children
serious	anxious	coming
outrageous	obvious	things
humorous	jealous	any
tremendous	glamorous	live
enormous	fabulous	why
anonymous	disastrous	when
adventurous	nervous	they
ridiculous	ridiculous	who
evidence	evidence	evidence
observed	observed	think
abandoned	abandoned	horribly
escaped	escaped	escaped
swerved	swerved	swerved
captured	captured	captured
criminal	criminal	quickly
traumatised	traumatised	slowly
miserable	miserable	miserable
anxious	anxious	gently

Year 4 Certificates 30/11/18

Reflective: Archie
Resourceful: Harry
Resilient: Alice, Charlie
Reciprocity: Tristan, Paris

Year 4 Christmas Carol Service

We warmly invite you to join Year 4 for a Christmas celebration on Monday 17th December at  St Georges church, Harold Hill. 

The service last year was a huge success and we are very excited about working alongside our local parish again. The children have all worked very hard during the preparations over the last few weeks.

After school on Monday 17th December, we would like all the children in Year 4 to stay in school so that we can walk to the church together and make sure everyone is prepared and ready.  We will provide a hot meal and refreshments before the church service for all the children.

We would love to see as many of the family members there as possible. If you are able to attend, please arrive at St George’s Church, Hilldene by 4.45pm.  If you are unable to attend, please ensure somebody is able to collect your child at 6.00pm.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event and would like to thank you for your continuing support.

Yours sincerely,

 Miss Estall & Miss Hamlin 

Key information 

All Year 4 Pupils

Monday 17th December 5pm
St Georges church, Harold Hill 

Finish time: 6pm
Collection from the Church - not School. 

Year 4 - Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime

Year 4 - Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime

We are delighted to inform you that a trip has been booked for our Year 4 children. The trip will allow the children to experience a pantomime at the Queen’s theatre. The Jack and the Beanstalk production has sparkling sets, colourful costumes, tunes that everyone knows, lots of laughter and most importantly plenty of audience participation.

The Year 4 children will be visiting the Queen’s theatre on Tuesday 18th December 2018, the performance will begin at 10:00am. All children should be in school by 8:45am as we will be leaving at 9:15am. We expect to arrive back at school at approximately 1.00pm so the children will need to either bring in a packed lunch or order a School packed lunch.

The children will be travelling via coach to the Queen’s theatre and will be returning by bus. The children will be accompanied by teachers and support staff from the school.

The trip costs £1812 in total for the Year 4 classes at Mead and Broadford Primary School. We are asking for a contribution of £10 per child to cover part of the pantomime performance and the coach. Please make your contributions on sQuid. If you have any questions or queries about payment, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.

Please click here to complete the trip form.

Year 3 Spellings 26.11.18

Year 4 Awards 22.11.18

Congratulations to these fabulous year 4 students who have won awards this week!

Reciprocity: Olivia

Reflectiveness: Dora

Reciprocity: Billy, Olivia

Resourcefulness: Roxy, Rashid

Made my Teacher Happy: Vinnie

Year 4 Spellings 26.11.18

	A	B	C
1	evolution	evolution	evolution
2	frantically	gently	touch
3	angrily	simply	double
4	comically	happily	mouth
5	basically	basically	couch
6	wholly	dramatically	trouble
7	stretcher	furniture	don’t
8	creature	picture	can’t
9	treasure	catcher	didn’t
10	unsure	unsure	doesn’t
11	flooring	measure	won’t
12	caption	caption	caption
13	tense	tense	tense
14	Newspaper	Newspaper	Newspaper
15	report	report	report
16	recount	recount	recount
17	title	title	title
18	information	information	information
19	fact	fact	fact
20	opinion	opinion	opinion
21	quote	quote	quote