Year 4 News

This week the children have been learning about how the Romans built their roads and have been carrying out their own research about Hadrian's wall. During our Maths lessons they have been comparing 4-digit numbers and during their English lessons the children have planned and written their own Beating-the-monster tales to complete our unit on narratives. Next week we shall be starting our unit on non-chronological reports.

Well done to Harvey who was awarded the Golden Star certificate this week. Harvey has been inspired to write his own story at home this week which he read to the class.
Special mentions during Friday's Celebration assembly were given to Alix for trying really hard during English lessons and improving his spelling score this week. Also, Koby was given a special mention for his super use of descriptive vocabulary in his writing this week.

Well done to Libby-Mae, Kaiden and Jake who achieved a Bronze certificate for their participation on Mathletics.

Well done to Sophie, Kenya, Harvey, Kia-Mae, Tyler, Max, Kaiden, Anya, Ava, Eliza, and Tsvetomir who all read daily last week and were entered in to the Reading Raffle.

Each week we have less than half the class reading regularly at home and bringing their reading books and diaries to school.
Please could all parents spend at least 10 minutes listening to their child read daily and ensure books are brought to school each morning.

Well done to Koby, Sophie, Bugsy, Max, Oscar, Jack and Eliza who all achieved full marks in their spelling test.

Homework
A reminder that homework is set on a Friday and needs to be completed by the following Wednesday. Children should have  a purple homework book in which to complete their English homework.

Children are also expected to use Times table Rockstars, Spelling Shed and Mathletics  at least once each week. This week only two members of the class used all three! This is extremely disappointing when there are 30 children in the class. If your child does not have access to a tablet/phone so are unable to access these please make a note in their reading diary and I can arrange for them to use a school ipad during a lunch time so that they do not miss out.