Hello everyone,

We hope you are well and having a lovely week. We cannot believe how quick Summer 1 has gone! The children have been fantastic as always and have been working so hard!

In English, the children have been busy drafting and editing their own news reports. Here the children needed to research a recent natural disaster and using their writing skills create their own news report. They also needed to think carefully about paragraphing and how to weave in accurate facts and statistics.  When we return back from half term, we will be performing them to each other.

In Maths, the children have been exploring the 24hr clock and studied time interval questions where by the needed to convert seconds into minutes, minutes into hours etc. We are going to end out time unit on Friday by looking at a time graph, linking to statistics.

Most children have completed their money carriers in DT! We have been amazed with the effort and thought that has gone into their designs. Each children carefully considered measurements, materials, fastenings and joints. So as promised last week, here are just some of the amazing purses the children created!

A few polite reminders –

• Please ensure that your child is completing times table practise on Times Table Rockstars (sound check – this is the same format as the test! ) https://ttrockstars.com/. The date of the testing beginnings from 15.6.21 therefore it is vital that children practise at home. 
• Please send your child into school with their reading journals, vocabulary work and spellings on Thursday 10th May 2021.
• Please send your child into school with the correct PE kit on Monday 7th June 2021.

Lastly, we wanted to say the biggest thank you to the wonderful Miss Hawley who has been in year 4 since Spring 1. Throughout the term, Miss Hawley has had such a wonderful impact on the children sharing many laughs and tears. Although Miss Hawley will be completing her placement just in Year 2 lower in the school, we will truly miss your smile face and positive attitude. We all wish Miss Hawley the best of luck and congratulations on such an amazing term!

We hope you all have a lovely half term and look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 7th June for our last term in year 4!

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Mrs Cairns and Miss Hawley.

Hello everyone,

We hope you are well and having a lovely week despite the rain!

In English, the children have been busy practising their writing skills in preparation to write their own news report. In particular, Koalas and Kangaroos have been studying embedded relative clauses, understanding the job and the importance of one. With this, they then created their own about Earthquakes and Volcanoes.

Here are some of the pupils’ examples

Jack –  ‘Kilauea, which is located on one of  Hawaii’s train of islands, is the most perilous volcano in the world and can produce a lava temperature of 200o degrees Celsius’

Brayden – ‘Kilauea’s volcanic attach, which sent toxic plumes of smoke spitting out and causing distress and panic, left thousands homeless’

Ellen – ‘The vents of Kilauea, which are filled to the brim with scorching, sweltering magma, descends all the way down the 1247m gargantuan volcano’

Next week, we will begin to plan and write our own news paper report using relative embedded clauses and subordinating clauses.

In Maths, we have began our time unit where we have explored half pasts, quarter past and to, and minutes past and to. We will be continuing next week, looking closely at time interval problems, time tables and time graphs.

A few polite reminders –

• Please ensure that your child is completing times table practise on Times Table Rockstars (sound check – this is the same format as the test! ) https://ttrockstars.com/.
• Please send your child into school with their reading journals, vocabulary work and spellings on Thursday 27th May 2021.
• Please send your child into school with the correct PE kit on Thursday 27th May 2021 for their CM sports PE session.
• Next week is our last week of the summer 1, but also our last week with Miss Hawley. She has made such a positive impact on all pupils and she will be sorely missed!

Well done for another fantastic week of learning Year 4, we look forward to seeing you on Monday. We hope you all have a lovely restful weekend.

From

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Miss Hawley and Mrs Cairns

Hello everybody,

We hope you are keeping well and are having  a lovely week.

In English, the children have continued exploring different news articles and reports on natural disasters. We started the week by  identifying informative devices and vocabulary. We have also had a large focus on paragraphing, in which the children were tasked to find the purpose  identify the topics of each paragraph of given texts  Next week, we will begin to draft our own auto cues for a ‘Live News Report’.

In Maths, we began our new Geometry unit. Here the children classified different shapes, identified properties of the shapes such as lines and angles. We also looked closely at finding the perimeter and area of irregular polygons. Next week we will continue with measurements, but having a close study of time.

We have continued our unit on sound and this week the children  explored how sound travelled. They carried out the ‘elastic band’ experiment which helped them visualise sound waves and vibrations.

In DT, children have been very busy creating their money carriers. They have measured and cut out templates, made their decorations by referring back to their design briefs. Today the children will being sewing it all together using either running or blanket stitch, and they will attach a fastening! We are really looking forward to seeing the final product and will share these with you next week!

A few reminders –

• Please ensure that your child is completing times table practise on Times Table Rockstars (sound check – this is the same format as the test! ) https://ttrockstars.com/.
• Please send your child into school with their reading journals, vocabulary work and spellings on Thursday 20th May 2021.
• Please send your child into school with the correct PE kit on Monday 17th May 2021 for their CM sports PE session.

Well done for another fantastic week of learning Year 4’s, we look forward to seeing you on Monday. We hope you all have a lovely restful weekend.

From

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Miss Hawley and Mrs Cairns

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and enjoyed a long weekend! Hopefully the sun will come back out for us to enjoy!

Koalas and Kangaroos have been extremely busy in English this week by starting a new unit on natural disasters. They have explored lots of news articles and news reports on volcanoes and earthquakes. From these, they collected lots of new vocabulary which they then made into their own glossary. We will continue to study news reports as the children’s final outcome will be to create their own which will be filmed and performed to the rest of the year 4s.

In Maths, we have looked closely at our problem solving skills which included our heuristics. We began the week by looking at the problem, ‘David, Brett, Julie and Carmel were lining up at the cinema. How many different ways could they line up?’. In groups, the children acted as each person, found different combinations and then recorded this systematically into an organised list. We also looked at pattern spotting problems.

Next week we will be starting our new Geometry unit, closely looking at area, classifying shapes and identifying angles.

Reminders for next week –

• Please ensure your children are completing all set homework including SumDog and times table practise on Times Table Rockstars (sound check) https://ttrockstars.com/.
• Please send your child into school with their reading journals, vocabulary work and spellings on Thursday 13th May 2021.
• Please send your child into school with the correct PE kit on Thursday 13th May 2021 for their CM sports PE session.
• Next week, we will be making our money carriers. Please bring in any materials your child would like to use, should you wish to, though we do have plenty of materials at school.

Well done for another fantastic week of learning Year 4’s, we look forward to seeing you on Monday. We hope you all have a lovely restful weekend.

From

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Miss Hawley and Mrs Cairns