Welcome to Year 4
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Spring Term 1
Homework 14.01.22
This half term, the children will be learning about ‘Electricity’ as their science topic. Safety with electricity is vitally important. Please can you research tips for keeping safe. You can present the information in a way of your choice (e.g. video, an information text, poster, booklet, PowerPoint, song….)
Spellings
Autumn Term 2
Homework 17.12.21
As we now reach the end of the half term, we wish you all a wonderful Christmas break and wish you plenty of happiness with your families.
We would like the children to practise the statutory Year 3/4 spellings that are in their Home Learning books, also the children can login to TTRockstars to practise timestables. Please can we encourage the children to read just a little each day, where possible.
Homework 10.12.1
This week we had the pleasure of watching Nursery and Reception perform their Christmas Nativity. We all thoroughly enjoyed being entertained by them all. Your task is to write them a short message to congratulate them on their performance. We are going to make a gigantic card for them that will display all our messages inside. You could also do an illustration for the front of the card.
Here is an example:
To Nursery and Reception,
Thank you for inviting us to your Christmas Nativity performance, I really enjoyed the songs and seeing you all enjoy yourselves. I particularly liked the dances, you looked like you were having fun.
Well done everyone!
Love from Mrs da Rocha
Homework 03.12.21
This week as we are starting to get ready for the Christmas Season, we wanted to hear from you about your favourite Christmas themed book or poem. Next Friday, we’re going to ask you to share this with the class, if you have a copy of the book, please bring it into school. We would ask that you think about reasons why you like the book/poem to share with the class.
Spellings
This week we have focused on practising spellings that use the suffixes 'ed' and 'ing'
Orange spellers are focuses on looking at verbs in the past tense.
Homework 25.11.21
In Geography, we are learning about how Sale has changed over time and will be looking at planned changes for the future. Your task is to research and gather information about these planned changes. You can record your findings in a way that suits you.
Here are some links where you can find the proposed plans.
https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/kick-off-for-70m-sale-revamp/
Consider what impact this will have on Sale.
Spellings
This week we have focused on practising spellings that use the suffixes 'ed' and 'ing'.
Orange spellers are focuses on looking at irregular past tense verbs.
Homework 19.11.21
This week has been Anti-Bullying Week where we have supported 'Let kindness, fuel kindness'. For homework there is a reading comprehension attached, the children already have a copy in their 'Home Learning' books.
antibullying-week-2021-differentiated-reading-comprehension.pdf
Spellings
This week we have personalised our spelling test to support the children with their journalistic writing. Notice that many of the words focus on double consonant spellings.
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Horrified |
Innocent |
Destruction |
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Terrified |
Annoying |
Destroyed |
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Witnesses |
Dragging |
Devastated |
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Discussed |
Collapsed |
Devastation |
Homework 12.11.21
Next week is Road Safety Week, we would like you to create a Road Safety Poster that we can display in our classroom. You can draw it or create one of your own using your computing skills.
Road Safety Heroes is the theme for this year’s Road Safety Week. The theme celebrates the heroic work of those who keep our roads safe and who look after people affected by road accidents. You could use this theme as a focus for your poster.
Spellings
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Homework 05.11.21
This term we will be learning about journalistic writing. Your task is to gather a range of headlines and an article or two. We would suggest that you gather these examples from newspapers at home or you could visit BBC Newsround https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround alternatively you could visit the First News website https://subscribe.firstnews.co.uk/the-newspaper/ or you could try the Twinkl newsroom https://www.twinkl.co.uk/newsroom.
Spellings
This week we are looking at the prefixes; in, im, ir ,il
- A prefix is a letter or letters added to the start of a word to change its meaning.
- The prefixes ‘in’,‘im’, 'ir' and 'il' have Latin roots and mean ‘not’ or ‘the opposite of’.
- Most prefixes are added to the beginning of root words without any change in spelling.
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inactive |
immature |
irrational |
illegible |
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incredible |
immobile |
irregular |
illogical |
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incapable |
impossible |
irresistible |
illegal |
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inaccurate |
impatient |
irresponsible |
illiterate |
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impolite |
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Homework 21.10.21
We just wanted to take this opportunity to let all the children know how proud we are of them. They have all worked so hard and all deserve a well-deserved break during half term.
In our history topic, the Romans, we have begun to learn about what the Romans brought to Britain. We have already found the following:
- Brick, cement and stone buildings (some with heating)
- Sewage systems
- Long straight roads using concrete to link cities
- Animals (rabbits, chickens, squirrels)
- Religion – Temples for the gods and later Christianity
- Written language – Latin
- Measures – miles, yards, feet and inches
- Clocks, coins, numerals
- Markets, commerce and lots more.
Your task is to choose one or more of the things on the list and research further about them. You can simply record what you find in your home learning book or present it in a different way.
Spellings
This half term we would like the children to focus on the Year 3/4 statutory spellings and we will choose a selection of them to be tested on the first week back. Friday 5th November. These spellings are on the Year 4 website page and a copy is in the Home Learning books.
Spelling-List-Years-3-And-4-Word-Mat.pdf
Homework 08.10.21
All of year 4 are working so hard and making us so incredibly proud, keep up the good work! We have also started to see some of the children's work completing the science project this week, we are really looking forward to sharing these altogether. What an amazing start to the school year!
Please find attached the homework for this week.
Homework 01.10.21
We have had plenty to celebrate this week in Year 4, the children have continued to impress us with their positive attitude and commitment to doing their very best. Please find attached the homework for this week.
Homework 24.09.21
Another very productive week in Year 4, we have been so impressed with all the children as they have been working so hard.
In Science, our topic is ‘Animals and their Habitats’ we would like to set you the challenge to research a topic that answers this question;
What impact do humans have on the habitats/environments of wildlife around the world?
This could be a research project on the crisis caused by plastics in our oceans, the Amazon rainforest, low levels of orangutans in Borneo or something completely different. This could be presented as a PowerPoint, poster, and booklet, piece of art work, a written report or a presentation. We are really excited about this mini project that we are setting for homework and look forward to seeing what you produce.
We would like the completed work by Friday 15th October.
Spellings
Please find attached the spellings for 4DB
Here are the spellings for 4C
Meet the Year Four Team
Images to follow
- Mrs da Rocha4DB
- Mr Byrne4DB
- Mr Brogan4C
- Miss Charles4C
- Mrs WhelanTA
- Miss WardilTA 1:1
- Mrs BuskiewiczTA 1:1
Please find attached the Year 4 Long Term Plan.
Spellings
Please find attached the spellings which the children are expected to know by the end of the school year.
Maths and English Objectives, these attachments details the skills that are to be covered in Year 4.
Reminders
Reading records and books - Everyday
PE Kits - Every Monday and Wednesday.
Homework - To be brought into school each Friday.
Spellings and Timetables - Fridays.
At Woodheys we want to share as much as possible with parents and with this new app we hope to keep you up to date with your child’s learning.
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Turn on notifications and you can see what is happening in the classroom as it is happening!
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If you have more than one child - no problem!! You can subscribe to as may Woodheys channels as you want.
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You will receive regular posts each week on some of the exciting events and learning that take place at Woodheys. This will replace the year group pages on the website.
Recommended Reading.
Please find attached some suggested reading recommendations provided by the previous Year 4's.
Year 4 recommended reads Year Four 'Brilliant Books' list. Year Three List
Question stems for reading