Welcome to Year 4S

Welcome back to school for the summer term. I hope you have all had a lovely, restful Easter break. Please feel free to chat to me on the door if you have any questions or queries. Alternatively, if you are unable to speak with me, my email address is 4s@stpatricks.sefton.school. I will respond to any emails within 48hours, in line with our school's communication policy. 

Mrs Williams

General Information

Our summer term will begin with our Religious Education theme of 'Serving - New Life', exploring how the new life of the Easter message is spread through the power of the Holy Spirit. Our learning in English will focus on Playscripts and Instructions. In Maths, we will complete our topic of Fractions and move onto Decimals shortly. Please try to support your child in learning their times tables as they can draw upon this fundamental knowledge in many areas of Maths. 

In History, we will continue our topic of Ancient Greeks and explore their achievements.  In Science, we will study Living Things and their Habitats and move to Electricity over the coming weeks. 

Communication

Please let the school know if any of your contact details have changed (phone number, email, addresses) if we need to call home or contact you.

Homework

Homework will be set every Monday at 4.30pm. We will upload this on Purple Mash, to be completed by the following Monday at 4pm. The children will be tested on their spellings on Monday mornings and times tables during the week. We encourage the children to practise their times tables each night using the Times Tables Rockstars website. Please try to ensure your child completes their homework every week, as well as reading each night.

Reading

Reading is a key focus for us in school and we work hard to promote the children's love of reading. Each week, the children will take part in a reading lesson and guided reading sessions based on a focus text. During these sessions, we focus on key reading skills, such as as vocabulary. inference, prediction. explaining, retrieval and summary. I will upload these texts each week to the Reading section at the bottom of this page, so you can discuss them further with your child. 

Times Tables Links

Making sure that the children can quickly recall all the times tables facts will really help their learning in Year 4. It would be wonderful if you could support your child with recalling their tables facts and accessing their Times Tables Rockstars account each day for ten minutes. This will enable them to draw upon this fundamental knowledge in many areas of Maths.  These websites help the children do this at their own pace and in a fun way.

https://ttrockstars.com (children can use their school login)

www.purplemash.co.uk (children can use their school login)

www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

PE

This half term, our PE lessons will take place on Monday and Wednesday. The children should wear their PE kits to school on these days.  Please ensure your child has the correct PE kit – branded shorts etc are not part of school uniform.  On cooler days, the children may wear jogging bottoms, but they must still wear their school cardigan or jumper – no hoodies. 

Uniform

Please ensure that school jumpers and cardigans are labelled with you child's name. If a jumper or cardigan is misplaced during the school day, it is easier to return this to the correct pupil if it is named. 

Medical

If your child has a medical condition that staff need to know about, please inform the school as soon as possible. If your child requires an inhaler, or any other medicine, please ensure it has been handed into school, and is not out of date. 

Snack

As we are a ‘Healthy School’ we would like to remind parents that a healthy snack at playtime is encouraged. Please refrain from sending any chocolate or sweets into school as a snack or within your child's lunchbox.