Welcome to Year 4
Year 4 Essential Information
Year 4 Curriculum Map
Year 4 Essential Information - Autumn 1
Welcome to Year 4! It has been so lovely to welcome the children back from their summer breaks, full of their summer stories and ready to learn.
Our Year 4 team this year is Miss White, Miss Dakin and Miss McNamara.
Miss Dakin is the class teacher on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Miss White is the class teacher on Tuesdays and Fridays.
On Thursdays, Miss Dakin will teach in the morning and Miss White will teach in the afternoon.
Miss McNamara is Year 4 teaching assistant.
If you need to get in touch, please contact us on:
anna.white@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk and chloe.dakin@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk
It is always best to copy both class teachers into your communications with us, so that we are both aware of anything that is going on.
Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Dakin and Miss White
Homework In Year 4
Reading: Reading helps children’s learning in a huge number of ways, including improving their vocabulary, developing the quality of their writing and building their comprehension skills. We expect children to read at home at least three times per week. Your child should record the books they have read in the green reading record and bring this to school for checking each Monday.
Spellings: A new spelling list will be sent home each Friday and should be practised regularly, in short bursts throughout the week, ready for a test on the following Friday. The children will also have some opportunities in class to practise. In the Friday test, five of the ten words will be tested, as individual words, and the new spellings for next week will be taught in a spelling lesson.
Times Tables Rock Stars: Using TTRS to practise times tables regularly at home is a very good idea. Just a three minute burst every day should see recall speeds continue to improve.
PE
PE Days this half term will be Wednesday and Friday. Please ensure that your child comes to school on those days dressed in PE kit including a pair of trainers.
Things to remember:
- All children should bring a named flask or bottle of water to school. This should be taken home and washed every day.
- Named pumps must be worn in school. Children should be able to tie laces quickly if they have lace-up pumps/outdoor shoes and pumps should be checked by a parent every half term to ensure they are in good condition to prevent trip hazards.
- Named, appropriate clothing for the weather should be brought every day – please ensure your child has a coat in school every day.
- School Policy is that, other than for religious reasons, children should not wear jewellery in school apart from a watch (smart watches are not allowed). These need to be removed for PE lessons.
Year 4 Class Blog
Sew Good!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
We've had a great week this week and after lots of effort and determination, the children finished the book covers that they have been making in DT for the last few weeks! I'm sure you'll agree that they have done a super job - sewing is never easy but these look lovely and are all fit for purpose so I look forward to seeing them in class, filled with the children's reading matter over the next couple of weeks!
Change to Collective Worship Time 1st Feb
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
Hi everyone,
Apologies for the change of information and any confusion - just to make you aware, as has been in Mr Dalrymple's newsletter, the Year 4 class collective worship on 1st February. will be at 2.45 and NOT at 9.30 due to some of our children going swimming on a Wednesday morning. I had changed the time on my newsletter but forgotten to draw attention to it so I hope I haven't caused any inconvenience and that you are still able to come. We look forward to seeing you at 2.45 if you are able to make it. Thanks. Mrs Fountain.
Maths Bugs
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
We have been learning about factors in maths this week – we know that factors are numbers multiplied together to make a given number and…I wonder if your child can tell you a word beginning with ‘I’ that all factors also have to be! This afternoon, we even made some creepy, crawly factor bugs for the wall to help us remember what factors are! There were some great bugs - here are some of the most exotic-looking!
Geography Quizzers
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
This afternoon, we had a geography quiz to round off our Italy topic! We had to revise first, and when house points are on offer, there's some serious revision to be done! The quiz brought some tricky questions like, What are the Dolomites? What is the longest river in Italy? And, which city has a leaning tower? But luckily, we got by with a little help from our friends, and there were some high scores! Answers to be revealed on Monday!
Collective Worship Comes to Life!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
This week, Year 4 were selected to act out Mrs Leng's Collective Worship story, the story of Lazarus. They did a super job, acting like that, with no notice and looked the part too!
