Year 4 Weekly News - Friday 10.01.25
Happy New Year to all of our wonderful Upton families. We hope you had an enjoyable and restful Christmas break. The children have come back to school refreshed and keen to participate in their learning.
We have had a fabulous week in Year 4 this week. Take a look at what we have been up to…
Key Messages: for next week…
- Tuesday is swimming for 4B and 4G. Please ensure that full swimming kit is brought in on that day. If your child cannot take part, please contact their teacher or the office to explain why.
- Thursday is PE for all of Year 4. Please send the children in wearing their PE kit.
- Children can come to school in their PE kit on swimming days.
- Please ensure children are wearing correct school uniform and shoes, including a tie.
- Please ensure children are bringing in their water bottles every day, preferably with a sports cap.
Upcoming date: Thursday 23rd January 2025. Parents are invited in to read with their children at 2:40pm. Children cannot leave early on this day. Please see the separate email that has been sent home regarding this information.
Weekly homework tasks:
Reading daily – please bring in your reading record signed by an adult.
TTRS - at least 3 times a week for 10 minutes.
Mathletics – Friday to Friday
AR Quizzes – complete on Accelerated Reader once book has been completed. This can be done at home or at school.
Please note, Mathletics has a different login to AR and TTRS.
Sir Linkalot – children can download the app and watch spelling videos.
This week we have been learning words from the ‘Pressure Proust’ bundle. Here are the words: appear, arrive, breath, breathe, consider, decide, early, famous, forward, group, guard, guide, history, increase, decrease, mention, minute, notice, popular, potatoes, pressure, promise.
***Well done to everyone who has received a certificate so far for either Mathletics or TTRS***
English:
In English this week we have started to read our new text: I Survived the Eruption of Mt St Helens, 1980. It is a fictional book about the true events of Mount St. Helens erupting in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, USA. The children have been thoroughly gripped by the story and cannot wait to read more. In writing, we wrote a character description of the Skeleton Woman, a mystical character who is believed to have cursed the mountain. We focused on using fronted adverbials and exciting adjectives.
Next week, we will write a comparative setting description of Mount St. Helens, before and after the eruption.
Maths:
This week in maths we revisited multiplication and division. Our focus was on using the bus stop method to divide 2 and 3-digit numbers by a single digit.
Next week we will be starting a new unit – fractions.
Thematic Curriculum:
This week during our afternoon lessons, we explored diversity and national charities. The children carried out their own research for different charities that interested them to find out more about their work. We also began our new topic: Cracking the Earth’s Core; a topic all about volcanoes and earthquakes. We used digestive biscuits and frosting to show how the plates interact at plate boundaries.
On Monday, we had a successful STEM morning where we invited visitors to talk to the children about their STEM-related job. We met 2 engineers, an aircraft crew member and a geotechnical engineer. Thank you to all of those who participated. The children learnt about the world of STEM.
Next week we will continue to explore charities and will delve further into volcanoes.