05/06/2020

Hello Year 4!
It was lovely to catch up with you all again on Zoom today. I hope you all enjoyed the scavenger hunt. Apologies for the confusion, but we will be having a Zoom call next week and it will be every other week from then on. I will send out the details of the calls by Tuesday. 

I hope you have enjoyed the Anglo Saxon project this week. I have loved seeing all of the things you have made! 

As promised, here are some more pictures of Stanley.

Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Bradford

22/05/2020

Hello Year 4!

I hope you have all enjoyed the sunshine this week. It was lovely to catch up with you on Zoom yesterday and enjoy your 'show and tells'. It definitely helped keep my spirits high. As promised, I am including some pictures of my new puppy Stanley onto this blog (although you can certainly tell how long we have been in lockdown from the colour of my hair). Those of you who were on the Zoom call yesterday know how excited I was to share this good news with you. He has already made a great addition to The Bradford Family. 

I hope you all enjoy half term and break from home learning. I would like to thank all of you who have completed and sent me work from the family project. The level of work I have received has been fantastic, I am so pleased and proud of all of your efforts. 

Stay safe, take care and remember you can always email me with any questions or queries. 

Miss Bradford :) 

15/05/2020

Hello Year 4!

I hope you are all continuing to keep safe and well during this time. I can't believe that Monday will be the 7th week of learning from home (not including the Easter Holidays). I am missing you all and the normal school routine very much, but it has been lovely to keep in touch with you over emails and Zoom. The smaller Zoom calls seemed to have been a success this week, but please don't worry if you did not manage to get on as I will be doing it again next week. You will all recieve information by Tuesday of your Zoom meetings. I will switch up the groups slightly this week so that you get a chance to speak to other memebers of the class, but I will still ensure that you are with your friends.

I hope you have all enjoyed taking part in the Family project this week. The standard of work that I have been receving from you all has been incredible. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for working so hard during this time, and a massive thank you to your family for supporting you with this too. I am so pleased with how hard you have been working, and how creative you have been in your designs. As I mentioned on the Zoom call, this project will be extended for another week to give you a chance to finish it off, as I know quite a few of you were using the start of the week as a few catch up days. However, if you have finished your project, I have included some extra tasks that will be on the class pages for you to complete to add to your 'scrapbook'. Make sure you read the example I have given you as there is a funny true family story that I have written and shared with you!

Have a lovely weekend and stay safe!
Miss Bradford

08/05/2020

Hello Year 4! 
It was so lovely to catch up with most of you on Zoom this week. I hope you enjoyed it. Next week we will be having another Zoom meeting, but instead of it being a whole class meeting, I will be holding several smaller meetings in groups of 6. I cannot guarantee who will be in which group as of yet, but I will try my best to make sure you are with your close friends. These sessions will be up to 15 minutes long and will give everyone a bit more a chance to speak and share anything you would like to. The meetings will be taking place on Thursday afternoon. You will receive your Zoom meeting details including the time on Monday. 

When you look at the class page on Monday, you will see next week is slightly different as we are linking our English, geography, art, History, PSHE and ICT learning into a project. You will still have your daily maths tasks to complete.

Thank you to all of you who have sent emails for our rolypoly/cartwheel challenge. I will be editing this on Sunday morning, so you have up until then to send me your videos. I will post the edited video on Monday so make sure you check the blog!

Have a great weekend!
Miss Bradford

01/05/2020

Hello Year 4!

I hope you are all keeping safe and well. I am missing you all lots, but it is lovely to receive lots of emails from you keeping me updating with how you are getting on. I hope you are finding the work okay, but please do not worry if you are finding it difficult to complete all of it. We all really appreciate that these are hard times for everyone, so just do the best you can. Remember that your health and happiness are the most important things. However, if you are struggling and want to continue with the work, please take a break from it and email me and I will do my best to support you. 

Some exciting news!

If you cast your mind back to February when you all received letters from the children at the school in America, well... your reply letters made it to the children! They aren't at school either at the moment, but I took pictures of all your letters and managed to send them to their teacher who was able to share the letters with the class on a video call. They LOVED your replies! 

I hope you enjoy this video below. I have set a challenge for us. I hope to get lots of replies from  

you all! 

Stay safe and keep in touch. 

Miss Bradford

28/04/20

Hello Year 4,

Just a quick note to say I hope you and your families are all keeping safe and well during this time. It feels like a long time since I have seen you all and I am missing you very much. However, it has been so lovely to receive emails from lots of you sharing your work with me, but also letting me know you are getting on. If you have not already emailed me please do so as I would love to check in with how you are doing. 

I hope you are enjoying the home learning activities set and remember if you have any questions please email me. 

I hope you enjoyed our staff video. Keep checking the blog every Friday from now on with weekly updates a few extra fun bits. 

Keep safe!

Miss Bradford

03/04/2020

Hello Year 4!

I hope you are all safe and well and have settled into the routine of working from home. I am missing you all lots, but it has been great to receive emails from many of you showing me all the great work you have been producing. Remember you can email me any questions you have during this time. Below I have listed a few optional activities for the children to complete over Easter as I appreciate that this is a different sort of ‘holiday’ and it may be helpful to have a few things to keep you all busy. You do not have to do all of them, choose which ones you would like to do. It may be a nice thing for you to do with your family. Try and stay positive and enjoy this very rare opportunity to be with your family at home, and enjoy each others company. Stay safe and keep in touch!

Activity ideas:

•        -Keep a diary (if you haven’t already). This can include pictures of you and your family and all the activities you have got up to in this time. This will be great for you to reflect on when you are older.
•         Clear out your old toys and consider donating ones you don’t play with anymore to charity. (You may have to hold onto them until after this all finishes, but this is a great time to get organised).
•         Bake some hot cross buns. You can find lots of recipes online, but this is one I have used https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-hot-cross-buns. Research why we have hot cross buns at Easter.
•           Create some Easter acrostic poems. Use different words associated with Easter as a starting point.
•           Learn to tie your laces!
•       Learn to tell the time.
•         Create and design some Easter cards.
•           Complete some Easter inspired Zentangles! Instead of drawing a square draw an Easter egg shape and complete your zentangle design in there.
•           Follow Joe Wick’s workouts on YouTube. Try and design your own workouts, and include some dance moves too.
•       Do some research on the Rainforest. Think about the questions we generated as a class, and all of the things you wanted to find out about. 
•           Go on scavenger hunt on your nature walks, or in your garden. There are a few ideas of different scavenger hunts below but you can make up your own ones. Please email me if you would like copies of these.

Remember to keep reading, keep up with Mathletics, and practising your timetables using the games at the top of the blog.

Stay safe!
Miss Bradford