This half term, year 4 have been taking part in climate change workshops. They have been discussing positive changes they can make as children and when they get older to help look after the planet and having some lively debates. Look out for the worksheets they are bringing home to discuss with you.
This week, we have been focusing on learning our 3, 6, 9,7 and 11 times tables in maths. Year 4 have taken part in a variety of games and activities to help them remember these times table facts. 
Just a quick reminder that parents evening is on Wednesday 11th December. If you haven’t returned the letter yet, please do so this week so that the class teachers can book you in.
Join us for the Winter Fair after school on Thursday 5th December!
As another week comes to a close, we would like to remind you of our ‘Celebration of Black Culture Evening’ on November 27th. Please see Kamla for tickets.
Year 4 have had a great time practised their bowling, batting and fielding skills in their weekly cricket lesson on Fridays. They have worked on developing their hand-eye co-ordination as well as their underarm throwing. Both classes really enjoyed putting all these skills together to play a game.
This week, we begun our learning about the area of shapes. We enjoyed working in groups to create regular and irregular polygons using squares of the same size. After some exploration, we found that all of our shapes had the same size area (space inside the shape), even if they looked completely different!
We hope you’ve had a restful half term break. This half term, our topic is the Shang Dynasty and we are looking forward to learning all about this ancient civilisation. We will be reading The Magic Paintbrush by Julia Donaldson and using this to write our own traditional folktales. In Maths, we will continue our learning on multiplication and division, and will be introducing area. In Science, our topic is sound.
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Some quick reminders for you:
Homework (Maths and LATC) is due on Tuesdays.
Swimming is continuing every week this half term. Children in Pioneer will go every Tuesday and Hubble will go every Wednesday.
Here we are this week practising our rounding skills as we learnt about estimating in Maths:
As part of our learning about the Romans, Year 4 have been learning about the different types of catapults used during this period. Using a plastic spoon, elastic bands and lollipop sticks, we designed and built a small, working catapult in pairs. We then had a lot of fun testing our catapults!
They children of year 4 have been working really hard to write their stories this week. They have a wealth of knowledge about the Romans and Boudica and their writing really shows this. Below are a mix of photos from various lessons this week.
