Norfolk

This week in Norfolk

Week commencing Monday 20.3.23

This week, we have carried on with our reading of The Boy at the Back of the Class. The narrator and their friends have just decided to write a letter to the Queen and deliver it by hand. We have written our own fantastic versions of this adventure too! 

In Geography, we have been learning about the water cycle - Water Cycle Rap - and have set up a class experiment to see if we can observe the water cycle in a bowl.

Our Class Timetable

This is a typical week in Norfolk 4. Our timetable can change each week as we often have special events or exciting learning opportunities which will change a typical school day. 

Home Learning

This week’s home learning will be due in on Tuesday 28th March. 

Spellings

We will be checking the children’s knowledge of the spellings below on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. 

Reading 

Children in Year 4 should be reading for at least 20 minutes a day.  

Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM Reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/ mobile. 

Click here for more information about how our school uses Boom Reader.  

Children should bring their Accelerated Reader reading book and bookmark to and from school and home each day. Pupils are asked to change their book when it is finished using the guidance and support provided by the teaching team in each class. 

Times Tables

We will be checking the children’s knowledge of the times tables below on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. 

Practise your 6, 7, 9 and 12 times tables. Remember to practise the inverse too.

Times tables check practise

Grammar and Punctuation 

Home Learning folders will come home each Thursday and need to be returned the following Tuesday. 

Please complete the sheet in your folder.  

Topic Task

Topic Task 23.3.23

Music Home learning

Children have recently been given a copy of their Music Knowledge Organiser; you can also download a PDF copy (attached).

To compliment class work and further develop musical knowledge and skills, children should be discussing their Knowledge Organiser at home and talking about the music they are listening to in school and at home. Miss Garrioch (our specialist music teacher) suggests that across the week children spend about 30 minutes on this – that could be just 5 minutes a day listening to a song on the car radio and using musical vocabulary to comment on pitch, rhythm and the genre of music. Knowledge Organisers summarise key music curriculum information including, musical terms, technical definitions as well as topic specific content.

Please ask your child what they’re learning about this week in music and help them remember 1 or 2 related facts from the Knowledge Organiser. You could turn this into a family game, quizzing each other on what you’ve discussed. Support at home will be a massive help and aid children’s learning and musical knowledge.

At the start of each music lesson, children will share what they’ve discussed at home and will talk about their favourite song or piece of music and make links to their musical knowledge.

At the end of each short term there will be quizzes (based on the Knowledge Organiser) in class as part of our ongoing assessment in music.