These past few weeks we have been exploring ‘howlers’ from Harry Potter. Extremely angry letters sent to people to reprimand them for their behaviour.

We specifically looked at Mrs Weasley telling off Harry, Hermione and Ron.

We are so impressed with the language the children used, such as: scolded, incantations, incensed, outraged.

Below are some of our finished ‘howlers’, we can’t wait to show off Year Fours amazing learning and have them on display.

We have had the most wonderful start to Year Four! We are so proud of how everyone has settled in to Year Four and started working so hard on their learning.

We have been loving our new English topic all about Harry Potter. We are currently writing our ‘howlers’ and will be sharing these with each other at the end of next week.

Our current topic is based on our geography learning- Portsmouth as a gateway to the world.

Reminder- Koalas class trip to Portsmouth on the train is Monday 5th October and Kangaroos is Thursday 8th. Please ensure all permission slips for the trip are returned as soon as possible. Thank you!

And just like that, 2 weeks have zipped by.

The children have had an amazing start to the term in Year 4.  They have been fully immersed in our first English writing Unit based on writing Howlers as seen in Harry Potter. We have been so impressed with the work that they have been producing already and look forward to writing our final Howlers next week!

Our Maths learning has been focusing on the securing of pace value for numbers into the thousands.  Regular use of the times table Rockstars and sumdog apps will continue to help support your child’s learning in school. The log in for these is the same as before.

Don’t forget if you completed the reading challenge to bring in your certificate and medal to show Mrs Porter and receive a prize from school. Also, keep working on your reading passport – bring these in on Tuesdays (kangaroo) and Thursdays (koala) so you can use it in the library to select books that you need to read and to have any you have read signed off by your teachers. Happy reading!

Well done Year four on a successful return to school!

Team Four

We’d like to say a special Thank you to Mrs Broadway and Mrs Sykes for coming over from Oaklands to teach us all about Earthquakes! Our day was filled with lots of fun, engaging and interactive tasks which helped us with our understand of how, where and when Earthquales occur! We even made Earthquake proof houses!  It was a great day!

Here are some photos of our day: