Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

Overviews

Key Dates

PE day - Thursday (outdoor) Swimming lessons- Thursday

15th -18th – Fathers’ Day Afternoon Tea
22nd – Sports’ Day
29th – St Peter and St Paul Mass @10am
29th – Science Week
13th – End of Year Mass @10am
17th – End of the Academic Year @2pm

Learning Expectations:

P.E

For Term 6 our P.E day is Thursday
All children will be expected to wear their PE kit to school on their PE days.

They will keep this on all day, so they do not need to bring in their daily school uniform. All children must wear a white polo shirt (logo optional), burgundy shorts, plain black shorts, or burgundy/black tracksuit bottoms. In addition, the school jumper/ cardigan should be worn to school on these days.

Reading

It is expected that the children read every day for at least 20 minutes. Some days it would be nice for your child to read to you so that you can ask them questions about the book to test their understanding. It is also a nice time to spend together. Each child will be given a leveled book to bring home and once their book is finished they can bring it back to school to be changed after completing a quiz. Their level will be reviewed termly by the children taking a quiz based on key reading skills.

Spelling

Your child will receive their spellings on a Friday. They will then have until the following Friday to practise these before their test. Please make sure that your child also understands the meaning of the words they are learning. If your child misspells a word from the spelling list in the Friday test, the way they wrote it will be written next to the spelling in their reading journal so that parents can see the error made and continue to work on this spelling at home.

Maths

In Year 4, we love to work on our Maths skills. At home, we ask children to practice their weekly times tables focus where each week on a Friday we will complete a small quiz against the clock. Their expected at the end of the year to know their times tables from 1 - 12. To support this we encourage children to work on practising times tables out of sequence to help build on their times tables knowledge. The children all have access to an interactive times tables programme called Times Tables Rock Stars (https://ttrockstars.com/)where the children can develop their avatars in a fun way with Maths.

Step back in time: Victorian dress-up day

Celebration of the Word and RSHE

THEME: Caring for our school community

We gathered together to reflect on Hebrews 10:24, '' Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward and good deeds.'' Through creating hearts of appreciation for our teachers, we showed gratitude for the care and guidance they give us each day.

THEME: Caring for our Planet

We gathered together to reflect on Psalm 24:1, ''The earth is the Lord's and everything in it.'' As we created and shared our drawings, we thought about the ways we can care for God's creation through our everyday choices. This activity reminded us that we are called to respect and protect the environment as part of our responsibility as God's children.

THEME: Mary Our Mother

In May, we reflected on Mary Our Mother and her faithful response to God's call. Inspired by Luke 1:38, 46-47, we created flowers of appreciation to honour Mary's love, trust and devotion.

In RSHE, We reflected on chatting safely online. We learned the importance of protecting personal information, being respectful online and speaking to a trusted adult if we have any concerns. This helped is become safer and more responsible internet users.