Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 25th April 2025
Friday 25th April – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
It is scary to think that we are in our last term together. The class have come back after the Easter holiday really well. They have earned all of their marbles and will be having a well-earned marble jar treat next week. In class this week, the children have begun a new book in English. We are still working on what the story is about? The class ruminated and came up with some very good predictions. More will be revealed next week. In maths, we finished working on perimeter, and looked at regular and irregular polygons (disappearing parrots – only a few got my joke – I think it is a sign of my age!!!)
Questions to ask at home -
- What is perimeter?
- What is a closed shape?
- How many sides does a pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon and nonagon have?
- What is a regular polygon? (disappearing parrot!)
- What is an irregular polygon?
- What do you know about the new book in English?
- What is the difference between an apostrophe and an inverted comma?
Children’s highlights of the week
- TTRockstars
- Designing money holders
- The bug hunt and making graphs
- Science
- PE – Cricket!
Looking forward:
Next week, the children will be exploring amazing facts about bees, with our resident beekeeping expert (Mrs Beardsworth is a fully qualified Beekeeper!).
In geography, the children will be exploring the countries of Europe. In R.E. the class will explore Christian Aid. In our No Outsiders work, the children will be looking at the story – Red, A Crayon’s Story.
Homework in Year
Summer GAPS sheet 1 and speech
Maths – Unit 13 blue sheet
Reading – daily at least 15 mins – remember to take the Accelerated Reader Quizzes
TTRockstars – as much as possible 10 mins daily is ideal – at least once a week for 20 mins
Spellings – Mrs Riddell – Please learn them for the test on Wednesday. It is better to look at them for 5 minutes each day than try to learn them all in one night. The children remember them better learnt over the week.
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables this week – All the timestables
(Homework can be handed it at any time before Friday, the children know where the basket is)
Reminders for this week – Please check the weekly Newsletter for more detail
Nightly reading recorded in reading record – make sure it comes to school on Friday
Reading challenge has started – 20 reads in the reading record =10 housepoints
Please encourage your child to record their reading in their reading records.
Dates for this term
Monday 28th April PTA meeting The Crown 7pm
WB Monday 12th May SATs Year 6
Monday 2nd June Swimming pool arrives— 2 weeks
WB Monday 2nd June Y4 tables assessments
Thursday 5th June Recycle For School
WB Monday 9th June Father’s Day Shop
WB Monday 9th June Phonics assessments Y1 Friday
20th June Reception cake sale
Thursday 1st July Sports Day—reserve Friday 4th July
Y6 residential until Monday
Friday 11th July July Evening
Monday 14th July Pupils’ reports come home
Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th Bikeability Y4 and 5
WB 14th July Y6 performances—
TBD Y6 Leavers’ Assembly
TBD Tuesday 20th May Sports Day