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Visit to Allerton Grange 26 September

As part of our Themed Week, Staying Safe, Year 4 will be visiting Allerton Grange on Monday 26 September between 9.30am and 12.00am.

During their visit, the children will be working in the food technology department, looking at food preparation, hygiene and use of equipment, making soup and bread to eat at the end of the session.

Your child won’t, therefore, need to bring lunch although you may like to send a snack for when they get back to school.

A voluntary donation of £1 would be appreciated to cover the cost of ingredients.

SEAL statement 26 September

This week, it’s Staying Safe week and ‘I can keep myself and others safe’ is our statement for the week.

From staying safe around dogs (Dogs Trust) to drugs safety (d:side for KS2), emergency first aid to a cyber bullying drama workshop, safety while exercising (street dancer) to road safety (police) – we have lots of activities planned for the week!

Some classes will be visiting the local fire station and also Allerton Grange to learn about food safety and take part in an ICT based photography session based on safety.

Our School Council have even set the homework for the end of the week.

Between 3pm – 3.30pm on Thursday 29 September, dside (an interactive drug education provider) will be offering parents and carers the opportunity to meet their representative, in the dining room, to discuss any of the aspects covered during their visit.  There will also be information available for you to take away.

Should you have any questions about the week please contact your child’s class teacher or speak with me directly.

We hope your child / children enjoy the week.

23 September 2011

The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 28 September.

I know how to stay safe around electricity.

As we have been learning about electricty for the previous two weeks, I thought it would be a good idea for the children to creatively show what they have learnt about staying safe.

Here are some ideas that we came up with as a class when we talked about the homework:

• A poster highlighting the dangers of electricity.
• A series of pictures or photographs showing potential hazards.
• Instructions about how to use electrical items safely.
• A song or poem about electricity.
• A letter advising someone how to use electricity safely.

I will eagerly look forward to seeing your creations on Wednesday.

Using maths resources

Outdoor PE

Number work

Maths

This half term, your child will practise his / her number skills.  So far, we’ve learnt about multiples of numbers and odd and even numbers.  We’ll soon be focusing on using methods to add and subtract. To help your child at home, you could practise counting forwards and backwards from random numbers in 1s, 2s and 10s.

Literacy

We’ve been focusing our learning on using capital letters and full stops properly.  To help your child at home, please make sure your child can write their full name with capital letters. Perhaps you could look for words that use capitals in reading books – look for words such as names of places and days of the week.

Recently, we’ve used describing words to make our sentences more interesting and we’ll soon be learning about the features of stories and writing our own, too!

Spellings will go home on Fridays and be tested the following week – your help with learning the words – a little time each night – is needed here, please.

Topic

We’ve started the year with a mini-topic associated with sound.  We’ve been identifying sounds, thinking about how sounds are made and how we can change the volume and pitch of sounds.

Next week, we have a themed week: ‘Staying Safe’.

Our big topic this term is ‘Doctor! Doctor!’  We’ll discuss how people in the emergency services help us, how our bodies work and how to stay healthy. Your child will also learn about historical figures such as Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale.  There’ll be a variety of art and DT activities, too.  This topic provides us with the opportunity to invite lots of people in for talks and we’re also planning a trip.  Our class novel is George’s Marvellous Medicine – you might like to read this along at home as well as in school.

23 September 2011

This week’s spellings are high frequency words. The children will be tested on Friday 30 September 2011.