Hello,

This week we have begun to prepare for our assembly, happening on Friday 15th May at 9:10. The children have come up with lots of things to include and we are working to put these together into a very enjoyable experience.

This is a great opportunity for you to get a flavour of what the children have been learning in class. This will be a whole year group assembly so it should be packed with lots of exciting things. Can  we ask that children come dressed as Saxons on the day (this doesn’t need to involve buying anything-just look back at previous blogs to see Mr. Austin dressed as a Viking!)

In maths this week we have continued to look at time and have been learning about reading timetables and calculating time intervals. Telling the time is such an important skill and we hope that children continue to practice this at home.

Thank you,

Year 4 Team

Hello,

welcome back to school year 4! I was so impressed with all of the homelearning that the children got up to over the Easter break. The Saxon houses made out of wood and straw were amazing. Such detail went into them even down to little fires and pots inside them.

I can see that some children have already started to research our new topic about King Alfred – Was Alfred so Great? We will be investigating why King Alfred was labelled great and if we agree with it. We have attached our new home learning pyramid to give the children some ideas of what they could learn and how below:

Bloom’s HL – Was Alfred so Great

In maths this week we have been focusing on learning how to tell the time, which is a very important skill. The children’s home learning this week focuses on time telling and the more they practise the easier it will be for them.

On abacus and Mymaths this week we have designated time activities to help the children practise this skill.

Music

In music this term we are now learning how to play the guitar and will again be having a concert at the end of the summer term. The children are very excited!

We look forward to posting some more pictures of the children’s learning at school soon.

Thank you,

The year 4 team

Hello,

Thank you to so many of you for turning up to our clarinet concert! We hope you all enjoyed it and that it was clear how much effort the children put into learning the instrument. Photos to follow soon!

We wish you all a very happy Easter holidays and are looking forward to starting our next topic – Was Alfred So Great?

The children have all written what they would like to do over the break for their home learning.

The Easter holidays are a great time to get involved with some more creative and elaborate project ideas.

For example – a saxon village, a saxon board game or a saxon outfit/helmet/sword etc.

Abacus and Mymaths have all been updated too.

Again, have a lovely break!

The year 4 team 🙂

Hello,

This week we have continued to enjoy learning about Beowulf and the Saxons. We decided to have our own storytime around a campfire as they did in Saxon times. The children were given the choice of what they wanted to write about Beowulf and decided on stories, diary entries, letters and information leaflets about the Saxons. We were very impressed with the descriptive language the children used and how much they entertained us around the camp fire! Some children even overcome their fear of public speaking and gave it a go anyway.

Reminder:

The clarinet concert will be held next Monday at 2:30pm in the hall and we hope to see you there!

Home learning:

Abacus and Mymaths have been updated as usual with some fractions and place value work as we are working on fractions at the moment in class. The children have been learning to find equivalent fractions and how to add fractions with the same denominator.

Bugclub has now become part of active learn and all of the children’s books have now been assigned to them. So please enjoy the books and activities on there as usual.          

Hello,

Today we went to Sacred Heart Church to think about Lent through a Mass led by Father Kevin. Before leaving for the Mass we were all excited but we were ready for the long walk!

Once we were there Father Kevin gave us a very informative tour of the church describing the function of the different items that we see used. During the Mass everyone joined in enthusiastically and those reading communicated the message really clearly. We would like to thank all of the children for the effort that they put in during the mass to make it a success.

In other news we are excited to announce that our Clarinet Concert will be taking place on Monday 30th March at 2:30pm. As ever, everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy hearing what the children have beenn learning this term!

Abacus and Mymaths has been updated and we look forward to seeing every child engaging with these activities.

Thank you,

Year 4

Wow! What an exciting day world book day was!

There was lots going on around the school with each teacher running a different workshop for children to go to. The children were all mixed up so our Year 4’s got to mix with lots of other year groups. It also meant that we tried a variety of activities.

Can you guess who this is?

We hope that the children shared the excitement that they had on world book day and became enthusiastic about the enjoyment to be found in books.

If your child wishes to use some of the ideas from World Book Day as part of their home learning we encourage them to do so!

Also don’t forget the usual home learning on my maths and abacus that we expect to be done each week and are updated regularly.

Thank you,

Year 4 Team

Hello,

We had a very exciting Monday when we were all summ0ned into 4A by the blowing of a horn by Osred the Saxon.

Through the day we were shown lots of things about who the Saxons were, their language, their way of life and their way of fighting!

As you can see the children were able to see many different artefacts giving them a really clear idea about what Anglo Saxon life was like!

Remember that you can use the home learning pyramid to come up with ideas to support the learning that has happened in class. In addition to this we have started to teach our lent unit of work in RE, so look in the home learning diaries for some ideas of what home learning you can do to support this!

Thank you,

Year 4 Team

Hello,

As you are aware year 4 have been on a visit to Butser Ancent Farm. We have really learnt how cosy it could be in a roundhouse with the fire to warm you; 4A certainly learnt what it was like hundeds of years ago when it got wet and muddy! The children were given a real hands on experience of the kinds of methods that people had to use hundreds of years ago to make everything they need. We really appreciated how much work it must have been in those times to provide all the things that they needed! You’ll see lots of things that we got up to by looking at the photos below!

You can also find our new home learning pyramid here:  Saxons Settlers or Meddlers

We hope that this gives you lots of inspiration for your home learning!

Thank you,

Year 4 Team

Hello,

Year 4 were really lucky today to have a visitor from the Rocksteady Music School. During the workshop we were able to try out different instruments that were in a rock band. You will see from the photos below that we all had a really good time and even learnt to clap the beat!

This is as well as the Clarinet lessons that we are having each week! Our clarinet lessons will culminate in a performance at the end of term!

Hello,

Next half term we will be starting our new topic based on the Saxon settlement into Britain. To kick off this topic in an inspiring way we have organised two exciting events for the children.

In the first week of the new half term we will be visting Butser Ancient Farm where the children will be able to explore Saxon buildings and gain an insight into the Saxon way of life. In the second week we will be having a special Saxon visitor who will introduce children to Saxon story telling and other aspects of Saxon culture.

You can find our letter here: Butser Hill.Saxon visitor

Thank you,

Year 4 team