Welcome back, everyone!

We hope that you are all well and that you all enjoyed a peaceful Christmas break and a wonderful New Year.

This week, we have continued our learning on The Snowman – the children had a fantastic time creating their own snowmen using artificial snow with coconut conditioner and bicarbonate of soda. We then gave our snowmen a name and explored a variety of science games to build our vocabulary banks for words that described ‘changes of state’ as well as for solids, liquids and gases.

In Maths, the children have been enjoying challenge activities on calculating the area and perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. We were very impressed by the various strategies selected by each child, such as ‘boxing up’ quadrilaterals within a shape to calculate area, and using times table knowledge and doubling in order to solve perimeters of regular quadrilateral shapes, efficiently.

A few brief reminders for next week:

• Home learning (spelling, vocabulary and maths) to be returned back to class by Friday 13th January 2023.
• Please continue to practise daily on Times Table Rockstars, in order to prepare for the Y4 multiplication check.
• Spring Term reading passports – please make use of the school and local libraries in order to enjoy a wide selection of texts across the Spring Term.

We hope you all have a great weekend,

Best Wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope you are all well and feeling prepared for the Christmas season!

This week, we have had lots of exciting activities and events at St. Peter’s. For example, the children watched the ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ pantomime and had a fantastic time taking part in the performance! We would like to thank all of the children, staff, parents and volunteers who supported the end of term Carol Service at Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville. Well done to all of the year 4 participants, who took part in the nativity role play, signing of the carols, instrumentals and the choir songs. We are incredibly proud of all that the children have achieved this year at St. Peter’s. Please see the photos below…

A few quick reminders:

• Inset day on Friday 16th Decmeber 2022
• Last day of term on Thursday 15th December 2022
• First day of Spring Term Tuesday 3rd January 2023
• Children to complete their RE home learning in their red homework book, ready to hand in after the Christmas holidays

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and having a great start to the week. There are lots of exciting things that shall be happening in Year Four this week. For example, we’d like to say a big conratulations to all of the Y4 winners from the Reading Passport Challenge for this term – on Friday, they shall look forward to a cinema trip to see the Christmas film, Elf! A huge well done to everyone who has taken part in the competition, you have all worked very hard and should be incredibly proud of yourselves! We can’t wait to find out who will be the winner of the class draw, to take part in a fun afternoon with CM sports…

A few reminders for the coming weeks:

• Tuesday 6th December 2022: Year 4 Inter Sport Competition (Part 1)
• Friday 9th December 2022: Year 4 Inter Sport Competition (Part 2)
• Friday 9th December 2022: ‘Love Christmas’ campaign jumble sale at St. Peter’s
• Tuesday 13th December 2022: St Peter’s Carol Service at Sacred Heart church, Waterlooville (6.30pm start)
• Thursday 15th December 2022: End of Term Carol Service at St. Peter’s and final day of school term.

Please ensure your child continues their daily reading, TT Rockstars practise and regular home learning tasks (red and yellow books).

We hope you all have a great weekend,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and having a nice week!

On Tuesday 29th November 2022, the children from St. Peter’s walked to Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville, in order to gather together and celebrate our Whole School Advent Liturgy. We would like to say a big well done to all of the children in Year Four, who took part in the choir, readings and drama performances throughout the services – we were very proud of you all! Thank you to all of our parents and carers who gave up their time to volunteer and help the children walk to and from church safely, we really appreciate your support.

A few brief reminders for next week:

• Deadline for Reading Passports on Thursday 1st December 2022.
• Please could all pupils bring their red home learning books (spelling, vocabulary and maths) to school, for Friday 2nd December 2022.
• Friday 2nd December 2022 – World Cup Football Tournament (Y3 vs Y4) and after school KS2 school disco.

We hope you all have a great weekend!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and enjoying the Winter sunshine this week.

So far, the children in Year Four have been enjoying taking part in gymnastics – we are currently learning how to balance, roll and create a group pose by sharing our weight to balance, and even counterbalance! As part of our World Cup learning, we have also been studing heuristic strategies in Maths, such as generating a table and using number codes in order to solve combination problems about different types of football kits.

In English, we have completed our Spider Information pages and we look forward to starting our learning on Anthony Browne’s The Tunnel. The children have already started to make links between their Guided Reading tasks on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, with the portal that is also present in The Tunnel story. We have looked closely at the following vocabulary words: journey, transformation, portal, transportation. Could you practise building these words on a morpheme grid at home? e.g. transform – transformed – transforming – transformation. Please see below for a fantastic example of a Spider information page, complete with editing flaps to self-correct and improve, from Year Four.

In Maths, we have completed our learning on adding and subtracting tenths, and we have started to use our place value grids to support our division of numbers by 10 and 100. The children have enjoyed learning about wholes, equal parts, tenths and hundredths and they have a secure knowledge of how to represent these values. Next week, we look forward to applying our learning across various contexts.

A few quick reminders for next week:

• Please continue to complete the reading passport challenge – the deadline to complete this task is Thursday 1st December 2022.
• Please ensure that your child continues to practise and log in to Times Table Rockstars, to best prepare them for the Y4 Multiplication Check in June.
• Children to complete their spelling, vocabulary and Maths tasks (red book) and reading journal activities (yellow book) by Friday 2nd November 2022.
• Year 1-6 Advent Service at Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville.

We wish you all a lovely weekend,

Take care,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all well and keeping safe. This week, the children have had a very busy week! In English, we have been drafting and editing our Spider Information pages – the children have worked so hard on generating a spooky, terrifying creature! We are very impressed by their use of nouns, pronouns, conjunctions and statistical information. Well done everyone!

In Maths, we have been studying tenths and hundredths – we began with the context of money, discussing how there are 100 pennies in a pound and 1 pence is a hundredth of the pound coin, with 10p being worth a tenth of 100 pence. As the week progressed, we looked closely at using various models and representations to prove our workings to add and subtract decimal fractions, e.g. bar models, number lines, part whole models, column method.

Here’s a few updates for next week:

• Please continue to complete the reading passport challenge – the deadline to complete this task is Thursday 1st December 2022.
• Please ensure that your child continues to practise and log in to Times Table Rockstars, to best prepare them for the Y4 Multiplication Check in June.
• Parents Evening sessions will take place on Tuesday 22nd November and Wednesday 23rd November 2022. We look forward to seeing you all there!

We hope that you all enjoy the rest of the week – wishing you a pleasant weekend!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hi everyone,

We hope that you are all doing well and having a great week, despite the weather recently!

This week, we have been creating our own sentences for our new unit of learning, Spider Diaries. We have focused on the following skills:

• Verbs and adverbs
• Main and subordinate clauses
• Spider nouns
• Subordinating conjunctions

As the week progressed, we used whiteboard work in order to practise generating our own sentences using technical vocabulary. We were very impressed by the children’s examples that they generated in teams! Please see the photo below…

In Maths, we have been using the bus stop method to help us divide 2 and 3 digit numbers. We have discussed remainders and what to do when there are ones left over at the end of our calculations. We have enjoyed using multiplication facts to help us decide how many ‘groups’ fit into each number.

A few reminders for next week:

• Odd Socks day on Monday 14th November – this will form part of our Anti Bullying Week. No donations are required, please just come to school wearing your odd socks!
• Whole School Flu vaccination – this will be in the form of a nasal spray and will take place on Wednesday 16th November.
• Please bring your red and yellow home learning books to school by Friday 18th November 2022.
• Continue to practise your Times Table Rockstars and daily reading.

Best wishes,

Year 4 Team

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all well and having a great week so far.

We had a great STEM day! The children made their own circuit games as part of their Science learning on electricity. We had a lot of fun! After studying and researching games, the children decided which components and electrical conductors and insulators they wished to use. We had lots of different themes for each game and Year Four had a lot of fun designing and evaluating them! Please see the photos below…

Have a wonderful half term break – please remind the children to complete their daily reading, Times Table Rockstar practice and their RE home learning on Catholic Social Teaching!

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hello everyone,

We hope that you are all having a pleasant week and that you have been enjoying the brief moments of Autumn sunshine we have had so far!

This week, the children in Year Three and Four celebrated Mass together at Sacred Heart Church with Father James. The theme of the service was fresh beginnings and blessings for special occasions in our lives. During the Homily, the children shared their ‘first time’ experiences, and we discussed how God is always with us when we begin new ventures and activities in our lives. Each pupil then received a special rosary to take home with them at the end of the day. Thank you to all parents and carers who volunteered and walked with the children to and from Church, and a big well done to the children for their readings and to Alonso for being a fantastic altar server! Please see images below…

In English, the children have continued their learning on ‘Leon and the Place Between’, studying new vocabulary words including ‘illusion, transformation and metamorphosis’. Using word webs, we broke down the words into morphemes, then looked up definitions and synonyms before applying each word into a sentence about the circus. In Maths, we have been using the inverse to ‘count up’ the difference to calculate the change from a £10 note when we buy two items in a shop. The children have used a range of strategies to interpret and solve these multi steps problems, including bar models, expanded column and number lines.

A few quick reminders for next week:

• Children to arrive to school on Monday 17th October in their PE kit.
• Last day of half term will be Friday 21st October.
• Please ensure that your child completes their home learning tasks in their red home learning book (spelling, vocabulary and maths) and hands in to their class teacher by Friday 21st October.
• Please continue to practise on Times Table Rockstars using the ‘sound check’ option, and complete daily reading at home (this could be using a book from your child’s reading passport).

We hope you all enjoy the rest of your week,

Best wishes,

Year Four Team

Hello everyone,

We hope that you have all been enjoying the week so far.

We have been enjoying lots of cross curricular learning in Year Four! We have been playing the xylophone in music and compsoing our own beats and rhythms to ABBA music. In Computing, we have been discussing internet safety and exploring case studies, sharing our views on what respect means and how we can demonstrate this towards others on the internet and keep ourselves safe online. Please take a look at the children’s responses, below:

In English, we have started our new unit of learning on ‘Leon and the Place Between’. The children have had lots of fun when taking part in paired reads from the story, using highlighters to complete their detective work and find clues from the extracts in order to infer how each character feels. In Maths, we have used a variety of strategies in order to add and subtract numbers, including place value grids, counters, diennes and mental maths techniques such as, ‘if I know 7 + 2, I know 70 + 20 and 700 + 200’. Next week, we look forward to learning about money and completing multi-step problems to calculate the amount of change left over at the end of a purchase.

Here’s a few quick reminders for next week:

• Tuesday 11th October 2022: Year 3 and 4 Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville. We would really appreciate if any parents or carers would like to join us and volunteer to walk to and from the Church with the children on this date.
• Please ensure your child brings completed tasks their yellow home reading journal (i.e. a book review on a text they are currently reading) and their red homework books (spelling, vocabulary and maths) by Friday 14th October.
• Glow Disco will be taking place at St. Peter’s on Friday 14th October – please do contact the office and check the school website for further details.

We hope you have a pleasant weekend and we look forward to seeing you all again on Monday,

Best wishes,

Year Four Team