St Peter's Church of England (VA) Primary School
Year 4
Welcome to Year 4
One Family, Aiming High, Learning Together with God
Welcome back to a new school year! We are looking forward to working with you and your child this year in Year 4.
Our Year 4 Team:
Mrs Ladbury
Mrs Kaleem and Mrs Bird
This week in Year 4....
In Maths we are continuing to develop our knowledge of multiplication and this week our focus has been on the links between the 3, 6 and 9 times tables.
In writing we have started a new unit, writing river poetry, inspired by our core poem 'River' by Valerie Bloom. Continuing with our new whole school approach using the "Write Stuff" programme, the children have enjoyed writing effective sentences for using simile, adverbs and alliteration.
In Science we have started a new topic, 'animals, including humans', and the children enjoyed modelling their own teeth using plasterine.
Homework:
Doodle Maths
Doodle English
Reading x3
With the multiplication tables check fast approaching in June, please encourage your child to practice over the weekend using either TTRS or timestables.co.uk
Multiplication Tables Check - 2025 - Timestables.co.uk
Have a relaxing weekend.
We are very much enjoying our new way of teaching spelling!
Whilst there is no expectation of learning spellings at home for a formal test, if you would like to support your child with their spelling, it would be valuable to explore words with our 15 'Focus Phonemes' (sounds). These change every other week.
Eg The focus phoneme for 'admitting' is 'tt' - words using this phoneme as well are words such as little or glittering. Your child can then bring these words in, and we can explore them together as a class.
1- defiantly
2- dialogue
3- dietician
4- difficult
5- disagreeably
6 - distilled
7- division
8- eight
9- eighth
10- electrician
11- enough
12- equalled
13- erosion
14- expansion
15- experience
This half term, PE will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please come into school wearing your PE kit on these days.
If you need to get in contact for any reason please use this email address: rebeccal@spmillend.herts.sch.uk. I will aim to get back to you no later than 48 hours from receiving your email.
Homework and reading books will be sent home on a Friday and must be returned on Wednesday.
Reading records need to be filled in at least three times a week and signed by an adult at home and brought into school on Wednesdays for us to check.
Please remember to send your child in with a water bottle and a healthy snack.
Check our class page for regular updates about what we have been learning!
We look forward to a great year.
Year 4 Team