Year 4

 

Thank you to parents and carers who attended the Conwy Residential Meeting.

CLICK HERE for the information we shared.

 
Happy New Year! Welcome back to the Spring Term and to 2020! We trust you had a lovely holiday and look forward to a term full of learning and progress.
 
Phonics will continue to be grouped across the year group like last term, and will take place on a Monday and Wednesday. However, please be aware your child may have a different teacher and be in a different group following our assessments at the end of last term. Children will continue to receive spellings on a Wednesday, to be tested on the following Monday. Additionally, children will also receive 10 spellings on a Friday (to be tested the following Friday) from their class teacher, which are related to their age.
 
Each week, we still expect pupils to read their school book and complete their journal. May we stress the importance of this and how the written responses are very important as they help show your child’s understanding. It is vital your child has their reading book in school every day. Additionally, they will continue with their creative purple homework book.
 
Times tables are still an area requiring continuing improvement, please encourage your child to learn and revisit tables they are struggling with as this knowledge aids so much of their learning in maths. There will continue to be a strong emphasis on learning times tables this term up to 12 x 12. Children will continue to complete ‘Rockstars Times Tables’ in school and we strongly advise children get involved with ‘Rockstars’ at home. We will also be continuing with ‘Times Tables Superhero Clubs’ and we look forward to children moving up to the next club.
 
Our thematic topic for this term is ‘Hey Mr. DJ’, where children we be learning about difference genres of music, instruments from around the world and the famous band The Beatles. Children and staff are really looking forward to our music icon dress up disco tomorrow. During the term, children will be creating their own songs with help from ‘squirrel’ technical team and they will also be taking part in an African drumming day on 1st April where families will be invited to watch our performances. 

Science objectives concentrate on Sound and Electricity. Pupils will continue to learn French in their Modern Foreign Language lessons, whilst RE focuses on Inspirational Religious leaders. For more information about our learning this term, please see the attached curriculum overview.

In January, we welcome The Fire Service to the year group to share with us fire safety information linked to risks and causes of fire, smoke alarms, fire escapes, emergency calls and hoax calls. It has always been very informative in previous years and offers the children valuable information.
 
PE days are as follows:

Class 13: Tuesday and Thursday
Class 14: Tuesday and Friday
Class 15: Monday and Tuesday
 
Please ensure your child has the correct PE kit in school (black shorts, white t-shirt and pumps). Additionally, please provide your child with an outdoor kit consisting of; plain black/grey/blue joggers, suitable outdoor shoes (trainers) also a plain sweatshirt as PE will take place outside wherever possible.  It would also be appreciated if all uniform (including PE kit and pumps) is labelled with your child’s full name and class.  Please can we remind parents that no jewellery should be worn in school with the exception of stud earrings, and in line with Health and Safety guidelines, these should not be worn on PE days. Children will be asked to remove earrings before PE sessions.
 
 
Thank you for your continued support
 

January 2020

Year 4 introduced 'Hey Mr DJ' topic by having a fancy dress disco and learning about different genres of music.

 

December 2019

Fantastic completed seascapes in the style of Claude Monet!

   

 

Year 4 had a fantastic time at Birmingham Sealife Centre. There were many highlights of our visit such as watching the feeding of Gentoo Penguins, getting up close with giant rays and Reef Sharks in the Ocean Tunnel, jumping aboard the Polar Express in the 4D cinema and a surprise visit from Santa! The children behaved impeccably and were a credit to our school. 

  

 

 

 

Really impressed with the art skills in Year 4! Check out our seascapes in the style of Monet. 

 

 

Congratulations to the Year 4 children who took part in the spelling challenge at the Girl's High School. We were very proud of you!

  

 

November 2019

Year 4 had a fantastic afternoon with the Virtual Reality Team learning about the different layers of the ocean and the animals that they would find in each layer. They even went down to the trenches! Great fun was had by all!

  

  

Children enjoyed learning about how living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. They learnt all about insects, annelids, molluscs and arachnids! Children were so engrossed they wanted to carry out their own research.

  

Year 4 children were amazed that Aaron Becker could tell a story without words. They used inference skills to answer questions in their Whole Class Reading Session.

  

 

October 2019

We recreated a tsunami to help us learn about the effects.

 

Thank you to all parents/carers who joined Year 4's P.E class. We hope you enjoyed it as much as the children.

  

 

September 2019

Children are really enjoying their Fanta 'SEA' topic! Here are a few examples of our work so far!

  

Children wrote some super character descriptions for a suspense story.

In Maths children have been using place value counters to add 1,10, 100 and 1000.

 

 

 

May 2019

Year 4 had a fantastic time on their residential. They all enjoyed their time at Conwy, whether it was making their way down in to the Bronze Age Mines, taking a tram up the Orme, climbing the spiral stairs in Conwy Castle, eating ice-cream and chips on the beach, having fun in the arcade or relaxing in the youth hostel!

   

    

 

 

 

 

March 2019

Year 4 had a lovely day celebrating all things Asian! Children had the opportunity to make Chinese fans, design mehndi patterns, learn an Indian dance, create rangoli patterns, listen to Arjan play his dhol drum and participate in a delicious Indian feast made by Mrs Suwali! Thank you to parents/carers for providing children with their amazing outfits.

  

  

 

Look at our amazing creative homework!

 

March 2019

Year 4 children loved celebrating World Book Day!

Year 4 children thoroughly enjoyed their visit from West Midlands Fire Service. The children watched a short film to show how quickly fire spreads, then learnt about:

  • Smoke detectors
  • Escape plans
  • Emergency calls
  • Fire hazards
  • Stop, drop and roll
  • Pedestrian safety
  • In-car safety

During the session they learnt vital life saving skills.

 

 

November 2018

We composed some emotive poems and created some super poppy pictures to commemorate Remembrance Day.

Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Tamworth Castle where they had the opportunity to dress up as Anglo-Saxon soldiers, take part in an archaeological dig and re-enact a battle! The children were a credit to Elston Hall, asking relevant questions and impressing the staff at Tamworth castle with their knowledge about Anglo-Saxons.

   

 

  

October 2018

We loved celebrating Elston Hall's 80th anniversary! It was fun to experience school life in the 1930's.

   

Ring toss!

In DT we have been learning about healthy eating. Our healthy sandwiches were delicious!

 

Photos from 2017/2018

Year 4 getting to grips with their hand signals!

 

 

May 2018

Year 4 have had a wonderful experience at Aldersley High School learning about cells and acids. The pupils participated in a range of activities.

Classes 13 and 15 enjoyed their trip to Aldersley today. Both classes enjoyed carrying out science experiments. Class 13 were able to use the microscopes to look at onion cells. Class 15 looked at how metals react with certain acids. 

Well done to Rithik, Kai, Zaara and Katelyn  who participated in the Year 4 Mathematics Challenge at Wolverhampton Girls' High School! Our four mathematicians enjoyed mental challenges and logical problems whilst competing against 70 other teams! We are still awaiting official results but are extremely proud of the effort and focus of them all!

 

 

March 2018

This afternoon Year 4 were lucky enough to have the opportunity to participate in a fencing workshop. The children enjoyed learning the techniques required within the sport.

 

 

Year 4 Asia Day

March 2018

Year 4 enjoyed a unique school day this week, as we celebrated our Asia day. Children were invited to come dressed in Asian clothing or wear the colours of an Asian country's flag. We even had some children who drew the flags onto t-shirts. 
We started our morning by making Chinese flags and fortune cookies. We then danced our socks off in the hall to some Indian music, which we all enjoyed. 
After play we learnt about Rangoli patterns and the importance they have during Diwali. We even created our own designs on the playground using chalk. 
The highlight of our day was tasting Asian food including; rice, poppadums', chickpea curry, prawn crackers and chapattis. It was very tasty and lots of the children were trying food for the first time which was good to see. 
We hope all the children had a fantastic day celebrating our Geography topic of Asia. 

   

 

     

CONWY


Please click on the link below for the powerpoint from the parents meeting on 27th November about Year 4's residential to Conwy.

Information about Conwy

January 2018

Year 4 welcomed the Fire service to inform us about fire safety. We learnt what we should do to prevent a fire such as fitting smoke alarms and closing our doors when we go to bed. Also we learnt what to do if we were in a situation where fire was present. 

  

 

 

Look at our fantastic homework!