Christmas Party

We played the biggest game of musical chairs that the school has ever seen first. 68 children all looking for a seat...

Guess who won the musical statues?

Disco in the classroom....

Then the best bit - party food.

Pass the parcel to finish

Year 3 trip to a chocolate factory

What a lovely day we had at the Chocolate factory. We had a guided tour of the factory. Tried

dark, milk and white chocolate, found out how chocolate is made and how it is formed into shapes. Next, we went to the chocolate room and found out about cocoa beans and the carbon footprint that chocolate has. Finally, we visited the magical sweet shop - the children and staff had a fantastic day. Year 3 behaved superbly and were a credit to the school.  

Homework 7th December

Year 3 and Year 4 Homework Friday 7^th December

Next Friday the 14^th December we are having our Christmas parties (details in school newsletter to follow). In order to make our parties a success your homework this week is to read the following recipes and decide upon a treat that you would like to make Friday morning, to eat in the party.  This is all related to our Topic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Your homework is as follows:

·         Read the recipes below and decide which recipe you would like to follow ( 1 recipe only please) Reading skills

·          Discuss with your parents how you will get the ingredients.                                                       Oracy and thinking skills

·         Measure out the correct ingredients for your chosen recipe.                                                       Measuring skills

·         Put the ingredients into containers with your name marked clearly on them.                         Thinking skills

·         Bring the ingredients to school next Friday the 14^th December.

We will have the use of microwaves / utensils etc. All you have to bring is the ingredients. The children will be working in groups on the same recipe. If your child has an allergy please check the recipe that he / she has chosen. Please involve the children as much as possible in the collation,  measuring and storing of the ingredients. Where the recipes mention sweet cases – small fairy cake holders or similar would also be suitable.

Many thanks for your parental support

Year 3and Year 4 teachers

Coconut haystacks

Ingredients

250g chocolate

150g coconut

30 sweet cases

Method

1. Line a baking tray with sweet cases

2. Break the chocolate into a bowl and melt

3. Add the coconut and stir in fully

4. Add 1 tsp to each sweet case making uneven shapes

5. Leave to set

 

 

 

 

Chocolate marshmallows

Ingredients

250g chocolate

pink and white marshmallows

30 sweet cases

Method

1. Line a baking tray with sweet cases

2. Slice the marshmallows in ½ long ways

3. Break the chocolate into a bowl and melt

4. Spoon 1 tsp of chocolate into the prepared sweet cases

5. Place a marshmallow on top

6. Leave to set                    

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peppermint creams

Ingredients

250g fondant icing

1 tsp peppermint essence

1 tsp green colouring

50g chocolate (optional)

Method

1. Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper

2. Work the peppermint essence into the fondant icing in a bowl

3. Add some sieved icing sugar if it becomes too sticky

4. Divide the mixture in half and add green colouring to one half

5. Work this in, again use icing sugar if necessary

6. Roll out to ½ c.m. thick on a surface sprinkled with icing sugar

7. Use the small cutters to make individual shapes

8. Leave to set for 30 minutes

9. Dip in chocolate if required and leave to set again

 

Chocolate cherries

Ingredients

250g chocolate

100g glace cherries

30 sweet cases

 

Method

1. Line a baking tray with sweet cases

2. Chop the cherries into ¼ size pieces

3. Break the chocolate into a bowl and melt

4. Stir in the cherries

5. Add 1 tsp to each sweet case making uneven shapes

6. Leave to set

 

Peppermint bark

Ingredients

2 x 150g luxury milk or white chocolate

1 x 250g pack mint humbugs

Method

1. Line a baking tray with baking parchment

2. Break the chocolate into pieces and heat in the microwave or over a pan of simmering water.

3. Unwrap the humbugs and put in a thick polythene bag. Use a rolling pin to roughly crush into bits

4. Stir into the melted chocolate.

5. Spread the mixture onto the paper and leave to set.

6. Once completely cool, gently peel off the parchment and break into small bite-sized pieces.

Year 3 and 4 raise money for Children In Need

This year we raised over £1100 for Children In Need, and years 3 and 4 certainly played their part. Well done to all of the children for raising so much money for a fantastic cause.

Mark Colbourne - Olympic Paralympic Gold Medalist

Mark Colbourne - Olympic Paralympic Gold Medallist came to our school today to give us all a glimpse of a gold medal, inspire us with his amazing story and give us an extra PE lesson. All of the children had their photograph with Mark and the Gold Medal. He spent the whole afternoon with our children and game them inspiration to follow their dreams. Thank you Mark  

Data Handling

This week in year 3/4 we have been looking at data handling in maths, in particular we have been looking at pictograms. We have done lots of work in our books but it is important to make sure that we make maths real in as many ways as possible. Here is a human pictogram. It has a title, labels for each row and a key. It shows the children's favorite foods.

Number bonds and multiplying

In year 3 and year 4 it is really important for the children to know number bonds and times tables. Here are some websites that our year 3 and 4 pupils can use to  reinforce their skills .

http://www.ictgames.com/save_the_whale_v4.html

http://www.ictgames.com/10pipe.html

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html

Mad 4 maths, is one of the best multiplication websites for year 3 and 4 pupils;

http://www.mad4maths.com/multiplication_table_math_games/ 

Reporting in Pontyclun

In  year 3 we are looking at recounts, as our topic is the weather, and we were subjected to a lot of rain last week, we decided to write a fictional recount on "Pontyclun in flood". We went to the river on Wednesday to look and listen at the fast flowing water. We came up with adjectives to describe what we could see and hear before filling in our planning forms explaining What Where, Why, Who and When the fictional flood happened. We are going to become reporters next week as we write up our recounts in pencil before creating a newspaper report with images,headlines and text in Microsoft word.