Year 4 team

Mr Braddish

Miss Olsen

Miss Williamson 

Routines

PE

On Wednesday, JB Sports will teach our P.E lessons; on these days we come to school in our P.E kit. Our P.E kit should be:

• Plain white t-shirt
• Black/navy shorts.
• Trainers or Plimsolls can be worn for PE lessons.
• Black/Navy tracksuit bottoms for colder weather/outdoor PE.
• Black/Navy tracksuit top for colder weather/outdoor PE.
• No Football/Sports shirts.

Any issues please speak to Mr Braddish.

Homework

This will consist of curriculum, maths, spelling or English tasks. This will handed out every Monday and due in the following Monday. 

Reading

 We encourage all children to read each night and record it in their reading diaries. If they read for three nights a week, they will earn 3 tokens for their house. If they read for four nights a week, they will earn 4 tokens for their house and get a raffle ticket in the jar! At the end of the term, I'll pull one raffle ticket out and the winner will receive a £10 Gift Card!

Happy reading!

Congratulations to our termly reading prize winner..... Happy reading!

Reading in Class

In our reading lessons, we look at a range of texts to challenge and improve our fluency of reading. The children, throughout the year have grown in confidence to read aloud the texts to the rest of the class

Class Reading book

We are currently reading...

The BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant, who unexpectedly spirits a little girl named Sophie out of bed, and into the land of the child-eating giants.  With Sophie in his top pocket, the BFG sets off to rid the world of the big, gruesome giants who guzzle up 'human beans' - the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and all their rotsome friends.

English

Please see the link below if you want some extra practice with your English and spellings. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f  

Spellings

Our current Power of Reading book is...

Maths 

The children knowing their times tables is key going forward in their education. As a class we agreed that practice, practice practice is the only way to improve, so I have added lots of links to games, ideas for practice, the children can also ask me at anytime for paper copies for worksheets to help them. Please encourage your child to use these and to practice! Any questions please feel free to speak to Mr Braddish. 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/7/multiplication-and-division

https://www.theschoolrun.com/top-times-tables-games

https://www.teachingexpertise.com/classroom-ideas/times-tables-games/

https://maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

Curriculum

Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was a British theoretical physicist and mathematician. He was born in Oxford. In 1950, He was one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Hawking has written many science books for people who are not scientists.

Hawking was a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He retired on 1 October 2009.

Hawking had a motor neurone disease, and because of that he could not move or talk very well. The illness worsened over the years and he was almost completely paralysed. He used a wheelchair to move, and an Intel computer to talk for him. He died on 14 March 2018.

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History

Anglo Saxons

We have been learning about the Anglo Saxons and to bring our learning to life we had an historian visit the school with amazing artefacts and a wealth of knowledge. 

Design and Technology

Music

This term, we have an exciting opportunity to learn the steel pan drums. We are learning notation, rhythm and timing. Here are some pictures so far. The children are loving playing an instrument from a different culture.

Science

In science, we have been learning about electricity. We have started to investigate how electrical circuits, we have even started to build our own circuits.