Key Messages: for next week…

Wednesday is Open Day. Children who are coming back to help in the evening with activities should be dropped off at the school office at 6:05pm and collected from the playground at 7:30pm.

Friday is pantomime day. Children will need to bring a coat, a drink in a disposable bottle (please no fizzy) and they can bring a small snack in their pocket. Travel sickness tablets should be given to the office in the morning in an envelope that is clearly named and with the time the tablet needs to be taken.

• 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 ‘Great Grimms’ bundle. Here are the words: actually, air, any, bridge, climb, come, edge, everybody, father, fruit, garage, great, improve, prove, many, Mr, Mrs, none, some, sugar, table, whole.

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

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Termly Home Learning Task - Term 2: Walk Like an Egyptian

This term in Year 4 we are exploring the Ancient Egyptians - how they lived and significant events and figures from the time. 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 back 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!

Please bring in any Thematic homework before the end of term.

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English:

In English this week we read a book called The Egyptian Cinderella. We wrote a diary entry as the protagonist, Rhodopis and began to write a continuation of the story using speech punctuation for dialogue. Year 3 also paid us a visit to share a book and their love of reading.

Next week we will continue with our dialogue to advance the plot.

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Maths:

This week in maths our work focused on bar charts. We read and interpreted bar charts by answering some questions and then constructed our own using a frequency table.

Next week we will continue with our unit on discrete and continuous data by looking at, and constructing, time graphs.

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Thematic Curriculum:

This week during our afternoon lessons, we looked at Ancient Egyptian architecture and ordered some historical events on a timeline.

Christmas also arrived at Upton this week in the form of our Christmas hoops. The children used a range of materials to create some festive or wintery pieces of art. Check out the finished articles.

Next week we will be exploring some science related to digestion, teeth and food chains.