Year 4 - Looking Back and Forth - Friday 4th April 2025
Friday 4th April – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the children have completed their work on newspapers, looking at how dialogue can be used and looking at interesting ways of saying ‘said’.
Children’s highlights of the week
- TTRockstars
- Reading time
- Newspapers and looking at speech
- Playing on the field at lunch time
- Double page spreads.
Looking forward:
Next term, the class will be focusing on fractions and decimals in maths. Looking at a twisted narrative in English. In the foundation subjects, the children will continue their work on Vikings and well as looking at the continent – Europe in geography. In science, the class will be studying humans as animals and in particular ‘Teeth and Eating’.
Homework in Year
Screen time log- e-safety
Maths – division revision
Reading – daily at least 15 mins – remember to take the Accelerated Reader Quizzes
TTRockstars – as much as possible 10 mins daily is ideal – at least once a week for 20 mins
Spellings – Mrs Riddell – Please learn them for the test on Wednesday. It is better to look at them for 5 minutes each day than try to learn them all in one night. The children remember them better learnt over the week.
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – children will have new timestables after the Easter holidays
(Homework can be handed it at any time before Friday, the children know where the basket is)
Reminders for this week – Please check the weekly Newsletter for more detail
Nightly reading recorded in reading record – make sure it comes to school on Friday
Reading challenge has started – 20 reads in the reading record =10 housepoints
Please encourage your child to record their reading in their reading records.
Next Term
Friday 25th April PTA Bingo
Monday 28th April PTA meeting The Crown 7pm
WB Monday 12th May SATs Year 6
Monday 2nd June Swimming pool arrives— 2 weeks
WB Monday 2nd June Y4 tables assessments
Thursday 5th June Recycle For School
WB Monday 9th June Father’s Day Shop
WB Monday 9th June Phonics assessments Y1 Friday
20th June Reception cake sale
Thursday 1st July Sports Day—reserve Friday 4th July
Y6 residential until Monday
Friday 11th July July Evening
Monday 14th July Pupils’ reports come home
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th Bikeability Y4 and 5
WB 14th July Y6 performances—
TBD Y6 Leavers’ Assembly
TBD Tuesday 20th May Sports Day