Millennium
Year Four Blog Week Beginning 15th July 2019
As we are coming to the end of term, Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th will be our last P.E lessons so please remember your P.E kits.
We will be blocking our Science and D&T lessons next week to complete our electricity and toy design projects. If you have any toys which use electrical circuits , for example the board game Operation which you would not mind the children playing with as part of this topic please can you send them in in named boxes on Monday and Tuesday.
In addition, we will be completing our Ancient Egyptian topic. The children very much enjoyed mummifying a tomato this week (photos to follow)
Our dress up as an Ancient Egyptian day will be held on Monday 22nd of July. Please do not worry about buying your child a fancy dress outfit. Every child has made a beautiful Egyptian mask which they can wear with their own clothes if you would prefer.
We will also be having our End of Year Party on this day. Please can your child bring a small contribution to share on this day. This will be shared between the two classes. To ensure we have a selection please can Millennium bring something sweet and Southwark class something savoury. We are a nut free school. As we have some children with food allergies in the classes, please could homemade food be labelled with the ingredients. Thank you.
In Southwark, Merit cards this week went to Chaimae, Armaan and Daisy. Daisy was also our final Reader of the week.
James. Aryan, Keona and Sofia all received merit cards from Millenn
ium class. Well done!
Week Beginning 1st July 2019
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will consolidating our year 3 learning about time. Focusing on telling the time to the nearest minute and converting units of time.
- In English we will be continuing our class text-The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
- In science we will learn about electrical circuits and naming the components.
- In topic time we will learn about mummification.
- In R.E we will be continuing Judaism.
A huge congratulations to Junaid who made it through to the sprint final at Croydon Arena last week as well as Bianca who made it to the semis.
Year Four Weekly News Week Beginning 24th June 2019
What we will be learning
English-We will be summarising capters of Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Maths-We will be learning how to reflect images in horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.
PE-We will be continuing Volleyball and yoga.
DT-We will be designing and making Egyptian inspired masks.
Important Information
Croydon Athletics-24th, 25th, 26th June
Congratulations and good luck to all those who have been selected to represent the school.
Damara is Southwark class reader of the week. Solly, Chaimae, Lillian, Bianca, Sofia and George all received merit cards from Southwark clsss. Nisa, Kerem, Harry, Sh’zane, Pyman and Maja all received merit cards from Millennium class. Well done and very successful week.
Year Four Weekly Blog Week Beginning 17th June 2019
Thank you for all your support for the Friends of Howard bringing bottles in for upcoming Summer Fair.
This week year four will be learning:
Literacy-This week we will be learning about using speech punctuation in our writing.
Maths-We will be learning to identify symmetry in shapes in different orientations. The children have particular enjoyed using this game in lessons to classify shapes.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/75/shapes_sort_carroll#
Zoe from Southwark class also found this game which she would like to recommend her classmates to try.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zn2y7nb
Topic-After learning about why and how pyramids were built by Ancient Egyptians we will be going on to learning about mummification. There are lots good BBC clips to help your child’s learning about the Ancient Egypt which ca be found on this link.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/topics/zg87xnb
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/zgkd7ty
P.E-We will be continuing net and wall sports, focusing on volleyball
I.C.T-We will be using scratch to design toy prototypes
Science-We will be starting a unit on electricity focusing on complete circuits.
Dates for the diary
Summer fair Saturday 22nd June 11-3
Year Four Weekly Blog 10th June 2019
Thank you for all your support cheering your children on at Sports Day. What a fantastic day!
This week year four will be learning:
Literacy-This week we will be learning about successful opening to narrative stories and using inverted commas in writing.
Maths-We will be learning about types of angles including obtuse, acute and right-angles. as well as identifying angles in shapes
Topic-After learning about religion and deities, we will be learning why Ancient Egyptians built pyramids.
P.E-We will be continuing net and wall sports, focusing on volleyball
I.C.T-We will be using scratch to design toy prototypes
Science-We will be starting a unit on electricity finding out what we already know and building on this learning.
Dates for the diary
Non-uniform day-Thursday 13th June-bring a bottle for the school fair.
Year Four Blog Wk Beginning 4th June 2019
Welcome back after half term. We are looking forward to our last half term with you all in year four.
Our learning this week:
Maths-We will be revising quadrilaterals, angles and types of triangles
Literacy-We will continuing our text-Wolves of Willoughby Chase see link below. We will be focusing on story openers.
Topic-We will be focusing on Egyptian beliefs and the amazing gods and goddesses.
Art-We will be continuing our cubism project focusing on analytical still life pictures influenced by George Braque, Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris.
Dates for the diary
School inset day-Monday 3th June
Sports day-6th June-all day at Croydon arena
Year 4 News, week beginning 20th May
Thank you once again for your generous donations of cakes and biscuits for our Wear It Wild event organised by Lucy, Ryan, Emiliana and Leen. The whole day was incredibly successful and year four made an amazing £501.51 in total!
Our learning this week:
English: We will be continuing our new class text-The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and focusing on writers’ techniques for story opening and using apostrophes for plural possession. See links below if you’d like to read along with us.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zx9ydxs
Maths: We will be continuing learning about decimals and relating them to money.
Topic: We will be investigating how the river Nile affected the Egyptian culture growth Ancient Egypt.
P.E: We will be continuing net and wall activities alongside fitness circuits.
I.C.T-Research and prepare to present our science/topic learning about the decline in habitats of endangered animals.
Year four Blog Week Beginning 13th May 2019
Thank you so much your generous donations of cakes and biscuits for our Wear It Wild event organised by Lucy, Ryan, Emiliana and Leen. The event was incredibly successful and year four made at least £170, an amazing feat!
Our learning this week:
English: We will be starting our new class text-The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and focusing on writers’ techniques for story opening and using apostrophes for plural possession. See links below if you’d like to read along with us.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zx9ydxs
Maths: We will be continuing learning about decimals and relating them to money.
Topic: We will be investigating how the river Nile affected the Egyptian culture growth Ancient Egypt.
P.E: We will be continuing net and wall activities alongside fitness circuits.
I.C.T-Research and prepare to present our science/topic learning about the decline in habitats of endangered animals.
Year 4 News-Week beginning 7th May
Our Learning this week:
English-We will be finishing our unit of work based on the short film Origins, thinking about writing show not tell descriptions and inventing an alternative ending. See below if you would like to watch with your child
https://www.literacyshed.com/origins.html
We will then be starting a new unit of work based around The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Maths– We will be ordering, comparing and rounding decimals
Topic– we will be starting our new History topic, learning about the Egyptians
PSHE– We will be thinking about keeping children safe with the NSPCC PANTS project. See below for a parents information guide
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/advice-and-info/pants/pants-2018/pants-parents-guide-online.pdf
PE-We will be taking part in gymnastics and circuit training lessons
Science– We will be continuing to learn about classification and dangers to natural habitats.
Successes– Well done to Nikodem, Marques, Evie, Lucas, Nisa, James, Aarav, Holly and Sh’zane who all got merits this week.
An enormous thank you and well done to Leen, Emiliana, Lucy and Ryan who organised Wear It Wild this week. It was an amazing success. Although we do not have a final figure yet, it looks as though Howard School has raised around £500! Well done!
We also need to give a special thank you to all the parents who donated cakes or time or found the time to provide a costume for their child. Without you, none of it would happen.
Photos of the day to follow…
Upcoming events-
Tuesday 7th May– School individual and class photographs.
Year 4 News, Week beginning 29th April
Our Learning this week:
English-We will be continuing our unit of work based on the short film Origins, thinking about writing show not tell descriptions and inventing an alternative ending. See below if you would like to watch with your child
https://www.literacyshed.com/origins.html
Maths- We will be ordering, comparing and rounding decimals
Topic- we will be starting our new History topic, learning about the Egyptians
PSHE- We will be thinking about keepignchildren safe with the NSPCC PANTS project. See below for a parents information guide
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/globalassets/documents/advice-and-info/pants/pants-2018/pants-parents-guide-online.pdf
PE-We will be taking part in gymnastics and circuit training lessons
Science- We will be continuing to learn about classification
Upcoming events-
Friday 3rd May– Wear it Wild Day. An event organised by Year 4 children to raise awareness and money for WWF. Children can come to school dressed as an endangered animal.
Year 4 will also be holding a cake sale on this day after school and we will be asking for donations of cakes and biscuits. We hope you can support us!