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