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.

Hail Caesar!

Date: 15/04/2017

On the very last day, we travelled back in time to Roman York aka Brigantium with Year 3 as the launch for our Rotten Romans topic next term.It was a long journey but we were all excited when we arrived…

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Easter Crafts

Date: 15/04/2017

What a busy last few days we had at the end of the Spring Term!Unusually, we did not begin our week with Reading, English or Maths, instead we started with Easter Crafts and it was a joy to see so many…

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Red Nose Antics

Date: 27/03/2017

The children in Year 4 enjoyed coming to school in red in support of Red Nose Day.  Thank you to everyone who made a donation to this great cause.

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Can you hear the noise?

Date: 16/03/2017

This week saw us carrying out our experiment to test who has the best hearing in each team.  We tried to make the test as fair as possible by keeping lots of things constant, but this proved far harder…

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The sound of silence in science

Date: 06/03/2017

In our science lessons, our understanding of sound and how it is made and travels is deepening.This week, we began to look at insulators and how to dampen annoying sounds when they are a distraction. …

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YAD KOOB DLROW - WORLD BOOK DAY

Date: 02/03/2017

Today the children in Y4 paired up with the Nursery children for a World Book Day extravaganza.  In the morning we shared the story of Esio Trot and then decorated our own tortoises working in pairs. …

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Y4 avoids disaster

Date: 23/02/2017

Without doubt, Storm Doris could have spelt disaster for Year 4 as our long awaited and much anticipated trip to Pizza Express to launch our When in Rome topic was blown away.Fortunately for us, Doris…

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Sounding off

Date: 03/02/2017

There are days when it is a real delight to be a teacher.  A day when your class is not doing the ordinary day to day activity.  The sort of day when you see the understanding and children's delight in…

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Anglo Saxon news

Date: 13/01/2017

We had a fantastic afternoon with Louise from the Wakefield Museum Service.  Thanks to her, we learned that some surnames such as Fletcher come from the trade of arrow making.  Can you guess where Butcher…

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Christmas Party Photo booth

Date: 15/12/2016

We had a great time at our Christmas party.  We played the traditional party games including musical statues, corners and pass the parcel and, of course, in 2016 no party would be complete without a photo…

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