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Immanuel and St. Andrew CE Primary SchoolYear 4 Class
Bulletin
Term 6 June 2011Dear Parents / Carers,
Welcome to Term 6. This term promises to be full of fun,
educational events such as Kite Day, a trip to the
London Transport Museum, Arts Week and a Musictrax Strings
concert in central London. Youll find more
information on all of these activities in this bulletin. This
term also includes assessment week, the giving of
reports and parents evening. The dates of all these events can
be found on the next page.
I hope the bulletin gives you useful information; if you have
any further questions or concerns, please do not
hesitate to contact us. We can are available outside of the
classroom every morning from 8.45am and at the
end of the school day or can be contacted by email throughout
the week via:
[email protected]
Mrs B McCraw & Mr D Gordon
Our Focus This Term
Topic
Our topic continues to be The Victorians. This term we will
be focusing on the theme of Leisure. A visit to the
London Transport Museum will kick off an investigation
on how new forms of transport opened up opportunities for
holidays for ordinary people. We will investigate how
Victorians used to pass the time and consider how their
hobbies differ from our own. We will use our maths lessons
to present our findings in a data enquiry and we will
develop our mapping skills by creating an online map to
show what we have discovered.
Science and DT will build on our knowledge of Victorians
as inventors of two of our favourite things as we attempt to
design and make our own torches and ice lollies! These
practical experiments are part of our work on circuits and
conductors and solids and liquids.
Literacy
We have already done some work on poetry, which we will
be continuing for one more week. We will be showcasing
some of our work on a Poetry Blog on Fronter. (Please see
me if you are still having problems accessing Fronter athome.)
We will also be working on our creative writing
skills as we tackle a short story and we will try our hand
at
writing explanation texts to explain our inventions, both in
science and DT and on Kite Day.
Numeracy
This term we will be extending our data enquiry skills and
looking in more detail at fractions and decimals. Mr
Gordon will continue with the mental maths test every
Monday as this is proving successful in improving rapid
recall of times tables. Please help your child practise
their
times tables at home.
Kite Day
On Tuesday 28th
June every child in the school
will make a kite. Year 4 will use this
opportunity to do a practical science
experiment with the aim of finding out how air
can be used as a force. Some time during the
week we will take our kites on to Streatham
Common to fly them (dependant on the wind!)
Art & Music
Children will create art on the theme ofjourneys this term. It
will involve
experimenting with various methods and
making choices of what to use in a final
creation. At the end of this term all children
will also take part in Arts Week, which
promises to be full of exciting and creative
activities.
Children need to bring in their violin every
Friday for their Music Trax Strings lesson.
We have been invited to take part in an exciting
concert on Monday 4th
July at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank. Children willplay the pieces
they have been learning in class
and will sing a song called Summer Reggae.
More details will follow and you are all invited
to attend. Please support your child in
rehearsing their violin and song for this
concert.
SRE (Sexual and Relationship Education)
This term we will be learning about Puberty.
The sessions are ageappropriate and will be
led by Mrs McCraw. If you wish to discuss the
content of the lessons or have any concerns
please do not hesitate to contact me.
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Year 4 Trip to London Transport Museum:
We need YOU!
On Weds 29th
June I plan to take year 4 to the
London Transport Museum in Covent Garden to
take part in a workshop on Victorian transport. The
children will also be able to visit all the exhibits in
the museum. We need at least 1 parent to volunteer
to come on this trip in order to have enough adults
for the trip to take place. It promises to be fun! If
you are able to help please let Mrs McCraw know
as soon as possible.
Useful websites: The Victorians
http://www.woodlands-
junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/victorians.html
http://www.show.me.uk/topicpage/parents/pVictori
ans.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victo
rian_britain/
Dates for your Diary:
16th
June Year 4 Assembly at 10:40am
Parents are invited.
20th
June Reading Week
23rd
June Author workshop as part of
Reading Week.
28th
June Kite Day.
29th
June Year 4 Trip to London Transport
Museum.
4th
July Year 4 Music Trax Concert at
Queen Elizabeth Hall,
Southbank.
6th
July Sports Day a.m.
& Parents Showcasing Evening
and reports distributed
14th
20th
July Arts Week.
20th
July Last Day of Term.
Please remember school finishes
at 1.30 p.m.
Supporting Your Child At Home
Reading and Spellings
Library and Book Corner:
Our library day is Wednesday on this day children can
borrow books from our school library. If they have books
at home that belong to school please make sure that they
bring these back as they cannot borrow more than 3
without returning those they have at home. Similarly, I
have been letting children take books home from our book
corner to help them with their homework but we now have
quite a few missing books. Please can you check at home
and put any books that belong to school in their book bags.Many
thanks.
Reading Book & Reading Journal
There has been an improvement in the amount of children
reading to their parents and carers which I hope we can
keep up.
Please ensure that your child reads to you or another adult
every weekand that you leave a comment in their reading
journal. Please comment on how well they read, their
enjoyment of the book or their understanding of the book.
You can also use the journal as a way of letting us know
any concerns you may have with regard to your child andthe
reading scheme.
If you have any questions about how to support your
childs reading or would like some suggestions of
questions to ask them about what they have read, please
contact Mrs McCraw.
Class Novel
Our class novel this term continues to be Danny Champion
of the World by Roald Dahl.
HomeworkThe Victorians Project was a great success! Thank you
for
your support. Childrens work will be showcased on a
display for the remainder of this term.
Spellings
Please support your child in learning their spellings each
week. The spellings set either support the children with
words they are using in class or help them to learn
common letter patterns within words. We have a spelling
star display for every child who gets full marks and Id
love to find that I have to make it bigger to fit all the
names on it!
Year 4 Homework Club is on Friday.
