26/04/19

Hello and welcome back Year 4! I hope you all had a lovely Easter break. The children have returned to school with a calm and ready to learn attitude which shows they have had a good rest over the break (which was certainly needed after our Rock Bottom performances at the end of last term)! It has been a lovely start to the week with the class talent show! I was so impressed by how many different acts we had, and the time and effort the children put into arranging their performances. Well done to everyone who performed. It was such a great celebration of how much their confidence and presentation skills have developed.

Please see below for a copy of the topics we are covering this half term:

Maths: 
Fractions and written multiplication.

English:
-Poetry about nature
-Persuasive writing
-Explanation and discussion text.

Science:
Electricity

History:
Anglo-Saxons

PSHCE:
Memories and loss.

RE:
Sikh religious stories.

Art:
Art from different cultures

D&T:
Food and healthy eating.

Spanish:
Things around town.

IMPORTANT NOTICES REGARDING NEXT WEEK:
-On Monday morning we are going on a short trip on the railway following a railway safety talk the children will have in assembly that day. Please ensure you have provided permission for your child to go via school gateway as we will not be able to take anyone who has not given consent. Please also ensure your child brings a coat on Monday. The weather has been lovely recently but it is important we are prepared in case of rain.

-On Tuesday we will be having class photos. Please make sure children attend school as smart as they usually do for the photos.

Next week:

Maths:

Adding and subtracting fractions.

English:

Poetry focused around nature.

Spellings:

The children are now going to have their pre-test on a Friday with the list of the new spellings words, so they can see how many they already know without seeing them. The full list of spellings will be put on the blog as normal and the children then have a full week to learn them for the test on normal on Friday, followed by the next weeks pre-test. The children only need to practise the spellings they have got wrong and if they have got 10/10 then they need to find spellings that follow the same spelling rule. The spellings for this week are listed below. They have been pretested already so they will know which ones they need to practise. This week the rule is words that have the 'sc' spelling but the 's' sound.

-scenery

-scent

-science

-scissors

-ascend

-descend

-crescent

-fascinate

-scene

-muscle

Science:

What is electricity? Where does it come from?

History:

What is the role of an archaeologist and who were the Anglo-Saxons?

PSHCE:

Relationships and peer pressure. 

RE:

What is wisdom?

Art:

Exploring Indian Art

Spanish:

Revise learning so far. 

Have a lovely weekend and please make sure you are finding time to read and complete Mathletics. As a class, the Mathletics activity has gone down slightly recently, so please make sure you are taking the time to complete this. It really does help with speed accuracy and confidence in maths. 

Miss Bradford

05/04/19

Hello Year 4!
I cannot believe we have made it to the Easter holidays already. This year is going so fast! This week the children performed their production of ROCK BOTTOM once to the whole school and twice to their friends and family. I was absolutely amazed at how fantastic they were and it was an absolute delight to see them enjoying themselves while performing. A massive thank you to all of the adults that pulled together to help with the production and of course to the children who produced an amazing show. Mrs Zegallo also took some fantastic pictures of the performance. I will post these as well as a detailed blog on what we will be doing next half term over the holidays. Unfortunately the end of term means that we are saying goodbye to Mrs Kirby. The children are very sad to see her go but are incredibly appreciative of all of her hard work. She will certainly be missed, but we are looking forward to her visiting us soon. Good luck Mrs Kirby!

IMPORTANT NOTICE!
We will be having a Year 4 talent show in the afternoon of the first day back. This is a chance for the children to show off their talents and skills and think about what makes them special and unique. The children have been informed that the talent can involve anything from singing, dancing, role play, joke telling, story telling, playing an instrument or anything else that can be performed in the classroom. A lot of children have asked me if they have to take part, and I have explained that although it is not compulsory, it would be great if as many children as possible could take part.

Have a brilliant Easter holiday. Please make sure you are taking time to read, and go onto mathletics as well as practising for the talent show!

See you in the summer term!

Miss Bradford

01/04/19

Hello Year 4.

I apologise for a late blog post, unfortunately I was unwell again on Friday.
Last week the children have been working extremely hard on the production of ROCK BOTTOM and are very excited to show the performance to their family and friends this week. The children have really grown in confidence and have been learning about expression and body language as well as learning the lyrics and dance moves to the songs.

This week:

Maths:
Adding and subtracting fractions.

English:
Analysing the performance of ROCK BOTTOM and completing comprehension based around Easter.

Science:
Drama showcasing learning of the water cycle in the different states of matter.

RE:
The Easter story

ICT:
Understanding the difference between different search engines and how information in ranked on the internet.

Art:
Observation painting.

I look forward to seeing you all for the performances on either Wednesday 3rd at 1:30pm or Thursday 4th at 6:30pm