Author: Rachel Fairclough
Sycamore Class Newsletter 13.10.23
We’re getting closer to the end of the first half term. Parents evening letters have been given out and it’ll be great to see you all and talk about how your child has settled in and is getting on in Year 4.
Our Golden certificate winner is Jack. He is always showing active listening and tries hard with all his work.
This week we’ve continued to look at features of biographies in English. We’ve been looking at adverbials, causal and time conjunctions and third person. The children have also been researching about Bear Grylls ready to plan and write their biography next week.
In Maths, we’ve finished off our addition and subtraction unit by looking at subtraction with one or more exchanges, estimating and checking strategies. Next week we will move onto area.
In Science, we’re looking at living things and their habitat. Yesterday, we talked about positive and negative changes to a woodland habitat.
If you need to contact us for non-emergencies you can do so on: sycamore@crowmoorschool.co.uk
All urgent communication needs to go through the school office.
We hope you all have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss
Sycamore Class Newsletter 6.10.23
This week in English, we’ve started to look at Biographies. We’ve been looking at what a biography is, features of a biography and analysing an example text. We then looked more closely at past tense and chronological order. We will continue to look at features of a biography next week.
In Maths, we’ve started our unit on addition and subtraction. We have looked at adding two 4-digit numbers with no, one and multiple exchanges. Today, we started to look at subtraction with no exchange. Next week, we’ll be moving onto subtraction with one or more exchanges.
Our Golden Certificate winner this week is Hakeem. Hakeem always listens well, is a great helper and his handwriting and the presentation of his work is always excellent. Well done!
Just a gentle reminder that all jewellery must be removed before anyone takes part in PE, as per our School PE Policy. This is due to health and safety and guidance we have received from the Association for PE Teaching. Earrings must be removed – they cannot be taped over. We advise that earrings are removed before school so that they are less likely to get misplaced. Thank you.
Please keep up the daily reading at home, it makes such a difference.
We hope you have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss
Sycamore Class Newsletter 29.9.23
The weeks seem to be flying by!
The children have been planning, writing and editing their explanation text this week in English. We have been recapping features of explanation texts and talking about reading our work back.
Noah was our golden certificate winner this week for his fantastic explanation text on volcanoes. He is a excellent role model to his peers; he listens well, is eager to learn, tries hard and contributes well in our class discussions. Well done, Noah.
In Maths, we have been rounding numbers to 10, 100 and 1,000 and looking at negative numbers. Today, we finished our unit on place value and the children completed their end of unit test. Next week, we will looking at addition and subtraction.
The children have also enjoyed printing in Art, creating their own classification key in Science and talking about how they made friends and common interests in PSHE.
We hope you have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss
Sycamore Class Newsletter 22.9.23
We have had another great week in Sycamore. The children have really enjoyed hunting for invertebrates in Science. They continued to look at a classification key and played a game to guess the invertebrate.
In English, we have been looking at causal conjunctions, commas for clauses and expanded noun phrases. The children have also been researching and collecting notes about volcanoes ready to write their explanation texts next week. Today, we continued our research and looked at paragraphs.
In Maths, we have been comparing and ordering numbers and looking at roman numerals. Today, the children enjoyed creating our own number line to round to the nearest 10.
Our Golden Certificate winner this week is Bobby. He has only started in Sycamore Class this week and has settled in so well – you would think he has also been here! Well done!
We hope you have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss
Sycamore Class Newsletter 15.9.23
We have had another busy week in Sycamore Class. In English, we have started our unit on explanation text. This week we have been finding features of explanation texts and analysing a text. We then more closely at two features: technical vocabulary and present tense.
In Maths, we have continued our work on place value. This week we have been partitioning numbers to 1,000, finding 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 more and less and representing numbers on a number line.
In Science, we are looking at Living things this half term. The children have been looking at grouping living things and this week we have been using classification keys.
A huge well done to our Golden Certificate Winner, Tyler. He is an excellent member of Sycamore Class and always happy to help. He persevered in his maths this week until he got it right.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss
