Key Messages for next week…

Friday 13^th – Last day of Term 3.

** Half Term Monday 16^th to Friday 20^th February 2026 **

• Tuesday is swimming for 4B and 4G. 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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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, 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 3: Cracking the Earth’s Core

This term in Year 4 we are learning about earthquakes and volcanoes. 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.

The children have worked exceptionally hard on their homework projects this term. Here are some more of the great projects we have received:

 

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English:

This week in English, we have focused on poetry and different poetic devices such as rhyming, onomatopoeia, stanzas, repetition and other types of figurative language. We used the poem ‘Windy Nights’ as a study and wrote our own poems linked to volcanoes using the same structure of repetition and rhyming.

Next week we will create a non-chronological report about volcanoes.

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Maths:

In maths this week, we continued with our fractions unit. We added and subtracted fractions that were less than one and also added fractions that totalled greater than one.

On Friday, we celebrated Number Day in support of the NSPCC. The children dressed up in digits or as rock stars in exchange for a donation to the NSPCC. They took part in a carousel of activities including tessellation, origami, sport, fort building using nets and a maths investigation. We had a great morning supporting the NSPCC!

Next week we will conclude our fractions work by subtracting fractions and mixed numbers and will complete our post-unit quiz.

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Thematic Curriculum:

This week during our afternoon lessons, we used compass points and grid references to locate places with tectonic activity using atlases. We also looked at the advantages and disadvantages of living near volcanoes and shared our opinions with our classmates. To finish the week, we learnt more about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and how the city of Pompeii was completely covered and preserved for hundreds of years. We answered geological questions comparing the tectonic activity of the UK with Italy.

Next week we will explore the religion of Islam.