Year 4

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6 years ago
Posted on 10th May 2020 by

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.

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6 years ago
Posted on 09th May 2020 by

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.

 

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 08th May 2020 by

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

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6 years ago
Posted on 07th May 2020 by

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!! ☘

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6 years ago
Posted on 07th May 2020 by

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

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6 years ago
Posted on 06th May 2020 by

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

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6 years ago
Posted on 05th May 2020 by

Inverted Commas

To help your child with their understanding of inverted commas this week, why not encourage them to dance to this Supermovers video:

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

Parents can join in too!

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6 years ago
Posted on 05th May 2020 by

Value of the Month- May

Thank you for all your support with the value of the month for April, which was Freedom. Throughout April, children learnt about the different aspects of Freedom from rights and responsibilities to freedom of speech.

Our value of the month for May is Perseverance

What is Perseverance?

  • Not giving up even when faced with a problem.
  • Trying your best in all situations.
  • Realising that sometimes we are faced with challenges but trying to overcome these in the best way possible.

Suggestions for parents to work with children at home:

Discuss what the word means. Has your child ever been in a situation where they have demonstrated perseverance? If so, can they tell you strategies of how they didn’t give up?

Discuss with your child situations where people have shown perseverance and have achieved success e.g. family members, individuals with mobility difficulties, athletes etc.

Self-belief- discuss with your child how they feel about their learning and other skills and attributes. Talk about what they could do when faced with a challenge. It’s important that children learn the importance of perseverance even when faced with difficulties.

Here are a few websites which show how individuals have overcome difficulties and demonstrated Perseverance:

Derek Redmond – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZlXWp6vFdE

Steve Jobs – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElVUqv0v1EE&app=desktop

Michael Jordan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc

Tanni Grey-Thompson – http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/famouspeople/tanni_grey_thompson/

The Suffragettes – http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/22766676

Please let your child’s teacher know if we can celebrate any work from home, on our school website.

Feedback on the values and what you do at home is really valuable to us and we really appreciate all your support.

 

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 04th May 2020 by

Helpful Books for Younger Children

It can be quite challenging to explain to children (particularly younger children) about what is going on in the world at the moment. To help find the right words to explain why we need to wash our hands so frequently and the reasons why we are having to stay at home, here are two more fantastic books to help:

‘Staying at Home’ by Sally Nicholls (available as a free download by Anderson Press) https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/staying-home/

Here is the PDF version:  STAYING_HOME_ Sally Nicholls 

Also helpful is ‘I Don’t Want to Wash My Hands’ by Tony Ross. You could order a copy online, but here is a link to the author reading his story aloud which you may find useful.

We hope you find them helpful.

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6 years ago
Posted on 04th May 2020 by

VE Day Bunting

In preparation for the VE celebrations later this week, we created some celebratory bunting in school. The younger children decorated paper pennants whilst the older children used textiles and sewing to create theirs. I was so impressed by the resilience shown this afternoon as sewing can be really challenging. Ashleigh, Joe and Lola particularly impressed me.