Spring is near!

Good morning,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks! On Monday 24th January 2022, Year 4 took part in an e-safety workshop with Lee Hayward. The children enjoyed talking about which apps and games they play on, as well as how to stay safe on the internet when using their devices and technology in school and at home. The following day, the children also took part in a Year 4 Mass with Father Jeremy in the Unity building. This was a wonderful opportunity for the children to participate in worship, taking on roles such as readings for our prayers of intercession and presenting the Year 4 offertory to the altar.

In English, we have been performing and evaluating our Spring poems to one another. The children gave each other ‘two stars and a wish’ as part of their constructive feedback to each other. This week, we have now started our new unit of learning on ‘Jemmy Button’, in order to explore Jemmy’s experience of the jungle and city life. Please continue to discuss the vocabulary home learning tasks with your child as this will support them when applying key words in their written work. Next week, we look forward to creating our own speech dialogue between the main characters of the text, before moving on to punctuate them correctly using inverted commas.

In Maths, we have been exploring fractions. At the start of the week, we learnt how to use our times tables to find out what ‘one part’ of a whole quantity was worth (e.g. 1/8 of 16). As the week progressed, we started to make links to our knowledge of tenths and hundredths in order to calculate 1/10 of three digit numbers efficiently. Now, we are using part whole and bar models to respresent our findings. The children have particularly enjoyed using the bus stop method to divide and the grid method to multiply larger numbers. Next week, we shall be moving on to multiplication – please encourage your child to practise and show you their grid methods at home (e.g. to solve 25 x 4, or 123 x 6).

 

Just a few reminders for next week:

  • We shall be creating our money carriers in class soon. We would like for every child to bring in any decorations they would like to add to their money carrier, to attach to their money carrier at school. Materials, zips, poppers and buttons will be provided however please do encourage your child to think about who they have chosen to design their purse/wallet for and which decorations or details they feel would be appropriate.
  • Our STEM day will take place on Wednesday 16th February 2022. On this day, we shall be creating terrarium-style biomes for the follwoing habitats: desert, jungle, ocean, arctic, caves, etc. If your child has any preference on which habitat they would like to create for their model, please could they bring any additional materials or details they feel would enhance this project (e.g. leaves, stones, pebbles, etc).
  • Please remind your child to arrive to school wearing their PE kit on Monday 7th February 2022.
  • Home learning will be due on Friday 11th February 2022. We would like to remind all children of the importance of logging in regularly to their Times Table Rockstar accounts, which will help them to prepare for the Year 4 Times Table check on the laptops in the Summer Term.

 

We hope you all have a safe and enjoyable weekend,

Best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns.

 

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