St Mark Year 4
Welcome to Year 4 St. Mark
Our Lady guides us as we have fun learning together,
aiming to be the best that we can be!
Did you miss our assembly about the Olympics?
Click the image below to watch it!
Welcome back from Easter break!
We are now in our third and final term. Our first two terms seemed to have passed us by in the blink of an eye, but that is because it is true what they say, 'time flies when you are having fun' and that is what we work towards, our learning being FUN!
Expectations continue to be extremely high as children are now approaching their final weeks of Year 4 in preparation for Year 5.
This term I will really be encouraging and supporting those children who are still struggling with their times tables to 12 and I ask that you please assist them at home as well.
We have also introduced a new handwriting scheme called Letter Join. Children should be using this form of joined handwriting in ALL writing tasks both at school and home.
Thank you for your continued support, together we are the team that assists your child in doing their very best learning.
My name is Miss. Belmonte and I am the Year 4 teacher. This is my third academic year at Our Lady of Lourdes. Working alongside me is our Teaching Assistant, Ms. Marin and Mrs. Husbands, who provides one-to-one support. As a team we are all focused on, and dedicated to your child's academic progression and success!
As our school mission statement says, we work to the best of our ability and our learning should be fun. That is the plan for this year so please check back regularly for updates on classroom events, successes, activities, website links and pictures.
Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day Assembly
Click on the link below to watch our assembly to mark the feast day of our school.
https://videocentralhd.lgfl.org.uk/Play.aspx?id=SKTC22nMCh8aH0
Spring Term Curriculum Overview
Autumn Term Curriculum Overviews
WALK TO SCHOOL WEEK: these children started the week off on the right two feet :) ... If you normally take the bus, get off 2 stops early and walk, if you normally drive, park and walk part of the way, if you normally scoot or cycle, stop halfway and walk the rest, lets earn those points - it's competition time!!!
Year 4 Curriculum Map and Classroom Timetable
Irish Dancing with Year 4

Year 4 Science Mysteries!

LITERACY: this past Friday, children had the opportunity to consolidate all of the learning they have be participating in with Roman Britain and put it into letter format. It was quite the intense writing session as all children had PLENTY to say! Be sure to ask your child about their letter, and about what they have learnt!
Autumn 2015 Curriculum Letter
NUMERACY: Children took their measuring skills from the last lesson and extended them into measuring with metre sticks. We also ventured outside of the classroom to investigate the length and width of some playground equipment. Be sure to ask your child how accurate their estimates were to their actual measurements!
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Thursday 8th October 2015 from 3:45pm-6:00pm
Over the past few days Year 4 has been working on becoming 'International Entrepreneurs' in preparation for OLOL's International Festival evening. We have received a £10 loan from the school and accepted the challenge to make a product to sell on Thursday evening that will allow us to repay our £10 loan and also raise funds through profit for the PTA. We have been working very hard to prepare for this event and hope to see you there!
LITERACY: this week we have been focusing on the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Children have completed a reading comprehension all about Rugby and it's tournaments, they have explored the different cities in England that are hosting venues for this years World Cup and they have also used the iPads to research a selection of countries participating in the tournament. Be sure to ask your child about some of the interesting things they have learnt this week!
SCIENCE: Children began working with Classification Keys, not only did they use a classification key to identify themselves within a group of children, but we also worked as a group to create an identification key for basic shapes and then expanded our knowledge onto different species ... ask your child what sort of questions their group was asking in order to classify living things.
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Maths Magician a useful website for your child to practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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Numeracy Games Computer time can still be learning time! These are some numeracy games that children can play at home.
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Spelling and Grammar Literacy Games that can be used to encourage home learning.
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Time Game BBC Game on telling time with multiple choice options
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Time Game 2 Children move the hands on the clock to correspond with the time requested by the game
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Billy Bug co-ordinate practice