Year 4 Class News Spring
Key Skills
Our key skill this half term will be independence. We will be encouraging children to develop their independence skills and grow in confidence. Part of developing their independence will be children completing their weekly homework. Children need to take responsibility for completing this work themselves.
Homework Homework will be sent out again from Friday 12th January and will all be available via google classroom.
We are also really excited about our new Y4 Homework drop in every Monday where children can come and use the learning zone facilities, with an adults, to complete their homework. Children can also use the ICT suite on a Wednesday to complete homework.
Creative curriculum! Our topic this term is the USA. We will be exploring the question ‘ How would life be different if I was born in the USA?. We cant wait to see some of the fantastic learning this half term! We will also be announcing details of our new USA shoe box project over the next few weeks...
Swimming! This half term we are super excited for be starting our swimming lesson at Concord. The swimming lessons are free to children in year 4 and they will be following the National Curriculum programme of study. We will be sending further details out about the swimming sessions next week! Your child will need a towel and a swimming costume. For girls, this will need to be a 1 piece bathing suit, not a tankini or bikini. Boys need to wear trunks or shorts. Surfer shorts or long shorts are not allowed.
Look what else is happening... OTIS! There are lots of exciting things happening in Y4 this term so it is really important that children are in school for 8:50am to make the most of their learning time!
Attendance in Y4! We are feeling really proud of Year 4
Project timeline. Here is a brief outline of some of the activities your child will be taking part in across this half term! Lots of the work produced will play a key part in our exhibition at the end of Spring. One of the most exciting elements is our USA burger designing project developing, science, D+T, and numeracy skills. Yum! Week 2
‘The American Burger’ Market research and
Week 3
‘The American Burger.’
and their superb attendance last half term! Lets keep up the hard work and
Designing and Week 4
Cooking and production.
get lots of children achieving the end of year treat!
Attainment
‘The American Burger.’
Week 5
Alien stories– Writing our stories!
Week 6
The shoe box project begins….
We are really pleased with the progress children in Y4 have been making with the new assessment system of ’learning steps’ and we will be running lots of extra intervention groups this term to make sure this continues!
Rocking Readers
Writing Wizards Maths Dream team
Twitter!
We have celebrated lots of things on Twitter this year! Follow us! @monteneyY4!