Author: Mr Roundtree

Is your child in Year 2 or Year 6?

If your child is in Year 2 or Year 6, they’re in the final year of Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) or Key Stage 2 (Years 3 to 6). This means that towards the end of the year, they’ll be doing end of key stage assessments, often called the SATs.

These short videos help to explain more – just be aware the videos are a couple of years old so some details like dates won’t be accurate.

In the past, parents have said they’ve found the videos helpful. Nevertheless, if you’ve any questions, comments or concerns, speak with your child’s class teacher or Mrs Weekes.

Does your child use TikTok?

If you’re child uses TikTok, read this guide for parents.

TikTok is a video-sharing social media app available on iOS and Android which lets users create, share, and view user created videos much in a similar manner to Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat. It’s main draw, however, is that users can record and upload bite-sized looping videos of themselves lip-syncing and dancing to popular music or soundbites, often for comedic effect, which can then be further enhanced with filters, emojis and stickers. TikTok has been designed with the young user in mind and has a very addictive appeal. At the beginning of 2019 it skyrocketed in popularity to become the iOS store’s most downloaded app with over 33 million downloads. Estimates suggest that it now has anything between 500 million and over 1billion monthly active users worldwide.

10 January 2020

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 16 January.

I can split a number into tens and ones.

The children have sheet to complete which allows them to practise the skills we’ve learned this week on tens and ones. We’ll mark this work together in our homework review.

10 January 2020

This week’s spellings recaps the children’s understanding of commonly misused homophones. Practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class. There will be no test next week but we will share our spelling practice in our homework review on Thursday 16 January.

homophones
there

they’re

their

hear

here

to

two

too

 witch

which

where

wear

were

of

off

 

10 January 2020

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 16 January.

I can multiply 3 digits by 1 digit.

The children have a set of questions to complete which allows them to practise the skills we’ve learned this week on multiplying 3 digits by 1 digit. We’ll mark this work together in our homework review.

Skillful Cookery

Year 3 and 4 have exercised their baking skills this week by creating stained-glass-window cookies!

Our cookies were vegan and gluten-free so that everybody could enjoy them. We weighed out the butter, sugars and vanilla paste first.

After mixing this into a smooth batter, we added the flour, bi-carbonate of soda and baking powder.

While we waited for the dough to chill, we learned how to make hot chocolate safely so that we can have plenty over the chilly holidays.

Once the dough was cold enough to work with, we rolled it out and cut it into different shapes.  If you cut a smaller shape out of the middle, you could add boiled sweets which then melt in the oven to create a sweetie window – very cool.

13 December 2019

This week’s spellings take us back to the learning we did at the beginning of the year on homophones. This week, you must practise using these spellings correctly in sentences and discuss ways to remember when to use which homophone – any good ideas you’ve got could be shared in class on Thursday 19 December.

 

homophones
there

they’re

their

hear

here

two

too

to

 witch

which

where

wear

were

of

off

13 December 2019

This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Thursday 19 December 2019.

I can talk about what I was learning in these photos. 

Here are some photographs of some learning we’ve done this half term. Ask your children what the children in the photograph were doing, what they learned from this lesson and what more they might like to learn or get better at in this area of their learning.

This is a great opportunity to find out more about your child’s experience at school and, if you enjoyed this discussion, don’t forget photos are posted regularly on Year 4’s Class News so you can have these conversations every week!

PE at Allerton Grange

Geography: OS maps and grid references

Geography: counties and compass directions

Maths: times tables

Reading: First News

Writing: pirate drama

 

Rugby at Allerton Grange

Last week, Y4 visited Allerton Grange to work with the sports leaders there. We took part in a range of activities designed to develop our skills in tag rugby before having a go at some tag rugby games. We really enjoyed the session and are going to try to re-create these activities at school so that we can continue to get better.

We practised passing the ball and moving:

We learned about passing the ball to each other and trying to intercept:

We tried to receive the ball in the air before the other person got it:

We tried to steal each others’ tags before they got to the other side:

We tried to get the ball to the try line with another team stopping us from getting through: