Immanuel and St.

Andrew CE Primary School

Year 4 Class Bulletin
Term 1 September 2008

Dear Parents / Carers,

Welcome to Year 4’s Term 1 Class Bulletin! I can’t believe how quickly the summer holidays went by and
it’s now the start of a new academic year. I am very excited about teaching Year 4 this year and so far it’s
been fantastic.
As you are aware all the classes from Years 1 to 6 are going to be developing their creative curriculum this
year. I will be talking more about this in the meeting on Thursday 11th at 3pm so I hope to see you all
there. But for now it is suffice to say that our theme for this term is ‘Go for Gold!’ I will be basing all our
work around the Olympics to make it more exciting for the children. For example our science topic is
‘Keeping Healthy’ which ties in very well with the spirit of the Olympics. We will be looking at the history,
important events that have taken place and we are going to create our own Olympic logos for the 2012
Olympics and see if we can come up with something better!
If you have any questions, queries or concerns, please do contact me. I look forward to meeting those
parents that I have not yet had a chance to.
Omayma Laing
Email: omaymal@immanuel-st-andrew.lambeth.sch.uk

Topics this term Important Notes:

Homework will be given out on Monday

Literacy
Our unit for the first three weeks will be based
on writing recounts in the form of newspaper
and magazine articles. The children will analyse
and identify the features of recount texts based
on a real event. They will plan, draft and write a
newspaper article that contains both factual and
opinion based content. The latter part of the
term, we will focus on stories with historical
settings and the children will write their own
short stories set in the past, using their oral
stories to structure the written versions.
Numeracy
Each week we will be focusing on a different
aspect of number or topic work, based on the
National Numeracy Strategy.
RE
The Muslim way of life – Children will look at
the key beliefs and teachings of Islam, making
comparisons with Christianity. They will have the
opportunity to ask questions and suggest answers
about key aspects of Islam.
ICT
Writing for different audiences – In this unit
children learn that ICT can be used to organise,
I would appreciate your support in
improving our school attendance level
from 96.5% to 98%!
Lastly please make sure your children
are in the playground at 8:50am ready
and due back on Friday. It will include a
maths or a literacy task, times tables
and spellings each week. Some weeks an
extra piece of work will be set based on
one of the topics we are studying this
term.
Spellings – Children will have their
spelling test every Friday morning.
There will 40 spellings altogether.
Depending on your child’s ability, some
will just need to learn the first 10 words
(easiest), some will choose to learn the
first 20 words and some children may
choose to learn all 40 words.
PPA – I will not be in class on Wednesday
mornings as it is my PPA time (planning,
preparation and assessment time!). Mrs
White will be in class and she will focus
on Reading Comprehension skills in
literacy and teach the art unit for this
term.
Outdoor PE will be on Monday
afternoons. Kit required: navy shorts or
track suit bottoms, pale blue t-shirt.
Trainers.
Indoor PE will be on Thursday
afternoons. Kit required: navy shorts and
pale blue t-shirt. Trainers are optional.