Y4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 1st May

🔙 Looking Back – This Week in Year 4

What a glorious sunny week it has been! The class have worked incredibly hard creating poetry using similes and metaphors, inspired by the witch in our class text, The Lost Happy Endings—a superb book with rich character descriptions.

The children have also been exploring how to use speech in their writing. They channelled their inner thespians to recreate funny scenarios as well as scenes from the story.

In maths, we have continued our work on fractions, focusing on improper fractions and mixed numbers. Today, we began learning about equivalent fractions and found our times tables knowledge especially helpful!

🏆 Children’s Highlights

  • Playing with friends
  • Designing and making purses in Design and Technology
  • Maths – arithmetic and fractions
  • Playing on the field
  • Learning about wrens
  • Spellings – singing patterns in a rap style
  • TT Rockstars
  • P.E. – Cricket with Mrs Murdoch

💬 Ask at Home

Try discussing some of these questions together:

  • What is a simile?
  • What is a metaphor?
  • What is an improper fraction?
  • What is a mixed number?
  • What does equivalent mean?
  • What do you need to punctuate speech?

🔜 Looking Ahead – Next Week in Year 4

  • Learning all about bees
  • Researching European countries
  • Designing money containers
  • R.E.: Islamic Aid – The Crying Camel Story
  • PHSE: The Crayon’s Story

📚 Homework This Week

  • ✍️ English: Split speech and SPaG mat
  • ➕ Maths: Unit 17 Pink Sheet
  • 📖 Reading: 15 minutes daily (records checked Monday; AR quizzes encouraged)
  • 🎵 TT Rockstars: 10 minutes daily or two 20-minute sessions
  • 📝 Spellings: Test on Wednesday (short, frequent practice works best)
  • ✏️ Presentation: Pencil or blue/black pen only — no felt tips
  • 🔢 Times Tables: Ongoing practice

📬 All homework is due by Friday — children know where to hand it in.

🔔 Reminders

  • Reading records are due every Monday (with daily logs)
  • ⭐ Reading Challenge: 20 reads = 10 house points

🗓️ Dates for Your Diary

  • Friday 8th May: Film Night
  • Monday 11th May: Year 6 SATs Week
  • Friday 15th May: Cake Sale (Year 1) & Grandparents’ Tea Party
  • Thursday 21st May: Sports Day
  • Friday 22nd May: School closes for May half term
  • Tuesday 2nd June: Pupils return
  • Week beginning 2nd June: Year 4 Times Tables Tests
  • Wednesday 3rd June: Free Dress Day (sweets for CUP U LIKE)
  • Wednesday 4th June: PTA Meeting, 6:30pm at The Crown
  • Thursday 5th June: Bags to School / Reserve Sports Day
  • Friday 6th June: Summer Ball
  • Week beginning 8th June: Phonics Testing
  • Monday 8th & Tuesday 9th June: Bikeability (Years 4 & 5)
  • Thursday 11th June: Year 5 Halle Visit
  • Friday 12th June: June Evening
  • Tuesday 16th June: SA visitors arrive
  • Friday 19th June: Film Night
  • Friday 26th June: Cake Sale (Reception)
  • Monday 29th June: SA visitors leave
  • Friday 3rd July: Year 6 Residential
  • Monday 6th July: Swimming pool arrives
  • Friday 17th July: School closes for the summer break