28 Sep 2018

Year 4 Update – Week 6

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Monday 1st October – PUBLIC HOLIDAY (School closed)

Tuesday 9th & Thursday 11th October – Parent Teacher consultations

Monday 15th – Friday 19th October (inclusive) – Mid-term break

Wednesday 24th October – Year 4 Camp information evening (Parents only)

Wednesday 20th – Friday 22nd November – Year 4 Camp

Parent Teacher Consultations

Our first Parent Teacher Consultations this year will be on Tuesday 9^th and Thursday 11^thOctober. This is a valuable opportunity for you to find out more about your child’s learning in Inquiry, English and Mathematics through conversation with their class teacher.

*BOOKING SYSTEM (on Gateway) NOW OPEN FOR ALL PARENTS*

BHS Lunchtime Experiences

At BHS we have lots of great clubs which our students really enjoy so Ms Chung challenged us to create even more! As the student councillors we interviewed our friends and classmates to find out their favourite clubs. We were wondering if any parents would like to help run these clubs? Do not panic! You do not need to be an expert or world champion, just enthusiastic and willing to help. This could be as an one off session or more, it is up to you. Please click on this google form to volunteer. The Student Council will then get in contact with you to organise the club. We will help with all the logistics such as venue, students and resources.

Thank you for any help you can give us.

Sharing Day

Thank you to all the parents and friends who attended Year 4 Sharing Day. It was a great day for the children to showcase all their learning from this unit. We hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as the children did. All of this would not be possible without the help of lots of adults including Mr Gibson, Ms Kannis, Mr Lowe, Mr Thompson and the Y4 Teachers and EAs.

Please see the BHS newsletter for more photos of Y4 Sharing Day.

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Central Idea

Interdependence of living things can affect their survival.

Lines of Inquiry

An inquiry into…

Different types of livings things (Form)
What living things need to survive (Connection)
Human responsibilityto the survival of living things (Responsibility)

Next week we will be starting our new unit, the children will be completing their provocation and pre-assessment.

Central Idea

By analysing patterns and identifying rules for patterns it is possible to make predictions.

An inquiry into:

Rules of patterns and how these predict future terms.
Equivalent number sentences using addition and subtraction
Patterns and relationships in multiplication and division

Next week the students will continue consolidating their knowledge of area and perimeter and will finish that part of measurement. They will start looking at their new unit of pattern and function where they will be inquiring into rules of patterns.

Writing focus: Writing to inform

To present information about something, generally describing an entire class of thing, whether natural or man-made.

For the first 2-3 weeks of this unit we will be looking at words at sentence level. Another words, pulling sentences apart to see what every sentence needs and thinking about how the parts of a sentence work together. We feel that this will give the children a better grasp of grammar and punctuation and enable them to write really impressive sentences for the information reports they will produce later on.

Comprehension Strategies

Determining Importance

Next week we will be starting our new text type writing to inform. We will also be looking at our new reading comprehension strategy; determining importance.

There was no Golden Book assembly this week as a result of the BHS CPD Day.

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Spelling

We will begin Spelling homework on Tuesday 2nd October, thanks for your patience. The children have been decorating the front covers of their new Spelling journals ready to start next week.

Reading

Students should read everyday and talk to an adult about the text they have selected.