Fox Class News (Year 3 & 4)
Welcome to the new 2024/2025 Fox Class! - Mrs Carvey & Mrs Godsmark
23/07/24- Our final day of the school year! A big thank you to our PTA for organising and paying for an ice cream van for everyone in the school. Happy summer everyone!
22/07/24- One of our choices for our final week was baking! We got to bake and decorate solar system cupcakes and had lots of fun working in a team. We spoke about hygiene in the kitchen and how we need to ensure everything is clean the whole time we are cooking. We also all helped to tidy away, as that is a big part of cooking and baking too!
19/07/24- We had lots of fun creating clay sculptures in Art today! We learnt different techniques to create some very interesting objects!
11/07/24- Having another go at our DT projects. We learnt from our mistakes and were much more successful!
09/07/24- We were very lucky that one of our families let us borrow some real life war artefacts. We got to analyse them and try to guess what they meant or were used for.
08/08/24- Team building games!
05/07/24- In DT, we have been thinking about structures and today we worked in groups to try and create a bridge. We learnt lots from our mistakes that we can try next time
05/07/24- Making nets
28/06/24- Thinking about position and direction by being guides for our blindfolded friends!
18/06/24- We had a lovely day at West Stow Country Park with our friends from St Giles and Wethersfield as part of our History curriculum.
17/06/24- Learning all about tables and statistics in Maths!
14/06/24- Using newspapers to create imaginative images!
07/06/24- Taking our Maths learning outside to learn the time!
06/06/24- All ready for Mrs Park’s special D Day lunch!
06/06/24- Learning how to tell the time!
05/06/24- Sports Day! What a brilliant day with everyone trying their best and taking part.
24/05/24- Fox Class were very lucky today to be visited by a real life Vet, to help us with our topic of ‘Animals’ in Science. Gina the Vet talked to us about being a responsible pet owner, showed us some X-Rays to help us learn about skeleton structures and she brought some stethoscopes for us to try with each other! Gina even brought in a real life Guinea pig, to help us practice how to be responsible pet owners.
17/05/24- We have loved starting our topic of ‘money’ this week in Maths. We have been recognising coins, making amounts using different coins and finding change!
13/05/24- After reflecting on our Earth day assembly, we conducted some research on the parts of nature we noticed outside and found out why it is so important to protect! We made information leaflets aimed at KS1 and even got to go and present them to the classes. We used our presenting voices and made sure we were clear and informative. We hope our leaflets inspired KS1!
09/05/24- Loving our lunchtime activities in the sunshine!
07/05/24- We have been thinking about Earth day in assembly this week. When reflecting on assembly, we decided to take our learning outside and try to appreciate parts of nature that we might not have noticed before.
26/04/24- In our History, we have been learning about the Anglo-Saxons! Today we had a go at drawing some.
15/04/24- Foxes have absolutely loved working on their teamwork skills in PE.
28/03/24- Fox Class were very lucky to have an Easter visitor today! We all got to have a cuddle and learn how to look after the lamb!
21/03/24- After designing our own dips in DT, we made some of our own! We made Greek tzatziki with Robin class and all had a go at preparing the different ingredients. We worked well as a group at discussing the different methods and how we should season the dip. We all got to try some and most of us liked it and took some home!
15/03/24- To celebrate Red Nose Day, we had a non uniform day and got to decorate red nose themed biscuits at lunch! Look at some of our amazing creations!
12/03/24- We loved welcoming Squirrels from St Giles and Swifts from Wethersfield today to join us at a Science workshop. We learnt how to make land yachts and even got to race them!
11/03/24- For our DT topic of ‘Dips’, we thought it was essential that we tried a range of dips before we looked into their ingredients and how to make our own. We all got to try ones we hadn’t tried before and some of us found a new favourite!
07/03/24- World Book Day fun!
27/02/24- As we have started our fractions topic in Maths, we have been finding amounts in a group.
13/02/24- Valentines Disco! We had so much fun!
12/02/24- As it is Shrove Tuesday this week, we have been thinking about temptation and what it means, as Jesus had to resist temptation in the desert! Miss Elvin tempted us with some sweets and we had to resist the urge to eat them during the lesson. Some of us managed it, but others found it tricky to resist temptation!
08/02/24- We wanted to find out how far 1000m was, so we decided to get some meter rulers and go on an adventure! We found out that from our classroom to the hall, and around the hall in a square 4 times is 94m. This means 1000m is really far!
01/02/24- We have started our topic of measuring in Maths and are having lots of fun getting to find measurements of some classroom items!
24/01/24- Based on our class text, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we have been looking at newspaper articles and getting ready to write our own. Looking at examples is a great way to find features and get ideas!
19/01/24- We have all been working so hard this week on dividing 2 digit and 3 digit numbers by a 1 digit number. We love using our Maths equipment to help us and we have been doing great at working together to find the answer when things get tricky.
15/01/24- In Music this week, Foxes were thinking about musical families and created a beautiful piece of music, conducted amazingly too.
08/01/24- We began our first day of Spring term by thinking about our aims and goals for 2024. We all agreed to ‘reach for the stars’ and aim high! It will be brilliant to look back on these at the end of the year and see what we achieved.
20/12/23- Part of our Christingle service. All of the children were very sensible and the hall looked beautiful with all of the Christingles lighting the room.
20/12/23- Finishing our Autumn term with a beautiful Christingle service, led by Rev. Claire.
19/12/23- One of the best parts of the countdown to Christmas... Mrs Park’s famous Christmas dinner! Everybody enjoyed it, even the teachers!
15/12/23- We had SO much fun on our annual trip to the pantomime (oh no we didn’t... oh yes we did!) Everybody was beautifully behaved and enjoyed the show thoroughly.
12/12/23- I am super proud of everyone after our KS2 Christmas concert this week. You all did amazingly and it sounded beautiful. Well done Foxes and Owls! :)
04/12/23- Some of used the snow in our tuff tray to create a volcano- a great way of reminding ourselves of last half term’s Geography topic and remembering the structure of a volcano!
30/11/23- Carrying on with our DT topic of pneumatics, we made planes that were powered by actual air! We worked together as a team and found that the bigger we blew up the balloon, the faster and the further the plane would travel.
30/11/23- Marking St Andrew’s day with a service in Church. We wrote some lovely prayers and poems that we read out to everyone.
28/11/23- We have loved using practical equipment in our Maths. We are working hard on using Mathematical language when comparing different statements.
16/11/23- In DT, we made some pneumatic straw rockets! We loved testing them out and experimenting with how we could get them to go further. Mable found that if she made the tip of her rocket really pointy and tight, it went much further.
13/11/23- Taking part in a very special BBC live lesson in aid of ‘Anti-Bullying Week 2023’. We learnt lots and even got to send messages to other schools!
10/11/23- Some lovely pieces of artwork done by members of Fox Class to take to Church tomorrow for our Remembrance service.
08/11/23- Fox Class recieved an exciting letter in the post today- a letter from the new King and Queen! They thanked us for our lovely letters we sent in the Summer term. What a lovely surprise!
02/11/23- We have really enjoyed creating some beautiful pieces of artwork around Fireworks night. We practiced our control and precision with our chalks to try and get some lovely details in our pictures.
31/10/23- Getting practical with our multiplication learning!
18/10/23- Creating our own photos of our school in the style of LS Lowry
11/10/23- Thank you to everyone who donated something for our Harvest Festival.
10/10/23- Our amazing trip to Layer Marney Tower. We had the best day and learnt so many new things. It was lovely to be able to go with the Year 3/4 classes from St Giles and Wethersfield too, so we made new friends as well as learning new things about the Tudors for our History topic.
03/10/23- Fox Class have really enjoyed looking at the paintings of LS Lowry and recreating some of his most famous works!
25/09/23- Taking our learning outside to make some Roman numerals!
21/09/23- Assembly this week has been about being a positive light, so we decided to spread our positive light around the school community! We really enjoyed writing positive messages and handing them out.
20/09/23- Playing games in French to help us learn new vocabulary!
15/09/23- Getting used to using the interactive whiteboard to help us with Maths!
14/09/23- We have been looking at continuous patterns and spirals in assembly, so wanted to give it a go for ourselves!
11/09/23- We love working together in a groups to solve tasks and problems
08/09/23- Getting practical with our place value knowledge!
06/09/23- Working in groups in Music, learning about beat and pulse
05/09/23- Welcome to the new Fox Class for 2023/2024!
21/07/23- End of term celebrations! Wishing everyone a relaxing summer holiday.
11/07/23- Foxes have enjoyed completing their final Art pieces ready to show everyone at Open evening!
21/06/23- We have had lots of fun this week making our own Maths games! We have included lots of aspects of our Maths, such as money and fractions. Some of us made new versions of games such as Monopoly and others made up a brand new game.
07/06/2023- We have had a lovely day today at the River Stour Educational Trust Centre. First we went pond dipping to find new and exciting creatures. We were able to identify lots of life within the river! We also went on a boat ride and were able to operate the lock too. We then had a quiz where we had to search for features around the site. We practiced water safety and working as a team. A great day in the sunshine!
25/05/23- Thinking about Mrs Nichols’ assembly all about what we are going to aspire to be when we grow up, we have been thinking about the skills we need to help us and how we can apply these to our learning today.
05/05/2023- Celebrating King Charles III’s coronation! We had a brilliant day, full of party games, royal activities and a feast fit for a king! We even wrote the King a letter to congratulate him on his special day.
05/05/2023- Celebrating the coronation at Forest school.
21/04/2023- We have been thinking about resilience in class and how to keep going and never give up when things get tricky. We practiced this important skill with a card tower! It was super tricky, but lots of us didn’t give up and even made quite a tall tower.
23/03/2023- Forest school was particularly muddy today, but we showed some amazing teamwork skills!
10/03/2023- Snow, in March!!
03/03/2023- World Book Day!
20/02/2023- We have had some lovely sessions with Delana from the Christian Youth Outreach group. She has been coming in to teach us all about Jesus ‘a-cross the world’. We have had the opportunity to learn about Christianity within different cultures, make a cross to symbolise this and try new food too! We have absolutely loved these sessions.
06/02/2023- We are really enjoying Forest School this term!
31/01/23- We joined our friends in Squirrel Class at St Giles and went on a trip to Gainsborough House. We enjoyed seeing all of beautiful portraits and we learnt lots about how they were made, which we will be applying in our Art lessons. Can you recognise anyone in some of the portraits? We think some of them look familiar!
25/01/23- We enjoyed our work on gifts and talents so much that we wanted to make a display on our classroom door that represented us. We each coloured in our handprints and wrote on them things that make us special and unique. Added together, they make a beautiful masterpiece!
18/01/23- We have been working on all different things for ‘Energy Saving Week’ and have come up with some ways we can help to save energy!
12/01/23- For our first full week back at school for 2023, we have been thinking about Miss Gilbranch’s assembly all about our gifts and talents. We imagined we were given a door- like in Encanto- and thought about which of our special ‘gifts’ would be behind our door.
20/12/22- We roasted marshmallows and made s’mores on the playground with Miss Elvin, Mrs Digby and Miss Morton on our last day of term!
16/12/22- All dressed up in our Christmas jumpers for Christmas dinner day!
15/12/22- Having lots of fun at this year’s pantomime- Robin Hood!
07/12/22- Well done Foxes on an amazing Christmas concert!
05/12/22- A beautiful advent wreath made, just like the one we saw in assembly.
28/11/22- Finding fun ways to learn our times tables!
25/11/22- An exciting assembly from iRock!
23/11/22- Thinking about gases in Science... what makes our drinks fizzy!
15/11/22- Fun at Forest School!
9/11/22- We went to the Church for a Remembrance Day service. We read out some poems and laid some poppies we had made.
17/10/22- We have enjoyed looking at Van Gogh and creating some of his most famous creations, looking at his techniques.
12/10/22- Our school trip to Stansted Mountfitchet Castle!
10/10/2022- We were lucky enough to get to visit the library bus today. We picked out some really exciting new books to read!
07/10/22 - We have really enjoyed our Roman topic this term!
03/10/22- Taking our learning outside to make some Roman numerals
16/09/22- Foxes have created a lovely art display in memory of Her Majesty, The Queen
13/09/22- Practicing our place value skills in Maths
06/09/2022- Forest school fun with Miss Morton!
06/09/2022- Getting used to using all of our practical equipment in Maths
05/09/2022- Getting to know each other on the first day back!
A very warm welcome to the new 2022/2023 Fox Class!
- Miss Elvin & Mrs Digby
21/07/22- End of year party! Well done on an amazing year Fox Class. Wishing you all a relaxing summer full of fun :)
20/07/22- End of year ‘awards’ in class!
19/07/2022- Trying to keep cool in the extreme heat wave!
08/07/2022- Sports Day 2022!
20/06/22- We are making sure we take pride in our presentation as we learn all about bar charts!
14/06/22- We really enjoyed doing some planting this week. We look forward to watching our sunflowers, tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans grow!
27/05/22- Fox Class enjoyed celebrating the Queen’s jubilee with the rest of the school. We created some lovely photos, had a fun street party with party food and played party games at lunchtime, including riding in the Queen’s carriage and taking a royal portrait! Congratulations Queen Elizabeth!
12/05/22 Fox Class really enjoyed their trip to Layer Marney Tower today. We had fun climbing up to the top of the tower, going to a Tudor school, dancing and trying Tudor food!
15/03/22 The children were lucky enough to have a zoom call with Dermot O’Leary to discuss his new children’s book! They even had a drawing lesson with the illustrator of the book and drew some amazing pictures of Toto the Ninja Cat!
28/02/22 Fox class thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Harwich, where we explored the lifeboat museum and the fort!
17/12/21 Enjoying our end of term Christmas party! Merry Christmas everyone, and a happy new year!
15/12/21 Fox class had lots of fun at the Pantomime! Kali said “it was a very funny show”
We went outside in the gazebo and ‘exploded’ some of our volcanos!
01/11/21
01/11/21- Some amazing half term projects! The children had homework over the half term to make a volcano, using the knowledge and facts that we have learnt in our Geography lessons. What amazing imaginations we have!
Thinking about our earthquake learning, we became builders and designed the perfect building to withstand an earthquake over two ‘tectonic plates’. We found that the heaviest building, that was wide and had a large surface area rather than tall, worked the best!
We have been reading 'The Butterfly Lion' by Michael Morpurgo and thinking, in teams, about how we can persuade Bertie's dad to keep the lion cub. After discussing, we used our persuasive techniques and managed to persuade ‘Bertie’s dad’ to keep the lion cub!
A big welcome to the new 2021/2022 Fox class! 
- Miss Elvin