Welcome to the Summer Term in Year 4

 

Welcome back to the Summer Term in Year 4!

I hope you all had a restful break. Towards the end of this blog, I’ve included a list of key dates and events to help you plan ahead for the Summer term. 

Parent Info Session

Next week, we’ll be holding a Parents and Carers Information Session on Thursday 1st May at 9am, and I’d love to see as many of you there as possible.

There has been a post on Facebook suggesting that the parent info session includes a workshop with your child. Just to clarify, this is not the case for Years 3 and 4. Instead, I’ll be sharing what’s coming up this term, including details about the Multiplication Tables Check, how you can support your child at home, and information about key events such as the leavers’ assembly and middle school transition.

The session will also be a good opportunity to ask any questions you may have about these topics—or anything else on your mind. I hope you can join us.

Class Trip and VE Day event

We’re looking forward to our final class excursion of the year on Wednesday 21st May. This will be an exciting activity day, including wall climbing and kayaking. Letters with full details will be sent home shortly. If you’re interested in volunteering to help on the day, please do email me as soon as possible—spaces are limited due to us travelling in a smaller coach.

In addition, please keep an eye out for a message from Mr Spracklen regarding our 80th Anniversary of VE Day event on Wednesday 8th May. As part of the celebration, Year 4 will be performing a selection of poetry and written accounts from the Second World War. Your child’s piece will be sent home early next week, and I’d be so grateful if you could support them in practising their reading at home. 

Summer term reminders

As we head into the summer term, it’s a good time to check that your child’s school jumpers and cardigans are clearly labelled—this really helps us reunite them with their owners if they’re taken off during the day and left behind.

With the sunshine beginning to make more of an appearance, you might also like to start sending your child in with a labelled sun hat, and as always, a water bottle each day is really important to help them stay hydrated and focused.

Home learning

For this week's home learning the children are being asked to imagine and write about their own dream home or dwelling (tree house for example). They will be sent home with paper copies tomorrow or an electronic link to this week's home learning can be found here. This week's spellings to learn are at the end of this blog and children will be given paper copies on Friday. 

Upcoming events

Tuesday 29th April - Bikeability

Thursday 1st May - Parent Information session

Monday 5th May - Bank Holiday 

Thursday 8th May - 80th Anniversary of VE Day

Wednesday 21st May - Class trip

Friday 23rd May - Last Day of term 

Monday 2nd June - Children return

Monday 2nd June - Multiplication Tables Checks start

Thursday 5th June - RSE parent's information session.

Friday 20th June - Year 4 special event

As ever, please get in touch if you have any questions or concerns. Hopefully see you on Thursday 1st May. 

Kind regards,

The Year 4 Team