WEEKLY PARENT INFORMATION NEWSLETTER – Year 4
Week beginning Monday 1 December 2014
Messages
• Winter Wonderland takes place this Saturday 6 December from 11.00-
3.00pm. Please come along and join in the festive fun!
• Second Hand Uniform Sale: After the success of our inaugural BISS Puxi 2nd
Hand Uniform Sale we have scheduled our next event for Tuesday 2
December. Hopefully you were able to take the opportunity to recycle some
school clothing for your child and we warmly appreciate your support. We
would like to remind you that we welcome your on-going support to donate
clothes that could possibly be sold at the next event – please bring any
uniform items to be sold into the Parents Hub in Primary and you will
receive further information about location and times closer to the event.
Many thanks for your support!
• Thank you so much to all the parents that were able to attend the Year 4
Showcase Day. It was lovely to see the children talking so confidently and
enthusiastically about their work.
• Library Loans: We wish to encourage reading amongst all our children, so
your child will be allowed to take books home over the Christmas break.
Please do remember to return them the first week of term. Reminders for
lost and overdue books will be sent as usual at the end of the first week of
term.
Literacy
This week we will become advertising executives. The children will begin to create an
advertising campaign to promote the cars they have been designing during their
Themed Learning lessons. They will use cameras and video editing software to create a
commercial, as well as creating a magazine advert. Each child will call upon the
persuasive techniques that they learnt last week and include other advertising
techniques, such as a slogan and a jingle, to make their adverts as effective as possible.
Maths
In Maths this week the children will be learning how to carry out multiplication
questions using a formal method. The week will begin with a focus on the times tables
and then move on to ensuring that each child grasps the importance of place value when
multiplying numbers by 100. The main outcome for the week will be that children
understand how to multiply 2 and 3 digit numbers using a formal written layout.
Themed Learning
‘Inventions that changed the World’
This week our Themed Learning topic will run in conjunction with our Literacy work.
The children will be using watercolours to paint their own car designs. They will thenbegin to use video editing software and scanning techniques to transfer their designs
into an advert.
PSHCE
The children will be focusing on sharing their views and opinions with others. They will
work on listening to each other and taking into consideration different viewpoints. We
will also be working on recognising the positive attributes in ourselves and each other
and celebrating our achievements.
Vocabulary
Literacy – persuasion, argument, slogan, jingle, hook, tagline, copy.
Maths – lots of, groups, multiply, array, repeated addition, place value,
Humanities – sketch, blend, trace, accuracy, stroke.
Dutch
Na het voorbereiden van Sinterklaas’ bezoek is het weer tijd om te focussen op spelling
en grammatica. Centraal staan zinsconstructie (met de plaats van het werkwoord in de
zin), de voltooide tijd en de verleden tijd en de spelling van:
Groep 4/5: woorden met /–cht/, /-ch/, /eeuw/, /ieuw/, /uw/ en de bankletter
Groep 6: woorden met de stomme –e-, ook aan het begin en einde
Groep 7/8: leenwoorden (journaal, niveau, team, etc.)
Mandarin Y4 Panda
Review all the topics we have learned this term.
Mandarin Y4 Monkey
Topic: Lesson 5 ‘Christmas is coming’-Continued
Key Characters:
圣诞
shengdan/christmas;
卡
ka/card;
树
shu/tree;
火鸡
huoji/turkey;
快乐
kuaile/happy
Key sentence pattern: ……
到了
daole/ ...is coming; ……
的时候
de shihou/ When...;
送给
songgei/ give sth. to sb. as a gift
Activities: Make a Christmas card
Mandarin Y4 Horse
We will review the topics covered this term.
Mandarin Y4 MNDCN
本周我们将复习本学期学过的内容，准备期末测试。
