Living and Learning
Hi everyone,
This week in Living and Learning, Year 4 began learning about the 8Rs. The children were introduced to eight different attributes that will help them to be strong and successful learners.
As a class, we discussed how we all use the 8R’s in our everyday life and especially at school:
- They are all very responsive by listening to instructions. This in turn, makes them ready to learn.
- The children are being resilient in maths lessons when learning column addition. They aren’t giving up when it gets tricky!
- They are being resourceful by using atlases to label the counties on their maps.
- They reflect on their work at the end of each lesson by saying what they have learnt and something that they have found difficult or not.
- They have been taking risks when contributing their own ideas to the lesson.
- The class is being responsible and remembering what is expected of them when in school.
Help at home by talking about these 8Rs and linking it to the children’s actions and activities outside of school!
Reading records!
Hi everyone,
Reading records!
Last week, Year 4 were sent home with their new and exciting reading records! These records are to help Mrs Maqbool and I (Miss Birch) keep track of the children’s reading progress.
The new reading records key info:
- Each time one of the children signs out a new book to read from the library, they can make note of these in the book and rate them out of 5 stars.
- I’ll choose an activity for the whole class to complete on their chosen book each Friday. More information on these activities are inside the record. I’ll post this on class news as well!
- The children will need to bring in these reading records every Friday for our Book Club lesson where we’ll discuss their books and develop their love of reading.
- The children’s grown-ups will also need to write a short comment sharing with us the lovely reading their child has been doing at home.
- It’s also fab as it will give the children ownership and responsibility of their reading!
I hope this is all clear and I’m really looking forward to seeing their progress.
Any questions, please ask!
Netball coaching and half term camps
We are looking forward to having some coaching in school from Elite Netball Academy in the next few weeks.
Elite Netball Academy run weekly netball classes on a Saturday morning at Gateways school and they have an early bird offer for their October half term camps held locally at The Grammar School at Leeds- £25 per day if booked by 17th September.
First week back!
Hello everyone,
After our first week back at school, I just wanted to thank everyone (children and parents!) for being so great and making everything go so smoothly. We’ve had a lovely week getting to know each other and getting stuck into our new topics!
We’ve begun our Geography topic unit called ‘Where in the world am I?’. The children have been fascinated by exploring Google Earth and finding out exactly where we are in comparison to other cities and counties.
We have also begun our class novel for this first half term – The Legend of Podkin One-Ear! The class were making some fabulous predictions based on the name and front cover which we are now finding out to be true…
Y3/4 Swimming & P.E.
Hi everybody!
Hope you’ve all had a great first day back.
Swimming this year will be every Wednesday other than the first and last Wednesday of each term.
So, this term…
The first swimming session this term will take place on Wednesday 15th September and will run to the final session which is on Wednesday 8th December. Your child should come to school in their P.E. kit on this day with their swimming kit in their bag.
Your child should also come to school wearing their P.E. kit every Thursday, too. This is our P.E. day.
On Wednesday 8th September, your child should come to school in their school uniform.
If you’ve any questions, please ask your class teacher.
Thanks!
Looking forward to Monday!
Hello Year 4!
As you know, I’m Miss Birch and I’m going to be your teacher for the next year! I’m really looking forward to finally meeting you all in person and putting some faces to those names. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer holiday and are raring to come back. I just know that we’re going to be a fabulous team – bring it on!
Tennis opportunities
If your child enjoys tennis or wants to try it out, tennis camps are taking place locally at these clubs over the summer holidays.
Thanks to Roundhegians
We are very grateful to Roundhegians Rugby Club for hosting our sports days once again this year and allowing us to use their excellent facilities.
Roundhegians have a variety of rugby training sessions, from under 6 through to under 17, and these sessions will resume on Sunday 5th September.
For more information, please contact their chair of junior rugby, Chris Fongwah (fongers.cfw@gmail.com).
Living and Learning: physical activity
During health week, we talked about the benefits of physical activity on our health. We learned that there is a link between physical health and academic success.
We then talked about how we can make sure we get 60 minutes of physical activity everyday. We split it into 30minutes at home and 30 minutes at school. We had lots of different ideas and made a poster showing how we can achieve the 60 goal.
At home, talk to your child about physical activity and help them to get their 30minutes each day!
Multi-sport summer camps
