Dunholme St Chad's Church Of England Primary School

Mr hARRIS and Mrs WILLIAMSON

13/03/2020: Star of the Week - N/A Pride of the Week - N/A

For anyone that is currently off school: Please continue to practice your times tables (particularly x6, x7, x8, x9 and x12) and make sure you can spell all of the termly spellings so far (see lists below).

Welcome to Year 4's page

Mr Harris and Mrs Williamson are the adults working in Year 4 on a daily basis.

Mrs Ackroyd will work in Year 4 on a Wednesday afternoon.

This Term's theme:

Children will be learning about power and how to create it. This will focus on investigations about electricity but will also touch on other meanings of the word like brain power and powerful people. Children will learn about designers and how to make products.

Have a look...SOUND.

Term 1: What's inside

Term 2: Putting down roots

Term 3: POWER

Term 4: SOUND

Home Learning

All homework is handed out on a Friday along with new weekly spellings. Maths and English should be handed in BY THE FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY. Spellings will be tested on Fridays. Children should be aiming to read to an adult for at least 10 minutes, 5 times a week.

This week:

Maths: Timestables.

English: SPaG.

Spelling: We are working on the soft 'c' sound spelt 'ci'.

We are also learning our 20 words from our statutory word list. Please ensure you spend this term learning these at home as well, some of these might also appear on weekly spelling lists. We will be having a test on all of these 20 words during the final week of the term before Easter.

The words to learn for Term 4 are:

accident, centre, century, certain, circle, decide, different, difficult, exercise, experience, history, length, medicine, notice, purpose, recent, sentence, separate,

special, strength.

The words to learn for Term 3 were:

answer, breath, breathe, eight, February, heard, island, knowledge, library, natural, pressure, reign, strange, suppose, therefore, through, unnatural, weight,

woman, women.

The words to learn for Term 2 were:

although, experiment, favourite, heart, imagine, impossible, increase, interest, material, mention, minute, opposite, position, possession, potatoes, promise,

question, reposition, though, thought.

The words to learn for Term 1 were:

caught, naughty, incomplete, irregular, actual, address, earth, often, learn, group, busy, business, bicycle, fruit, possible, appear, early, continue, arrive, build.