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Te Fiti
Welcome to Te Fiti
Our teacher is Miss Ion and our teaching assistant is Miss Stevenson
Key Information
The doors open for school at 8:35 and close at 8:45. Please ensure you come to school for this time slot. School finishes at 3.05pm
All Year 4 children are to be collected by an adult at the end of the school day.
Our PE days change weekly at the moment so please make sure your child has the correct kit in school (a red t-shirt, black/navy shorts and trainers) at all times.
Homework is given on a Friday, this includes spellings and times tables. It is due back the following Thursday.
We encourage children to read five times a week at home mostly with an adult but also independently.
Year 4 Curriculum overview
Year 4 Expectations. A document to support parents.
Year 4 Multiplication Tables Test. Information for parents
In art we created a design and then made maracas using plastic bottles
We set up an exhibition for the aliens visiting Earth!
Our Knowledge Organisers for Summer 1
We made our own ice cream today whilst learning about melting points of materials.
We had so much fun doing orienteering in PE today!
In English today we used a conscious alley to help us gather ideas before we wrote a diary entry.
Look at our amazing decorated egg!
Take a look at what we will be learning about in Spring 2 term.
We investigated the properties of a gas!
From practicing techniques, to creating our brooches, to painting them and adding gems!
In today's hockey lesson we practiced our dribbling skills from last lesson then we learnt how to pass the ball accurately.
We designed Viking Brooches in our last DT lesson. After school Charlie tried out his design using clay at home! Absolutely amazing!
Phunky Food Cookalong!
Spring term 1 hasn't quite been what we hoped for, it has been very different. But Te Fiti have been so resilient and worked so hard from home. We are so proud of every member of Te Fiti.
As part of French day we looked at the French Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
In English we researched, planned and then created a report about France.
This DT made me hungry.. a French cake and crepes!
For DT some of us created an Eiffel Tower replica!
Daisy made this video for part of Children's Mental Health week. But I think it sums up what so many children are doing right now.
Here are our Knowledge organisers for the first Spring term, have a little look, see what we are learning about. You can use these to support your children with their learning.
Today our Phunky Food Ambassadors presented their poster, they showed Year 4 some of the food you might find in an unhealthy packed lunch.
We are selling our Christmas trees as part of our enterprise, 50p a tree!
Year 4 have just completed their Design and Technology project, they have designed and created Christmas stockings ready to hang up. We will do the evaluation tomorrow but look at some of these amazing creations, most children hadn't sewed before! We are so proud of them.
Today 14 children read their manifestos to the class to try and gain votes. We then voted anonymously and selected our class school councillor. Well done... Ruby!
We have been learning about play scripts and we all wrote our own, today we performed them!
We learnt about Democracy today ready to write our manifestos for school council.
We completed an investigation to find out how sound vibrations change when the distance changes
Look at our teeth imprints in our apples!
We learnt how the food we eat passes through the digestive system, it was a lot of fun!
In History today we imagined we were Emperor Honorius and performed what he may have said in his letter when the Romans left Britain.
During the first half term we will be looking at:
Maths- Place value, addition and subtraction
English- Our main focus will be grammar, spelling and punctuation. We will do writing based on the Iron Man, this will include writing a newspaper report. We will do a carousel of daily Guided Reading as well as weekly comprehensions.
Science- Animals including humans (digestion, teeth and food chains).
History- Anglo- Saxons
Art- Drawing facial expressions and body language, showing texture, using line, tone, shape and colour whilst drawing
PE- Circuits, dance, yoga and fitness
Music- Mamma Mia
French- Recap names and greetings. Numbers, age, family and hobbies
As part of the children's homework they will require to use their TTRS logins, Spelling Shed logins and Purple Mash.
Below is a list of useful websites for anybody who feels they want anything extra.
BBC Bitesize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
Author Readings – A list of online author readings and suggested activities
https://www.weareteachers.com/virtual-author-activities/
Top Marks – Loads of online games for maths (I’ve linked to hit the button which is great for learning times tables).
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Read Theory – This needs signing up to and a ‘class’ setting up but I really rate it. Child can read then answer questions which the adult can see on their portal. Good way of tracking.
Family Zone – Made by the literacy trust and split into age groups. Comprehensive portal for literacy based stuff.
https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/
Tate Kids – Some great art activities and ideas
Maths with Parents – https://www.mathswithparents.com/KWeb?startTime=1584995101297#menu950582
Literacy Shed – loads of online videos with writing ideas and also links to maths and spelling but I think these need signing up to.
https://www.literacyshed.com/
Pobble 365 – A picture a day with writing ideas and questions. Might be a bit advanced for 5 year old but would be good discussion starters or “Tell me a story about this…” type activities. http://www.pobble365.com/