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