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On Friday, Birch class enjoyed reading in the school library. Everyone loved looking through the books and found lots of different topics to choose from! All children chose a library book to take home and read with their family. The children were so excited to share their books and the beanbags were a real hit with the children, what a lovely way to cosy up with a book.
Hello everyone, welcome to year 4. It was so lovely to see so many smiling, happy faces coming into the classrooms this morning, ready to start new classes.
This term is packed with lots of new learning which we are excited to share with the children. You can see below an overview of the term and the wide variety of different areas we will be covering.
Term 1 Overview – Rivers (PDF Download)
KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts)
This term in our maths key facts, we are asking the children to ensure they know their 3x, 4x and 8x tables.
T1 KIRFs Year 4 (PDF Download)
Our PE day this term is Thursday, so please ensure children have their full PE kits in school for Thursday. PE kit requirements can be found on the website here – Uniform – St Nicholas CE Primary Academy (st-nicholas-newromney.kent.sch.uk).
We are really looking forward to the year ahead. If you have any questions, please contact your class teacher.
Many thanks
Year 4 team
This term, the children have been learning French words for a variety of different foods and practising how order food in a French restaurant. Today, they ran a French Café for family and friends.
They sent out invitations a couple of weeks ago, created menus and practised their scripts. The customers had phonetic order guides to help them speak French to ‘Les Serveurs’ and ask for their food.
Les invitations
Les menus
Café L’Hêtre et Le Bouleau est ouvert à 14 heures
French accordion music played as our guests dined in our café, the French flag, le tricolore (bleu, blanc, rouge), decorated the walls in patriotic French style. The children and families had a wonderful time, trying out their French and eating together.
Today we had a visit from Sammy, one half of the Knuckleball Twins, who came to coach the children in the art of the knuckleball kick.
Before heading out onto the field, they told the children all about the famous players and managers they have met along the way and showed them the knuckleball technique in videos and images. Once out on the field in the sunshine, the children started with a quick warm up. Sammy demonstrated the knuckleball kick before letting the children loose to have a go themselves!
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In our music lesson today, Mrs Vincent and the children created a melody to play together on the glockenspiel with accompanying drums and tambourines.
They also learnt a traditional African song, Senwa Dedende.
This week, the children enjoyed a morning of sports with our Olympics Roadshow run by the team at Shepway Sports Trust along with the fantastic year 12 games leaders from the Marsh Academy. They took part in a variety of activities – Diamond Cricket, Obstacle Relay, Basketball and Football Rounders.
Over the last four weeks, the children have enjoyed an amazing experience at Rye Watersports, Kayaking and Paddleboarding.
Starting this week, year 4 enjoyed music lessons with Mrs Vincent, a classically trained musician, who will be teaching music to our children throughout this term. They started learning two songs – Epo I Tai Tai (a Mãori Folk Song) and Tongo (a Polynesian folksong). The children all really enjoyed the lessons and came away singing the songs throughout the day!
Today, the children in Beech class practised their times tables during computing using the BBC micro:bit.
They programmed the micro:bit to generate a random number between 1 and 12 when Button A was pressed and another random number between 1 and 12 when button B was pressed. The micro:bit displayed each number on the screen. They had to work out A x B. For example, if Button A generated 6 and Button B generated 7, the answer would be 6 x 7 = 42. The children programmed it so that when they shook it, the micro:bit would display the correct answer so they could check whether they were correct or not!
Those who were successful were challenged to add beeps when the buttons were pressed and play music when the correct answer was displayed.
Welcome back everyone for our final term together. It will be another busy term, as always, as we head towards the end of the year. In history, we will be focusing on the Aztecs, looking at their lives and beliefs. Our English this term will focus around Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, looking at delicious settings! In French, we will continue our food theme in the French café as well as looking at music. The digestive system will be our focus in science – can’t wait! In computing, we’ll be looking at data and in particular, the weather – let’s hope we can forecast some sunshine!
Term 6 Overview – Who were the Aztecs? (PDF Download)
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