Key Messages for next week…

Monday – Upton’s Got Talent in the morning.

Friday – Music Festival at 10:45 followed by the parent school picnic. Summer Fair is in the afternoon.

• 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.
• Thursday is PE for all of Year 4. Please send the children in wearing their PE kit.
• 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.

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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

AR Quizzes – complete on Accelerated Reader once book has been completed. This can be done at home or at school.

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

Sir Linkalot – children can download the app and watch spelling videos.

This week we have been learning words from the ‘Graffiti Greene’ bundle. Here are the words: accessories, business, calendar, cemetery, comfortable, commitment, dessert, disappoint, disappear, focused, graffiti, harass, interrupt, liaise, prejudice, relevant, secretary, sincerely, skilful, technology, yacht.

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

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Term 6: My Home, Your Home

This term in Year 4 we are learning about Broadstairs. We will be learning about the history of the town and what makes it a great place to live and visit. We will also be looking at the classification of animals and how the environment can change and pose dangers. 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. 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! 

This will be the last week for homework. Please bring in any Thematic homework before the end of term.

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English:

This week in English, we rewrote Ahmet’s journey from Syria, through Greece and France and finally to England. The focus was to use fronted adverbials throughout to add more information. We continued with the text and are looking forward to finding out whether the children get to meet the Queen or not.

Next week we will write a news report detailing the events in London.

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Maths:

In maths this week, we began to look at different 3D shapes. We looked at the properties of the shapes, including the number of faces, edges and vertices. We also named the 2D shapes that the 3D shapes were made from. We then made some 3D models using multi-link cubes and tried to fit them together to form a cube.

Next week we will continue to explore 3D shapes and complete our end-of-term assessments.

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Thematic Curriculum:

In Thematic this week our focus was science and how we can group animals. We looked at the qualities of different animals and then grouped them using this information. We used closed questions to create classification keys and then looked at the impact that building a new theme park would have on the environment.

Next week we will complete a Thematic quiz and will explore Sikh festivals.