Class teachers

Miss Claire Stanley (Baryonx) and Mr John Bass (Allosaurus)

Learning Support Assistant and 1:1

Mrs Bianca Young 

Phase Leader and Deputy Head

Mr Mike Pennington

Dear Families,

We hope that you have had an enjoyable Easter break. We have lots of fun activities coming up this term. Looking back on the residential, we were incredibly proud of all our children for, amongst many things, their adaptability and resilience and as we are at the beginning of a new term, we know we can all make a happy, positive and fresh start as a year 4 family and, rather than focus on past incidents, look forward to working well together in all of the amazing activities planned for this term.

Unfortunately, for the first two weeks back, Mr Bass will be absent from school. However, please be assured that to avoid minimum disruption, his class will be taught for the majority of time by Mrs Stevenson and Mrs Penwell who, from previous experience, know the class and year group well. They will, of course, have the fully support of Miss Stanley and Mr. Pennington.

Year 4 multiplication check

- Please keep practicing them at home as multiplication knowledge will help your child with their learning in year 5.

- The results of this will be shared on their end of year report.

- Using TT rockstars sound check and garage is a great way to prepare for this.

Things you need to know about this term:

 

· Home/school diaries need to be in school every day to record reading. Please remember to record all of their reading and sign the diaries weekly.

· Please ensure children have clothing suitable for the weather conditions of this time of year. Sun cream, a sun hat might be needed as well as coats.

· Monday the children will take part in indoor PE and on Wednesday they will take part in outdoor PE. Please ensure the children have the correct kit, long hair is tied up on PE days and earing tape is in your child’s bag if needed.

· Forest school is alternate Wednesdays with Baryonyx class starting their forest school session tomorrow

Topics

For this week, we are completing our last few lessons of our ‘Travel and tourism’. We will be debating if tourism is beneficial to the local community.

 

Next week the children will be starting the topic ‘Lets plant it.’ We are already growing some vegetables and fruit in year four and looking at different types of leaves. They will continue their learning of plants by understanding how plants grow and how they are adapted.

The children will also be learning about electricity in our topic ‘bright sparks’ later in the term. For this topic, the children will be learning about how to make an electrical circuit.

 

Homework

Just to remind you we set homework on Fridays and expect it to be returned on Wednesdays. If you are struggling with the work set, please let us know and we will help your child.

Reading

We are encouraging the children to read for enjoyment and pleasure and expect them to read at least five times a week. This reading should be recorded in their Home/School diary with title and pages read. Please encourage your child to participate in the reading challenge. There is also a Reading morning each Monday at 8:45.

Independence

Year 4 is an important year in terms of establishing good organisational skills that will support future independence in learning. It’s important that children take responsibility for their own ‘Home/School Diary’, belongings and homework, but that they are positively encouraged at home and school.

We look forward to another positive term of learning and fun. If you have any concerns, please come and share them with us. Our email addresses are located in the front of the ‘Home/School Diaries’ and this is a useful way of communicating with us.

Kind regards

Year 4 Team

 

 

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