Reminders:

Year 4 Swimming takes place every Thursday afternoon. Team Periwinkle will be back to school at the later time.

Our one hour of extra PE will be on Wednesday this term, please can the children be wearing trainers on Wednesdays.

The children should be reading at least 4 times a week. Please ensure they are quizzing as much as possible.

Important Dates

Number Day will be on Friday 3^rd February. The children are invited to dress up in number themed clothing, as a maths superhero or a times table Rockstar.  Parents will also be invited in from 2:30pm to undertake a maths problem solving activity with their child in the classroom.

Parent Workshops. Punctuation and Grammar - come and learn with your child!

You are invited into our child's classroom in Term 3 to learn more about how we teach Punctuation and Grammar at Chilton Primary School.  These sessions will help you support your child's learning.  

Come and learn with your child in their class!

Sessions are 3.15-3.45pm on Tuesday 24^th January in your child’s classroom.

Love to Learn

There are two MyMaths tasks for the children to complete about this week's learning. Also attached is a list of the Year 3 and 4 spelling words. Please pick 10 words that you have not practised before.

This Week:

In maths this week, the children started off the week by looking at rounding. We rounded to the nearest 10,100 and 1000. We also looked at negative numbers, counting forwards and backwards into and out of negative numbers.

In English, the children continued to read the class text, ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’ by Onjali Rauf.  In this book, the children meet a boy called Ahmet. He is a refugee from Syria and has just joined a new school. Throughout this week, we looked at what a refugee is, why people become refugees and finally looked at if it is important to help refugees. We used sentence openers, a range of conjunctions and appropriate vocabulary to create an information text.

Throughout Topic this week, the children continued to look at different genres of music. We created a timeline of the most famous genres over the 20^th century and then wrote a piece of writing about what genre was our favourite and why it was our favourite. We also have begun to look at ‘Champions of courage’ and our champion is David Bowie, we will be learning more about him throughout the term!

Next Week:

In maths next week, the children will be working on decimal numbers. We will be adding and subtracting decimals up to two decimal places. Finishing the week by looking at two-step word problems involving decimals.

In English, the children will be beginning to look at persuasion.

In topic, we will be looking at science behind sounds and hearing. Firstly, we will be going on a sound hunt and exploring the different volumes of noises we can here. Secondly, we will be conducting our own experiment about what makes sounds with different equipment and finally we will begin to look at pitch.