Yorkshire

Week commencing Monday 20th March

This week has been rather wet, but we have all made the best of it. Rather than rugby, the children were delighted to play bench ball. This has saved our trainers from another soaking!

The class book has inspired the children's stories and they have come up with exciting pans to help Ahmet reunite with his parents. In Maths, we are completing the topic on decimals and will now revise different aspects of the curriculum though investigations.

The children have been working in clay over the last two weeks and have really enjoyed what they have learned.

Reading Ambassadors

Nurture Principles

Yorkshire 4 Timetable

This is a typical week in Yorkshire 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 each Thursday.

Unicorns (Mrs Harding) To be tested 23.03.23

motion, station, action, fiction, national, section, tension, whole, because, many

New spellings:

our, their, they're, there, blue, blew, should, could, children, parents

Dragons (Mrs Shrimpton) To be tested 23.03.23

invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion, concentration, protection, suggestion, condition, rejection 

New spellings:

creation, radiation, indication, ventilation, vibration, translation, animation, medication, calculation, celebration​

 Mermaids (Miss Arnott) To be tested 23.03.23

 invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion, concentration, protection, suggestion, condition, rejection 

New spellings:

creation, radiation, indication, ventilation, vibration, translation, animation, medication, calculation, celebration​

Spelling activity: 

Perhaps this week you could use rainbow syllables as last week or make pyramid spellings.

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. 

Maths Fluency 

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

Please practice 7, 8 and 12 times tables. 

12 times table 

Grammar and Punctuation 

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

Please complete the worksheet in your folder.  

Topic Task 

Home learning link - https://youtu.be/vV3FmxShERY 

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.

Music Knowledge Organiser