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.

Dance workshop all sewn up

Date: 25/02/2016

This week, as well as our much loved swimming and PE lessons, we had the chance to taste a dance workshop.  Anyone who really enjoyed it can join an after school club, details to follow.  We went in with…

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Co-ordinating our game

Date: 19/02/2016

This week we have been looking at co-ordinates and made up a little phrase to remind us how to use a Cartesian grid.....go along the rad and up the path.  Once we understood how to plot a point, we drew…

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Souper Skills

Date: 05/02/2016

As part of our on-going work around World War Two, a group of budding chefs choose to limit their use of the ration book and, instead, to make soup from ingredients they had 'grown' in their allotments…

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The sound of learning.....

Date: 27/01/2016

Our homework this week really seemed to strike a chord - pun intended!  Year 4 rose to the challenge of making and playing an instrument made entirely from household items.  What's more, they now know…

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Taking WW2 into the kitchen

Date: 21/01/2016

This week, some of the children in the Sapphire family have been cooking with Mrs Clifton.  Given that sugar was strictly rationed in WWII, they thought about food that they could make that would not use…

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The one where we showed true British spirit!

Date: 14/01/2016

And the week when we won SAM for having the top attendance in the school.  We are definitely excited about the attendance award.  Those circus skills could come in handy!Well what a day out our trip to…

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Happy New Year - Can you help?

Date: 04/01/2016

Happy New Year Everyone!I hope that you have had a lovely break and are looking forward to coming back to school and starting our World War Two Topic.   Our trip to Eden Camp is less than two weeks away…

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Merry Christmas Everyone

Date: 18/12/2015

Well, here we are at last.  We can't believe that our first term together in Year 4 has already come to a close.  And what a week it has been!  Thanks to all the parents and friends who came to support…

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Christmas Countdown

Date: 11/12/2015

Well, Christmas is well and truly here.  We have been incredibly busy rehearsing for the production so that you are all in for a real treat next Tuesday at 10:30.  We do hope that you will join us.  There…

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