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.

Y4 Science habitats

Date: 19/09/2017

The children have already produced some fantastic models of habitats for a squirrel.....they just had to be shared.  Please keep them coming!

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Egyptian Archaeologists

Date: 19/09/2017

Year 4 were truly amazing this morning when they shared their growing knowledge of all things Egyptian with Kelly from the Wakefield Museum Service.  Technical topic vocabulary flowed as we discussed archaeology,…

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Year 4 Rules!

Date: 08/09/2017

What a great start to the academic year from the new year 4 class!  Some of us have only just had our 8th birthday and yet already we have celebrated the birthdays of 2 new nine year olds.  The level of…

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Going back in time

Date: 12/06/2017

We had a lovely time when we went to The National Coal Mining Museum on Monday.  The topic work we had already done stood us in good stead and we already knew a little about children working down the mines…

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Artistic temperament

Date: 08/06/2017

In Year 4 we seem to have been offered a huge number of fantastic opportunities in the course of the year and this week was no exception to the rule as we were invited to The Hepworth to take part in a…

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We're a knockout

Date: 31/05/2017

What a fabulous time we had on the last afternoon of term!  We’re a knockout was great fun and we smiled during every activity.  By far the most popular attractions were the inflatable climb, the foam…

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Once bitten......

Date: 31/05/2017

Our science topic began to have real bite this week!  We investigated the effect that different popular drinks have on the enamel of our teeth.  As no one had volunteered to pull out their own teeth, we…

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Making Agbrigg more appealing

Date: 19/05/2017

On Friday, the children in Year 4 were joined by staff from Wakefield Council, the police and the wider community and gathered litter in both the school grounds and in the local park.  This week we have…

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Measuring the way

Date: 16/05/2017

We have been investigating mass, length and capacity this week.  We had the challenge of finding an object that weighed a specific amount, of finding vessels with specific capacities and of measuring lengths…

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Mathematical madness

Date: 10/05/2017

This week we have been practising using decimal numbers with up to 2 decimal places.  We have added and subtracted them, matched them to regular fractions and even matched them to their equivalent in another…

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