Hello everyone,

We hope you are all well and keeping safe. We have nearly made it to the end of the longest month!

The children have been working very hard this week on drafting, editing , publishing and performing their Spring poems. The children really thought about the rhythm, pitch and body language as they were performing which then was peer evaluated by a friend. Here are the final writes!

In Maths, the children have finished their time unit and have begun to move onto fractions. In the next couple of weeks, we will explore finding the amounts of units using fractions, understand the effect of dividing a number by 10, 100. We will delve deeper into what makes an equivalent fraction and how to recognise them.

A few polite reminders –

1. Please continue to work on your Spring Term reading passports. We recommend your child selects books from the library in order to help them with completing this task over the term.
2. Homework for spelling, vocabulary, reading journals and Maths (including Time Table Rockstars) will be due on Friday 4th February 2022. Please encourage your child to hand in their work as soon as it is completed through the week, to enable us to review their learning by the Friday.
3. All children to please wear their PE kits for CM sports on Thursday 3rd February 2022.
4. Next week we will start our sewing unit. We are practising our sewing skills by making a face mask and therefore if you have spare material for your child please do not hesitate to send it in. However, we do have plenty of material at school.

We hope that you all have an excellent weekend,

With very best wishes,

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell and Mrs Cairns.

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe.

This week, we have been celebrating Oscar Romero and how he had demonstrated the values of CST (Catholic Social Teaching) in order to serve his community of El Salvador throughout his life. The children took part in a class worship, whereby we reflected upon his life and core values. We each discussed the importance of his Mission, ‘Not to have more, but to be more’. As part of ‘going forth’, we produced our very own El Salvador crosses, to inspire our school community to continue to show kindess, generosity, selflessness and respect. Please see the image below:

In English, we have been enjoying out learning on Spring poetry. In particular, we have explored our local environment and been on a nature walk around the school in order to help us create Spring similes and metaphors. The children have worked very hard on their use of rhythm, syllables and rhyme as part of their drafting and editing process. We look forward to publishing and displaying our work in the Year 4 shared area this week.

In Maths, our learning has been focused upon telling the time to the nearest minute and 5 minute intervals. We have used analogue clock faces to support our understanding of the relationship between the minute and the hour hand. We have also made links to our fractions learning to help us remember where we would find half past, quarter past and quarter to when telling 12 hour time. Next week, we shall be starting to work on digital time and how to convert between 12 hour and 24 hour time.

A few quick reminders for you:

1. Please continue to work on your Spring Term reading passports. We recommend your child selects books from the library in order to help them with completing this task over the term.
2. Homework for spelling, vocabulary and Maths (including Time Table Rockstars) will be due on Friday 28th January 2022. Please encourage your child to hand in their work as soon as it is completed through the week, to enable us to review their learning by the Friday.
3. All children to please wear their PE kits for a hockey lesson with their class teacher on the afternoon of Monday 24th January 2022.

We hope that you all have an excellent weekend,

With very best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackon-Nash and Mrs Cairns.