Key Messages for next week…

Monday 10^th – Odd Socks Day. Children can wear odd socks to school with the school uniform. No donation required.

Friday 14^th – Children in Need. Children can wear non-uniform for a donation. Don’t forget the homework challenge.

• Tuesday is swimming for 4R and 4Y. 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. Children MUST have a swim cap and earrings removed.
• 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.
• Wellies are needed so that the children can access the field during break and lunch times.

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Forest School:

Wellies and old clothes are required on your day.

4R – Friday 21^st November

4Y – Friday 28^th November

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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

Spelling – Please choose approximately 5 words from the Year 3/4 word list to complete ‘look, say, cover, write, check’. This should be completed in the orange Home Learning book and returned to school to be checked by the class teacher.

AR Quizzes – complete on Accelerated Reader once book has been completed. This can be done at home or at school. Please note the password change and check your child’s reading record.

Please note, Mathletics has a different login to AR and TTRS.

***Well done to everyone who has received a certificate so far for either Mathletics or TTRS***

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Term 2: Walk Like an Egyptian

This term in Year 4 we are learning about the Ancient Egyptians. We would like the children to delve into the topic during their home learning by exploring one of these tasks, or a related task of their choosing. They may present their work in any way that they wish; it could be a presentation, poster, or something that they make. The possibilities are endless. This piece of work will need to be brought into school before the last week of term. Alternatively, digital homework can be emailed to the class teacher. If something is physically created, please can this be brought in or a photo stuck into books so we can celebrate the children’s success! 

Please bring in any Thematic homework before the end of term. We look forward to seeing some fabulous pieces.

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English:

This week in English, we continued on the journey with Marcy to save her father from the belly of the sphinx. We planned and wrote the beginning of a setting description for the sphinx, using fronted adverbials to describe the features in more detail.

Next week we will finish the setting description and will write a character description of Marcy, focusing on how her character has developed over the course of the book.

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Maths:

In maths this week, we continued with our multiplication and division unit by multiplying three 1-digit numbers together and by beginning to use a formal written method for short multiplication.

Next week we will continue with using formal written methods for multiplication and will introduce division.

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Thematic Curriculum:

This week during our afternoon lessons, we were introduced to the ancient Egyptians. We looked at the social hierarchy on Wednesday and enjoyed our visits to Maidstone Museum on Thursday and Friday. The children were very well behaved and enjoyed looking at a real mummy, many artefacts from 3000 years ago and making their own canopic jar out of clay.