Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and having a nice week!

On Tuesday 29th November 2022, the children from St. Peter’s walked to Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville, in order to gather together and celebrate our Whole School Advent Liturgy. We would like to say a big well done to all of the children in Year Four, who took part in the choir, readings and drama performances throughout the services – we were very proud of you all! Thank you to all of our parents and carers who gave up their time to volunteer and help the children walk to and from church safely, we really appreciate your support.

A few brief reminders for next week:

• Deadline for Reading Passports on Thursday 1st December 2022.
• Please could all pupils bring their red home learning books (spelling, vocabulary and maths) to school, for Friday 2nd December 2022.
• Friday 2nd December 2022 – World Cup Football Tournament (Y3 vs Y4) and after school KS2 school disco.

We hope you all have a great weekend!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and enjoying the Winter sunshine this week.

So far, the children in Year Four have been enjoying taking part in gymnastics – we are currently learning how to balance, roll and create a group pose by sharing our weight to balance, and even counterbalance! As part of our World Cup learning, we have also been studing heuristic strategies in Maths, such as generating a table and using number codes in order to solve combination problems about different types of football kits.

In English, we have completed our Spider Information pages and we look forward to starting our learning on Anthony Browne’s The Tunnel. The children have already started to make links between their Guided Reading tasks on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, with the portal that is also present in The Tunnel story. We have looked closely at the following vocabulary words: journey, transformation, portal, transportation. Could you practise building these words on a morpheme grid at home? e.g. transform – transformed – transforming – transformation. Please see below for a fantastic example of a Spider information page, complete with editing flaps to self-correct and improve, from Year Four.

In Maths, we have completed our learning on adding and subtracting tenths, and we have started to use our place value grids to support our division of numbers by 10 and 100. The children have enjoyed learning about wholes, equal parts, tenths and hundredths and they have a secure knowledge of how to represent these values. Next week, we look forward to applying our learning across various contexts.

A few quick reminders for next week:

• Please continue to complete the reading passport challenge – the deadline to complete this task is Thursday 1st December 2022.
• Please ensure that your child continues to practise and log in to Times Table Rockstars, to best prepare them for the Y4 Multiplication Check in June.
• Children to complete their spelling, vocabulary and Maths tasks (red book) and reading journal activities (yellow book) by Friday 2nd November 2022.
• Year 1-6 Advent Service at Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville.

We wish you all a lovely weekend,

Take care,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe. This week, the children have had a very busy week! In English, we have been drafting and editing our Spider Information pages – the children have worked so hard on generating a spooky, terrifying creature! We are very impressed by their use of nouns, pronouns, conjunctions and statistical information. Well done everyone!

In Maths, we have been studying tenths and hundredths – we began with the context of money, discussing how there are 100 pennies in a pound and 1 pence is a hundredth of the pound coin, with 10p being worth a tenth of 100 pence. As the week progressed, we looked closely at using various models and representations to prove our workings to add and subtract decimal fractions, e.g. bar models, number lines, part whole models, column method.

Here’s a few updates for next week:

• Please continue to complete the reading passport challenge – the deadline to complete this task is Thursday 1st December 2022.
• Please ensure that your child continues to practise and log in to Times Table Rockstars, to best prepare them for the Y4 Multiplication Check in June.
• Parents Evening sessions will take place on Tuesday 22nd November and Wednesday 23rd November 2022. We look forward to seeing you all there!

We hope that you all enjoy the rest of the week – wishing you a pleasant weekend!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all doing well and having a great week, despite the weather recently!

This week, we have been creating our own sentences for our new unit of learning, Spider Diaries. We have focused on the following skills:

• Verbs and adverbs
• Main and subordinate clauses
• Spider nouns
• Subordinating conjunctions

As the week progressed, we used whiteboard work in order to practise generating our own sentences using technical vocabulary. We were very impressed by the children’s examples that they generated in teams! Please see the photo below…

In Maths, we have been using the bus stop method to help us divide 2 and 3 digit numbers. We have discussed remainders and what to do when there are ones left over at the end of our calculations. We have enjoyed using multiplication facts to help us decide how many ‘groups’ fit into each number.

A few reminders for next week:

• Odd Socks day on Monday 14th November – this will form part of our Anti Bullying Week. No donations are required, please just come to school wearing your odd socks!
• Whole School Flu vaccination – this will be in the form of a nasal spray and will take place on Wednesday 16th November.
• Please bring your red and yellow home learning books to school by Friday 18th November 2022.
• Continue to practise your Times Table Rockstars and daily reading.

Best wishes,

Year 4 Team

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and having a great week so far.

We had a great STEM day! The children made their own circuit games as part of their Science learning on electricity. We had a lot of fun! After studying and researching games, the children decided which components and electrical conductors and insulators they wished to use. We had lots of different themes for each game and Year Four had a lot of fun designing and evaluating them! Please see the photos below…

Have a wonderful half term break – please remind the children to complete their daily reading, Times Table Rockstar practice and their RE home learning on Catholic Social Teaching!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team