Class Teacher Blog
Welcome to Year 4!
Beech Class Teacher: Mrs Briggs
Holly Class Teacher: Ms Haines
Class TA: Ms Merola
Emails:
hollyclass@cirrustrust.onmicrosoft.com
beechclass@cirrustrust.onmicrosoft.com
PE Slots - please come to school wearing your PE kit on PE days
Tuesday: outdoor PE (white t-shirt, shorts/joggers/leggings, trainers)
Wednesday: indoor PE (white t-shirt, shorts, trainers)
This Week’s Learning – wb 11.09.23
In maths this week, the children have continued using their place value counters to read, write, count and order numbers with thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones and also started using Gattegno charts to add and subtract thousands, hundreds, tens and ones!
In English, we have written our own knowledge organisers all about the Amazon rainforest and chose our own rainforest animals to write about – they look fantastic and we are going to spend some time presenting them to go up on display next!
In our geography lessons, we learn about the 4 layers of the rainforest and the different plants and animals that we might find there. We create interactive work all about this to show what we learnt in our new humanities books!
Next Week’s Learning – wb 18.09.23
In English next week, we will are very excite to welcome Zoolab into school on Tuesday (thank you to everyone for your prompt payments for this1). We will then use the experience to write about animals from the rainforests using our firsthand knowledge. We will now be able to use adjectives, similes and onomatopoeia much more effectively having to be able to see, touch and hear these animals!
In science and geography we will be looking at the habitats of the rainforests and classifying different animals we find there.
In art we will continue our artist study around Henri Rousseau and consider his sketches and the animals and plants that he drew.
Bonjour! This week we have been learning how to say our opinions of different sports. Next week we will continue to practice this with listening to real French people talking about sports. You could practice numbers at home by playing some of these games.
Stars of the Week – 15.09.23
This week, our stars were
Nabeeha and Reis
from Holly Class and
Christian and Aliyah
From Beech Class
Well done to you all!
Parent/Carer Information – 18.09.23
Zoolab
Thank you to everyone who has made the payment for Zoolab – just a reminder, pop onto your Arbor account you can make the payment on the ‘Activities’ / ‘Trips’ menu. If you have any difficulties accessing Arbor, please do not hesitate to speak with Mrs Briggs who can help you navigate the system and if you have any issue making the payment, you can speak with any of the leadership team in confidence. The cost of this experience is £8.33 per child.
Art
On Thursdays or Fridays, the children will have their art lessons. Please can we ask that you provide your child with either a painting overall or an old t-shirt that they can put over their school uniform. This can remain in their locker for the half term.
This Week’s Learning – wb 4.09.23
Welcome to Year 4! We have been so impressed with how well the children have returned to school – they have embraced Year 4 life beautifully!
In maths this week, the children have already started looking at 4-digit numbers and have used place value counters to read, write, count and order numbers with thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. Pop over to our gallery pages to see us hard at work!
In English, we have started researching and planning our information texts about rainforests. Pop back next week to see how these turn out.
In our geography and science lessons, we have started to look at where rainforests are located around the world and what animals we might find in rainforests. We have watched films about the rainforest and loved coming dressed as an animal from the rainforest too! Head over to the gallery page to see all of our amazing costumes!
Next Week’s Learning – wb 11.09.23
In English next week, we will start the week by gathering vocabulary we can use in our information texts. We will need to use fronted adverbials and conjunctions to expand our sentences and engage our readers. Then we will be ready to start writing up our information texts.
In maths, we will be partitioning 4-digit numbers and look at other ways to represent them. We will use part, part whole models so be sure to ask your children what these are if you haven’t come across them before!
In geography we will be describing the 4 different layers of a rainforest and sorting different plants and animals we might find in the different layers.
In art we will begin an artist study around Henri Rousseau with a view to studying his work carefully and completing a piece of work in is style by the end of the half term.
Bonjour! This half term, we will be learning how to say different sports in French and give our opinions. This week we have been learning how to say some sports in French and looking at some of the similarities with English words. We will also continue to practice numbers from 1-12. You could help at home using this video
Stars of the Week – 8.09.23
This week, our stars were
Harley-Jay and Ava
from Holly Class and
Ellie and Kaylan
From Beech Class
Well done to you all!
Parent/Carer Information – 11.09.23
Zoolab
Thank you to everyone who has made the payment for Zoolab – just a reminder, pop onto your Arbor account you can make the payment on the ‘Activities’ / ‘Trips’ menu. If you have any difficulties accessing Arbor, please do not hesitate to speak with Mrs Briggs who can help you navigate the system and if you have any issue making the payment, you can speak with any of the leadership team in confidence. The cost of this experience is £8.33 per child.
PTA
This Monday, 11th September, after school drop off at 8.45am, the Rushy PTA are having a quick get-together to talk about their role and to recruit some more team members. If you are interested in what this amazing team get up to, please pop along!
This Term’s Learning – wb 4.09.23
Welcome back! Our new themed learning is ‘Thunderous Rainforests’ We will be looking at the location of rainforests around the world, animals we might find in rainforests, deforestation and much more! It is a very exciting half term and we have lots of exciting activities planned!
Next Week’s Learning – wb 4.09.23
We will be starting the week off with lots of activities to get us settled back into school. We will go through the school rules and create our own class rules together.
We are very lucky in Year 4 that we will have access to 1:1 devices to use in class! We will be learning how to use these devices and how to care for them!
In our themed learning, we will look at the location and climate of rainforests around the world – using our new laptops to research all about rainforests.
In English, we will be looking at information texts ready to start writing our own all about the Amazon rainforest in South America.
In maths, we will be looking at 4-digit numbers. We will be looking at the amount of thousands, hundreds, tens and ones in each 4-digit number.
We will start our PE lessons the first week back so please come to school dressed in your PE kits on Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday is our indoor PE day and we usually request shorts to be worn in the hall – however, if it is a chilly Autumn day, you are able to wear leggings/joggers if you prefer this half term as we will not be using the apparatus.
Parent/Carer Information – 4.09.23
Welcome back!
We are very excited to get to know you all and start our fabulous Year 4 adventure together. Please feel free to email Mrs Briggs or Ms Haines if you have any questions or concerns.
Thursday 7th September is our Hook Day! We are asking everyone to come dressed as a rainforest animal! Click here for the letter and please feel free to pop us an email if you would like us to print a mask out for you!
Zoolab
We have booked the amazing Zoolab company to come in and share some of their rainforest animals with us on Tuesday 19th September! The cost of this experience is £8.33 per child and we are asking that this money is paid no later than Friday 8th September so that we can ensure we can go ahead with this fantastic opportunity. You can view the letter here.
You can view all of the Year 4 letters on the Letters to parents 2023-2024 page or follow this link for the Year 4 letters
Gallery
Don’t forget to pop over to our class gallery to have a look at the photographs of our new classroom, we will update this every week so you can see examples of children's work and photographs of some of our exciting activities.
Home Learning
Also, pop over to our Home Learning page – here we will post a digital copy of the home learning and weekly spellings in case your child misplaces them!