Term 1 Week 7 – overview

Our spelling words this week are words from key stage 1 that we need to revise.  These have been identified through baseline assessments.  We will be carrying out a range of activities to embed these spellings.  Our handwriting session will focus on correctly forming the letters we have worked on this term.

In English, we are continuing our work based around Roman gods and goddesses.  We will be using the work we did last week to write a letter from the point of view of Philemon and Baucis to re-tell the story of the Oak and Linden Tree.

In Maths, we will be continuing our unit on addition and subtraction.  We will be adding 4-digit numbers with no exchange, one exchange, more than one exchange and subtracting with no exchange. We will also be practising times tables.  Our target in Year 4 is to be secure in all times tables up to 12s, and we take the Multiplication Table Check in the summer term.

In RE, we will be completing our unit on Creation.  We will be answering the big question: What message do Christians take from the Creation story?

In History, we will be learning about what life was like in Roman Britain.

In Science, we are going to be continuing with our investigation into evaporation by monitoring the experiment we set up on Friday.

PE will take place on Monday and Wednesday afternoons with Mr Goodyer.  Please ensure that your child has a named PE kit in school all week.

Reading records will be coming home this week.  We would like pupils to bring them in on Tuesday and Friday each week.  If your child is reading books from the reading scheme, these will be changed for them.  If your child is a free-reader, they will be responsible for changing their book.

If you need to contact the class team about non-urgent matters, please use the following email address:

chestnut@st-barnabas.kent.sch.uk

Have a great week.

Best wishes,

Mrs Barter and the Chestnut Team