Sandal Magna Community Academy

Year 4

Welcome to the Year 4 blog page!

Our aim is to make your child’s learning exciting and fun, and have lots of fun along the way.

We aim to foster a nurturing and supportive environment so your children will come into school with a smile on their faces, and not be afraid to learn from any mistakes.  They will feel comfortable to become independent learners, and share ideas within our class.

We have designed our curriculum to ensure that children get a broad and balanced diet of daily English and Maths, and weekly lessons in a variety of topics, including computing, science and humanities.  We aim to present our lessons creatively through a mixture of written work, drama and multimedia.

We know that it is important for children to stay active and keep their mind and bodies healthy, therefore we take part in weekly PE sessions.  Our PE day is Wednesday, so please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit every Wednesday.  We will be outside as much as we can, so you need to ensure that your child has suitable footwear and clothing.  In Year 4, we go swimming on a Tuesday afternoon, and your child will need a towel, swimming costume/trunks and a suitable bag to carry these items in.

Every week, we will be setting homework and spellings, we aim to do this using Purple Mash, so it is important that your child knows their username and password.  If you have any issues accessing the internet contact school. 

Reading books will be changed weekly and it is our expectation that your child reads at home with a family member and that there is a comment in their reading record.  This will be checked weekly by the year 4 team. 

In Year 4, we have to complete the Year 4 Times Table Test, which was initially started last year.  It will test the children’s knowledge on all the times tables right up to 12X12, therefore it is imperative that children are confident in recalling their times tables.  We will be practicing these a lot in school, but it will be highly beneficial to continue this practice at home. If you would like more information on the times table test, or any ideas to support your child’s learning at home, please feel free to speak to either teacher.

Thank you for visiting our page and keep up to date with all the exciting learning on our class twitter page.  If you do have any further questions, then please speak to one of the team after school.

Hedgehog habitats

Date: 03/10/2018

The mantel was thrown down and Year 4 were challenged to design a reasonable home for a hedgehog based on our Science work about animals and their habitats and the impact that humans have on local environments.Here…

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Harvesting out artistic skills

Date: 01/10/2018

As we prepare for our Harvest Festival next week, we decided that we would like to share some of our harvest artwork with you.  We made sketches with soft pencils and then we used watercolours on watercolour…

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We went down a mine!

Date: 26/09/2018

What a wonderful day we had at the National Coal Mining Museum!  The children were a credit to themselves, their families and our school.  We had a super day looking around the museum, meeting the pit…

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Scarecrow mission accomplished

Date: 26/09/2018

Well, we did it!  There was a moment when it looked as though Lightning Streak might have to make a headless appearance at The Scarecrow Festival, but thanks to Mrs Heaton's hard work, he was ready to…

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Scareway to Heaven

Date: 19/09/2018

The Sandal Scarecrow Festival next weekend has really captured everyone's imagination.  Our first challenge was to make a convincing design.  We had decided to run with a superhero theme and Umar's eye…

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Tudor Houses

Date: 18/07/2018

Thanks to all the families who sent in boxes so that we could design and create our Tudor houses as a finale to our Terrible Tudor topic work.  We have had some lovely sessions.  The outcomes are those…

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A taste of the Tudors

Date: 27/06/2018

We had a fabulous day today learning more about The Terrible Tudors and their strange ways.  We handled lots of artefacts and had a chance to draw them, we learned that they ate a lot of potage which is…

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The Hepworth

Date: 20/06/2018

Most of Year 4 were lucky enough to visit The Hepworth today and to work with a genuine artist.  We looked at the Hepworth Collection and explored the perspectives that excited Barbara Hepworth.  Then…

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I wish I looked after my teeth

Date: 07/06/2018

Our Topic in Summer 2 is The Terrible Tudors and we shall be finding out much about Henry VIII and his wives and family.  The Tudors were not well known for their hygiene standards.  It will be interesting…

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