Team FOSS (year 4)

Good afternoon,

This week has been our ‘Masters of the Arts’ learn-through week. We have explored many elements of the arts including opera, ballet, architecture, and poetry. We got the opportunity to learn some circus skills, which the team loved. The children have had the opportunity to enter a Young Writers' poetry competition, this year the theme is ‘Once Upon a Dream’. The teams have been very creative with their poems and we’ll keep our fingers crossed for the competition! 

Coming up next week: 

• LKS2 have a DT Day on Monday. Thank you to everyone who has already brought their box in. 

Creative Curriculum - We are starting our new topic called ‘Who were the Mayans?’. We will start the unit by looking at the question ‘When were the Mayans?’. 

English - We will be starting a unit on narrative writing, focusing on using inverted commas to show direct speech. 

Maths Year 3 - We be continuing with our work on parts and wholes to start our fractions unit, including identifying equal parts when they do not look the same an constructing the whole when given a part and the number of parts in the whole. 

Maths Year 4 - To begin our fractions unit, we are revisiting wholes and equal and unequal parts.

PE Year 3- This week York Knights are unavailable on Wednesday so will be coming in for PE on Tuesday. Please can Year 3 come in PE kits on Tuesday and Friday next week. 

PE Year 4 - Year 4 have PE on Tuesday and Friday and need to come in their PE kits on these days. 

PSHE Year 3 - This week we are finishing our topic ‘Relationships’. We are looking to know the difference between secrets and surprises and understand not to keep adult secrets both on and offline and when to support a friend to tell a trusted adult. We are also going to know and judge what kind of physical contact is acceptable or unacceptable and how to respond -including who I should tell and how to tell them.

PSHE Year 4 - We are continuing our topic ‘Relationships’. This week our focus is ‘knowing people who look after me, my networks and who to go to if I am worried about anything on or offline and how to attract their attention’

Homework has been set today and is due in next Friday. 

Reading: The children will be expected to read a minimum of 3 times a week, ideally to a grown-up. 

Spelling: The children will be expected to play a minimum of 5 games of the set spelling rule on EdShed. 

Maths: The children will have a task set on My Maths.

Children are expected to access TT Rockstars a minimum of 3 times a week.

If children cannot access the internet at home, sheets can be requested for homework. 

Don’t forget to keep checking Twitter to see what learning we have been up to! 

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the school office. 

Thank you for your continued support, 

LKS2 Team