This week the children have brought home a leaflet about the multiplication tables test in June.

Muliplication Info for parents

Children can practise at home on:

Multiplication Tables Check – 2023 – Timestables.co.uk

The children are growing in confidence each week in swimming. Today, the children showed off their acting and swimming skills to be casualties and lifeguards. Next Friday (19th), is Year 4’s last swimming lesson. Please can they make sure they bring their swimming kit and coat.

Our Golden certificate winner this week is Alissiya. She has shown fantastic perseverance this week. Alissiya has shown her perseverance when swimming and during her times table practise, where she kept having a go at the test and wanted to better her score each time.

This week we have been looking at newspaper reports in English. We looked at an example text and found features of a newspaper report. We then went over the features we needed to include to plan and create a class newspaper report.

Parents evening letters were given out on Wednesday. Thank you for all the slips that have already been brought in.

We hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough and Mrs Brunyard

Happy New Year!

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas.

Despite the children only being back two days, we’ve been busy in Year 4. The children really enjoyed telling us all about their Christmas holidays. In English we’ve been looking at recounts and they had a go at writing their own.

We have started our new unit on length and perimeter in Maths. We looked at kilometres, meters and centimetres, which would be the best unit of measure to use and then compared measurements.

In Science, we started our unit on states of matter by looking at properties of a solid, liquid and gas. We talked about particles and the children sorted materials into solids, liquids and gases.

We looked at different clothing in design and technology. The children used the labels to help them work out what the clothing was made of it. We also looked at types at how they were joined together.

Swimming will be on next Friday, so please can you make sure your child brings in their swimming kit and coat. Thank you.

We hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough and Mrs Brunyard

Hello everyone,

What a busy week!

The children all sang so well at our Christmas Carol Service at the church on Wednesday. Yesterday, we enjoyed our Christmas dinner in our Christmas jumpers/outfits, and today we managed to get back in time from swimming to wave and see Santa fly past in a helicopter. Once he had landed, we even got to meet Santa this afternoon.

Today it was great to see how the children are growing in confidence in the water and trying hard with their swimming.

Our Golden Certificate winner is Ava. Her confidence has really grown in the water and all adults commented on how much she has improved. Well done!

This week have looked at the poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ and talked about rhyming couplets and similes. We will continue to look at the poem next week.

Yesterday, we finished our unit of food in design and technology by preparing and making our meal. Most of the children enjoyed tasting it too! They then evaluated it, thinking about what they may do different next time.

We hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss

Well done to all the children for trying hard with their first swimming lesson in Year 4. We have swimming next Friday (15th), so please can you make sure your child brings in their swimming kit and coat.

In Maths, we have been dividing by 100, exploring multiplication and division facts and looking at informal written methods for multiplication.

The children have been analysing and writing a diary entry this week in their writing. We have also been looking at first person and personal and possessive pronouns.

Our Golden Certificate winner this week is Olivia. She has been contributing well to class discussions, especially in English. Well done, Olivia and keep it up.

Yesterday afternoon, we were busy planning our healthy meal in Design and Technology and looking at food chains in different habitats in Science.

We hope you all enjoy the Christmas Fayre and have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss

Hello everyone,

We have been using our class book ‘Thieves of Ostia’ in our writing sessions to look at historical stories. After looking at commas for clauses, and going over our work on adjectives and adverbs, we had a go and writing our own.

In Maths, we have been using factor pairs, multiplying by 10 and 100 and dividing by 10. Remember to practise those times tables at home.

We have been continuing to look the digestion system in Science. The children enjoyed looking at the process of digestion and tried to explain it themselves.

We’ve noticed quite a lot of children are not bringing in reading records, books and water bottles. Please can these be brought in daily. Thank you.

Swimming will be on Friday (8th), so please can you make sure your child brings in their swimming kit and coat.

We hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss

Yesterday, the children tried different foods in Design and Technology, in preparation for us to plan and make our healthy meal at the end of this half term. The children had mixed responses to the food tasted, and tried to think about the aroma, flavour, taste and texture.

In English, we have been looking at features of a historical story ready to write our own next week. We have also been looking at how and why adjectives and adverbs are used, and how we can use more adventurous vocabulary in our writing.

In Maths, we have multiplying and dividing a number by 1 and itself, multiplying three number together and looking at factor pairs.

Our Golden Certificate winner this week is Ben. He is eager to learn, always listening and sets a great example. This week, Ben has used his logic skills as well as his mathematical skills to solve problems in maths. Well done.

At the end of Year 4, children should be able to recall their times tables up to 12.

Here are some links the children can use to help them practise their times tables at home:

Times tables games – Learn them all here!

Hit the Button – Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

Next Friday (1st December), Year 4 will start their swimming block, so please send your child with swimming kits and make sure they have a coat with them. Thank you.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Fairclough, Mrs Brunyard and Mrs Bayliss