Parent Communication – Miss Macfarlane’s Class

Hi Everyone,

At the start of May, I sent all parents in my class an email to their personal email accounts from the Y4 email address (newdale.year4team@taw.org.uk). If you did not receive one, that would have been due to me not having your email address (as it wasn’t on record in the school office); however, I did send those parents a message on Purple Mash to get back to me (thank you to those who did).

If you haven’t replied via email, it would be great to hear from you all and have an update on how your Y4 child is getting on. Mrs H and I are really missing not being in school and with our Y4 class!

Thank you to the parents who have already been in contact.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Miss Macfarlane and Mrs H

School update

Dear Parents/Carers,

I understand that you must have so many questions and indeed worries about the news that the Prime Minister announced this week concerning schools. This is a very useful document to read and I hope you find it informative.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers/reopening-schools-and-other-educational-settings-from-1-june

We are currently working very hard on our plan around re opening and hope to share that with you very shortly. If you have children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 or Year 6 then please do fill in the form that was sent out this morning to give us an indication as to whether you plan to send your child/children into school or not following half term.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

Reading at home

Just a quick reminder to parents about Oxford Owl’s FREE online reading service.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page

This service is amazing as it contains a variety of books aimed at your child’s reading level.

As part of your child’s home learning, please encourage them to read as regularly as they can.

Many thanks

The Y4 Team

Y4 Home Learning W.B. 11.05.20

This week, we’d like your child to complete this English activity booklet, which contains spelling, literacy and reading tasks. The writing tasks allow children to apply the Y4 SPaG features which we have looked at over the last few weeks e.g. fronted adverbials, inverted commas etc.

t2-e-3437-year-4-summer-term-1-spag-activity-mats_ver_9 Year 4 Literacy Work W.B 11.05.20

Super Movers linked to Literacy:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-english-inverted-commas-with-mr-smith/z62rhbk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-english-conjunctions-with-laura-bubble/zv4hd6f

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-verb-tenses-with-karim-hacker/zr7gt39

If you’d like to see how your child is getting on with their SPaG knowledge and application, then they can have a go at this Y4 SPaG test: Year 4 English Grammar and Punctuation Test 1

Handwriting Practice: Handwriting Practice

As always, there will also be tasks set on Purple Mash as well as maths and spelling work set by Mr Jackson.

Citizenship Themed Week – W.B 11.05.20

Last week, we enjoyed looking at all of the fantastic work which had been produced based on our Geography themed week.

This week, we’d like children to complete activities which promote being a good citizen.

Here are some ideas: Home Schooling Citizenship Theme Week

Super Movers Ideas:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/pshe-collection/zng8vk7

As always, please post work/photos onto your child’s homework blog.

 

 

Well done, Year 4 Achievement Award

Hi Year 4

As we come to the end of another week, I wanted to say a big congratulations for the effort you are all putting into your home learning. I’d like to say a special well done to –

Dylan for putting a huge effort into your home learning and extra work too.

Chelsea for some very creative baking and hard work on your home learning.

Harrison showing some great maths work and well designed VE Day bunting.

William for hard work with your home learning, learning new skills and some very creative design work.

Niamh for learning new skills at home, both Chess and Piano.

A big well done again to everyone for working so hard and a big thank you to everybody who is helping you at home.

Have a great weekend,

Mr Jackson

VE Day Junk Modelling Challenge

As it is VE Day tomorrow, you may like to take part in a JUNK MODELLING CHALLENGE that has been launched by the museum at RAF Cosford. The challenge is to build your very own aircraft, using whatever you can find around your home! In school, pupils from Nursery to Year 6 love junk modelling so I am sure many children would love to have a go at this at home – it would even be a nice project for siblings, or whole families, to work on together! 🛫🛫

The competition deadline is Thursday 14th May. To enter your aircraft, all you need to do is post a photo of your creation in the comments on the competition post, which can be found at ‘The Royal Air Force Museum, Cosford‘ Facebook page. Alternatively, you can share your photo using the tag ‘@rafmuseum‘ on Facebook.

Good Luck!! ☘

Y4 Celebrations…

Following on from our virtual Star of the Week assembly last week, I’d like to give a couple of ‘shout outs’.

Well done to…

Niamh H for consistently working through White Rose maths tasks on a daily basis.

Isla’s great effort towards her home learning.

Ella for her creativity and dedication towards her home learning.

Izzy for her dedication towards her corona virus family diary.

Matthew for his fantastic baking skills.

And everyone else in my class for being superstars!

Enjoy Bank Holiday Friday tomorrow!

Miss Macfarlane

Y4 Science- Animals including Humans

This term, Y4 would have been learning about animals including humans as part of their Science unit.

We’d like children to create a piece of work, which demonstrates their knowledge of this unit. Children can choose how they’d like to present this information e.g. a poem, piece of artwork, a video report etc and upload it onto the Y4 homework blog.

Here is some information to help them: Y4 Science Animals including Humans