Year 4 News week beginning 23rd April
Our Learning this week:
English-We will be starting a unit of work based on the short film Origins. See below if you would like to watch with your child
https://www.literacyshed.com/origins.html
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
Week beginning 22nd April 2019
This week:
- In Maths we will learn to recognise and find fractions and to use equivalent fractions.
- In English we will learn about the features of performance poetry and practise performing our poems.
- In Topic time we will introduce our new topic of the Romans.
- In Science we will learn about the parts of a plant.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f4fb89″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]‘Wear it Wild’ day is coming up on Friday 3rd May.[/dropshadowbox]
Week beginning 29th April
Welcome back after the Easter holidays! I hope you all had a restful break and are now ready for the hard climb to the end of the year.
This term is jam packed with things going on, so make sure you keep checking the class blog to keep up-to-date!
This week we will be learning:
Maths-Revision of formal written methods for all 4 operations as well as problem solving strategies
English-We will be continuing to revise strategies ready for the Reading SAT. We will also be starting to look at a new genre of writing as well as reading continuing to read ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’.
Science-WE will be continuing to look at forces
PE-We will developing our fitness skills as well as carrying out boxercise and dance
RE-We will be looking at the story of Easter from a Christian perspective
Important Information
SATS week-13th-17th May
‘Wear it Wild’ day is coming up on Friday 3rd May
Week Beginning 23rd April
This week our learning will be as follows.
- In mathematics we will learn to recognise and find fractions and to use equivalent fractions.
- In English we will learn about the features of performance poetry. We will practise performing our poems.
- In topic time we will introduce our new topic of the Romans.
- In science we will learn about the parts of a plant.
Now that the weather is warmer it is important that children have a water bottle in school each day. Juice or squash should not be brought to school.
Week beginning 23rd April
Welcome back! With bank holidays etc this is a shorter but jam packed half term!
We will be doing our Year 2 SATs on the week beginning 20th May.
The SATs consist of five papers:
- A short reading paper (small amounts of text with questions underneath).
- A longer reading paper with texts and a separate answering booklet)
- A maths reasoning paper
- A maths calculating paper (addition/ subtraction/ multiplication/ division and finding fractions of amounts).
- An optional SPaG paper (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar) which tests the children’s understanding of spelling rules and grammatical features. They should know the different word classes (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs etc). It may also include contraction spellings (can’t, wouldn’t etc), apostrophes for possession (Tony’s ball), different sentence types (exclamations, statements, commands and questions), prefixes (un/ dis/ pre/ sub etc), suffixes (ness, ment, ful, ly etc) and basic demarcation of sentences.
Writing
The last week before half term was incredibly busy and we ran out of time to make a good start on our diary entries. We will be spending the first week back recapping the key events of the moon landing and considering how Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts would have felt.
We will also be looking at the features of a diary entry before moving on to writing our own.
Maths
On our first day back we will be completing an assessment on time.
We will then be moving onto our new unit: statistics.
We will be looking at tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams.
History
Please see our writing objectives.
Science
Our new topic is all about animals and habitats. We will be looking at how humans keep healthy as part of this unit.
PE
We will be doing basket-ball this half term.
Week beginning 23rd April 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#e59dfa” ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – This week in maths, we shall be learning the following:
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I can add decimals within 1.
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I can subtract decimals within 1.
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I can find complements to 1.
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I can add and subtract decimals with the same amount of decimal places.
English – We shall be starting our new unit, biographies. We shall be identifying the key features of the text, editing an existing biography and giving our presentations based on our research over the Easter holiday/
Computing – We shall be finishing up typing and designing our travel brochures.
PE -There are no swimming lessons this week. Swimming resumes w/b 29th April. Please ensure PE kits are in school.
RE –We shall starting our new unit with Mrs Forde.
Geography – We shall be looking at the location of Whitby, in relation to the UK.
Music lessons will be taught by our Soundstart teacher, Mr Regan.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”15″ border_color=”#befa9d” ]Key dates.[/dropshadowbox]
End of half term – 24th May
Week beginning 23rd April 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f5f997″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Dear Parents, Carers
Welcome back to school! We hope you enjoyed your Easter holidays. School starts again on Tuesday 23rd April at 8.50am.
We are hoping for more gloriously sunny weather this term so please take note of the weather report daily to ensure that your child comes to school appropriately dressed for the weather.
The children may wear their Summer uniforms when the weather is warmer – summer dresses or school shorts. Also, please ensure your child has a suitable sunhat or cap and sunscreen must be applied before they arrive at school.
Of course, don’t forget about those rainy days too.
Kind Regards
Reception Team [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#15ece9″ ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SUMMER TERM 1 TOPIC: Caring for Animals
LITERACY: Book Focus: Non- Fiction books about Animals
Just when you thought Easter was behind you and talk of eggs was a thing of the past, we have gone ‘eggstremely’ crazy about eggs this term. The children will be learning about different animals that lay eggs and we are incredibly ‘eggcited’ about the arrival, early next week, of some mysterious eggs, which we hope will successfully hatch into some kind of animal. We will have to wait and see….
Phonics: Group Phonics will resume this week, reviewing previous sounds and focusing on speedy blending of cvc and multisyllabic words
MATHS: This week we will focus on counting by grouping objects and step counting in steps of 2, 5 and 10
PE: Please send in PE kits. As the weather improves the children may wear shorts for PE so please ensure these are in their PE kits. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#fffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#fea5f9″ ]HOMEWORK: will be sent out on Friday, 26th April
READING BOOKS and WORD LISTS: Please send these in on group days [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 23rd April2019
Welcome back to Summer Term.
Hope you had a fantastic and relaxing Easter break.
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions!
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Adoma – 2632 Points and Natha 2520Points.
Vauxhall Class : Leon– 3540 Points and Isabella 2603Points.
Gold Award
Lambeth Class :Ryan
Vauxhall Class: Leon and Suvisha
Silver Award
Vauxhall Award : Tristan
Lambeth: Charlotte, Nicole and Lena
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Japdeep, Comella, Isaiah, Jayden, Zayna, Magnus, Marwa, Yaacoob, Amira and Brook
Vauxhall Class : Naa Ayorkor, Elias, Ali, Martyna, Shun Ming and Isabella.
Our new topic for this term is called ‘Let It Grow’.
English
We will be focusing on -Recount writing about Easter Holidays. On Tuesday and Wednesday we will be planning, writing and editing our recount writing. Then on Thursday we will be discussing about our holiday homework -how to grow board bean plant, sequencing photographs and discussion about the key features of an instructions. By Friday we will be focusing on writing and editing instructions.
Maths
We will revisit and continue Place value and children will be using a range of resources – Ten frame, Part-Part Whole, Base 10 to develop a deeper understanding of tens and units,
Science
Children will observe seasonal changes ‘Spring’ and describe weather patterns and understand how day length varies.
Geography
Children will name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas on Maps-Atlas work.
P.E
Gymnastics- Children will be learning to travel, balance and sequence movements.
PSHE
SEAL- Good to be me. Children will be talking about how to promote happy healthy frindship.
We will continue to watch the Pantosaurus video… https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
Please check the link for the Parental guide.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
R.E
We will be looking at Judaism- Authority and worship.
This week – Home work:– How to grow Board beans in a pot.
Record observations about your board beans growth.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 24th April, 2019
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonic games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1
Week of 1st April
History
We shall be completed our WW2 rationing posters
Literacy
We shall be retelling the the Easter story in writing
Maths
Area, perimeter, long division and pie charts are our themes for this week.
PE
Skittle ball
RE
The Easter story
Week beginning 1st April 2019
This week:
- In Maths we will learn to divide numbers both with and without remainders.
- In English we will write newspaper articles based on the Easter story.
- In Topic time we will focus on work around the Easter story creating sadness and joy collages.
- In PHSE we will continue our work on the NSPCC’s “Let’s talk pants”. Details of this can be found at https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#57afe6″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]We break up on Friday 5th April and hope you all have a lovely Easter break. [/dropshadowbox]