Hello everyone,

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

This week, the children have been very busy completing their Snowman Information leaflets – in this icy weather, the children can’t wait to share their tips and advice on How to Take Care of your Snowman.

In Maths, we have been studying how to use number bonds and we have also explored alternative strategies to successfully add together 3 sets of numbers, e.g. expanded column method. We had lots of fun calculating the cost of our cinema snack combinations!

We look forward to welcoming lots of parents to Year 4 during our sewing afternoon on Friday 20th January 2023. This will be the full afternoon session and we would like to thank parents and carers in advance, for volunteering to join us and support the children to sew and create the money carrier they have designed.

A few quick reminders for next week:

• Please bring any examples of charity work, fundraisers, donations for Show and Tell – we would love to share and celebrate these on our Discipleship Board (see photo below), as introduced during this Monday’s Whole School Worship. This could be photos, a certificate, or a poster your child has made to raise awareness on an important issue.
• Home learning to be handed in on Friday 27th January 2023 (yellow and red homework books).
• Please ensure you child continues to complete 10 mins of daily reading and TT Rockstar practise at home.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all doing well and having a good week so far,

We have been enjoying lots of fun opportunities at St. Peter’s this week! The children really enjoyed performing their Boneyard Rap poem to the Year Two children – they had a fantastic time and used their voices, facial expressions and gestures in order to really bring the poem to life. Well done Year Four! We would also like to say a big well done to our Worship Teams, who have worked hard to plan and deliver classroom Liturgical Prayers to the rest of the class – recently, the children created a Collective Worship on the Annuniciation and they took the children to the prayer garden to share their prayers as the passed the archway and statue of Mary. Please see the photos below…

A few brief reminders for next week:

• Friday 20th January – Y4 sewing afternoon with parents and carers. Please contact St. Peter’s if you would like to attend!
• Home learning (spelling, vocabulary and maths) to be returned back to class by Friday 20th January 2023.
• Please continue to practise daily on Times Table Rockstars, in order to prepare for the Y4 multiplication check.
• Spring Term reading passports – please make use of the school and local libraries in order to enjoy a wide selection of texts across the Spring Term.

We hope you all have a great weekend,

Best Wishes,

Year Four Team

Welcome back, everyone!

We hope that you are all well and that you all enjoyed a peaceful Christmas break and a wonderful New Year.

This week, we have continued our learning on The Snowman – the children had a fantastic time creating their own snowmen using artificial snow with coconut conditioner and bicarbonate of soda. We then gave our snowmen a name and explored a variety of science games to build our vocabulary banks for words that described ‘changes of state’ as well as for solids, liquids and gases.

In Maths, the children have been enjoying challenge activities on calculating the area and perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. We were very impressed by the various strategies selected by each child, such as ‘boxing up’ quadrilaterals within a shape to calculate area, and using times table knowledge and doubling in order to solve perimeters of regular quadrilateral shapes, efficiently.

A few brief reminders for next week:

• Home learning (spelling, vocabulary and maths) to be returned back to class by Friday 13th January 2023.
• Please continue to practise daily on Times Table Rockstars, in order to prepare for the Y4 multiplication check.
• Spring Term reading passports – please make use of the school and local libraries in order to enjoy a wide selection of texts across the Spring Term.

We hope you all have a great weekend,

Best Wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope you are all well and feeling prepared for the Christmas season!

This week, we have had lots of exciting activities and events at St. Peter’s. For example, the children watched the ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ pantomime and had a fantastic time taking part in the performance! We would like to thank all of the children, staff, parents and volunteers who supported the end of term Carol Service at Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville. Well done to all of the year 4 participants, who took part in the nativity role play, signing of the carols, instrumentals and the choir songs. We are incredibly proud of all that the children have achieved this year at St. Peter’s. Please see the photos below…

A few quick reminders:

• Inset day on Friday 16th Decmeber 2022
• Last day of term on Thursday 15th December 2022
• First day of Spring Term Tuesday 3rd January 2023
• Children to complete their RE home learning in their red homework book, ready to hand in after the Christmas holidays

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and having a great start to the week. There are lots of exciting things that shall be happening in Year Four this week. For example, we’d like to say a big conratulations to all of the Y4 winners from the Reading Passport Challenge for this term – on Friday, they shall look forward to a cinema trip to see the Christmas film, Elf! A huge well done to everyone who has taken part in the competition, you have all worked very hard and should be incredibly proud of yourselves! We can’t wait to find out who will be the winner of the class draw, to take part in a fun afternoon with CM sports…

A few reminders for the coming weeks:

• Tuesday 6th December 2022: Year 4 Inter Sport Competition (Part 1)
• Friday 9th December 2022: Year 4 Inter Sport Competition (Part 2)
• Friday 9th December 2022: ‘Love Christmas’ campaign jumble sale at St. Peter’s
• Tuesday 13th December 2022: St Peter’s Carol Service at Sacred Heart church, Waterlooville (6.30pm start)
• Thursday 15th December 2022: End of Term Carol Service at St. Peter’s and final day of school term.

Please ensure your child continues their daily reading, TT Rockstars practise and regular home learning tasks (red and yellow books).

We hope you all have a great weekend,

Year Four Team

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