Welcome to Year 4!

Croeso i Flwyddyn Pedwar!  

Welcome to the Year 4 class page. Here you will find useful information and reminders related to our general routines and activities, aswell as links to helpful websites and online resources.

This is also a space where we will share and celebrate some of the interesting and exciting activities we are carrying out at school.

Summer Newsletter

Dear Parents/ Carers,

Welcome back to a new term at Pen y fro Primary School. I hope you and your families have all had a wonderful Easter. The Summer Term is always a busy and exciting phase of the school year.                         

Our main topic for this term will be ‘Creative Spark!’, an Expressive Arts based topic centred around, art, music and design and technology. The children will be involved in the planning of our topic work and we will use their ideas to form the basis of our studies. The work will link to the six areas of learning: Languages, Literacy and Communication, Mathematics and Numeracy, Science and Technology, Humanities, Expressive Arts and Health and Well-being.

If you have any books or items of interest related to the class topic, please send them in for your child to show to the rest of the class.

In our literacy lessons, we will continue to look at a variety of written text types including non-chronological reports and story writing. We will be working on decimals, time, money and shape in our mathematics and numeracy lessons.  We also have sports day and the beach trip to squeeze in and look forward to! More information with regards to these events and forthcoming clubs will be added on to the school website when dates and arrangements have been confirmed.

Other class routines include:

• Our weekly PE sessions will continue to take place on a Tuesday and Thursday. Please ensure that children bring appropriate kit for PE days in a small-labelled bag. PE kit should include a T-shirt, tracksuit bottoms/ shorts (which should be plain blue, navy or white if possible) and trainers.

• The children are able to bring fruit for breaktime either in their lunchbox or in a small tub, which they can keep in their individual trays. They are also required to bring a bottle of water, which we are able to refill as and when throughout the day.  Please ensure that these are all labelled.  

• Please ensure that your child has their book bag and ‘reading record’ in school every day.  Please listen to your child read as often as possible and make a weekly comment in their reading record. A discussion with your child about what he/ she has read can also help to check understanding. 

• Forest school will be on a Friday afternoon. Please ensure that your child has suitable ‘named’ clothing for these activities, including appropriate footwear. Please could children bring weather appropriate clothing and footwear in a name labelled bag to keep in the box outside of the classroom.  Our first forest school session will be on Friday 17^th April.

• Our class Welsh mascot will be sent home with one of the pupils each week to spend the weekend with them. Please can you encourage your child to write (in Welsh) about their weekend in the notebook that will be inside the bag. There are also guide sheets and a Welsh dictionary inside the bag to help the children. Photos and drawings are also welcome.

Homework will continue to be issued on a Friday, to be returned by the following Friday. Spelling tests will continue to take place on a Friday, alongside mixed mental maths/times table tests. Children will be expected to write 5 spelling sentences from their weekly spelling words. The first spelling tests will take place on Friday 24^th April.

As well as spelling sentences, each week for homework, the main homework task will alternate between a maths task and a topic-related task from the homework grid, which will be generated using children’s planning ideas in school. The children will be issued with a paper copy of the new topic related homework grid. We will also use MyMaths for some of the maths homework activities. Children’s usernames and passwords will remain the same as last year. The first homework will be issued on Friday 17^th April and will be spelling sentences and a homework grid task (due in Friday 24^th April).

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued help and support. I look forward to seeing you throughout the course of the term and please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any worries or concerns.

Kind regards,

Mrs K Matthews

Year 4 Teacher.

Weekly Overview

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Homework Tasks for Summer Term – ‘Creative Spark’

Every other week, when directed by the teacher, choose an item from this sheet to complete for your homework task.

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