Year 4

December 4th 2018

What a busy time it has been in Year 4! Today we travelled to Coventry Cathedral to take part in a Christingle Service for Warwickshire schools. Year 4 children sang the carol 'On Christmas Night' and accompanied their singing on the hand chimes. All the Year 4 parents who came to support us said it was lovely (and Mrs. White thought so too!) Click on the handchimes above for a video of our performance.

November 27th 2018

Look at our amazing scones! Well done to everyone who weighed, sifted, rubbed, mixed and grated their way to these tasty savoury treats. Thankyou to Mrs. Blowey and Mr. Gardner for helping us (especially with a lot of washing and clearing up!) and thankyou to the kitchen staff for letting us use the school ovens.

Welcome to Year 4!

On this page you can read news about our class and find out what we are learning. You will also find links to other websites that will help you with your topic homework.

If parents or carers need to contact either of the Year 4 class teachers, please use our school emails in the first instance:

power.h1@welearn365.com

white.p@welearn365.com

We will get back to you as soon as possible (but if the matter needs urgent attention it should be addressed to the school office instead).

We held elections at the start of the year to decide who would represent us on various councils and the results are as follows:

Class Ambassadors: Henry and Daisy

Student Council: Josie and Tom

Eco Rangers: Miya and Yusuf

Online Safety Officers: Tabby and Oliver

Sports Council: Evie and Niyam

English:

This term we are reading and writing about The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We have already begun the unit by creating our very own Iron Man (see photos) in our outdoor classroom. This was lots of fun! We will be working on descriptive writing to create detailed settings.

Spellings have already gone home in the yellow books and will do so every Friday. Please learn these important spellings which will also be tested on a Friday (yellow spelling books need to be in school on this day).

Guided Reading happens Monday to Thursday with every child participating in the reading and discussing of a text at least once a week. Home reading is very important too and it would be appreciated if this could happen 3 times or more a week for 20-30 minutes. Reading diaries and a reading book must be in school EVERY DAY and will be checked on a MONDAY.

Maths:

Place Value, Addition and Subtraction will be the main areas covered this half term, alongside the learning of our times tables. Maths of the Day is helping us to learn all aspects of maths in an active way - our Barmy Army and Magic Circle games have already proved to be a big hit!

Problem solving and reasoning is an important skill the children will be developing this year, where they can articulate WHY the maths is happening.

In Science we shall be learning about what happens to our food, in a topic covering food and nutrition, teeth, the human digestive system and food chains.

The links below will take you to useful websites...

about food and nutrition:

about the human digestive system:

about animal diets and teeth:

and about food chains:

Note: Some of these links will only become active later in our topic.

This ties in nicely with our DT topic for this half term, in which we shall be learning how to make scones, finding out where all the ingredients come from and designing and making our own savoury scones.

In History, we start the year with a topic about the Romans in Britain. We shall be finding out when and why the Romans invaded Britain, and how they were received by the people already living here. We shall go on to find out how people's everyday lives in Britain changed under Roman rule. Below are some links to websites that you may find useful:

General:

Living in Roman Britain