Year 4 Certificates 31/01/20

This week in Ash the following children were awarded with 4R certificates.

Reciprocity: Freddie

Resilience: Lily

Reflectiveness: Maisie

Resourcefulness: Gabriela

Super job children! I am so impressed with your amazing 4Rs. Miss Young

This week in Birch the following children were awarded with R certificates.

Resilience: Well done Charlie for working really hard throughout this week. I am happy with your learning at home as well. Keep it up!

Reciprocity: Well done Oliver for being a positive learner. You work really well with your peers and you are always willing to support them in their learning. Keep it up!

Miss Islam  

     

First pen licences in Year 4!!

Well done to Kanishka, Harry, Lily, Katlyn and Finley who have been awarded the first pen licences in Year 4.

They have been working tirelessly to ensure their work is always beautifully presented and handwriting is joined.

Well done children; your hard work has paid off!

We take presentation of work and handwriting very seriously in Year 4. This is a fundamental part of the writing process to ensure children can continue to make required progress. Please see the statements below for more information regarding the national requirements. 

Fingers crossed, in the coming weeks we will have even more Pen Licences given out!

National Curriculum expectations statutory requirements: Pupils should be taught to:   Use the diagonal and horizontal strokes that are needed to join letters and understand which letters, when adjacent to one another, are best left unjoined   Increase the legibility, consistency and quality of their handwriting [for example, by ensuring that the down strokes of letters are parallel and equidistant; that lines of writing are spaced sufficiently so that ascenders and descenders of letters do not touch].  Pupils should be joining handwriting throughout their independent writing. Handwriting should continue to be taught, with the aim of increasing the fluency with which pupils are able to write what they want to say. This, in turn, will support their composition and spelling.

Year 4 Scientists classifying leaves!

In science, Year 4 are learning about Living Things and Their Habitats. For the past few weeks, our focus has been on classification; creating classification keys to classify different types of plants and animals.

On Tuesday, the children of Ash and Birch explored outside the classroom into Broadford's playground to collect different types of leaves. We are indeed in the middle of winter so it was difficult to find some! We all looked very carefully for leaves on the floor. We then came back inside and worked in pairs to create our classification keys.

We first planned on whiteboards and then drew the classification key on A3 paper. We learned different technical vocabulary, such as lobate, serrate, entire (words that describe the edge of the leaf). We then put this to use for our closed-questions (e.g., Is the edge of the leaf serrated?)

The children worked extremely hard to create their classification key and worked so well in pairs using their reciprocity skills!

Miss Islam and Miss Young are extremely impressed with the amount of scientific enquiry and curiosity in both Birch and Ash!

Year 3 Curriculum - Spring

Year 3 - Curriculum Newsletter

We hope you find this letter informative, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher if you have any questions relating to the curriculum.

Homework:

Our expectation at Broadford is that every child should do the following every night:

• 5 minutes reading to an adult and note in the reading record
• 15 minutes practising spellings
• 15 minutes rehearsing times tables facts (including multiplication and division)

If children would like to attempt an additional challenge, we have a new Worldly Wise challenge for the Autumn Term. There will be more detailed information to follow regarding this.

Spellings:

Spellings will be given out on Mondays. The children should practise their words every evening. We encourage the children to write their words in sentences on the back of their homework sheet. Their spelling test will take place on Fridays. 

Rockstar Times Tables:

Children will be completing their times tables daily in school at the start of each maths lesson. Please practise times tables with your children at home. They all have passwords and access to the Rockstars app or alternatively they could simply practise writing their times tables out. They take part in a ‘Sound Check’ every Friday morning which involves their test taking place.

Curriculum Information

We have included a summary of the topics which the children will be covering this half term. If you have any questions about the topics being covered, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.

Yours sincerely,

Miss Taylor

Year 3 Leader

Spring Term
	1st Half Term	2nd Half Term
Literacy	Guided Reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Science-fiction stories Explanation texts	Guided reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation Mystery stories Non-chronological reports
	Please fill in the reading journal after hearing your child read. For a good selection of childrens books visit the local library. Also Mybookblog can be accessed from home with your children's individual usernames and passwords.
Numeracy	Rockstars timetables Place value Multiplication/division Fractions Data Handling	Rockstars times tables Decimals Solving Problems with addition and subtraction
	Rockstars and MyMaths can be accessed from home with the children’s individual usernames/passwords.
ICT	Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs. Including collecting, analysing and presenting data and information.	Making things happen in a sequence, creating simple animation and simulation-Scratch
Science	Earth Rocks! Looking at the different types of rocks and investigating their characteristics. N/A
	You could visit the Science Museum. Admission is free. Located at Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD.
Geography	What makes the earth angry? Volcanoes	What makes the Earth angry? Earthquakes
R.E	Faith - Religious Figures	Faith - Religious Figures
P.E	Rugby/Football/Netball	Rugby/Football/Netball
	PE will usually be on Wednesday, but this can vary. Please ensure your child brings in their kit and leaves it in school.
Music	Three Little Birds Listening and appraising the song as well as singing, playing, improvising and composing.	The Dragon Song Listening and appraising the song as well as creating a performance.
French	Animals/pets Weather	Adjectives Easter
Art	Painting Experimenting with different effects and textures and using a colour vocabulary.	N/A
P.S.H.E	Getting on and falling out	Getting on and falling out
Trips	Natural History Museum - 28th January 2019 Maths Stay & Learn - Tuesday 14th January 9-9.30 am	Mystery Workshop - Date to TBA

Year 3 Spellings 27.1.20

Year 4 Geography

Dear parents or carers,

In Geography we have been learning about the rainforest. In the next part of our learning, we will be building a rainforest using recyclable materials. We would appreciate it if you could donate spare cereal boxes, bottles, cans, any animal toys that you do not use and any other recyclable materials. Please send these resources in by Wednesday 29th January 2020. 

Kind regards, 

The Year 4 team. 

Year 4 Spellings 27/1/20

A	B	C
division	division	division
revision	revision	revision
explosion	explosion	explosion
confusion	confusion	confusion
decision	decision	decision
invasion	invasion	invasion
collision	collision	collision
television	television	television
erosion	erosion	erosion
conclusion	conclusion	conclusion
tough	Wednesday
thorough	Tuesday
ought	January
though	February
brought	remember
throughout	thoughts
rough	answer
through	actual
bought	disappear
sought	possible

Year 4 Spellings 18/11/19

A	B	C
happily	happily	happily
rudely	rudely	rudely
finally	finally	finally
sleepily	sleepily	sleepily
hastily	hastily	hastily
angrily	angrily	angrily
sadly	sadly	sadly
merrily	merrily	merrily
heavily	heavily	heavily
cheekily	cheekily	cheekily
dramatically	headline
heroically	caption
automatically	lead
paragraph	paragraph
bossily	source
comically	primary
frantically	secondary
slowly	reliable
physically	newspaper
magically	image