Everyone in Year 4 hopes that you all had a very happy and restful Easter. Let’s crack on with the summer term!
Year 4’s learning this week:
English: Year 4 wrote their own, independent biographies this week with a particular focus on using fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases to make their pieces more sophisticated. Myself and Mrs Dunford have enjoyed learning facts all about some famous figures from Paul O’Grady to Marie Curie to Elizabeth I.
Year 4 have been working really hard on increasing their concentration during their writing, to maintain their focus and stamina for their independent work.
Maths: Year 4 have been working hard on dividing two and three digit numbers by a one digit number, using part whole models to partition numbers effectively.
RE and Liturgy: Year 4 have been formulating questions on how the disciples would have felt before and after Easter Sunday.
We discussed how Jesus’ followers would have felt mixed emotions of anger, fear, sadness, disbelief and joy over the course over Jesus’ arrest, death and resurrection. Year 4 then used their Bible skills to find, use and reference quotes that backed up their opinions on how the disciples would have been feeling at different times.
Science: Year 4 have been exploring how a switch opens and closes a circuit therefore determining whether an electrical current can flow from its source of power to light up a bulb.
Year 4 explored a circuit they were familiar with before working out how to insert a switch into their circuit and seeing if they could prove a switch’s role to turn a bulb on and off.
Year 4 have been using their knowledge of electrical circuits and useful materials to design their own torches in DT. Year 4 thought about who the target audience for their torch was, what it would look like and the features that would make it useful depending on their audience such as being brightly coloured, glow in the dark and lightweight.
Geography: Year 4 have begun to explore and evaluate their local area this half term. This week, we explored our locality of Blackpool. We thought about the region of the country we occupy and the county we live in before working out how we could move around our locality using points of a compass; north, south, east and west.
Computing: Year 4 have been researching the coming forecast in our locality of Blackpool so that they can prepare a weather broadcasting script to create their own virtual weather forecast using a map background and present this to be filmed.
Spanish: Year 4 have been practising recognising reading and writing their Spanish numbers up to twenty as part of presenting themselves in a Spanish translation.
PE: Year 4 have started exploring their orienteering topic this week, concentrating this week on the importance of building trust and active listening between themselves and their classmates.
PSHE: Year 4 have been working hard on exploring their emotions in a safe and healthy way this week, recognising that it is ok to share their thoughts and opinions in a positive way.
Notices:
Please make sure you are reading at home regularly and recording this in reading records.
Please make sure you are practising times tables on TT Rock stars and The Daily Ten on Topmarks regularly. Hit the Button on Topmarks is also a fantastic resource for times tables practise.
Another good resource for times tables is the Pinpoint Mathematics times tables check: https://www.themathsfactor.com/times-tables-check/pinpoint/#/ a simulation for the Year 4 check in June.
Please make sure your school instruments are practised regularly at home for our weekly Wider Opportunity lessons on Thursdays, fifteen minutes a day makes all the difference!
Times tables booster club will continue weekly on Fridays until 4:10pm.
A message from the school SENCO:
Please find attached details of the Being a Parent groups running next term. There will be two 9 week groups starting on Tuesday 25th April
10.00am-12.00pm The HealthWorks, 1 Clifton Street, FY1 1JD
6.00pm-8.00pm Online using Google Meet.
The group is suitable for parents of children aged 18 months – 11 years (priority is given to parents with children under 4 years) and is led by parents. It looks at communication, behaviour management and listening techniques. The group is free and childcare can be paid for to attend the group.
Parents can book their place by contacting Blackpool Learning Rooms on 01253 478131 or learning.rooms@blackpool.gov.uk .
Congratulations to our award winners this week!
Golden Award - Peter
Maths Award - Olivia W
Writing Award - Zahra
A big thank you from Miss Whitehead and Mrs Dunford!
