Burps, Bottoms and Bile… our memorable experience for Autumn term

16th September 2019Mrs J Peel

Year 4 were visited by a local dentist who spoke to the children about the importance of looking after your teeth. Anthea and Jane worked with children discussing the various types of teeth humans have and what happens to them as we grow up. We looked at good and bad foods for your teeth and how to keep them healthy. We were all fascinated to find out exactly what happens every day in the surgery and the different jobs a dentist has to carry out. Year 4 really impressed them both with their knowledge of teeth and hygiene and they couldn’t believe how much they had learned already! Well done us! The pupils were given a goody bag and a chance to try on some dental gloves….a highlight for most!

Thank you to Anthea and Jane from {my} dentist in Hebburn. You were brilliant with all of the children and they had a wonderful afternoon.

Welcome to Year 4!

6th September 2019Mrs J Peel

I can’t believe it’s the start of Autumn term already! I hope you’ve all had a lovely summer with your family and friends and are feeling refreshed and ready to go! We are delighted to be back with all your wonderful children ready to start a brand new term in school. We have lots to look forward to this year and I look forward to seeing the pupils shine and make the progress they are capable of.

Our topic this term is Burps, Bottoms and Bile… so lots of weird and wonderful facts and vocabulary for us to have a giggle about. We will be learning about teeth, the digestive system as well as staying fit and healthy. The children will be visited by a local dentist who will talk to them about the importance of looking after your teeth. We will be carrying out various experiments to show the children exactly what happens when you don’t look after them…Toothbrushes at the ready!

Our English worked will be closely linked to our topic and we will be reading the horror that is Demon Dentist by David Walliams. Year 4 will be focusing on spelling and vocabulary this year to further develop and enhance the children’s writing skills. Can I take this opportunity to remind you of the importance of reading at home with your children. Sharing a book with your child is fun – it’s a time for closeness, laughing and talking together. Reading exposes our children to different styles, voices, genres and vocabulary and as a result helps to improve their independent writing. The children will read with an adult each week and we will look closely at their reading skills using our ever popular Accelerated Reading scheme. This has worked well to improve children’s reading and encouraged those children not as keen to read to pick up a book and have a go.

Maths in Year 4 is more important than ever as we have the statutory multiplication check to do in June 2020. It is important the children practise their tables at home as well as school and we would be grateful for parental support with this. In school we will be using games, songs, quizzes and chants to continue to develop their knowledge. Our focus in maths this term is Number and Place Value, where the pupils will learn Roman Numerals, begin to round numbers and compare and order numbers to 1000.

We will continue to use Seesaw to keep you up to date with what the children are up to in class and around school. If you need any logins or passwords please contact the main office for support.

Points to note,

  • Swimming is a Thursday afternoon
  • P.E is a Friday afternoon
  • Reading books and reading journals must be in school everyday
  • Please send a water bottle to school for your child (plain, still water only)
  • Homework (when set) will be sent out on a Wednesday to be returned no later than the following Monday
  • Please use Weduc for any communication (or catch us on the door on a morning)
  • Miss Summers will be working in Year 4 on a Monday and I will be in Tuesday to Friday.

As always, we will work hard to provide your children with the most stimulating and invigorating curriculum providing them with a safe and nurturing environment to work in. We aim to use a variety of teaching tools and resources to deliver a broad and balanced curriculum that makes learning fun and raises standards.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Peel & Miss Summers

A Viking Trader Visits Year 4!

16th March 2018B Beadling

 

As part of our new Cornerstones topic, ‘Traders & Raiders,’

we were fortunate enough to have a special visitor for our memorable experience – Sif the Viking trader!

Sif was a real beacon of knowledge for all things Viking and Anglo-Saxon. She dressed us up in the finest fashion garments – including some rather unsightly underwear! We also got to have a go at milling our own flour, all while learning about what the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons loved to eat the most.

The highlight of our memorable experience was definitely learning about how the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons liked to fight. We were introduced to some of the best weapons they had to offer, Sif even allowed us to carefully handle them.

A fantastic day was topped off with the retelling of a Viking saga, which gave us all goosebumps. A huge thank you to Tanya from ‘Women from the Past’ for such a great day.

 

Year 4 does Bede-fest

By B Beadling15th September 2017

Year 4 have started to learn about our new topic, Playlists. Our new Cornerstones curriculum encourages fun and exciting topic learning and each topic starts with a memorable experience. As our learning will be centred around music of the 20th Century, what better way to kick things off than with our very own school music festival!

After we arrived dressed as our favourite musicians, we began our day with a jamming session with Mr Mac, who kindly brought in an array of instruments for the children to have a go at playing. Throughout the day we enjoyed a song lyric quiz, crossword treasure hunt and a good old game of musical chairs (with a 20th Century playlist to match!)

The headliners of the festival were the fantastic Little Moth, who came to our school hall to give us a live performance. Jen and Tony played us a mix of old and new music with a bit of music history along the way – what a treat! The children really enjoyed their astounding performance (as did myself and Mr Mac).

Year 4 learnt about the music their grown-ups have grown up with and I learnt a few new dance moves along the way. It’s certainly not a day we will forget.

 

Watch out Glastonbury! 

Day 6 with Year 4

16th June 2017Mr M Ferraro

On Monday Year 4 were lucky enough to have our Chinese visitors finally join them.

During the day they built Towers in mixed groups to see who could build the tallest structure. They also showed their guests some of the games they play in there PE lessons which everyone had a great go at.

It was a fantastic experience learning with all the new students and teachers and I hope we get to experience it again in the future.

Summer Term for Year 4

By J Summers14th April 2016

11 April 2016

Dear Parent/Guardian

I hope you all had a lovely holiday – here is a quick update on the curriculum for the summer term.

English – We begin the term reading and developing a drama, and then our own writing, based on “Gregory Cool”, a book set in Tobago. Ancient Egyptian Myths and legends will be explored and used to progress our grammar and reading skills. We will also be writing an argument, here the children will develop the skills of expressing two points of view and read non-fiction texts. Spellings: The children will continue to learn a new spelling rule/pattern each week which they will practice daily at school. As last term, homework will be written their reading journal and will involve the children learning any spellings they found hard in class this week. Please check reading journals weekly and initial the spelling when your child has learnt them.  Reading: Please continue to read at home with your child and record how they did or what they thought in their journal. It would be great if they could read for 15 minutes a day. Children can read their school or a home book.

P.E. – Year 4 are lucky to benefit from a gymnastics coach this term and we also hope to choreograph and perform an Egyptian dance. We will also be learning tennis skills and using our new nets. P.E. kits will be needed on Mondays and Wednesdays for the rest of the year.

Maths –  I am delighted that most of Year 4 now know all of their times tables. Homework will continue to be weekly focusing on improving speed of recall in mixed tables. In lessons we will be developing the children’s reasoning and problem solving skills and that is currently being applied in a time context. Later children will use all four operations, selecting the best appropriate methods, to solve problems. We will also be developing our understanding of measurement; converting different units of measure and calculating area and perimeter.

Science – We will be exploring living things, their habitats and food chains. This will include a visitor bringing in many small creatures for the children to view, hold and discuss. The children should understand different classifications of animals e.g. mammal, vertebrates and that environments change and that this can sometimes pose dangers for animals and plants.

Topic – We are very excited to be studying the Ancient Egyptians this term. We will be using our history skills to investigate different sources to build a picture of events in Egyptian life focusing on Egyptian Gods, Pharaohs, mummification, tombs and inventions. We will also develop our geography skills locating Ancient Egypt on maps and in a timeline, as well as exploring how the natural landscape helped the success of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.

Computing – We are all looking forward to our day trip where we will be programming using Wii Lego and robots. The children will also create a movie and develop a database on Egyptian Gods.

Music – The children will use the iPads to compose their own songs.  We will also be exploring instruments used and the music made in Ancient Egyptian times.

D/T & art – Our artistic work will relate to our topic; we will make a papyrus picture which depicts ancient Egyptian life, write using hieroglyphs and design, make and evaluate an Egyptian shaduf.

I am really enjoying teaching this class and hope your child is making good progress and enjoying  Year 4. If however you have any questions or issues feel free to catch me in the playground at home time or in the morning or leave a message at the main office. I look forward to sharing the years progress in your child’s report this term.

Kind Regards

Miss Summers

Year 4 Class Teacher

Sing Up Day

By Mr G Mcintosh4th February 2016

Yesterday was the national ‘sing up’ day and, as you would expect, we got heavily involved at Bede Burn!

The children were visited by Charlotte and Jack from the Sing Up organisation and they spent the morning visiting the classes and singing with each year group.  The teachers stayed in their rooms and each class visited to sing a song in every room in the school.  We then gathered together to sing the ‘Sing Up Anthem’ in the hall.

The day was rounded off by our attempt at a flash mob song after school!

For those of you on twitter, check out @SingUpChar she has posted some very complimentary tweets about her day with us!

There is a gallery of photographs here.

Hopefully there will be some video clips below this post soon!

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