Year 4 Weekly Overview

Week Beginning Sunday 3rd March 2024

Swimming

Please note that the GIRLS will now be swimming on their class Swimming/PE days.

The boys will have PE.

Special Year 4 Event

VIKING DAY

On Monday 4th March the Year 4 children are having their Viking Day.

On this day, we ask that the children come dressed in Viking costume. The children will enjoy a day of exciting Viking based activities.

World Book Day

World Book Day will be celebrated at DESS on March 7th.

The children are invited to come to school dressed as a character from a book and enjoy a day of activities centred around books.

The children will parade on the school field from 8:00am. Please feel free to come and enjoy the wonderful costumes with us.

Chromebooks

Many children in Year 4 are coming to school without a fully charged chromebook. The children use their chromebooks throughout the day to access lesson material, etc.

Please encourage your child to get into a regular routine of charging their chromebooks daily as part of their school organisation responsibility.

Art and Design Technology

Please can we continue collecting cereal boxes and snack boxes for upcoming Art and DT projects. Your child's classroom will have a labelled box for all the cardboard boxes to go into.

They will be used to make collograph and printed robots in Art in Autumn Term 1 and Viking ships in Spring 2.

Art and Design Technology

Please can we also begin collecting and bringing to school a Pringles tubes. We will need one per child for the upcoming DT Project building lighthouses.

School Uniform

The children must wear the correct uniform to school.

Please use the link to read or remind yourself of our uniform policy:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wD7exMZyJHWf5rCFjZ3rKWn0HV9QmnOufRGgxQjSsCE/edit?usp=sharing

Teachers will contact parents via dojo to inform you if your child is not wearing the correct school uniform as a kind reminder.

You may also receive a uniform reminder slip from your child's class teacher if your child has not come to school wearing uniform correctly repeatedly.

Time for School...

It is important for your child to arrive at school on time as they settle into the school day better without feeling the need to rush, have time to meet and greet their teachers and friends and don't miss the beginning of the first lesson, which is usually either English or Maths.

We recommend that the children arrive at school before or at 7:20am so that they are settled in to class before lessons begin.

The Senior Leadship Team has asked teachers to monitor the children's punctuality in the mornings.

Please kindly note, that if your child is late for school more than 3 times in a fortnight, the teachers are required to send you a dojo message to inform you of this and look for ways that your child's punctuality can be improved.

Home Learning (Weekly)

Home Learning

Home Learning can be accessed on your child’s Chromebook using Google Classroom. The children will receive two regular Home Learning tasks each week. These will be set on Thursday after school and should be completed by the following Thursday. The children should bring their completed assignment in the given workbooks and back to school for marking. Please note that all Home Learning Tasks are non-compulsory. Parents may choose if you wish your child to complete these.

Guided Reading - this will be set in the Guided Reading Google Classroom

Spelling - this will be set in the Spelling Google Classroom

Maths - this will be set in the Maths Google Classroom

There may also be additional Home Learning projects set periodically. These projects will be given specific dates for completion.

SPRING 2 - Your child will recieve Spelling and Maths Home Learning

Reading Records - We have a red reading record book available for you and your child to use in order to monitor reading at home. This is, once again, a voluntary aspect of the Home learning. Parents can choose if you wish to use one of these. Please let the class teacher know if you would like one for your child.

Times Tables in Year 4

In Year 2 and 3, the children became fluent in multiplication and division using x/➗2, x/➗5 and x/➗10, x/➗3, x/➗4 and x/➗8.

In Year 4, the children will need to recall, at speed, the multiplication and division facts for all times tables (x0 – x12) by the end of the year.

Times Tables Rock Stars is an excellent platform whereby the children can develop fluency and recall, as is Multiplication Masters.

In the UK, all Year 4 children sit the Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) which is statutory for primary schools. This was first introduced in the UK two years ago and is mandatory for all schools to complete in June.

The purpose of the MTC is to determine whether pupils can recall their times tables fluently, which is essential for future success in Mathematics.

If you would like more information, please find the link below to the Govt.UK Parent Information site:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1031901/2022_Information_for_parents_Multiplication_tables_check.pdf

In Year 4, we monitor the children's aqusition and fast recall of all multiplication and division facts throughout the year. In June, we complete our final Multiplication Masters assessment to mimic the manadatory testing that your child would complete if resident in the UK.

PE

Swimming / PE

The children will need to wear their PE kit for the whole day when they have their PE lesson on their designated days. This means that all the children will wear PE kits on Sundays and Tuesdays as they have a PE lesson or change into their PE kit after swimming.

4A – Sundays (PE/Swimming) and Tuesdays (PE)

4B – Sundays (Swimming/PE) and Tuesdays (PE)

4C – Sundays (PE) and Tuesdays (PE/Swimming)

4D – Sundays (PE) and Tuesdays (Swimming/PE)

The girls are swimming on Sundays or Tuesdays from this week until the end of the half term.

Library

Each class has a library time. The children will be able to issue, renew or return books during this time. The Library will be open for the children in Week 2 of this term.

4A - Tuesdays

4B - Tuesdays

4C - Thursdays

4D - Sundays

Learning Objectives Covered this Week:

English

To innovate on a known story sequence.
To write the opening of a sequel to Winter’s Child - Introduction and Rising Action Paragraphs.

Spelling

Word List Words (disappear, early, earth, enough, February)
Words ending with the /g/ sound spelt –gue and the /k/ soundspelt –que
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to polysyllabic words

Reading Unit Objectives

To give meaning to words in context.
Retrieve and record information /identify key details from fiction and non-fiction.
Summarise main ideas from more than one paragraph.
Make inferences from the text/explain and justify inferences with evidence form the text.
Predict what might happen from details stated and implied.
Identify/ explain how meaning is enhanced through choice of words and phrases.
Make comparisons within the text.

Mathematics

Tenths as fractions.
Tenths as decimals.
Tenths on a place value chart.

Science - Teeth and Digestion

To discuss how to keep teeth healthy; plan and set up an investigation into tooth decay.

History - Anglo Saxons / Vikings

To explore how the Viking Longship was an important factor for the success of the Vikings in the Viking Era.
To identify and label the areas where the Vikings settled in England.
To chose a settlement location on a map and explain reasons.

Photos

Please use the following links to access photos...

4A - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AbSkjzAMvZm0XHJpw96UNBK033z3gZF7?usp=sharing

4B - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RdnmtNVTpQW_qT_2zyZCVW7pL3z6uXBG?usp=sharing

4C - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ri-BX9IbohAEgiv9hgt0BP-twvZv4Db5?usp=sharing

4D - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MWigjy8U8Z5vJv69oowbvlIZhpd_Pt4u?usp=sharing

Reminders

Chromebooks

The Y4 children need to bring a fully charged Chromebook to school every day. If you would like to order a Chromebook, please email it@dess.org

In Year 4, we aim to continuing the development of your child’s self-organisation and independence and, therefore, ask that you let the children come into class by themselves in the morning when the whistle is blown on the shaded playground. The class teachers and TA’s will be in the classroom ready to greet the children.

At the end of the day, the class teachers will bring the children onto the shaded playground area at 2pm to meet you.

COVID

Please remember that parents are not to enter classrooms. The school day begins at 7:20am and pick-up is from the shaded playground at 2pm. REMINDER: we finish at 1pm on a Thursday.

Please bring a full water bottles to school each day.

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