Year 4

Welcome to year 4

Your teachers are Miss Horn in 4H (year leader), Miss Lyon-Maris in 4L and Mrs Talbot and Mrs Rolt who job share in 4TR.

PE days - Don't forget to put your PE kit in your bag.  PE days are Monday and Wednesday , but change when swimming starts.  It is important that you remember your PE shoes for your outdoor PE slot.  Please remember to remove earrings for PE too.  We are not able to tape over the top of ear rings, they do have to be taken out.  

Swimming days - We will let you know about these nearer the time.

Reading - Please read every night if possible.

Times tables - Use your times tables log-in's to use Times Tables Rockstars please.  Our special times tables test will be in June. 

Spelling - Spelling tests will be on Mondays.

Homework

We will always try to upload the homework for you, but we are sorry this is not always possible.  Do ask your child to come to us if they have lost their homework,  we can always print it out again.  

Please encourage your child to read, and help them to learn their spellings and their times tables.  Homework will always be set on a Friday, and must be handed in by Wednesday.  Thank you for your support with this.

Homework Friday 5 July

This week, there are some more Year 4 words to learn for spellings, and a reading comprehension called 'Shop Til You Drop!' Your teacher will have spare copies of either of these.

If you are taking part in the production, please continue to learn song words. If you are not, please spend some time on TT Rockstars to keep up your excellent times tables knowledge.

Artist visit

We are looking forward to an artist coming to work with use on Thursday 6th June.  Hopefully, we'll have some artwork to share with you soon.

Foundry Lane's Got Talent

On the first Tuesday back (the 23rd April) we will have our Foundry Lane's Got Talent auditions in our year group.  Please bring in anything you need.  Please audition and have a go.  You have all holiday to practice.  If you get through, you will be through to the phase semi finals which will take place on Wednesday 24th April in the afternoon.  Good luck everyone, we can't wait to see and hear your talent!

USA - Our next topic is The USA....

What do you already know?

Coming soon....

Did you know that after half term we will learn about the Titanic.  We have booked Jane Glennie to come in and act out being a stewardess.  Children will have a chance to listen to her monologue, look at the artefacts that she brings in and guess who they may have belonged to and to ask questions.  This will be on 18th June and cost £2 per child.  Please pay in the office.

Isle of Wight March 2019

We had a lovely time at the Isle of Wight.  On the first day we met at Mayflower Park and travelled via ferry to the Isle of Wight.  Then we visited Dinosaur Expeditions near Brighstone.  We drew dinosaurs, learnt about dinosaurs, found fossils, completed a quiz and walked on the beach hunting fossils.  We even got to take some fossils away with us!

Back at East Dene we had lots of fun making our own beds and we were all very ready to sit down and eat a delicious dinner together.  It was exciting to sleep in dormitories and to all have hot chocolate and a bedtime story together.

The next day was our activity day at East Dene.  We learnt all about erosion on the beach and created Art sculptures.  We took part in team building exercises including getting extremely muddy and a little bit wet.  One of the best bits was creating our own fire and then having a bonfire.  We were so tired by bedtime.

On our last morning, the teachers had to wake us up!  We visited Osborne House where Queen Victoria lived.  We were all very tired on the ferry back home and we ate our lunch talking together about the lovely time that we had had.  We were very sad to have to end our trip but so pleased to see our grown-ups!

Well done year four for your wonderful behaviour and for being so much fun.  We had a super time!

Happy Christmas!  Well done for working so hard year 4.  You deserve to have a super break!

Your homework is our fun holiday sheet.

We would love you to read, to revise your spellings that you have learnt this term and to practise your handwriting.  You could do this when you are writing your thank you letters.  

Homework to be given out on Friday 30th November

Multiplying and Dividing by 10 sheet

Reading task

Spelling task

Slippers

Thank you so much for your wonderful work completing your slippers.  Thank you to all the adults who came in to help.

Homework for Friday 23rd November

There is no spelling this week.

Please complete your advertisement for your slippers.

Please complete your reading task.

Don't forget to use times tables rockstars which is live again.

Mr Gowen's assembly...

Congratulations 4G on an amazing assembly.  Thank you for a great performance.  What a talented group of children you are!  

Homework for Friday 16th November - Children in Need!

Maths questions about rounding

Reading task 

Spelling task

Helpers for sewing needed please

If you are able to help with sewing on the mornings of Tuesday 20th and Thursday 22nd, please let the year 4 teachers know.

Homework for Friday 9th November

Complete verb sheet by adding powerful verbs to make the writing better.

Reading task and spellings as normal

Year 4 Assemblies - Come in at 2.20m for a 2.30pm start.

4G Mr Gowen's class     Friday 16th

4TR Mrs Rolt and Mrs Talbot     Friday  23rd

4M Miss Menditta      Friday 30th

Homework given out on Friday 2nd November

Maths - Practise your times tables on Times Tables Rockstars.  We are so very proud of all of you for having a go at this and being so sensible.

Reading - There are new challenges - can you complete this homework and earn housepoints?  See your separate sheet.

Spelling - See your individual spelling sheets.

Art - As a school we are entering a Christmas Tree competition at the Civic Center.  Our Tree will be exhibited alongside trees from other schools.  We would like you to make a decoration for the tree thinking about our theme of "What Christmas means to me."  Please add a strong loop and hand your decoration into the office or to your teachers by 29th November.

Please collect plastic milk bottle lids to help us with our International Day project.  

Isle of Wight Adventures - Day 2

What an amazing day we've had!!  The children have enjoyed beach combing, coastal studies, bush craft, team building and a sing song around the camp fire!

The staff at East Dene have supported the children with their learning and have really brought outdoor activities to life!

Everyone is settled for the night and should be worn out!!

Isle of Wight Adventures 

We arrived as planned at 10am this morning and have spent a beautiful day exploring Osborne House in the sun. 

Everyone has enjoyed a hearty dinner at East Dene and are now enjoying games on the lawn. 

We will update you with our our adventures as and when we can. 

Please rest assured everyone is happy and well. 

Volunteers required!

How are your sewing skills?

Can you thread needles and tie knots?

WE NEED YOU!

After half term we will be doing sewing in Art and DT  so if you are available any days please let us know.

Year 4 Team

Good afternoon, we have had a great start to the year and half term is approaching quickly! Yesterday you should have received a letter about or Greek Day on Wednesday 1st November. We encourage the children to dress up as Greeks for the day and we have a visitor who will share information about the Greeks and Greek mythology. As part of the day we will be tasting Greek food so please let us know if your child has any allergies. We will post photos of this exciting day.

Year 4 Team 

Welcome to Year 4 

We have had a busy start to the term, finding out about creation stories around the world. Thank you for all your contributions of wool for the God's Eyes, the children have enjoyed making these.

Thank you to those of you who attended the curriculum meeting. There will be copies of the booklet coming home for those of you who could not attend.

There is an error on the trips page which somehow did not get updated so as a reminder there is only one trip  outside of school which is our 2 day residential to the Isle of Wight; more details coming soon. There will be a 'Greek' visitor in October and  Victorian school day in the new year. We would like the children to dress up for both of these days. We will advise you of the days nearer the time

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The reading log for Phase 3 reading will be uploaded to the website for you to look at at home.

Thank you for your continued support

The Year 4 Team 

Return journey update - we have had a beautiful second day on the Island and are all now at the ferry terminal waiting to board.  The 4.30 departure service is running on time and we are currently on schedule to return to Mayflower park as advised. 

The children have have been incredibly well behaved throughout the trip and we are very proud of them. They are all very tired now and looking forward to returning to their families to share all the news of our very exciting two days. 

We will upload more photos over the coming days for you to see.

Isle of Wight Trip

Tues 4th April

Year 4 have arrived safely and are enjoying a snack with the dinosaurs at Black Gang Chine.

Wednesday 14th December 

We will be watching ELF on the last day of term in the hall altogether;this film is PG rated. Please let Mrs Loftus know if you would like your child withdrawn from the film.

Mrs Loftus & the Phase 3 team. 

Well done to the Phase 3 workers of the week:

Gabriella

Erin

Conor

Kirk

Ollie

Will

Owen

Grace

Freddie

Theo

Freddie

Robyn

Sylvia

Micheal

Thomas

A huge well done to the learners of the week!

Finlay5S

Felix 5M

Humza 5M

Rosie 5S

Molly 6C

Ollie 6L

Olivia 4K

Lillla 4K

Hannah 4C

Maya 4C

Year 4 are having a wonderful time in London.  Everyone from 4S slept well last night after a fantastic day of sightseeing and learning.  

We will update this page when 4S have left London later and will provide regular updates on their journey home.  We are aiming to post a message here when the coach passes Winchester Services to give parents an idea of their return time to school.  

More photos to follow later

Hi 4C and 4S

Welcome back! We hope you all had a restful half term!

Firstly, a quick reminder for our drop-in meeting on Thursday 3^rd March. We will be available from 3.15 for you to drop by and ask any questions and chat with the staff accompanying the trip. Look out this Friday (26^th) for a letter, including the kit list, which will give you more details as the trip gets ever closer.

Please be aware, we are still collecting bottle lids for our spectacular man-made sculpture. We are particularly after any lids that aren’t green. We appreciate your help collecting these; look out for photos to follow of the children’s work.

Homework this week:

Guided reading – guided reading booklet or sheet

Maths – creating word problems

Spellings – Complete spelling task and practise your weekly spellings

Many Thanks

Miss Clark and Miss Smith 

Hi 4C and 4S

Firstly, a big well done to 4S for their fantastic class assembly last Friday. They all did a brilliant job at learning their lines and getting ready for the day. Thank you parents for all the help and support you gave the children in preparation for this.

Next week, on Tuesday, we have our Greek day. This is a chance for us to explore Greek food, the Greek language system and enjoy a workshop with Crew. Please let your teacher know if there are any food allergies that may affect the food tasting session. We look forward to seeing some fantastic Greek outfits.

On Thursday, we will be holding a meeting for parents to find out more about our upcoming trip to London. At the meeting we will be discussing the accommodation, itinerary, prices and dates. The meeting will be from 3.10 in the hall.

Please be aware, we are still collecting bottle lids for our spectacular man-made sculpture. We are particularly after any lids that aren’t green. We appreciate your help collecting these; look out for photos to follow of the children’s work.

Homework this week:

Guided reading – continuing with booklet or guided reading task

English – describe the imaginary setting

Spellings – Complete spelling task and practise your weekly spellings

Many Thanks

Miss Clark and Miss Smith 

Hi 4C and 4S

Welcome back! We hope you all had a fun and restful Christmas Holidays. We have lots of exciting things coming up in the Spring Term and we look forward to sharing them with you.

First up, on Friday, we have 4S’ class assembly. Details for parents to watch this assembly were published in our last newsletter. Please see Miss Smith or the office if you have not yet received it.

Letters went out this week for our upcoming Greek day, for our latest topic. Please let your class teacher know if you have yet to receive this letter.

Please be aware, we are still collecting bottle lids for our spectacular man-made sculpture. We are particularly after any lids that aren’t green. We appreciate your help collecting these; look out for photos to follow of the children’s work.

Homework this week:

Guided reading – continuing with booklet or reading comprehension task.

Maths – ordering numbers task

Spellings – Complete spelling task and practise your weekly spellings

Many Thanks

Miss Clark and Miss Smith 

Hi 4C and 4S

Firstly, well done to all the children in year 4 for a fantastic performance with In 2 Music. The children have worked hard to practice over the term and did a great job showing off what they have learned. The standing ovation said it all.

Thank you to all with last week’s car-free week. There was an impressive number of children in the year choosing the car-free way!

This week we are in the process of making slippers; preparing for the winter! Look out next week for pictures of the final product.

Homework this week:

Guided reading – continuing with booklet or reading comprehension task.

Maths – complete the fractions task.

Research task – research a polar animal for our topic.

Many Thanks

Miss Clark and Miss Smith 

Hi 4C and 4S

We have an exciting week coming up. Kicking off with Children in Need on Friday 13^th. We are looking forward to all the fantastic goodies being made for the bake-off. Next week is car free week, a challenge for all the children to try and come to school in an active way. Don’t forget, for those children that are car free this week, there will be the chance to visit the smoothie bike on Friday 20^th. On Wednesday we also have our ‘International day’, where the children will have the opportunity to learn more about values from home and abroad.  

Homework this week:

Guided reading – read your guided reading book and complete the follow up task

Phonics – complete the spelling task

Maths – complete the factor spiders task

Learn your weekly spellings.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Clark and Miss Smith 

Hi 4C and 4S

Welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely half term. We have some exciting things coming up.

In the coming weeks we will be looking at man made vs natural art and will be creating our own masterpieces. We would be grateful if you could collect old, colourful plastic bottle tops and bring them into school by the 18^th November. If you have any old buttons lying around, these would also be useful.

Homework for this week:

Guided reading – complete the follow up task for your guided reading book or complete the reading comprehension task

Phonics – complete the spelling task

English – complete the speech or punctuation task

Learn your weekly spellings

Thank you

Miss Clark and Miss Smith

Hi 4C and 4S

This week has been an exciting week! We have taken part in lots of different activities for Book Week.  We learnt from heart and performed our Hengistbury Head recounts, watched Quantum Theatre perform ‘Captain Grammaticus’, watched a special assembly with the teachers acting out a well-known journey story and had the opportunity to take part in the Book Week competition. 

On Tuesday we participated in an ‘Eco-Workshop which encouraged us ‘Be Green!’  Some photographs are above.  Thank you to all the parents who attended to support. 

Homework this week:

Guided reading – read your guided reading book and complete the follow up task

Phonics – complete the spelling task

Maths – complete the perimeter task

Learn your weekly spellings.

Have a fantastic half term!

Miss Clark and Miss Smith 

Welcome to our year 4 website page.

On here we will be able to keep you updated on news and events, inform you on homework for the week and share photos of the fantastic experiences we will have in year 4. We look forward to sharing some exciting things with you.

This week’s homework will be:

• Hengistbury Head labelling and writing task.
• Guided reading task.
• Phonics task and spellings to practice.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

From Miss Clark and Miss Smith