Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and safe.

This week, the children have continued to build on writing skills that will help them write a letter to Greta Thunberg, persuading her to continue her work. We began the week by looking at coordinating, subordinating and causal conjuctions, building on climate change sentences. We used these sentences to support our arguement when we were trying to persuade people to use electric cars rather than sport cars. Next week, we will begin to draft and edit our letters!

In Maths, we are finishing our multiplication and division unit by looking at the relationship between related facts, 10/100/1000 times smaller and bigger. Next week, the children will use their knowledge of times and divide to support them in finding amounts of quantities using fractions. We will also be recapping times by solving time and conversion word problems.

A few polite reminders,

• Unfortunately, due to covid we have had to postpone Viking Stem day which would have been held on Friday 25th March. We have now moved this to Friday 29th April 2022, we cannot wait to see all the children dressed as Vikings! Please continue to collect resources for the day such as large plastic bottles, lolly pop sticks, lids along with any other material fit for a long boat!
• Please send your child in their correct PE kit on Monday 28th March.
• Spelling, maths, reading journals and vocabulary homework is due Friday 1st April 2022.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend,

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

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe.

This week, the children have been working hard on their new unit of learning, writing a persuasive letter to Greta Thunberg to encourage her to keep campaigning against climate change. We have explored a range of articles and documentaries, to help us collect facts and opinions about deforestation, plastics in the sea, burning fossil fuels and global warming. Building upon their prior knowledge of Jemmy Button and the jungle descriptions we created in our last unit of work, the children were then able to develop their own expanded noun phrases to help them powerfully describe the beautiful rainforests that are currently at risk. Next week, we shall use a variety of conjunctions in order to explain to our reader why it is important to protect the planet.

In Maths, Year Four have re-visited their learning on multiplication and division, this time considering how they can use more efficient methods such as grid technique, bus stop and partitioning of larger numbers in order to count equal groups within a total. The children have also started to engage with their challenge tasks, that include using the inverse operations in order to go back and analyse, review and check their answers are reasonable and close to what they had initially predicted at the start of each Maths problem. Well done everyone! Next week, we shall continue to explore a range of techniques and consider how we can use ‘plan, do, review’ in order to apply them within the context of multi-step problems.

Here’s a few reminders for next week:

1. Please ensure your child arrives at school in PE kit on Thursday 24/03/22 for their morning session with CM sports.
2. Viking STEM day will be taking place on Friday 25th March 2022 – please ensure your child is wearing their Viking costume (if they would like to) and that they either bring a £1 voluntary contribution or their own plastic bottles and milk bottles (1L or 2L capacity), so there will be plenty of resources to use on the day. If your child would like to bring decorations to go on their Viking longboat, please ensure they are waterproof as we shall be testing the boats with our Viking visitor in the afternoon!
3. Spelling, vocabulary and Maths home learning (red books) and home reading journals (yellow books) to be handed in by Thursday 24th March 2022. Please also remind your child to continue logging in to TT Rockstars for daily practise of their times tables.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend,

Best wishes,

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

Hello everyone,

We hope you are keeping well and safe.

This week in English, we are coming to an end on our Jemmy Button unit. The children have drafted, edited and published fantastic stories in which they were writing a narrative and setting description about Orundelcio’s journey to Britain. Our next unit, we will focus on climate change and natural disasters with our final outcome being a letter to Greta Thunberg herself!

In Maths, we have started our new unit of multiplication and division. We have already unpicked a multistep problem, looked at different representations of the two operations and recapping strategies we may have used in the past. Next week, we will use different strategies to help us multiply and divide three/four digit numbers! Please continue to encourage your children to use Times Tables Rockstars regularly as this will really support them in this unit and prepare them for the Multiplication test in summer.

A few polite reminders –

• Firstly, it was lovely to see you all (virtually) for parents’ evening. We really enjoyed sharing with you the amazing hard work your child has put in this year. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to grab us on the playground!
• Please send your child in the correct PE uniform on Monday 14th March.
• Reminder that vocabulary, spellings, maths and reading journals are due Thursday 17th March 2022.
• We are excited to welcome back Miss Ranson, student teacher in Koalas. Here’s to another fantastic term!

We hope you have a fantastic weekend,

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

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are well and keeping safe.

This week, we have enjoyed World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March 2022. It was wonderful to celebrate all of our favourite books, authors and characters. Please take a look at our class photos, below:

In English, we have been learning about Jemmy Button and creating our narrative stories. The children have thought carefully about which of the following skills they would like to include in their writing:

• Expanded noun phrases
• Fronted adverbials
• Similes and metaphors
• Speech dialogue

We very much look forward to completing, drafting and editing our work next week. In Maths, we have been learning strategies for addition and subtraction – in particular, we have focused on the following methods:

• Expanded column
• Number lines
• Number bonds

We also recently enjoyed our STEM day, where me made lots of shoebox biomes for a range of habitats as part of our Science learning, including:

• Deserts
• Jungles
• Oceans
• Caves
• Arctic

We look forward to seeing you all at our virtual parents evening session on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th March.

Best wishes,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson-Nash and Mrs Cairns