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

22/03/19

Hello Year 4! 

Sorry there was no blog post last week due to my illness. However, I am so proud to have heard how well behaved you have been in my absence. The children have been working really hard getting ready for the KS2 production. 

Next week:
Spellings:
This week we are looking at words with the suffix 'tion' and 'sion'
-action
-caution
-protection
-accommodation 
-experimentation
-occasion
-television
-permission 
-decision
-mansion

English:
Performing a play script.

Maths:
Adding and subtracting fractions.

Please could all costumed be in school in a labelled bag by Wednesday 27th March. It would be a good idea to label all individual items too, so there is no mix up.

The production will be on Wednesday (am) 3rd April and Thursday (pm) 4th April. We do expect all children to be in attendance to both performances. Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Bradford

08/03/19

Hello Year 4!

PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

On Monday morning the children will be having a science workshop as it is science week. If any of you are happy to volunteer on Monday morning to help run the workshop that would be very helpful. If you are able to help, please email me.

What a lovely week we have had with much approved behaviour. Please make sure it continues! Rehersals for our play ‘Rock Bottom’ are in full swing. The music and lyrics have been posted on the KS2 Production website. This can be found on www.littleheathks2production.blogspot.com. You can also find them on YouTube by typing in Rock Bottom lyrics.

Highlights of the week
It was so lovely to see you all dressed up in your favourite characters for world book day! During world book day the children took part in a Quidditch game which was incredibly entertaining to watch! The children really enjoyed putting lots of their skills together in this game. I was running around dressed as Hagrid trying to keep up with the pace of the game to take some photos!

 The children have been working really well with their maths this week and have been using the column method to add and subtract decimals. The class have been working really hard on their presentation in their maths books and understanding how laying out their work neatly can help with the accuracy of their answers. In English we have been focusing on the book ‘The Black Book of Colours’ for world book day, which is a story about a boy called Thomas who is blind and he describes the colours of the world through his other senses. The class came up with their own poems based on the colours of the rainbow and used their sense of smell, taste, touch and heart to describe the particular colour. I was so impressed with the creativity and beautiful description in their poems.  Also, congratulations are in order for the children whose spooky sagas were chosen from the Young Writers competition for their stories to be published! You should be incredibly proud of yourselves! Please make sure you have replied either online by the 15/03/19 or with the written reply slip to me by Monday 11/03/19 so I can ensure these are sent off on time.

Next week is science week! We will be having maths lessons as normal but our other areas of the curriculum will be based around the theme which is journeys. We will be looking specifically at the journey of the water cycle and researching a mystery famous scientist!

Spellings:

This week we are focusing on words that end is ‘cian’.

musician

magician

optician

physician

politician
clinician
beautician
electrician

paediatrician
technician

Please note, from Monday the children will be dismissed from the main entrance to the school from the infant playground. This is the clear double doors near the garden area. This is to allow more space when the children are leaving. The children will not be allowed out of the building until they have been dismissed with an adult so please make sure you make yourself visible at these doors.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Bradford

Rock Bottom

ROCK BOTTOM TRACK 1

Track 1. Back to the Beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zt1TOPgquk

ALL:                             TICK, TOCK!

                                      IT’S TIME TO TRAVEL ON A JOURNEY!

                                      TICK, TOCK!

                                      WE’RE TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME!

                                      THE PAST BECOMING THE FUTURE,

                                      THE FUTURE FADING TO BLACK.

                                      WE’LL TAKE A WALK INTO HISTORY,

                                      SO STOP THE CLOCK ‘COS WE’RE GOING BACK!

                                      TIME TO PACK,

                                      HIT THE TRACK!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

                                      WE’RE ON A JOURNEY TO THE DAWN OF TIME!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

                                      WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

                                      GOING BACK, GOING BACK!

(The three Timekeepers rap over the instrumental section as the chorus dance.)

CRATER:                    You know we’re going back in time to where it - all began!

CREVICE:                   And we don’t even need a Tardis or DeLorean!

CREEK:                      Because we’re heading for the Stone Age if you want to be specific!

TIMEKEEPERS:       When man was brave

                                      And lived in caves

                                      And acted Neolithic!

ALL:                             TICK, TOCK!

                                      WE’RE HEADING FOR A NEW HORIZON!

                                      TICK, TOCK!

                                      WE’RE BOUND FOR WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!

                                      WE’LL TURN THE TIDE OF THE SEASONS,

                                      WE’LL MAKE THE CALENDAR CRACK.

                                      WE’LL TAKE A WALK INTO HISTORY,

                                      SO STOP THE CLOCK ‘COS WE’RE GOING BACK!

                                      TIME TO PACK,

                                      HIT THE TRACK!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

                                      WE’RE ON A JOURNEY TO THE DAWN OF TIME!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

GROUP 1:

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

ALL:                             WE’RE GOING BACK!

01/03/19

Good afternoon Year 4 and welcome back! Although it has been lovely to see the class come back to school full of enthusiasm, the children have had to be reminded quite a lot this week about the level of noise disrupting their learning. I am looking forward to you all coming into school a lot more focused next week.

Highlights of the week.
We started the week by making the most of the beautiful sunshine and the children had a maths lesson outside. They practically consolidated their understanding of placing decimal numbers on a human number line. They have worked really hard on this and are now very secure in this topic. The children have also been working really hard on their times tables this week and have been increasing their accuracy and speed. We have now completed our 2s, 10s, 5s,11s,3s,6s,4s,8s and 9s. Next week we will be focusing on our 7s. Please make sure you are practising this times table at home. In English, the children have been using their senses to write spooky stories. I have been really impressed with the huge improvement in the children’s writing since the start of the year. Keep it up Year 4!

Next week:

Maths:
Calculating with decimals.

English:
The children will be writing their own fairy tale stories focusing on story settings.

Spellings:

This week we are going to be focusing on words with the prefix ‘anti’ and ‘inter’. The children need to know the spelling and definition of each word as well as knowing how to use each word in a sentence.

-antihistamine
-anti-climax
-antidote
-antibiotic
-antiseptic
-international
-intervene
-interject
-intercept
-intergalactic

Science:
Extended piece of writing on the water cycle.

Geography:
Identifying layers of vegetation.

RE:
Christian creation story.

Art:
The group at Stormont will be designing their plates and the group with me will be completing some mindfulness photography.

Spanish:
Recap of animals in Spanish.

ICT:
Using google earth to locate The Rainforest.

PSHCE:
Different friendship groups.

I hope you have a restful weekend. Please continue to learn your times tables, read and complete some learning on Mathletics.

I look forward to seeing you on Monday for a more focused calm start to the week.

Miss Bradford