Year 4 News
This week…
Dear Parents and Carers,
Hope this newsletter finds you well. First, I can’t believe we are only a week away from entering into our final half term as being a Year 4 class. Where does the time go! When the children return from half term, it will be the Multiplication Tables Check which is the big assessment this academic year. The children need to aim for a score of 21 out of 25 or more. The current class average is 19 so as much support as you can give the children with Times Table Rockstars over this half term would be incredibly helpful.
We had some amazing news in Year 4 this week. For Science Week all children entered a national competition called ‘Who Wants to be an Engineer?’ As part of this competition children had to design an invention that would fix a real-world problem. This week we received the amazing news that Josh’s design of an LED backpack to keep cyclists safe has won the Northeast regional prize for the 7-10 age range. As well as this, Sophia finished runner up receiving the Highly-Commended Award for her design of a park that is fully accessible to all. Both children have been invited to St Peter’s Campus at The University of Sunderland where they will receive their awards.
In English, we have started our new class novel Podkin One Ear by Keiran Larwood in our reading lessons. It is a fantasy story with an young rabbit whose warren is attacked by an evil army called The Gorm. Podkin needs to realise his potential to save the day. The class have really enjoyed reading so far.
In Writing we have been planning, writing and editing an alternative narrative to The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. To help generate ideas for an alternative narrative, the children completed either a drama activity or designed a comic strip to outline the build-up, dilemma, solving of the problem and ending. You can see some good acting below!
In Maths we have spent time consolidating our understanding of telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes including on a 24-hour cock. We have also started to recap the formal written methods of calculation.
In PE we have been the first class in school to complete a unit of work on Golf after we received funding and resources from LIV Golf. The children have been learning to strike a ball off a tee using a club. The children have been very enthusiastic about their lessons and Coach Charlie has been really impressed with their progress.