Hello everyone,

We hope you are well and keeping safe.

This week, we have been very busy with lots of learning. In English, we have been looking at time and place adverbials. The children have been writing safety instructions on how to keep your snowman safe.

In Maths, the children have started their fraction unit. We have been very surprised with the children as they have been using their derived facts when dividing a whole by tenths and hundredths. Next week, we will begin to explore equivalent fractions and finding the amounts.

During Black History Month, year 4 were given the amazing Miriam Makeba, also known as Mama Africa, to explore and research. They researched all about her life, from when she was a child during the apartheid, to being exiled from her country, fighting against discrimination and then returning to her home country once the apartheid was quashed. Koalas and Kangroos were so inspired by her story that as a class they created a song which they performed to the class in their own ‘Miriam Makeba’ concert. We were very proud of the children for not only performing, but being so passionate and standing up against discrimination.

Just a few reminders –

• Thank you to all parents who attended the virtual Parent’s evenings. It was so lovely to chat and meet you properly. If you have any further questions or queries, please do not hesitate to call or message the school and we will try our best to help.
• Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to walk with the school for St Peter’s Advent service taking place at the Sacred Heart Church in Waterlooville. This will take place on Tuesday, so please send your child into school wearing appropriate and smart footwear.
• Reading passports are due 8.12.21
• Please send your child into school in their PE kits on Monday 29th November 2021.
• As the weather is getting colder and bitter, please send your child in wearing warm clothes such as gloves, hats and coats as at break and lunch the children will be on the playground.

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

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

Hello everyone,

We hope you are well and enjoying your week. We have been very busy with our learning.

This week in science, we have begun our State of Matter topic. We explored the idea of solids, liquids and gases and matched objects and key words to the groups. We even had a go at role playing the different matters.

Gas!

Liquid!

Solid!

We have been given the big question –

At the end of our unit, children will be able to look back at their original thought and amend with what they have learnt.

Just a few reminders for next week –

• Children to wear PE kit on Thursday 25th November 2021
• Spelling journals (red book – includes vocab and Maths tasks) to be handed in by Friday 26th November 2021.
• Please continue to practise your Times Table Rockstars – logins to be found in your red homework  book.
• We look forward to virtually meeting you next week for Parent’s evenings taking place on Tuesday 23rd November and Wednesday 24th November

We hope that you all have a great weekend and look forward to seeing you all again next week.

Best wishes,

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

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe. This week, we have been working on The Snowman as part of our writing in English. We are working towards creating a ‘How to care for your snowman’ information leaflet to go in the school foyer for any visitors to browse as we begin to prepare for Christmas time. On Monday, we created our very own snowmen and the children gave them their own fun, creative names. Please see the photos below. Well done Year Four!

We also took part in our Y3 and Y4 Mass on Tuesday 9th November 2021 – we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who attended and took part in our celebration with us. The children were beautifully behaved as we reflected upon the theme of Remembrance and the brave soldiers who gave their lives to serve our country in the world war.

Just a few reminders for next week –

• Children to wear PE kit on Monday when they arrive at school
• Reading journals (yellow book) and spelling journals (red book – includes vocab and Maths tasks) to be handed in by Friday 19th.
• Please continue to practise your Times Table Rockstars – logins to be found in your red homework  book.

We hope that you all have a great weekend and look forward to seeing you all again next week.

Best wishes,

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

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and safe. It was lovely to see all the children return back to school keen to learn and with recharged batteries.

In English this week, we have continued our spider diaries unit and explored the use of subordinate conjunctions. We have looked at different spider statistics and applied our new skill into sentences. We are now beginning to draft and edit our final non-chronological reports which when finished will be shared to other children around the school to read and find out lots of spider facts!

In Maths, we started have started our new multiplication and division unit. This week the children have used their metacognitive approach to answer a two step problem. They had to plan out what strategies and tools they would use and then reflected on which worked well. Next week we will look at grid method and multiplying larger numbers.

Just before half term, some children were chosen to participate in a hockey skills tournament held by Havant Hockey Team. The children were given the opportunity to practise passing, shooting, attacking and defending in Hockey and then applied these skills to a match against a local school. The children worked very well as  team and as a result they won 2:0. Well done Koalas and Kangaroos!

Just a few quick reminders for next week:

• Spelling and  vocabulary home learning books due on Thursday 11th November 2021.
• Reading Journals are due on Thursday 11th October 2021. Could we also encourage children to write detailed book reviews including the likes and dislikes. Some children are bringing in beautiful pictures and drawings however have forgotten to review what they have read.
• Please encourage your children to use Times Table Rockstars in order to build their times table facts and fluency.

We hope that you all have a lovely week.

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