Year Four Weekly News Week Beginning 24th June 2019
What we will be learning
English-We will be summarising capters of Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Maths-We will be learning how to reflect images in horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines.
PE-We will be continuing Volleyball and yoga.
DT-We will be designing and making Egyptian inspired masks.
Important Information
Croydon Athletics-24th, 25th, 26th June
Congratulations and good luck to all those who have been selected to represent the school.
Damara is Southwark class reader of the week. Solly, Chaimae, Lillian, Bianca, Sofia and George all received merit cards from Southwark clsss. Nisa, Kerem, Harry, Sh’zane, Pyman and Maja all received merit cards from Millennium class. Well done and very successful week.
Week beginning 24th June
What we will be learning
English-We will be learning how to write persuasively
PE-We will be taking part in Kwick cricket and Tennis
Science-We will be revising and evaluating our learning in Science
Maths-We will be learning how to solve puzzles
DT-We will be designing and making pop up books
Important Information
Croydon Athletics-24th, 25th, 26th June
Congratulations and good luck to all those who have been selected to represent the school.
Year 6 trip to The Globe theatre-4th July. Please bring a packed lunch and a rain coat.
Please look out for an email regarding the trip to Frylands Scout trip
Week beginning 17th June
We will be writing our own police reports before moving onto our new key text: The Fisherman and His Wife. Thank you for reading this with your children over the half term; it will really benefit our learning.
Maths
We will be recapping money (finding different combinations to make the same amount and problem solving), recapping time and problem solving with fractions.
Art
We are hoping to link our work on hot and cold colours to geography and will be looking at hot and cold countries in relation to the equator.
Geography / science
We will be consolidating our understanding of habitats around the world using maps with different animals on them. For example, your children should now know that a polar bear cannot live in a desert habitat and why.
Science
We will be exploring the Arctic habitat. We will also be looking at how humans can keep healthy e.g diet, hygiene and exercise.
PE
We are going to be making the most of the good weather this term. We will be doing ball skills with tennis/ basketball and skipping.
Important information
There will be a special visitor in Year 2 on Friday. Please check the blog again next week for more information!
Key Stage 1 Sports Day
Thursday 11th July at the Old Whitgiftian’s Sports Club
Week beginning 17th June 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#7dfc84″ ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SUMMER TERM 2 TOPIC: Summer’s Here
Theme: The Farm
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Farmer Duck by Martin Wadell
The children will enjoy this delightfully engaging and slightly quirky tale about a very hardworking duck and an incredibly lazy Farmer. It will contribute well to our discussions this week about working well as a team and how we can help each other to build a stronger class team. Also it will serve as a wonderful introduction to our learning about farm life ahead of our trip to Godstone Farm next week.
Group Phonics: This term we will focus on reading words and sentences containing all the phonemes the children have learnt throughout the year and we will be teaching strategies for instant blending of words and strategies for reading longer multisyllabic words.
UW – Knowledge and Understanding of the World During the next two weeks we will explore the different animals that live on farms. The children will learn to identify similarities and difference between adult and young farm animals and between farm animals and pets or wild animals.
MATHS: This week we focus on patterns and shapes. Naming and talking about properties of shapes and making and explaining patterns of different types.
PE: Athletics – taking on roles of being athletes, spectators, coaches and starters in different athletics events [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#599ade” ]HOMEWORK:
When I grow up
- What would you like to be when you grow up?
- Draw a picture and write a few sentences about it.
READING BOOKS and WORD LISTS: Will be checked on group days [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#f98bc8″ ]IMPORTANT DATES
Click on link below to see dates
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Week Beginning 17th June, 2019
Welcome to Summer Term 2 -Week 3.
Wow! Year 1 our children have completed their Phonics Screening Check. All the parents will receive a letter regarding the test results soon! Enjoy our children’s success and have a great weekend.
Important Dates:
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Phonics Screening Check 10th June, 2019.
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Summer Fair on the 22nd June, 2019.
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Toy workshop by Renee Jenkins on 25th June,2019.
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KS l Sports Day on 10th July, 2019.
Trip only for Lambeth Class on 27th June 2019. Vauxhall Class will be allowed to use all the resources after the trip.
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions!
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class : Comella – 2640 Points and
Jayden – 2571Points.
Vauxhall Class : Martyna – 2149 Points and
Reluwane – 1618 Points.
Gold Award
Lambeth Class : Nicole
Vauxhall Class:
Silver Award
Vauxhall Class : Anthony
Lambeth Class: Isaiah
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Faris, Amira, Nathan, Isabella, Annika, Marwa, Adoma, Zayna, Charlotte, Leila-Rae, Japdeep, Jayden and Comella.
Vauxhall Class : Reluwane, Isabella, Kostek and Martyna.
Our topic for this term is called ‘Puppet on a string’.
English
Poetry – We will be reading another poems and recap and discuss the key features of a poem. Then, we will support children to plan, create and publish their own poems.- ‘Magic Box’.
Maths
First, we will complete Volume and Capacity. Then, we will be focusing on Money. Children will be using out-door area to explore their learning.
Science
Children will be naming and identifying plant parts we eat. Example: roots, leaves, stems, seeds, flowers. We will be listening and learning ‘ Plant alphabet song’.
Geography
Children will name, locate and identify characteristics of the 4 countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding season Maps-Atlas work.
P.E
We will be supporting children to master basic skipping skills. We will encourage them to develop foot patterns that aid skipping.
PSHE
Children will learn to talk about their feelings. Discussion about Big/small worries – How can we get help? What can we do?…. We will be reading the text -‘ The Huge Bag Worries’.
R.E
We will be looking at Hinduism- Hindus believes about God.
This week – Home work:– Hinduism.
Please hand it in by Wednesday 19th June, 2019
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonic games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1
Week Beginning 17th June 2019
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will work on addition and subtraction. We will use mental methods to add 1s, 10s and 100s to 3 digit numbers and then move on to using column addition/subtraction and solving problems using money.
- In English we will write our own version of Dream Big by Deloris Jordan. We will make our own dreams the focus of the story.
- In science we will learn how to carry out a health check on another person.
- In topic time we will make our own nut free muesli using our recipes that we have developed.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#efab35″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]As part of the children’s homework we have asked them to revise their units of measure for a test on Tuesday 18th.[/dropshadowbox]
Year Four Weekly Blog Week Beginning 17th June 2019
Thank you for all your support for the Friends of Howard bringing bottles in for upcoming Summer Fair.
This week year four will be learning:
Literacy-This week we will be learning about using speech punctuation in our writing.
Maths-We will be learning to identify symmetry in shapes in different orientations. The children have particular enjoyed using this game in lessons to classify shapes.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/75/shapes_sort_carroll#
Zoe from Southwark class also found this game which she would like to recommend her classmates to try.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zn2y7nb
Topic-After learning about why and how pyramids were built by Ancient Egyptians we will be going on to learning about mummification. There are lots good BBC clips to help your child’s learning about the Ancient Egypt which ca be found on this link.
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/topics/zg87xnb
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/zgkd7ty
P.E-We will be continuing net and wall sports, focusing on volleyball
I.C.T-We will be using scratch to design toy prototypes
Science-We will be starting a unit on electricity focusing on complete circuits.
Dates for the diary
Summer fair Saturday 22nd June 11-3
Week beginning 17th June
This week we will be studying
Art
Paul Klee ; line and shape
History
WW2 The War in the Pacific
Literacy
. innovating and writing suspense stories
Maths
Shape and pattern
PE
Catching and Fielding Games
Science
The Human Circulatory System
Week beginning 10th June
We will be continuing our work on police reports. The children will be planning and writing their own.
Maths
We will be recapping estimating, the commutativity of addition (e.g adding numbers in an any order and getting the same answer), multiplication and division facts and the commutativity of multiplication (multiplying numbers in any order).
Art
We are hoping to link our work on hot and cold colours to geography and will be looking at hot and cold countries in relation to the equator.
Geography
We will be naming and locating the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the world.
Science
We will be exploring the Arctic habitat. We will also be looking at how humans can keep healthy e.g diet, hygiene and exercise.
PE
We are going to be making the most of the good weather this term. We will be doing ball skills with tennis/ basketball and skipping.
Important information
Key Stage 1 Sports Day
Thursday 11th July at the Old Whitgiftian’s Sports Club
Week Beginning 10 June 2019
NB Monday is cross country
Bring PE kit!
In QE2 class this week we will be studying
History
The children continue to create pages for their personal WW2 Time Magazine
Literacy
Suspense Writing
Maths
Shape and Pattern
PE
catching and fielding games
RE
Creation stories
Science
Animal including humans; heart rate
Class Read ‘T
he Boy in the striped Pyjamas
NB Thursday is wear your own clothes day for the donation of a bottle
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish