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Year 4 Newsletter | January  2024

Happy New Year!

Welcome back everyone; we hope you had a restful break and are ready for all the exciting things we have planned for the Spring term.

We had a brilliant first term in Year 4 and packed lots in! Our highlights included a visit from a dental nurse, our Christmas concert performed at St. Cuthbert’s church and our very own Ancient Greek Day, all of which we all enjoyed immensely. We also had a whole school trip to the Halls, where Ranworth behaved impeccably and we were extremely proud of them.  They were a credit to you all.

For this first half-term we will have a Geography focus on Europe. During the second half-term our history topic will be the Romans, and we will be looking at states of matter and electricity in Science and Rousseau in Art. We will be looking at water in DT.

Homework

Having spent the last term really focusing on TT Rockstars, we will now be focussing on spelling too. We will still be expecting the magic 21 minutes on TTrockstars. Thank you for your support with homework, it has been great to see all the hard work that’s been going on.  We will be having Geography  homework set each week. We will send home a booklet on Thursday.

Homework will still be set on Thursdays, and needs to be handed in by Tuesday. It is great to see so many children handing in their homework on time – please do encourage your child/ren to complete their homework and also record all their reading in their journal. Even if it is without you. If you do have any queries regarding this, please let us know. 

The children’s log ins for all the websites we use in school are all in their journals. You can find a list of these websites in the 'useful websites' section of our school website.

TT Rock Stars

This programme is especially important for our Year 4 children to build the fluency of knowing their times tables! It has been really great to see how some of our Year 4 children have made so much progress by playing a game! We set a battle each week, and the top 3 players from each team Ran or Worth can get a certificate. 

We set a session which they have to complete before they can do other areas. This is decided so that they can work on the areas most needed. Gigs help me have an understanding of which timetables they know. Sound checks resemble the test that they w4ill sit in June. Studio helps their speed and gets their rock status. Still, at this point in time the most important factor is completing the heat maps and working in the Garage.  TT Rockstars suggests  

3 sound checks

18 garages per week to secure their knowledge of the times tables.

Spellings 

Although we focus on spellings during our SPaG sessions and practise throughout the week, please can children also be practising their spellings each week at home too.

We are going to work on some of the spellings we may have missed as well as the weekly spellings we are covering in the Rwi spelling sessions.