Yr 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 21st November

🔙 Looking Back – This Week in Year 4

This week, the children have been working on a range of skills across the curriculum. In Maths, we focused on checking strategies for addition and subtraction. In English, the class explored the key features of an outsider narrative in preparation for writing their own stories next week.

🏆 Children’s Highlights

• TTRockstars
• Blooket
• The Lost Thing activities
• Drawing Anglo-Saxon clothing
• Practising our new Viking song

💬 Ask at Home

• What did Anglo-Saxons wear?
• How did they colour their clothes?
• What is a preposition?
• What is a pronoun?
• What do isolation and belonging mean? (linked to The Lost Thing)
• What did you code on the Micro:bit this week?

🔜 Looking Ahead – Next Week in Year 4

• Coding with Micro:bits (with Mr Cowell)
• Exploring switches in electricity
• Investigating Anglo-Saxon place names
• Learning about the Gospels in R.E.
• Recapping modes of transport in French

📚 Homework This Week
✍️ English: SPAG mat and grammar activities
➕ Maths: Unit 7
📖 Reading: 15 minutes daily (records checked Monday, plus AR quizzes)
🎵 TT Rockstars: 10 minutes daily or 1×20-minute session
📝 Spellings: Test on Wednesday (short, regular practice recommended)
✏️ Presentation: Pencil, blue, or black pen only – no felt tips
🔢 Times Tables: Please practise all tables
📬 Homework due Friday – children know where to hand it in

🔔 Reminders

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

🗓️ Dates for Your Diary

• Wed 26 Nov: Dance Workshop (Years 5 & 6)
• W/B 8 Dec: PTA Christmas Shop for pupils
• Please see the school newsletter for Junior Carol Service dates