Year 4 - Blwyddyn 4

Welcome to Year 4

Croeso i Flwyddyn 4

Class Teacher/Athro: Mrs Anderson

TA's/AC: Mr Davies

PPA Teacher/Athrawes CPA: Mrs Evans

Gwybodaeth Y Dosbarth-Class Information

                                                                        Pwy sy eisiau ffrwyth?

FRUIT / Ffrwyth

Every morning, the children may buy a healthy snack for 30p. The Year 6 children wash and sell the fruit and count our earnings. We use any profit to buy some special extras for the children in their lessons.

WATER BOTTLES/ Poteli Dwr

We are trying to reduce the number of bottles we throw away so are

encouraging the children to bring a water bottle to school or buy a Greenway one for £1.50, available from the school office. They may fill it at the fresh water fountain. They can keep this in class and re hydrate throughout the day.

PE/Ymarfer Corff

Tuesdays– Outdoors

We will have our PE session on a Tuesday. As these sessions will be outdoors can the children please wear appropriate clothing. As the session is towards the end of the day, they can wear their kit home rather than changing back into their uniform.

‘Fun Fitness & Wellbeing’

We will do this every afternoon for 10 minutes a day. The children will get fit and feel good in a fun way!

Homework/ Gwaith Cartref

Homework will be given out on a Monday. This will consist of; Spelling plus either, Literacy, Numeracy or Context. 

Please return this on the Friday to be marked.

Each Monday the children may choose a book from a large selection in our library to bring home. Please return them as soon as they have finished so another can be chosen.

Diolch!

This term's topic:

Bright Sparks

Bright Sparks

Gwreichion Llachar

For our summer term, Blwyddyn 4 will be learning all about geniuses, nature, renewable energy and amazing inventions. As a class, we held a meeting to discuss what we would like to learn about. The pupil's voices were heard!

Some of the topics we will be looking at include:

• Genius - what is a genius? How have they shaped the way we live? 

• Inventions - what inventions have had the greatest impact on the human race?

• The wonder of nature - what forces are involved? How does nature impact our planet?

• Renewable energy - what ways are we sourcing our energy? what will the future look like?

Context-Cyd Destun

This term we shall be learning all about the world around us, in our exciting topic: Bright Sparks!

This is a Science & Humanities topic, linking to all areas of the curriculum.

Using ‘pupil voice’, children have discussed what they want to learn. They will be taking part in ‘missions’ to discover lots of new skills. The children have decided that they would like to 

Homework Gwaith Cartref

This will be given out on a Monday.  It will consist of: Spelling plus either, Literacy, Numeracy, or Context.

Please return it on the Friday to be marked.

Each Monday the children may choose a book from a large selection in our library to bring home unless they'd like to continue reading the one they already have. Please return books as soon as they are finished so another can be chosen.

How you can help your child

Listen to them read or encourage them to read books, comics, magazines or newspapers independently.

Support them to do research on a theme, to work out maths questions or to learn spellings for homework.

Send them to school every day!

All passwords are in the homework books.

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