Year 4 Monday 15th January 2018

Murder!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was a terrible, terrible crime scene waiting for us last week!!!!!!!!!!
We had to be great detectives with super deduction and inference skills to work who had died, why, how and who were the suspects??????????? We made several predictions with excellent supporting reasons, possible motives and evidence from the crime scene. It was later revealed to us that this was, of course, the work of William Shakespeare............Macbeth!

We explored the great, gruesome mystery further through drama and story telling - revealing that some of us were correct in our theories - of course it was terribly important that we informed the world about these terrible events, so we began writing our own newspaper reports. Today, year 4 began word processing their articles, before editing tomorrow.

Thank you to those parents who were able to come to the information session, I hope my maths lesson was useful with the home learning this week end?👍👌 We have begun division "chunking" today.

Re the Hooke Court after school meeting, we have changed the date because I am unable to lead it on the original date - the new date on the calendar is THURSDAY 1ST FEBRUARY 3:30 in the year 4 classroom.

There will be a letter coming out shortly with details of the DASP Year 4 singing concert.

The Year 4 Team

Year 4 Sunday 7th January 2018

2018 = "The Year of Year 4!"
What an exciting and challenging year of adventure, learning and changes we have ahead of us! The next two terms are really important for us now in terms of increasing independence, self organisation, our attitudes to learning, effort and focus in our learning, increased self confidence and self esteem building.

We began our new year by thinking about dreams and goals for the coming year, after revisiting our class charter - rights and responsibilities! This meant that everyone has started their learning how they mean to go on - with a big focus on effort and resilience!

As you may have noticed we are learning about journalistic writing in literacy, so please do take a moment to share a newspaper or article together and encourage the children to identify the key features! We will be using these features to create our own newspaper articles over the next couple of weeks - but obviously need a lead................watch this space!!!!!!!!😉

In numeracy we began by learning formal written calculation methods for multiplication, this week we will be developing our reasoning skills.

In swimming we had the lane ropes in and ALL groups are now swimming lengths!!!!!👍👍👍👍

Home learning: Spellings (learn the lists across as before - 2 rows list 1, 4 rows list 2, 6 rows list 3, all = challenge!), times tables, newspaper comprehension.

I cannot emphasise enough how important it is for ALL children to be practising their x tables and spellings so please take 10 minutes a day to practise! Not only are they required to know all their tables by the end of year 4, but being able to quickly draw on this knowledge will help them in many areas of numeracy as they progress through the following year groups. Thank you for your support at home, this really compliments and consolidates what we do in class!

Mrs. Scott and Mrs. J

Monday 1st January 2018 - Year 4

Happy New Year to you all! We hope you all had a restful, fun-filled family time!
Thank you so much for all your very kind and generous gifts, we really appreciated them, however I now need to do LOTS of exercise!!!!!!!!!!😉

PE and swimming are as normal this week, so PE kits are needed tomorrow and swimming is Wednesday! 

A news letter will be out this week with some dates for diaries...........needless to say we are going to be very busy with a term packed full of exciting learning, visits, visitors, themed weeks, parent consultations, Year 4 DASP singing concert.........watch this space, once we are on the roller coaster it will be hard to get off!!!!!!!! 
It is, ofcourse, an extra special year for us as we will be thinking about, discussing and preparing for transitions to new schools!!!!!!!!

We can't wait to see you all tomorrow and hear all about your holiday - Odette, we will be especially looking forward to all your news!!!!!!!!! (I hope you managed to fit my elephant on the plane and get it through customs!!!!!!!!)

Early to bed tonight, see you tomorrow - Mrs. Scott and Mrs. J