Year 4
Teacher: Mrs Mabe
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Lowe, Mrs Greer, Mrs Arciniega and Mrs Thornborough
Our Gospel Value is: Peace
Our School Councillors: Theo and Melin
Our Eco Warriors: Eva and Melody
Our SHINE Councillors: Tonaya, Heather and Robert
Our link Governor is: Mandy Palmer
Helpful Information:
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Reading records are needed in school every day.
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When your child has finished reading their book they may change it for another one.
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Library book changing day is Wednesday.
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PE days are Tuesday and Thursday- please come in PE kits.
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Homework is given out every Friday to be completed and returned by the following Thursday.
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Spelling tests are weekly on Friday. Weekly scores will be written in your child's reading record.
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Log-ins for Timestables Rockstars and Nessy are in the front of your child's reading record.
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Musical instruments for lessons will be safely stored in Year 4's cupboard - don't forget to take them home at the end of the day!
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Healthy snacks - if your child does not have morning toast, they may bring in a healthy snack for morning playtime.
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Water bottles - children will need a water bottle in school each day (water only). Please make sure water bottles are clearly named and are returned daily after washing.
Looking ahead:
- Year 4 Safety Swim Monday 9th December 2024
- KS2 Carol Service in Church on Thursday 12th December 2024.
- Year 4's Christingle Service in Church on Thursday 19th December 2024.
- Forest School and 'Come Outside' Curriculum in Spring Term.
- Trip to Fairhaven Lake on Thursday 9th January 2025.
- Visit to Bolton Museum on Thursday 24th April 2025.
Autumn Term message from Mrs Mabe:
A warm welcome to Year 4 after the summer holidays! We hope you have all had a well deserved rest and are raring to go! The Autumn Term is jam packed full of exciting learning. We are beginning with our History topic 'Invaders'. Following on from the Romans in Year 3 we will be exploring what happens after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in 410AD and who invades next... Our Science topics this term are 'Food and the Digestive System' and 'Sound'. We have some exciting experiments so watch out for pictures. To find out even more about what we will be learning and discovering this half term, please have a look at the documents below.
At St Thomas' we LOVE to read, have a look at Year 4's 50 recommended reads below. What will you read next?
Times tables! Times tables! Times tables! In June, all Year 4 children will have to complete the Multiplication Tables Check. This means it is more important than ever to be practising your timetables at every opportunity. Whether it is reciting them in the car or practising on TimesTables Rockstars (Garage) for 3 minutes per day. We will also be learning our times tables in class. For more information please see the PowerPoint below.
Please have a look at our 'Knowledge Organisers' linked below. These contain our key learning for Autumn in History, Geography, Science, French and DT.
If you have any questions - please do not hesitate to ask - I am happy to help!
Mrs Mabe
Year 4 Blog
What is sound?
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Year 4 have started their new Science topic, Sound. We have discovered that sounds are caused by vibrations that travel through a medium such as a solid, liquid or gas. The children visited activity stations to explore how different instruments vibrate to create sound. We had a very noisy time!
Boocia
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Year 4 have been playing Boccia and have learnt it is a Paralympic Sport. The ball can be either thrown or pushed by your foot. The children have practised throwing a bean bag for accuracy and precision using an underarm and overarm throw. We had a great afternoon!
Drawing Stories
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Year 4 have been drawing stories by exploring mark making with charcoal. They also used rubbers and white pastels as complimentary tools. They then created a scene with 'small world' objects and then drew their scene with a line of story to describe what was happening.
Gymnastics
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Year 4 have been demonstrating their gymnastic skills including travelling, balancing, jumping and rolling. This culminated in creating a 'show' sequence of 6 moves which they performed to their classmates.
Super Scientists
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Year 4 have been SUPER scientists and have been reconstructing the digestive system using chocolate cake and tights! They used scientific vocabulary to describe the process and the parts of the digestive system.
Dissecting Flowers
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Year 4 have enjoyed reading our new book 'Varmints' in English. At the beginning of the week we discovered plant pots, seeds and lilies had been strewn across the classroom floor. We were challenged to find out more about plants so have been learning the scientific names of the parts of a flower. We then dissected a flower and identified it parts and thought about the job of each part.
Singing rhymes in French
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Year 4 have loved learning French through our brand new scheme of work, Kapow. This term, we have been learning greetings using finger puppets, emojis and rhyme. Year 4 had to learn the words to 'Deux petits chatons visitant Paris'. They used their knowledge and recognised words that sound similar in both French and English to translate the rhyme into English. They listened to instructions in French to make their own finger puppet and then performed the rhyme with their partner. Très bien!
Bolton Museum
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Wow, wow, wow! Year 4 learnt so much at Bolton Museum! We discovered that a mill owner in Bolton, called James Barlow, sent his daughter Annie Barlow to Egypt to buy cotton. Annie ended up coming home with 8,000 artefacts which she donated to the Chadwick museum. We made a human timeline and stepped back 7000 years in history. We had a debate on the causes of Tutankhamun's death- was it a chariot accident or a hippo attack? We even saw a real mummy who we think was a priest because his hands were down rather than crossed over his body. Did you know Ancient Egyptians would let everyone know they were mourning the death of a pet cat by shaving off their eyebrows? When mummify a person you remove their lungs, liver, stomach and intestines and put them in canopic jars. We even learnt how to remember which organ goes in which jar. We weighed Mrs Mabe's heart and found her wanting but she tricked the scales with a scarab beetle and made it to the afterlife after all! What a day!!
Safety Swimming and RNLI
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On Friday, Year 4 went swimming in their pjs for their safety swimming lesson. They learnt how to save someone from water by shouting for help, lying on their tummy to pull them in and keeping them warm, keeping them away from water, chatting to them and not giving them food. They also learnt what to do if they found themselves in an emergency situation in water. Remember to remove heavy clothing, lie on your back and remain calm, conserve energy by doing the dog paddle rather than front crawl and keep your hat on! We then walked to the RNLI to better understand what they do and how we can keep ourselves safe at the beach. Did you know that the RNLI stands for the Royal National Lifeboat Institute? St Annes have the most recent lifeboat in circulation, it has 2 jet engines that expel 1.5 tonnes of water per second each! It is a self righting boat, so it can't be upside down and all the seats are hydraulic to keep them level in rough water. The only person on site who is not a volunteer is the mechanic. We had a great morning!
World Book Day
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Reading is our superpower! Year 4 had a great day dressed as their favourite book characters for World Book Day. In the morning, we learnt all about the life of Michael Rosen by completing a quiz in teams. We then focussed on one of his poems, 'Words Are Ours' and thought about how words are all around us. We then wrote our own versions using all our favourite words. In the afternoon, we got the opportunity to meet Michael Rosen online and then our parents came into school to join in with our Big Read. Thank you to everyone who made our day so special!