Headteacher: Anna Moss

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Blue Class

Happy Easter Blue Class

Hello Blue Class,

Well done for another great half term where we have enjoyed learning about The Vikings and Easter as well as enjoying our first bell boating session along the Alvechurch canal. Your performance on the steps last Wednesday to welcome in Spring gave your families a lovely start to their day and I think they were blown away with your final song where you sang in harmony.

All term you have continued to work with enthusiasm, care and effort and it was lovely to share your books during parent consultations to see the progress you are making. 'Take a Trip' is our new topic when we return where another award winning text, 'Journey to Jo'burg' and new challenging but exciting learning await us alongside the opportunity to revisit previous knowledge and skills to help you become confident and competent learners.

Have a well deserved rest over the holiday but also try and find time to work on your targets that were sent home including regular reading and times table practise (see if you can master the 7s and start to learn the 9s). Doing this a little and often will make a big difference and help you make further progress next term. We look forward to seeing you on Monday 28th April but in the meantime have a lovely Easter break.

Keep safe and have fun!

Love from Miss Townsend and Miss Kuriger x

Happy Half Term Blue Class

Well done Blue Class for another successful half term during which you continued to work hard with resilience and independence. We kicked off 2025 with an exciting 'Let's Perform' topic where you performed your gymnastics routine linked to The Willow Pattern story to the rest of the school and enjoyed creating films linked to all of your learning. You proudly shared them with Yellow Class who were very impressed with your film making skills. This topic ended with a lovely treat when Allan Drummond zoomed into the classroom after he had received your letters you wrote in English. He was very impressed with your writing and it was lovely to be able to ask him lots of questions and hear about and see some of the latest books and illustrations he is working on at the moment.

We finished the half term with a 'Beliefs and Values' topic where we enjoyed reading an award-winning text, The Rhythm of Rain by Grahame Baker-Smith, and created your own information poster to help people learn how special water is. We hope your grown ups at home have enjoyed reading them. During this topic we also learned about the Hindu faith. Our trip to the Hindu temple was certainly a fascinating one particularly being able to observe many rituals, see artefacts and hear stories learned about in school. Visiting such a place, for many of us, was very different and new but the respect and curiosity shown by all of you was noted by our guide and other visitors there. These experiences are important in helping you to understand how diverse our local area is and how such diversity helps make our community and wider world an interesting place to live.

It has been a busy and hardworking half term so have a good break this week. We hope you are enjoying time at home or away, with lots of time to rest and play. A little bit of reading and times table practice would be really helpful too so that you continue where you left off when you return. We look forward to seeing you on Monday 24th February when we will be stepping back in time and learning about The Vikings!

Be safe, helpful and kind and we'll see you all soon.

Love from Miss Townsend and Miss Kuriger xxx

Happy Christmas Blue Class

Well done Blue Class for a great end of term. Your performance of The Nutcracker was fantastic and certainly gave the Birmingham Royal Ballet a run for their money! You led the way brilliantly as Year 4s with great singing, dancing, acting, narrating and even being stagehands.

We’ve certainly shared a lot of exciting learning this half term including our Book Celebration Day, delving into the fictional works of Charles Dickens and investigating states of matter in Science including a chocolate experiment! And what a lovely end to the term this week with a festive panto, a delicious Christmas dinner (thank you to Mrs Barker, Mrs Miles and Miss Shepherd) and fun party games! Being crowned Christmas Wake 'n' Shake Champions this afternoon was a perfect way to end the term. You've all been stars and have made it really enjoyable for the adults too.

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and enjoy having fun and lots of rest with your family. Thank you so much for the very kind gifts and messages. It is very kind and generous of you.

Only five more sleeps to go so keep being patient and keep safe.

Love from Miss Townsend, Miss Kuriger, Mrs Spurgeon, Mrs Cooper and Mrs Taylor xxx