Immanuel and St.

Andrew CE Primary School

Year 4 Class Bulletin Term 3
Dear Parents / Carers, Welcome to Year 4s Term 3 Class Bulletin! Our topic for this term is the Ancient Greeks with a particular focus on the Ancient Olympic Games. Children will find out how the games compare with the modern games that we are all excited about witnessing later this summer! We will be visiting the British Museum later this month to view artefacts from Ancient Greece that will help us with our study, including the many beautiful pots and vases on display that have provided historians with clues about this period of history. On our return to school we will make and decorate our own Greek style pots with images of the Games. In Science we will be studying friction with reference to how this force affects us during sporting activities. In PE we will be creating our own Opening Ceremony during dance lessons and doing outdoor Athletics. At the end of term we aim to do some cooking in preparation for a Greek Banquet, to celebrate the end of our Olympic studies! If you have been on holiday to Greece we would love to see your photos and souvenirs. Mrs Laing & Mrs McCraw olaing@immanuelschoollambeth.org.uk bmccraw@immanuelschoollambeth.org.uk

January 2012

Topics this term Literacy This term we start off with the unit Stories with dilemmas or issues. We have been reading short stories and discussing styles of writing. We will be creating stories, in groups, in which readers are asked to make their own choices about the direction of the storyline, based on the Choose Your Own Adventure series. We will publish these stories on Fronter later this term. The unit for the latter part of the term poetry. The children will be learning about performance poetry by listening to and performing poems themselves. N umeracy We will continue with the timestable challenge each Friday. Please support your child with their times tables and look out for their name on our I beat my target! success board, in the Year 4 window. We have recently been working on money and decimals and solving real life problems involving spending. This is an area which you can help your child at home by involving them in simple transactions in shops and allowing them to handle coins wherever possible.

Important N otes: FR O N TE R : Find out more and watch our Green Screen D ocumentary! Year 4 have been using Fronter at school in ICT lessons. Fronter uses a unique log on (USO) which we sent home in a letter to you last term. This USO also gives children home online access to lots of programmes that we use at school. We would like to use Fronter more often as a link between what we are doing in class and at home. On 26th January we would like to invite you to come in to class to see Fronter in action, during which time you will be able to log on with your child and ask any questions you may have. To encourage you to come, we will be screening the green screen documentary that we created earlier this year. There will be two half-hour sessions, come along at 8:50am OR 3pm. Please speak to Mrs McCraw if you want more information about Fronter.

PE Indoor P.E The children will be creating their own Opening Ceremony for the Olympics! They will be incorporating some aspects of dance, gymnastics, break dancing and singing and we hope to perform this to you at the end of this term! Outdoor P.E The children will have outdoor P.E on Fridays. We will be doing athletics which includes running, races, throwing and catching skills and jumping. Please remember to bring: Navy blue shorts or tracksuit bottoms Pale blue T-shirt As the weather gets wetter please include trainers in their PE kit, if possible, thank you. Shorts and T-shirts can be bought from the school office along with Immanuel and St. Andrew sweatshirts on Tuesdays. We will allow children to wear their sweatshirts outside on cold days.

RE Children will learn about Judaism this term. Science This terms topic is Friction. Children will be looking at forces in general, focusing specifically on experiments that explore friction. Spellings Children are following the national strategy for spelling. They are taught the rule or pattern they are practising each week and the spellings allow them to practise what we have learnt. There will be a minimum of 10 spellings to learn each week and the test will take place on Thursdays. Please support the children with learning their spellings.

Useful websites http://www.ownresources.co.uk/keyskills/index_timestables.html (Times table practise) www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/ http://www.mad4maths.com/ http://nrich.maths.org/public/ http://bgsnps.com/ (Our link school in India)

ICT This term we will be focusing on how to use Powerpoint in conjunction with our literacy unit. The children will learn to create their own slides and will be faced with the challenge of linking slides to each other. The result will be a Powerpoint presentation of their stories written in literacy where the main character has one or several dilemmas to resolve.

Year 4s weekly timetable

8.509.00 9.009.25 Lesson 1: 9.25-10.40 75 mins 10:40 11:15 Lesson 2: 11.1512.00 45 mins Lesson 3: 12.00-12.30 30 mins 12:301:30 Lesson 4: 1:30 2:30 60 mins Lesson 5: 2:30 3:30 60 mins

Mon

GR Numeracy

10:4011:00 Assembly Literacy 11:00-11:15 Playtime 10:4011:00 Assembly Numeracy Literacy 11:00-11:15 Playtime Indoor P.E. Science

Tues

GR

Class Registration

Weds

GR Numeracy

10:4011:00 Assembly Literacy 11:00-11:15 Playtime 10:4011:00 Assembly

Lunchtime

Handwriting

R.E.

Thurs

GR

Numeracy 11:00-11:15 Playtime 10:4011:00 Assembly

Literacy

Creative Curriculum

Fri

GR

Creative Maths 11:00-11:15 Playtime

Literacy

Outdoor P.E.

Music Trax

Important Dates:

26th January Find out more about Fronter (8:50am or 3:00pm) 27th January British Museum class trip