Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe.

This week, the children took part in a KS2 sports day on Tuesday 22nd June. The children had an excellent time, despite the rain! We are very proud of the good spirit and team work demonstrated by each child in Year Four. They really enjoyed all of the activities on offer – basketball, hockey, football skills and more! Tomorrow, we look forward to our whole school carnival, where Year 4 will be representing Australia! Please ensure that your child arrives to school tomorrow wearing their summer outfit, or their costume if they are going to be an Australian celebrity! We look forward to celebrating at the carnival together.

In English, we have continued our learning on Greta Thunberg and Climate Change – in particular, we have been studying the key skills of how to use relative clauses and conjunctions in order to join ideas within and across our sentences. The children have really impressed us with their use of Global Warming key words, facts and statistics in their written work. In Maths, we have been using our metagcognitive and heuristic strategies whilst we interpret and solve money problems. We have recapped on how to use bar models, number lines, expanded column and maths tools as part of using the inverse to answer challenging maths questions. Keep up the great work, everyone!

Please see some photos below of sports day, carnival photos to follow next week!

With best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns.

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and that you enjoyed the sun whilst it lasted!

This week in English, we have started our new unit that focuses on climate change. We started the week by investigating and exploring increased human activity and how such things like global warming, deforestation, greenhouse gases etc are increasing at an alarming rate. Once we study these topics, the children created their own alphabetical glossary. Next week, we will begin our debates arguing whether a nitrous oxide fuel car is better than an electric car whereby the children will need to evidence to back up their case.

It has been a busy maths week! Firstly we would like to congratulate and thank all the children for  completing their official times table test that took place this week. They were so calm and sensible throughout. We would also like to express our thanks to parents who have worked so hard with children at home with their times tables. We are hoping to get the results later on this term, however these will not be shared with the children as they are only used for a Year 4 teachers data purposes. Back to maths, for the rest of the week the children have been problem solving with money using their inverse and estimation skills. Next week, we will begin our final fractions unit of Year 4!

In Science this week, we continued to explore how sound travels to our ear. The children were posed the question ‘Which would help you hear more, big cone ears or small cone ears?’. Once they made their prediction, the children studied different animal’s ears shape and position, thinking about the size of animals ears. They then went onto sign using sign language alphabet so they were able to appreciate being able to hear sound. We finished the lesson by creating ‘Cone ears’ and making a hypothesis on which allowed more sound to travel to your ear.

A few polite reminders –

1. Please ensure you send your child into school in their correct PE kits on Tuesday 22nd June 2021 for KS2 Sports day. (unfortunately no parents to this event) If weather permits, this will take place on the field. Hay fever is a real problem at the moment, so if your child suffers please send them in with appropriate hay fever medication or take it before coming to school.
2. Please encourage your children to continue with their spelling, vocabulary, reading journals and Times Table Rock Star (Sound Check) home learning.
3. St Peter’s Carnival will take place on Friday 25th June 2021. Year 4’s country theme is Australia. So please send your child into school with summer clothes, flipflops, hats etc, or even better ‘Australian themed’ clothing. We are also asking  if anyone at home has any Australian themed stuffed animals, pool floaters (crocodiles or fish), artefacts to please bring them in for the afternoon. We will ensure all items bought in are looked after and cleaned on return. Thank you in advance.
4. Reading passports are due 1st July 2021.

We hope that you have a good weekend and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns.

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe. We would just ike to send out a couple of important reminders:

1. Please ensure your child wears PE kit if they are participating in the Euros football league tournaments on Friday 11th June 2021.
2. Please encourage your children to continue with their spelling, vocabulary and Times Table Rock Star (Sound Check) home learning.
3. We have our official Year 4 Multiplication Check next week. These will take place on Tuesday 15th June (4JN) and Wednesday 16th June (4H). Please ensure that your child continues to practise their times tables at home and over the weekend.

It has been a busy week in Year Four, so far! On Monday, the children had lots of fun performing their news reports on Earthquakes and Volcanoes to the BBC. We were very impressed by the children’s use of intonation, pitch and volume in order to engage their audience and capture their attention. Please see the photos below:

In Maths, we have been looking at Measurements and Conversions. The children have thought very carefully about the key vocabulary in their challenge tasks, using the clues in order to help them solve with images, drawings and bar models. We have started to make links to fractions e.g. half of 1 Litre, 2/4 of 1800ml, etc. Can you have a practise of these measures at home? Take a look at the scales on your measuring jugs and cups – what is their maximum capacity? Can you measure different volumes of liquid?

We hope that you have a good weekend and we look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns.