What a lot of noise!

We were doing an experiment with the straws. First we either trimmed a little bit of the straw off or we left the straw as normal. Then we flattened the top of the straw that we were going to use,before we made an arrow on the top of the flattened piece of straw. We were trying to see if the pitch could be changed and why.

anti-bullying vlog

Anti-bullying vlog

Anti-bullying vlog

Well done Eugéne!

Well done Eugéne! We can see from this piece of homework that you are really trying hard with your English and your writing! Keep it up!

I am the mummy Heb-nefert by Kyle

Beside the River Nile, the sun beamed down on the golden sand. On the sandy banks, people were wearing sandals. On summer's day the sun was bright and hot in Egypt.

Inside the house, the slithering snake was somewhere looking for rats.

On a beautiful, sunny morning Heb-nefert was laying on the ground beside the River Nile.  The sun was very hot on that day.

Heb-nefert was the most beautiful girl in the whole of Egypt.

On the edge of the village the nomarchs house sat.  That night she had to go to the ball to impress the pharaoh and his brother Ti.

Early one morning Heb-Nefert and her father approached the royal palace. Heb-Nefert's heart was beating wildly. She saw the golden sandstone palace and felt amazed. She got to the throne room that seemed very beautiful to her. She saw all sorts of jewellery placed around the golden room.

Heb-Nefert's dancing was stunning. The pharaoh whispered "She's quite good."
With all Heb-Nefert's might she twirled and swirled. "I wish I could marry her this minute!" murmured Ti in reply to the pharoah. "Will she make a good royal wife though?" he asked.
The pharaoh replied "We will see when you marry!"                 

They were soon married and they were husband and wife.
They were dancing and Ti whispered "you're so beautiful!" Heb-Nefert went red.

The next day they were in the garden. In the garden it was very peaceful. The moment they returned to the palace a little snake appeared. It bit Heb-Nefert and she lay dead.

Ti died heartbroken.

Anti bullying poem by Megan

Your heart is as hard as stone,

When you see me, you smile evilly as if you don't remember  when we were friends. Do you?

Do you see how you are just an error in my shameful life,

And now here I am getting more scars and cuts every second.

How and why do you make your identity a mystery?

Do you see me treading in fear to my dark, cold corner where blood was shed?

Can you hear my cries for help slowly fading away as no-one notices?

Why, I keep asking, are you so mean please answer me?

Your fist, a hard cold machine ready to do its job.

 

When I see you, your face is full of fear,

Now I don't know why I do it.

Now it is a habit that can't be stopped, constantly going on.

Can this be what this has done to me all I have been through I never thought of you?

Now I am sorry, now I can see

Now we can be friends like we were once before.

Now we can be friends you see, for all eternity, for all we live.

 

By Megan :)      

I am the mummy Heb-Nefert By Joseph

Beside the River Nile where the sun was beaming down on the scorching sand, the River Nile was gleaming because of scorching sun. A short distance away from the River Nile, a small settlement sat on the brownish, yellow sand. It was impossible to walk on the sand barefoot on the sand because it was heated by the humungous sun. A snake slithered by the settlement with its scales slowly getting hotter. Its scales were browner  than mud.

Inside one of the houses a person was busy making bread and collecting water. The River Nile was shimmering and making the slightest ripples as a crocodile crept along the bank.

Rising early in the morning sky, the sun was unaware of the exciting events that were about to happen to a girl named Heb-Nefert. Inside Heb-Nefert's house Heb Nefert  was busy squabbling enthusiastically about the biggest event in her young life. Her dad was extremely nervous about everything because he was trying to make everything perfect.

When they set off on their gargantuan journey, Heb Nefert's father muttered " Oh I don't know about this. What if we aren't ready?" But he knew if he would ever get to the palace he would have to persavere.

As they approached the russet brown palace, they saw jade green palm trees and a steel blue sky. Two guards were standing at the door with the straightest face ever. They were dressed all in shining armour that was made of the finest tin. " Do you have an appointment with the pharoah?" asked one of the guards showing his loyalty. "I do. It's at 4:30. It's for the pharoah and his brother." replied Heb Neferts father. "State your name and business please." asked the second guard carrying on the conversation."I am Joseph and I am a nomarch."stated Heb Nefert's father. " You may pass!" exclaimed the guard.

As they entered the collossal palace they saw paintings that were framed in gold as well as silver

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I am the mummy Heb-Nefert by Fahd

Many, many year ago in Ancient Egypt the sun was shining down on the golden sand. A short distance away from the River Nile there was a village with little houses. At the end of village there was a big house where the Nomarch lived .Sometimes the palm trees gave shade from the sun.


At the edge of  the village there was a girl called Heb-Nefert.  She was a very good dancer and her mother died.  Heb Nefert looked very beautiful. she was the colour of the sun, she even smelt like flowers. 

Heb-Nefert

To our readers from across the world!

I checked the statistics page of our blog and we are reaching readers from across the world!
So hello to the readers from Spain, Jersey, Ireland, America, France and Australia!
Year 4 love seeing the different countries we are reaching so keep spreading the word please!
Thanks!

Our first steps in fundraising!

Parents and friends of the school will know that we are in the process of raising funds for a new a project on reading. I'm lucky enough to be working with an amazing group of parents who have offered their help in many ways and on Friday we had our first event. We had donations of cakes and biscuits from parents which were then sold in the library with tea. The tea will become more popular as the winter sets in I think! :) 

They then sold these with the books that were kindly donated at the end of the year, this will be a regular event so don't worry if you missed out! It was also lovely spending some time chatting to the parents and children outside of the classroom!

So you may be wondering where your money will be going,as a group we have set out the phases of spending to improve our library. First bit will be to update the books! If you want to know more about this project or if you think you can help in any way then let me know!

I'll update you with how much we managed to raise once we're back.

Have a fantastic half term everyone!

All about me by coel and Fahd

Hello our names are Fahd and Coel we both like the same thing we are like buddies we will be friends for ever. We both like football, minercraft and pokemon.  we both like red and blue.  we all did mummies and pyramids Coel did a mummy, Fahd  did a mummy in a tomb. 

Anna&Rhiannon's Post on dogs

Hi I'm Rhiannon my favourite  breed of dog is Pug. Hi I'm Anna and my favourite breed of dog is a West Highland Terrier. Now that's enough about us, and let's start talking about dogs! There's lots of breeds of dogs such as a Jack Russell, a West Highland Terrier and a Pug. Dogs can be pets and they can be wild. People say dogs are man's best friend! That's why we chose to do a post on them! Dogs are mammals. They are omnivores which means they eat everything that is edible for them. Sometimes they can be tiny, sometimes huge and sometimes they can be somewhere in the middle. Dogs can woof, growl or whimper. That is all we know about dogs.

Felix and Joseph's favourite games

I am Joseph and my favourite game is called Pokemon. It's a game on the 3ds XL where you have to train these magical beasts to a higher level and battle against other trainers. Now onto Felix! Hi  I'm Felix and I like football.  I support Chelsea as for my friend Joseph he is a bit more unfortunate he supports Tottenham. Now it's back to the nostradamus Joseph! My second favourite game is called mino monsters. Its basically a replica of Pokemon but you get many different things. 

WE ARE BEST BUDDIES!

By Felix and Joseph

All about me by coel

Hello my name is Coel my favourite lesson is maths I love maths we do maths every day and English. My favourite thing is Pokemon my teacher is Miss Carr she is very nice I alsolike football, my friends love it too.

About James and Rory

Hello our names are James and Rory.  We like the lego movie because we love Lego and we like English because we like writing and acting things. 

by James and Rory 

Sandrige school band.

We have a school band that has all sorts of instruments like a violin, recorder, trumpet, trombone, and a clarinet. In band we do fun music and awards in our assemblies.  we have a junior band and a senior band. We perform at many of our fairs like the summer fair, soon we are playing at the remembrance assembly after half term.  Mrs Taylor is the leader of band and she provides plenty of music for everyone  there.

By Avina and Megan

All about me by Rory

I  like  literacy because it makes me use better language.
I am 9 years old and I have a brother called Harry. He is nice but sometimes annoying!
I am good at reading.

All about me by Freddie.

Hello my name is Freddie I am here to tell you a bit about me, my favourite animal is a cat  I like art.  EI always write books at home. My favourite time of the year is Halloween because I like ghost and sweets. My favourite desert  is a chocolate sunday  with marshmallows  and sprinkles and I have relatives in Gibraltar and I am 8 years old .

All about me by Caleb

Hello my name is Caleb and I am going to tell you all about me.
The special thing about me is my name is in the bible! My favourite hobby is maths because my brain chose that is good for me.I like my name because it does sound so nice to me.Dont you think it is a nice name?My friends are Jacob,Fahd,Eugene,Coel,Rory,Jack and kyle.You can see I do have a lot of friends.I will tell you how I had these friends.Jacob became my friend by showing me the school.Fahdand Coel became my friends when I was crying for my first ever time.Eugene became my friend when I did not get to show my pyramid.Rory became my friend when on non school uniform day,I helped him and I like his Lego movie cardigan.Jack became my friend when I got out knex 360.Last but not least KYLE became my friend when he welcomed me.

All about us! By Ellie and Mia

Hello my name is Mia,one of my favourite subjects is maths. I love maths because I can use my brilliant and beautiful brain to work out calculations. The other subject I like is science because you learn about animals!

 Hi my name is Ellie.  My favourite subject is English because I can show off my imagination skills. 
Snow Leapods are my favourite animal. Did you know that when I joined the WWF there was only around 30 left in the wild, now there are over 300! I also have a little brother called Jack.

All about me Sophie

Hello my name is Sophie,I am here to tell you about myself and what I like, enjoy.My stronger subject is English I like this subject because I enjoy writing stories[I love using my imagination].
My best friends are Poppy, Mia, Charlotte, Rosie and well a lot of others. I have a dog and a little brother called Brody (he's sometimes annoying) but like any other kid I love being me!

All about me,Junayd

I am Junayd and I'm about to tell you about myself.

My favourite sport is football and I support Arsenal.  My favourite colour is red and I also like running. I like pokemon on the 3DSxl. My favourite subjects are maths and P.E. In maths I like multiplication mostly 12xtables (only writing them). I'm in year 4 and Miss Carr is my teacher. Our topic is Ancient Egypt.  It is very YUKKY.

 

All about me by Anna

Hello I am Anna and I am going to tell you a bit about me and what I like.

My favourite colour is red even though I am a girl. My favourite subject is science, my favourite animal is a peregrine falcon. I am good at writing stories, non-fiction and even poetry. I like animals, dragons, ( even though they aren't real) and furbies. I have started a book called 'bat attack'

All about me by Charlotte

I am Charlotte and I am in class 4.  My favourite subject is art because you get to use paint ,pastels also get creative.  I also love my fantastic and beautiful teacher her name is Miss Carr, we also have a teaching Assistant named Mrs Hulll.  My favourite colour red.  My favourite animal is a dog.  My hobby is dancing.  Last of all I am 8 years old.My friends are Rosie,Mia,Ellie,Sophie, they are my best friends.

By Charlotte

All about me by Fahd

Hello my name is Fahd my favourite lesson is maths and art. We do maths every day and english.
But maths is fun and my teacher is Miss Carr.
My favourite thing is football, my friends love it to
My friend is Coel and Caleb.

All about me by Felix

My name is Felix and I am going to tell you all about me and what I like to do. My favourite subject is maths and I love to calculate decimals and multiply lots of different numbers. My friends also like maths which is a good thing if I get stuck. I turned 9 one month ago and got some great presents! I love football and I play for a team called Harvesters and I have scored 6 goals this season. I am good at spellings because this week I got 10 out of 10! I like english and are topic is the egyptians. I support Chelsea and I am going to watch England in November. My favourite animal is a snake and I love facts. I have 1 annoying little sister who is 6.                                                                                           Thank you for reading by Felix.

All about me by Megan

Hi, my name is Megan and my favouite colour is black and white. My favouite thing to do is go outside and go on my trampoline, I go to many clubs like judo but I do get hurt most of the time! I love my school and all of my freinds like Stephanie and Avina. My favouite animal is a pig

and I love my teacher Miss Carr!

All about me by James

My favourite lesson in school is PE because you do sporty things like football and tennis and I like playing with my friends and I like playing on my xbox.I like playing on my ipad that I bring everywhere.
In my class my freinds are Rory, Coel and Eugene.

All about me by Joseph

I am called Joseph and I am going to tell you a bit about myself.

My favourite subject is maths and my favourite thing to do in maths is either multiply decimals or add together 4/5 digit numbers. I also like splitting numbers into eigths, fourths and thirtyseconds because it is very fun the way you have to work it out mentally. My second favourite subject is english because I have got good handwriting and I have decent spellings. Also I get a good quantity of writing done in 30 minutes so thats why I like it.
I have 2 sisters called Amy and Sophie also I have a brother called Billy.
My favourite outside sport is definately football because I can nearly do every skill. Every one apart from the rainbow flick.
The best thing about me is being cool!!!!!

Thank you for reading my mega awesome blog post on myself!!!

And remember to stay cool!

All about me by Jacob

Hello my name is Jacob and I am going to tell you about me.
I love Football mainly because I am very good at it!

I am also good at tennis!

At home I always get time to play in my garden and play a game called minecraft!!

I also like judo and I also like Swimming!

I am an only child.

I  am good at rugby because my uncle is rugby player

I am very funny.

I love sandridge school.

All about me! by Rosie

I am Rosie and this is what I like. My favourite subject in school is art because you get to use the paint, pastels and get messy. I also love my beautiful and fabulous teacher her name is Miss Carr!
My hobby is horse riding.
My favourite animal is a horse. My favourite colour is red.
Last of all I am 8 years old.

All about me by Lidia

I like maths and science. In class my friends are Ellie and Megan.
I moved from Majorca in Spain so I have had to learn to speak English. Miss Carr says I am doing brilliantly!
I have a little sister called Diana and she is 5. My mum works at the school as an MSA.

All about me by Ethan

Hello my name is Ethan and I'm going to tell you a bit about me. First of all I am Scottish and my favourite country is Scotland because it has lots and lots of countryside and by the way I love countryside is well . My favourite animal are cats because they are really cute and fluffy,my favourite thing of all time is pokemon ! 

All about me by Avina

Hello my name is Avina.  My favourite subject is science and art.I am 8 years old, I like animals and activities. I go to different clubs that are very fun.My favourite colour is blue and my favourite animal is a dolphin and My teacher is Miss Carr.
That is about me.

All about us by Shaun and Michael

Our names are Michael and Shaun. We are best friends and we are in class 4.
We both have blonde hair and blue eyes and we are half cousins.
We like playing hide and seek and we like playing with our other cousins.
Our favourite subject is art.
Our teacher's name is Miss Carr. Class 4 is fun!
Would you please read class 4's blog and tell others about it?
Thanks
Michael and Shaun

All about me!By Rhiannon

Hi I'm Rhiannon I'm In class 4 my favourite Animal is a cat.My favourite Colour is blue.My friend is Anna

I'm Good At Being COOL!!!.My favourite subject is ART.I Like to READ and WRITE stories.

Sandridge School choir

Our school has an amazing choir that perform at a lot of important events.  At the moment we are singing Somewere over the rainbow and you raise me up.  Also we are singing  for Remembrance where have all the flowers gone and keep the home fires burning.  Most of our songs have harmony witch makes it sound amazing harmony is so hard to sing because they are usually very high or very low.  We have biscuits and a drink YUM!  In choir my favourite song is keep the home fires burning.
In choir my favourite song has been love is easy by Mcfly.
                By Ellie and Megan

Book fair thanks!

We haven't added up the total of money raised from the book fair yet but I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all the children and parents who supported this. We are at a really exciting stage with the development of our reading and this will give us the kick start we need to update the books we have in school.
Again I can't thank you enough for this week and as soon as I know how much we have to spend on books I'll put it up here.
Miss Carr

Eid mubarak!

Eid is a celebration that Muslims celebrate. It happens twice a year and Muslims get presents and pray in a mosque in the morning for an hour or so. Every year it happens a different date. There is Eid al fitr and Eid al udha. The whole family come over and open presents and play. We eat food such as dates,Somosas and roty. Every year I go to my nana's house my cousins come as well.

I can't wait until EID!

We've got some very creative children in year 4!

We have been blown away by some of the amazing pieces of homework coming in! 

In this piece we have a fantastic model of the pyramids of Giza,they were cut out of card and then glued with sand.

Not only this but she also made us a menu and crossword to test our knowledge!

Then we have a beautiful model of an Egyptian boat,this was made out of card and then carefully painted.

We then have a model of one of the pyramids,this has bern carefully cut so you can see all the steps and then painted. It looks amazing!

Well done year 4 on these amazing pieces of homework! You have worked extremely hard on these!

Freddie's blog post on Ancient Egypt

Pyramids

Hi we're in  year 4   We have come to tell  you a bit about. Pyramids of  Egypt  over  130  pyramids have  been  discovered in Egypt . But also the  great Giza is the oldest  and largest and  there  pyramid. Although it  has  lost 10 metres  and  (33feet) in hight it  still stands  around (146feet) .Above the ground it's true to say tutenkhamuns  tomb is

Teachers in the making!

Today we had to learn about different triangles,Miss Carr then made us teach a mini lesson on them. We had to be really good at drawing them properly and explaining about the sides. 

 

Our 2D shape sort

We used symmetry and straight sides to sort our 2D shapes out. We thought of ways to sort like how many corners. We knew all of these shapes even the irregular ones!

Jacob and Kyle's post on football!

Every Friday some of the best footballers in the school come together to meet for a fun bit of football. Boys and girls from year 1 to year 6 can go and we always accept new members.
We like football because we are inspired by the amazing players from the world cup.
We both like watching football as well as playing but we don't like it when our teams lose. We like being on the team as we help each other!
Sadnridge school football club is epic!
Jacob and Kyle

The book fair is coming

On Monday 29th September the book fair is coming for a week.Every day after school the book fair will be open to sell books for children.Any book we buy will earn us money to buy new books for our library.They have books like minecraft and Tom Gates which look fun and intresting . Please come and buy some books for your children to read!
Megan and Avina

A perfect pyramid!

These are the pieces of work we love! We set homework projects over the term to encourage the children to be creative with their learning and as you can see we've got off to an amazing start to the term!

We have a Pyramus made entirely of sugar cubes! These were glued together and then painted. The model even has Egyptian characters!

Next we have an Egyptain canopic jar. You can see all the jewels and gold over it which mean it must've been for someone special,

The third project we had was from Megan, she brought in a mummy she had made complete with canopic jar! The poor doll had to be mummified to come into school! Homework can be painful!

 

Well done year 4!

Brilliant Banksy and his paint

One week ago brilliant banksy's aquaintences helped us to create stencils to make fabulous spray painted art. When we were spray painting we looked like dentists! It was awesome being able to try something new and creative. We made two pieces of art representing our school. We made two stencils with the first letter of our name and of a symbol that means a lot to us! When we were doing it we had to wear glasses that helped protect us. We had to spray in lines and not continuelly because that would spray too much paint and it would drip! The paint was very dangerous to peoples eyes even though it was non toxic. Then we took our stencils home.

By Felix, Joseph and Junayd

Thank you for reading! 

We hope you like it! 

Remember to not do this at home as it is very dangerous!

Blogging

We are learning about Blogs and how they are used. The Blog is important because it sends information all over the world.Contacting other places is good for some people as it helps them know the world better, also others can find what happens around in different parts of the world.We have to be carful as the internet can be a dangerous place.So we don't put both our first and last name,our address,how old we are,also don't take a picture of yourself with your name under it.

By  Mià  and  Sophie.

Another set of year 4 rascals!

Before we start I would like to say that the title is Freddie's idea and not mine! (Miss Carr)

We have had a messy start to the year with our new topic theme on Ancient Egyptians. We have made death masks and we have started our tomb.
It looks like we are all settling in really well, especially our newbies! We love them! We have Mia, Sophie, Eugene, Freya and Shaun.
From now on we will be taking over the blog from Miss Carr as this is a unit we will be doing in computing (ICT) so watch this space!

Juicy afternoon

It has been so hot so we had some watermelon this afternoon. We all had a slice. It was extremely delicious! Miss Carr cut it into 14 pieces.

We all got very juicy and some of us got red juice everywhere! I thought it was very funny when I had to wipe my mouth quite a few times! We all had a great afternoon.

Vegetable garden

Vegetable garden

This is one of my green beans that I have just eaten it is the first fully grown one. As well as this,there are a lot more things I have grown. Also there is another picture of the bush.I have grown a type of chilli it is not the hottest chilli, dad puts them in our curry.The next plant is a mini cucumber that has not quite grown yet. After this plant, thre is my corn which is just leaves at the moment.I grow many other things such as rhubarb that has not spread too far and is still in progress. The next plant after this is strawberries they are really sweet.Also my tomatoes are green and the first picture shows my first green bean which Was the first one picked.

PGL by Billy and Jaden

On the weekend we went to PGL. It was our first time we had gone away for more than one day so we were really excited! We went on activities such as the trapeze, Jacobs ladder, giant swing, zip wire , cops and robbers in an actual mine, we also had a water fight, we both got drenched! We went to the beach and told scary stories. Jaden went to bed at 3 am and Billy went to bed at 11 pm. As well as this, Billy found a WW II  bunker on the beach .We went by bus for about 2 to 3 hours and ferry for about 45 minutes. On the bus I made a loom band necklace for Mrs Impey. Also we had lots of fun on the PGL trip because of all of activities we did and we were playing football in our free time.

While we were on the PGL trip Billy got player of the year for his football team it was great, I was doing the trapeze at the time! My mum text Mrs Impey who was the teacher supervising us. When I heard it I slung my arms in the air like I had won an Olympic gold medal!

By Billy and Jaden

Congratulations Billy!

While Billy was at PGL last weekend he was awarded player of the year! Billy will be doing a blog about this but we just wanted to say a huge well done! This is a fantastic achievement! We are so proud of you!

Good luck Bella!

Isabella has a big dance exam this weekend and I know she has spent a lot of time practising for this so fingers crossed Bella!
Let us know how it goes!

Proud to be Sandridge!

As a teacher there will be moments throughout the school year that you are filled with pride. Perhaps a child has achieved something they have been working towards,perhaps they overcame a challenge or perhaps they have shown an particularly good attitude.
Today was a day that I experienced all 3. We took some of our key stage 2 children to the district sports tournament,something our school hasn't done in a while,and it's fair to say they were truly amazing. Not only did they give 100% in every single activity but they did so with such positive attitudes and such encouragement towards others that it made me more than I can express!
If you took part or if you supported then you are one of the things that make Sandridge a truly wonderful school. Yes I'm a soppy and slightly over emotional teacher but you did us proud
Well done all!

Year 4 become film stars!

Year 4 had, in their own words 'one of the best days ever!' yesterday.
We were lucky enough to be visited by a company called Frontline Productions who came in and showed us a perfromance based on the life of Sergeant Walter Tull.
We then worked with the year 3 class in workshops on artefacts, we saw some amazing things that were actually in the war 100 years ago such as grenades that had been made safe. We also saw uniforms from the war.
Our next workshop was drama, we had to act out different scenarios in groups all in silence (yes we managed it!) and then this was put in a short film. They added music and sound effects to our film and we watched it at the end of the day.
It was perhaps one of the most amazing sessions I have seen in a school, the children really engaged with the men leading it and found out so much about the war as well as this you could see they really started to understand the emotion attached to the war.
We came back after the session and did a writing lesson based on the activities, you will be so impressed with the results! These will be uploaded later but for now here are some photos showing you our day!