Key Messages for next week…

Wednesday 11^th: Science Day – children will take part in science activities throughout the day.

Friday 13^th: DT Day – please can children bring in items for junk modelling (see separate message sent home) including plastic bottles, yogurt pots, cereal boxes etc.

• 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 dates this Term:

4B: Friday 20th March 2026

4G: Friday 27th March 2026

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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 4: Innovation Station

This term in Year 4 we are learning about electricity and exploring the early Islamic civilisation. 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.

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English:

This week in English, we continued to read our class text and learnt how Edward went overboard whilst they were sailing to London. The children wrote a recount of Edward’s time on the ship and how he ended up on the bottom of the ocean. The focus was to include different cohesive devices in our writing, including conjunctions, adverbials and correct use of pronouns.

On Thursday, we celebrated World Book Day and the children came dressed as their chosen word. Across the morning, the children took part in a vocabulary parade, guessed the masked reader during assembly, wrote a poem with their word as the star and they created a reading identity poster. It was a fun morning!

             

Next week we will write a letter from Edward to Lawrence and Nellie.

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Maths:

In maths this week, we concluded our work on time and completed our post-unit quiz. We converted between 12 and 24-hour time and converted between units (hours, minutes, seconds and years, months, weeks, days).

Next week we will begin our decimals unit.

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Thematic Curriculum:

This week during our afternoon lessons, we began our new topic: Innovation Station. We looked at the difference between electrical and non-electrical appliances, created a circuit using a battery, bulb and wires, and investigated whether different materials are good conductors or insulators of electricity.

  

Next week we will continue to explore electricity and will incorporate a switch into a circuit to create a light-up model.