Dear all,

In English this week, we have been publishing our story opening for The Snowman and begun to look at examples of explanation texts to produce our ‘How to look after a magical snowman’ guide.

In Maths, we have continued with our measures unit. We have been learning different skills to solve problems related to litres and millilitres. We are continuing to focus on developing the children’s times table skills and related division facts as these will help the children in our upcoming fractions unit in the new year.  Next week, we will be completing our measures unit with perimeter and area.

In RE, we continue with began our Advent unit looking at our own family trees to prepare us to look at the Jesse tree relating to the birth line of Christ.

Celebrations:

Golden Key

4s: Fern Layton: ‘For using the gifts God has given her to commit to her learning, always with a smile.’

4B: Hanna Halas: ‘For using the gifts God has given him to be a helpful member of the class.’

Showstopper Writer:

4S: Oliver Cook: ‘For writing an effective story opening to interest the reader.’

4B: Daniel Ostrowski: ‘For editing and thinking critically about his writing.’

Reminders/Dates: 

Advent Service 10.10am Tuesday 4^th December – If you could help with walking to the church, it would be greatly appreciated. Please send in the reply slips with your child on Monday/Tuesday.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

The Year 4 Team

Dear all,

In English this week, we have been writing and editing our story opening for The Snowman. We have been using a variety of different sentence types to make our writing more appealing to the reader.

In Maths, we have continued with our measures unit. We have been learning different skills to solve problems related to time.  We are continuing to focus on developing the children’s times table skills, these are vital in upcoming math’s units.

In RE, we continue with Prayer, Saints and Feasts unit this week we have written a ‘Guide to prayer’.

The second week of Anti-Bullying fortnight we looked at being tolerant of other cultures and faiths, and celebrated our differences.

Celebrations:

Golden Key

4s: Amelie Booth: ‘For using the gifts God has given her to be a kind and caring member of the class.’

4B: Aston Lewendon: ‘For using the gifts God has given him to be a kind, hard-working member of the class.’

Showstopper Writer:

4S: Stanley Perriman: ‘For editing his story sentences effectively for the reader.’

4B:Poppy Taylor-Sayers: ‘For using her critical thinking skills in her RE Guide.’

Reminders/Dates: 

Please send in a coat (hat, scarf and gloves) and water bottle with your child– changeable weather will ensure that the children are warm and dry and with our school’s reduce plastic cups initiative, the children need to take a water bottle in to lunch each day.

As the weather gets colder, we will still be undertaking PE outside so could you please send in a pair of plain black leggings or tracksuit bottoms if your child doesn’t already have a pair in their kit.

We have had a lot of children misplace jumpers, PE kit and cardigans over the last week. Please ensure that each item of clothing is named. We encourage children to place items they have removed in a recognisible/memorable place (chair, bag, coat peg, or PE bag) to avoid them being lost.

Parents evening – 27/11/18 and 28/11/18

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

The Year 4 Team

Dear all,

In English this week, we have continued looking at the Snowman and have begun to plan our story opening. We have been using our sentences skills and story techniques to write sentences and paragraphs to apply these skills and form the structure in our planning.

In Maths, we have continued with have begun our measures unit and have focused on children learning more efficient methods to calculate money in order to solve a focus problem. We have also been focusing on developing the children’s times table knowledge. Please encourage your children to practise at home using games and activities. Sumdog is a good resource for this type of consolidation. For those children, who are confident with tables then we have been looking at their related division facts.

In RE, we continue with Prayer, Saints and Feasts unit and have looked at the Hindu festival of Diwali and at a prayer said during the celebrations. We used this as a stimulus to create our own prayers for our class prayer book and hall display.

This week saw the beginning of our Anti-bullying fortnight with wearing odd socks. The children explored each others differences and how we can value diversity. Next week, we will look at we can be tolerant of other cultures and faiths.

A big thank you for all family members that walked with the children and attended the Remembrance mass at Sacred Heart church on Tuesday. The children were amazing and enjoyed such a special occasion. We look forward to hopefully seeing you at the whole school Advent Mass in a few weeks time.

Celebrations:

Golden Key

4s: Liberty Ricketts: ‘For using the gifts God has given her to be a kind, thoughtful, helpful and funny member of the class.’

4B: Phoebe Churcher: ‘For using the gifts God has given her to commit to her learning.’

Showstopper Writer:

4S: Amelie Booth: ‘For creating effective short sentences to show character’s actions.’

4B: Aston Lewendon: ‘For being a reflective learning when editing his writing.’

Reminders/Dates: 

Please send in a coat (hat, scarf and gloves) and water bottle with your child– changeable weather will ensure that the children are warm and dry and with our school’s reduce plastic cups initiative, the children need to take a water bottle in to lunch each day.

As the weather gets colder, we will still be undertaking PE outside so could you please send in a pair of plain black leggings or tracksuit bottoms if your child doesn’t already have a pair in their kit.

We have had a lot of children misplace jumpers, PE kit and cardigans over the last week. Please ensure that each item of clothing is named. We encourage children to place items they have removed in a recognisible/memorable place (chair, bag, coat peg, or PE bag) to avoid them being lost.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

The Year 4 Team

Dear all,

In English this week, we have continued looking at the Snowman. Using a variety of sentence types, we have begun to write sentences for the opening images and have included speech sentences.

In Maths, we have continued with our multiplication and division unit. This week we have been dividing by 10 and 100. We have been applying the skills learnt this week and last to problem solve.

This week we have been commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War. As a year we have focused on the events of the 25^th December 1914, the Christmas day truce. We performed the poem, ‘The Game: Christmas Day, 1914’ by Ian McMillian, to the school in assembly this afternoon. We also wrote letters from a soldier’s perspective, writing home about the events of the Christmas day truce.

Celebrations:

Golden Key

4s: Chloe Brown: ‘For using the gifts God has given her to show great commitment to her learning and presentation.’

4B: Daniella Pacheco: ‘For using the gifts God has given her to committed start to her learning at St Peter’s’

Showstopper Writer:

4S: Bradley Polley: ‘For creating effective description sentences.’

4B: Jake Street: ‘For developing his descriptive sentences over a series lesson.’

Reminders/Dates: 

Tuesday 13^th November – Year3/4 Mass at Sacred Heart Church. Any volunteers to walk from school to church would be greatly appreciated.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

The Year 4 Team

Dear all,
In English this week, we have begun a new unit based on The Snowman by Raymond Briggs. The children made snowmen to get in the characters and have looked at the book to create descriptive language
In Maths, we have started our multiplication and division unit. This week we have been multiplying by 10 and 100 and applying this skill to problem solving.
In RE, we continued our Prayers, Saints and Feasts unit. This week we have been planning what we would include in a ‘Guide to Praying’. We thought about how, when, where, what, why Jesus would have advised us to pray to inform the children’s research.
In Science, we have concluded an investigation and drawn diagrams and annotated our scientific thinking to show what we have learned over this unit.

Celebrations:
Golden Key
4s: Benji Ford: ‘For using the gifts God has given him to be a great role model in learning, focus and behaviour.’
4B: Edie Phillips: ‘For using the gifts God has given her to be a kind and caring member of the class’
Showstopper Writer:
4S: Promise Mdnzebele: ‘For writing a thoughtful reflective piece about silent prayer’.
4B: Daniel Warren: ‘For thinking about prayer and what it means to him.’
Mathemagician for October 2018:
4S: Fern Layton: ‘For showing great commitment to improving her Maths work’.
4B: Taylor Bryden: ‘For consistently working hard and challenging himself’.

Reminders/Dates:
Tuesday 13th November – Year3/4 Mass at Sacred Heart Church. Any volunteers to walk from school to church would be greatly appreciated. A letter will go home next week so please return slip if you are able to help.
We hope you have a lovely weekend.

The Year 4 Team