Hello,

We hope that you have had a good week so far and that you are enjoying the recent sunshine this Spring.

This week, we have started our new unit of learning on Volcano and Earthquake news reports. The children are very excited to work towards our final outcome – a video recording from each of our news teams, who shall be reporting on the natural disasters that have taken place in Hawaii. This week, we watched a series of news reports and studied a variety of published articles, in order to develop our vocabulary and build key word banks to help us describe the volcanoes and earthquakes in more detail. As the week progressed, we played a variety of ‘snap’ and ‘pairs’ card games, which enabled the children to develop their understanding of the meaning for each key word by matching these terms to a set of different images. By creating glossaries and performing news reports through Pie Corbett, both Year Four classes had developed their comprehension skills, with regards to the key words that shall be covered across this topic. Next week, we look forward to incorporating our new vocabulary within a range of sentence types.

Please see the picture below of a volcano that was produced as part of Home Learning:

In Maths, Year Four have been working hard on their learning of Time. For example, we have been learning how to tell analogue (12 hour) and digital (24 hour) time, whilst also recapping on how to convert between seconds, minutes and hours. In addition, we have been looking at how to use number bonds to 60 in order to calculate how many minutes are left of an hour, until the next hour on the clock is reached. Later on, the children used number lines to interpret and solve a range of tricky time interval problems. We were very impressed by the commitment and collaboration that had been demonstrated by each group of children. Next week, we look forward to completing our work on Time, before moving on to our next unit of learning: multiplication and division.

Today, our three competitors from Year Four took part in the St. Peter’s Poetry Competition 2020. We would like to congratulate our three poets for their exceptional performances in the event. Well done to Leo and Calin, and for Emi who won first place in the Year 3/4 category. We were very proud of you all!

Wishing you all a fantastic weekend,

Kind regards,

Miss Honeywell, Miss Jackson Nash and Mrs Cairns.