| Year 4

Week Beginning 23rd January 2023

Yesterday, we walked to Southbourne Library to carry out some research about plastic pollution. We used a variety of non- fiction texts to find the answers to our research questions which will help us to write our newspaper reports about climate change. Thank you so much to our wonderful parents/ grandparents for helping us on this trip- we really appreciated your support!

Well done to Victoria Class who had their first swimming lesson this week, Mrs Finnigan said you were ALL fantastic!

Please can we remind children in Year 4 not to bring mobile phones into school and to also follow our uniform policy regarding P.E. kit as we are seeing more and more children wearing branded jumpers and joggers. Please refer to the uniform policy on the website if you need further guidance.

We need your help! If you are able to bring any rocks or pebbles into school to decorate then please could you bring these in next week as we will be using them in one of our art lessons. Also, the children are very excited to carry out a litter pick around school as part of our ‘ Climate Matters’ project. If you have any litter pickers at home, please could these be brought in on Monday 6th February.

Change of day for Library ( due to swimming) Please remember to bring a coat to school everyday especially on a swimming day.

Victoria Class- Monday

Malawi Class – Wednesday

Dates for your diary:

2nd March- World Book Day ( more details to follow)

18th March – Malawi Class Worship ( 8:50am)

30th March – Victoria Class Worship( 8:50am)

Monday 6th February – Litter pick ( please bring in any litter pickers that you have at home).

Here is what we have coming up next week:

PE- Please come to school dressed in your P.E. kit on Monday and Wednesday.

English- We will be using our research from our library trip to start to write our own newspaper articles about plastic pollution.

Reading- Our new text for this term is :

Maths- To multiply and divide a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number.

Art – To know and understand that hot and cold colours can change the mood of artwork pieces and recognise cultural pattern and create responses to them.

Computing –to know how to use coordinates in computer planning.

Geography- Biomes

R.E.- History of Judasim

My Maths Homework – Homework is due Thursday 26th January. Your log in details can be found at the front of your reading record.

Worship theme: Memories/Remembering – Holocaust Memorial Day

Spelling overview for Term 3.

Orange

Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
spelling review	Plurals	possessive apostrophes	-ous endings	-ous endings
Tested on 16/1/23	Tested on 23/1/23	Tested on 30/1/23	Tested on 06/02/23	Tested on 20/02/23
haven’t couldn’t forgotten decision expression attention	babies thieves flies catches potatoes libraries	girl’s children’s pupils women’s Tom’s often	enormous dangerous tremendous special woman notice	serious curious hideous various courteous spontaneous

Green

Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
ou digraphs	ar digraphs	ur digraphs	ew digraphs	aw digraphs
Tested on 16/1/23	Tested on 23/1/23	Tested on 30/1/23	Tested on 06/02/23	Tested on 20/02/23
out  count  mouse  house  cloud  shout	card  hard  farm  park  shark  harm	church  hurt  turf  burst  surf  Thursday	new,   few,   grew,   flew,   drew,   threw	saw,   draw,   yawn,   crawl  claw  shawl

Recommended Book list for Year 4… https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-

Reading Raffle – Please encourage your child to record in their yellow reading record when they have read at home.

3 reads a week = 1 raffle ticket

5 or more reads a week = 2 raffle tickets

At the end of each term, two names from each class will be drawn in Worship and those children will make a special trip ( with a book) to our local Costa to enjoy a babyccino!

Click here -Year 4 September Information evenings 2022-231

Click here for Hooke Court Year 4 Parent Meeting .ppt

Thank you for your continued support,