Another super week in Year 4 - albeit a lot of absence this week. It was so lovely to touch base with so many of you today and also speak to you regarding your child’s progress on Wednesday. Aren’t they doing well! They are very proud of all they have achieved.
I look forward to round two of parent meetings in a couple of weeks.
We have begun our new novel in English this week by Phillip Pullman ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter,' - it has some very quirky characters! It is apparent that we are really mastering our Year 4 reading skills now. We just need to read lots and lots and get quizzing!
In maths, the children are becoming so good at seeing the links between concepts and figuring out how to work out Multiplication and division problems. We have consolidated the 6x table this week and have also moved onto the 9x. Patterns galore!
Our history has been exciting this week, as we continued working in our Anglo-Saxon families! We also explored push and pull factors which influenced the Anglo-Saxons leaving their homeland to settle here and also used map evidence to find out where they settled. Did you know that they settled locally?
We have been rock detectives in Science - finding our about how rock is formed and the 3 main types of rock. We then conducted the hardness test, water test and acid test on our rock samples to interpret our results and deduce which type of rock they must be.
Also, using less creative and more analytical skills - children have moved from thinking about life in volcanic areas (and the advatages of this) in Geography, very nicely onto different types of rocks. Children classified rocks according to their properties and then made close observational drawings before naming 6 main types of rock.
We have got into full flow with our Walk Against Hunger this week. Already, we have walked between us….. Walking around the school block twice to bolster this
Let’s Celebrate!
This week, our certificate winners are as follows:
A Cooper Crab certificate goes to Dominic for always giving your full focus and effort to all tasks. You are a hard-working young man and you are doing so well!
A Lizzie Ladybird certificate goes to Stanley for really striving to improve and for taking any advice gratefully. I loved to see you acting on your advice in your last story Stanley - well done!
Swimming stars were Edi, Rosa, Alex, Tabby, Emilia, Georgia and Matilda
Music stars were Rosa and Aviya
Notices
IMPORTANT NOTICE: SWIMMING CONTINUES on Mondays and Thursdays - prompt at 8.30am
SCHOOL TRIP NEWS - Tuesday 29th March. We are walking through St Annes square and onto the beach to examine rocks, look at buildings and find fossils! There will be no cost to this trip but we are hoping to have our lunch on the beach, so a packed lunch in a plastic bag will be needed. They will be using the plastic bag to carry their rocks back to school.
Attention Year four… Art News
Year four, after we finish our Money Containers topic, we are moving on to Textiles and we will be tie dyeing a tshirt. So you will need to bring in a white tshirt, put your name on the label and bring it to school as soon as possible, we start the week after next. It can be a new one or a school or home tshirt that has gone a little grubby, it must not have any designs on it though. The good news is, that after we have finished with it in art, you can wear it to school with your PE kits on PE days to show off your creativity.
Enjoy your weekend everyone. God Bless,
Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.