Welcome to Year 4

Each week we will be keeping you up to date with a "Wow of the Week" from different children. In addition to this, please read our half termly newsletter to find out what will be happening in Year 4.
To help your child with their spellings, use the list below and use the look, say, cover, write, check method to practice words. To help you support your child with their maths learning, we have detailed the main objectives the maths curriculum covers in Year 4.

Messages

PE will be on Wednesdays and Fridays this half term. Friday is swimming day - please come in school uniform but bring swimming kit.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday and you will be expected to read three times per week and record this in your reading diary. We will also be setting Maths Watch, Times Table Rockstars and Spelling Shed games each week so please log on and do these. We will be checking every Wednesday to make sure children are accessing these items. 

Links:

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/login

https://vle.mathswatch.co.uk/vle/

This week's spellings:

bicycle

biplane

biped

bicentennial

biannual

bilingual

biscuit

biceps

binoculars

bisect

centre

regular

Westroyd Learner Award

Gurjeevan - For going the extra mile this week. He has been a reliable
member of the class, helping others and helping me out with
enthusiasm.

Finley - For being a reliable member of Year 4. He always listens
carefully and is always ready. He also has an enthusiastic approach to
his work.

This weeks weekly attendance WC 02.09.24 is... 

 97.7%

WOW of the Week - Summer

Summer 2

Week 1 - We have been working incredibly hard on our times tables this week in preparation for our Multiplication Tables Check. We have also been learning about money this week in maths and how we can represent amounts of money in decimal form. 

Summer 1

Week 6 - In DT this week, we created our very own nightlights. We had to consider the construction of the nightlight, what materials we would use, how the light will shine through the design as well as how our circuit will fit into the nightlight. 

Week 5 - This week in Year 4, we have continued our maths learning based on decimals. We have been making links between fractions and decimals, understanding how they are related.

Week 4 - We have been working really hard on our inference skills in reading this week using our class text, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. We are using our detective skills to read around the clues in the text to find out what ideas and images the author is portraying.

Week 3 - This week, we have really enjoyed practicing writing for our Herd Farm diary entries, expressing our experience through feelings and emotions with lots of practice with adverbs. We also highly enjoyed our swimming lesson this week as it was our first session with everyone in the pool learning from our coaches.

Week 2- WOW! What an amazing TTR day we had in Year 4. The costumes were amazing and the children worked really hard on their times tables, getting lots of practice in for their multiplication check. Well done to Temidire, Dhruvi, Kezia and Bade who achieved the most correct answers throughout the day in Year 4.

Week 1 - Year 4 enjoyed their bikeability training this week, practicing bike safety and increasing their confidence in their cycling skills. 

WOW of the week Spring

Spring 2

Week 6 - It was our residential to Herd Farm this week. We had such an amazing time taking part in the big activities like the zipline and high ropes, as well as serving the meals and spending time with our Westroyd family. We had an unforgettable time, but we were glad to get back to our owns beds for some well deserved sleep!

Week 5 - This week, we designed and painted our very own Ancient Egyptian headdresses, drawing on what we have learnt from our history lessons. There were definitely some headdresses fit for a pharaoh!

Week 4- It was British Science week this week. We carried out an experiment to find out how much time a straw plane will fly in the air and if the shape affects its time.

Week 3 - We celebrated World Book Day this week. We had a few familiar faces visit to read us some stories. We shared our love for reading by bringing in our favourite books, discussing about them in our reading bistro and working with our reading buddies.

Week 2 - This week, we have been working really hard on fractions in maths. We have been learning the difference between mixed numbers and improper fractions and how to convert from one to the other.

Week 1 - We have really enjoyed researching more about Ancient Egypt in English this week so that we will be able to write our non-chronological reports on the topic. We also enjoyed our class reward this week - we voted as a class to watch Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone!

Spring 1

Week 5 - In our last week of this half term, we have enjoyed learning how to calculate the perimeter of different shapes, as well as learning how to incorporate canon into our mission impossible themed dances.

Week 4 - This week we have been working really hard on writing our own Egyptian version of Jack and the Beanstalk, applying the skills we have been practicing in class such as using expanded noun phrases and direct speech. We also have enjoyed learning about the importance of the Rosetta Stone in Ancient Egypt and its importance to how historians were able to decode hieroglyphics.

Week 3 - This week in science, we looked at the different states of water. We watched how warm water was able to melt ice cubes and we also observed how water boils in the kettle.

Week 2 - The WOW of this week has to be creating our own book review webpage for Year 4 using Google sites.

Week 1 - We had a brilliant first week back! Our WOW this week was getting to act out Jack and the Beanstalk in groups and also create a story map which tells the fairy tale through the use of images.

WOW of the week Autumn 

15.9.23  - Lara- "I really enjoyed the chocolate tasting. We looked at lots of different of chocolate and I love chocolate!"

22.9.23 - Corey - "I really liked the gymnastics lesson as I liked making the different rolls and shapes in a team."

13.10.23 - Iris - "I loved history this week because I love talking about the Mayans"

27.10.23 - Dhruvi - "Making chocolate was my favourite this week because I love chocolate and making the packaging, because I love arts and crafts."

10.11 - "I am excited to learn more about Hockey in PE."

16.11 Isabelle - "The experiments in science were very fun!"

24.11 Gabriel - "I liked art, I liked learning about the different sculptors."

8.12 "The class trip to learn all about the Romans"