Welcome back to school and to Year 4! The children have had a fantastic first week in our new classroom, and it has been great catching up on all of their summer holiday news, I am looking forward to another year with the class and once again I would like to pass on my gratitude for all your kind gifts at the end of last term, it was greatly appreciated.
Please have a look at this Parent Newsletter linked with our weekly whole school and class worship…
Our learning this week…
In English the children have started to explore the story of ‘The Whale’. We begun by exploring a range of beautiful illustrations from the text and creating some of our own expanded noun phrases.
In Maths we have been learning about place value in numbers up to 1000, the children were able to use base 10 equipment to support their understanding and we have been investigating rounding to the nearest 10, using 2 and 3 digit numbers.
In RE the children began their new topic ‘The Bible’ by reflecting on the importance of The Bible for Christians and on how the bible is structured. The children particularly enjoyed designing their own front covers for a Bible, considering key stories or religious figures they might want to present.
In History, we have started our new topic on the Ancient Egyptians. We began by looking at a range of artefacts and thinking of some questions we could ask to explore further.
Spellings, times tables and homework
The children will be coming home with their spellings and homework on Monday 11th September, this needs to be returned by the following Monday. So the first spellings and times tables tests will be on Monday 18th September.
Award winners
Golden: Zachary
Maths: Callum
Writing: Martha
Wishing you all a relaxing weekend,
Mrs Parker, Mrs Hodgekiss and Miss Colline
