Sad students doing test

Congratulations to DeeDee and Earn Earn for earning Star of the Week!

Congratulations to DeeDee, Tiny, Ema, and Fenella for placing 3rd, and 2nd place in the Science Fair!

Y4 Weekly Update: May 30th to June 3rd, 2016

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we will create our own instructional texts and have a big write using what we have learned.	Next week, we will start our final unit on The Highwayman, a long poem which the students will read through and comprehend.
Math	Understand, read and write 2-place decimals; compare 2-place decimals in the context of lengths; add and subtract 0·1 and 0·01 and say a number one-tenth (0·1) or one-hundredth (0·01) more or less than a given number; revise equivalent fractions; write fractions with different denominators with a total of 1; recognise decimal and fraction equivalents	Add two 2-digit numbers or a 2-digit number to a 3- or 4-digit number mentally; subtract 2-, 3- and 4-digit numbers using counting up; derive factors of 2-digit numbers and use factors and doubling to solve multiplication mentally; solve integer scaling problems using mental strategies and spot a relationship between products; solve correspondence problems, using a systematic approach and calculate using mental multiplication strategies
Theme	For Theme we will sort out the information we have gathered and decide upon a course of action in terms of what businesses we would like to set up.	Next week, we will go further into our inquiry and look at how we can use this information for ourselves and within our community.
Science	This week we look at our Theme topic and see how Science can be used to investigate further.	Next week, we will look at the different links between Businesses as our theme topic and Science investigation
Art	This week we will create our own logos for our own businesses that we are creating in Inquiry.	Next week we will look at our logos again and critique them and see how they can be improved.
PSHE	In PSHE, we will at changing around some of our class jobs and making our classroom cleaner and more effective.	Next week, we will look at the positives that have happened this term as well as trying to think of ways to make next term better.
Notices and Events	Please try to log onto your ClassDojo accounts so you can see your child’s behavioral record for the week. Also here is thew link to the KS2  Thank you to all parents who came along and supported us for Science Day as well as our Theme activity.

Y4 Weekly Update: May 23th to 27th, 2016

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we will create our own instructional texts and have a big write using what we have learned.	Next week, we will start our unit on The Higwayman by listening to this epic poem and discussing the rhyme scheme as well as the story and what makes it so dramatic.
Math	Reviewing over the work that we have done as well as doing our half term tests.	Understand, read and write 2-place decimals; compare 2-place decimals in the context of lengths; add and subtract 0·1 and 0·01 and say a number one-tenth (0·1) or one-hundredth (0·01) more or less than a given number; revise equivalent fractions; write fractions with different denominators with a total of 1; recognise decimal and fraction equivalents
Theme	For Theme we will prepare questionnaires about what types of food or drink the other students in Primary want.	Next week, we will go further into our inquiry and look at how we can use this information for ourselves and within our community.
Science	This week we look at our Theme topic and see how Science can be used to investigate further.	Next week, we will look at the different links between Businesses as our theme topic and Science investigation
Art	This week we will look at our logos again and critique them and see how they can be improved.	Next week we will create our final draft of our logos and use paint as a medium.
PSHE	In PSHE, we will at changing around some of our class jobs and making our classroom cleaner and more effective.	Next week, we will look at the positives that have happened this term as well as trying to think of ways to make next term better.
Notices and Events	Please try to log onto your ClassDojo accounts so you can see your child’s behavioral record for the week. Also here is thew link to the KS2

Practicing our spelling with Balloon Volleyball!

Air resistance with rocket balloons for Science Day!

Balloon Volleyball to practice our spelling!

Y4 Weekly Update: May 16th to 20th, 2016

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we will look at the different sections of writing an instructional text. For example writing an introduction in the present simple and using imperatives in the Method section.	Next week, we will create our own instructional texts and have a big write using what we have learned.
Math	Recognise and read Roman numerals to 100; begin to know the history of our number system including 0; calculate area and perimeter of rectilinear shapes using multiplication and addition, or counting; recognise, name and classify 2D shapes identifying regular and irregular polygons; sort 2D shapes according to properties including types of quadrilaterals and triangles; revise 3D shapes, consider 2D-shaped sides on 3D shapes, and sort shapes	Understand, read and write 2-place decimals; compare 2-place decimals in the context of lengths; add and subtract 0·1 and 0·01 and say a number one-tenth (0·1) or one-hundredth (0·01) more or less than a given number; revise equivalent fractions; write fractions with different denominators with a total of 1; recognise decimal and fraction equivalents
Theme	For Theme we will sort out the information we have gathered and decide upon a course of action in terms of what businesses we would like to set up.	Next week, we will go further into our inquiry and look at how we can use this information for ourselves and within our community.
Science	This week we look at our Theme topic and see how Science can be used to investigate further.	Next week, we will look at the different links between Businesses as our theme topic and Science investigation
Art	This week we will create our own logos for our own businesses that we are creating in Inquiry.	Next week we will look at our logos again and critique them and see how they can be improved.
PSHE	In PSHE, we will at changing around some of our class jobs and making our classroom cleaner and more effective.	Next week, we will look at the positives that have happened this term as well as trying to think of ways to make next term better.
Notices and Events	Please try to log onto your ClassDojo accounts so you can see your child’s behavioral record for the week. Also here is thew link to the KS2  Thank you to all parents who came along and supported us for Science Day as well as our Theme activity.

Making a cup of tea for Instructional Texts. How quintessentially British!