Year 4

WELCOME TO YEAR 4

Here you will find your weekly Home Learning Tasks.

Friday 5th April 2019

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 8th April 2019).

Group 1 and 2: 'ible' or 'able'

horrible

terrible

responsible

incredible 

reversible

available

believable

enjoyable

valuable

breakable

Group 3: + 'less' 

hopeless

painless

useless

tuneless

fearless

breathless

thankless

Group 4a - 'e' 'ee' 'ea' 'e-e' sound

become

evening

between

creep

three

peach

dream

these

here

breeze

Group 4b - 'oo' sound

tool

pool

school

cool

stool

fool

proof

boot

soon

shoot

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 1st April 2019).

Group 1 and 2: root word

apology - apologise

length - lengthen

pure - purify

advert - advertise 

glory - glorify

Group 3: + 'ful' adverbs 

wishful

hopeful

painful

forgetful

hateful

joyful

grateful 

powerful

colourful

Group 4a - 'a' sound

space 

spade

again

train

today

delay

they

grey

acorn

apron

Group 4b - 'oo' sound

foot

wood

look

stood

cook

shook

crook

wool 

good

Friday 15th March 2019

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Completing your Sleep Diary.

Please bring your home learning books and Sleep Diary back next week.

Sleep Diary 

Our topic this term is Blood bones and Gory Bits (The Human Body and Keeping Healthy).

This week we are all going to complete a Sleep Diary to investigate how well we sleep and if what we do before we go to sleep/eat and drink in the day will affect our sleep patterns.

*If you lose you Diary you can download another from the link below.

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 18th March 2019).

Group 1 and 2: root word

pollen - pollinate

medicine - medicate

apology - apologise

length - lengthen 

depth - deepen 

pure - purify 

Group 3: + 'ly' adverbs 

kindly 

friendly

weekly

homely

lonely 

nearly 

freely 

boldly

calmly

cleverly

Group 4a - 'ou' sound

noun 

house

shout

sound

about

proud

round

count

ground

found

Group 4b - 'i' and 'y' sound

item

irate

pilot

final 

silent

shy

apply

deny 

identify 

multiply

Friday 8th February 2019

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Welsh poetry practise.

Please bring your home learning books and book bags back next week.

Welsh poetry

*Go to the Eisteddfod link above*

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 11th February 2019).

Group 1 & 2 – root word spellings

pollen - pollinate

apology - apologise

length - lengthen

depth - deepen

beauty - beautify

Group 3 – drop the 'y' for an 'i' and add 'es' 

baby - babies

fly - flies

berry - berries

jelly - jellies

puppy - puppies

Group 4a – revision of sounds

winter

number

servant

her

charm

art

cork

short

north 

Group 4b – revision of sounds

 darn 

sharp

star

verb

silver

herb

born

sort

cornet

Friday 1st February 2019

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and R.E.

Please bring your home learning books and book bags back next week.

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**Keep practising your times tables**

Use the link below to use great online games to practise and challenge yourself by choosing x and ÷ games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables 

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R.E

Introduction to Islam

This week we began our new R.E topic Introduction to Islam. We are so lucky to have children of different faiths in our school and that we are able to share and learn about each other's faith.

• What can you find out about Islam? 
• What differences are there between Islam and another faith (e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism...)
• Think about: Places of worship, prayer, festivals, who followers pray to...

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 4th February 2019).

Group 1 & 2 – ‘ear’ spellings

Group 3 – ‘es’ to make a plural

witch – witches

dish – dishes

box – boxes

brush – brushes

march – marches

Group 4a – revision of sounds

winter

number

servant

her

charm

art

cork

short

north

Group 4b – revision of spellings

torch

short

horse

dinner

winter

after

never

start

smart

charm

Thursday 24th January 2019

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Literacy.

Please bring your home learning books and book bags back next week.

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**Keep practising your times tables**

Use the link below to use great online games to practise and challenge yourself by choosing x and ÷ games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables 

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Literacy

Write your own recipe to make the magical green crystals from James and the Giant Peach

James was promised that the magical green crystals in the white paper bag would improve his miserable life.

This is the recipe we read to make the crystals:

Green Crystal Recipe

1. Boil one thousand crocodile tongues in the skull of a dead witch for twenty days and twenty nights.

2. Mix in lizard eyeballs.

3. Add the fingers of a monkey, pig gizzards, a parrot's beak, porcupine juice, and three spoonfuls of sugar.

4. Rest and stew the potion for a week.

I wonder how weird and wonderful your recipes will be!

What will your recipe be?

What colour will your crystals be?

What ingredients will you use?

How will you cook the ingredients?  

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 28th January 2019).

Group 1 - 'ough' letters

*Remember these are tricky! Check the sound they go with and try to make sentences for each word.

Group 3 - 'es' plurals

bush - bushes

glass - glasses

watch - watches

church - churches

fox - foxes

Group 4a - second letter sounds

glad

from

twig

plan

snap

crab

skip

spin

skin

grip

Group 4b - 'or' sound

corn

for

torch

horse

short

port

cord

born

sort

cornet

Friday 18th January 2019

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Maths.

Please bring your home learning books and book bags back next week.

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**Keep practising your times tables**

Use the link below to use great online games to practise and challenge yourself by choosing x and ÷ games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables 

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Maths

This week we have been using fact families to solve division questions.

Use the fact family example below to help you set out your answers.

Questions:

Starter

2 x 3 =                      12 ÷ 3 = 

5 x 4 =                      15 ÷ 5 =

6 x 8 =                      20 ÷ 5 =

9 x 4 =                      16 ÷ 4 =

Challenge

12 x 5 =                    27 ÷ 3 =

13 x 4 =                    24 ÷ 8 =

 9 x 7 =                    58 ÷ 7 =

7  x 11 =                  132 ÷ 12 =

      Use this layout to help you     

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 21st January 2019).

Group 1 - 'igh' letters

night 

fight

right

light

bright

slight

fright

height

weight

eight

Group 3 - plurals

game - games

table - tables

tune - tunes

rope - ropes

change - changes

file - files

phone - phones

stone - stones

Group 4a - second letter sounds

swim

twig

skin

spin

stop

skip

spot

stand

snip

snap

Group 4b - 'er' sound

dinner

winter

her

verb

herb

kerb

term

after

silver

never

Friday 11th January 2019

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Literacy.

Please bring your home learning books and book bags back next week.

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**Keep practising your times tables**

Use the link below to use great online games to practise and challenge yourself by choosing x and ÷ games.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables 

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Literacy 

This week we have started reading James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. 

You home learning task this week is to make a character profile of James.

What do I need to include?

Draw a picture of James and around him write down facts about him and what his problems are.

Think of why he has to live with Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge and how he feels.

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 11th January 2019).

Group 1 - silent letters

know

knot

knight

lamb

comb

crumb

write

wreck

wriggle

wrong

Group 3 - plurals

pen - pens

book - books

toy - toys

cup - cups

pond - ponds

school - schools

pocket - pockets

Group 4a and 4b - 'sh' sound

ship

shed

dash

shelf

shut

brush

blush

crash

dish

smash

Friday 14th December 2018

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Literacy

Please bring your home learning books and book bags back next week.

Literacy - Kennings Poem

This week in Year 4 we have been learning about how to write a Kennings poem. Your home learning task this week is to write a Christmas Kennings poem. 

You could write about anything to do with Christmas. For example:

Jesus

Father Christmas 

A Christmas tree

A reindeer 

Tinsel 

Snow

...it's YOUR choice!

Remember the success criteria we made in class:

I must include:

• A or An at the start
• A noun or adjective 
• An 'er' verb
• Thought provoking ideas (does it make the reader think?) 
• At least 8 lines

I could also include:

• Alliteration
• Humour

Here is an example of a Kennings poem:

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 17th December 2018).

Group 1 and 2 – irregular plurals

person - people

foot - feet

sheep - sheep 

goose - geese

Group 3 - double consonant and add 'ed'

drop - dropped

grab - grabbed

stop - stopped

slip - slipped

hug - hugged

Group 4a – ‘th’ sound

thin

then

them

this

that

cloth

with

moth

bath

path

Group 4b – review ‘ar’ ‘er’ ‘or’ sounds

smart

charm

hard

herb

after

clever

cord

short

sport

Thursday 6th December 2018

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Topic.

Please bring your home learning books and book bags back next week.

Maths

This week we have looked at how we can use our knowledge of number facts to multiply bigger numbers.

e.g. If I know that 2 x 5 = 10, I know that 2 x 50 = 100.

Complete the cards below using your knowledge of doubling, halving and multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000.

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 10th December 2018).

Group 1 and 2 – irregular plurals

man – men

mouse – mice

woman – women

tooth – teeth

child - children

Group 3 - 'ed' past tense

rush – rushed

hiss – hissed

wash – washed

touch – touched

miss – missed

Group 4a – ‘ch’ sound

chin

chop

chips

chill

chat

much

such

lunch

rich

bench

Group 4b – review ‘ar’ ‘er’ ‘or’ sounds

start

march

park

term

never

silver

corn

torch

horse

Friday 30th November 2018

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Topic

Topic - What happend to Pompeii?

This week we have looked at what happened to the Roman city of Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted.

Your home learning task this week is to write a diary entry about the day Pompeii was hit by the eruption. 

Use the video animation we watched in class to remind you of what we thought we would see, hear, feel, taste, smell and think.

How to start your diary entry:

Date: 24th August 79AD

Location: Pompeii, Italy

Dear Diary,

Something is not right! I haven't felt the ground tremble like this before...

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 3rd December 2018).

Group 1 and 2 - 'f' to 'v' plurals

half - halves

wolf - wolves

life - lives

calf - calves

scarf - scarves

Group 3 - 'ed' past tense 

cook - cooked

play - played

jump - jumped

work - worked

look - looked

Group 4a - 'sh' sound

shot

ship

shed

shell

shut

shift

brush

crash

dish

wish

Group 4b - 'or' sound

corn

cord

for

sport

short

torch

horse

sort

pork

Friday 23rd November 2018

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Maths

Maths - Finding the area of 2-D shapes

This week we have been learning how to find the area of rectangles and squares and how to multiply 2-digit numbers.

 *Remember*

• To find the area of the shape multiply the length and the width of the shape.

• To multiply 2-digit numbers use the box method (present method). 

Activity:

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence?

You will be tested next week (week beginning 26th November 2018).

Group 1 and 2 - 'f' to 'v' plurals

theif - thieves

leaf - leaves

knife - knives

loaf - loaves

wife - wives

Group 3 - 'ed' past tense 

save - saved

love - loved 

note - noted

bathe - bathed

dance - danced

*Group 4's homework spellings are different to the ones practised in class - this is a revision of last week's spellings or to introduce new words with the same spelling pattern. 

Group 4a - review of 2nd sound

grip

grub

swim

spin

stop

drop

trip

skin

snip

grit

Group 4b - 'er' sound

her

sister

herb

kerb

mister

silver

 winter

never

river

under

enter

Friday 18th November 2018

This week you have two home learning tasks - Spellings and Topic (The Romans)

Topic - The Romans

What can you find out about the Romans?

Think about the different subjects we discussed in class that we can research. Choose three different subjects from the list we made class and see what you can find out about the Romans:

Clothes

Food

Sports

Children

Health

Entertainment

Inventions

Buildings and Cities 

Roman Army

Weapons

Romans in Wales

Roman Enemies

Strengths and Weaknesses

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing a spelling strategy of your choice.

Can you use your new spellings in a sentence.

You will be tested next week (week beginning 19th November 2018).

*Why not try the scrabble spelling trick and find which word has the highest score:

 Example: 

                   b e r r y                          b e r r i e s

                   3 1  1  1  4 = 10                3  1  1  1 1 1 1 = 9

           Berry has a higher scrabble score than berries.

Group 1 and 2 - plurals (cross off 'y' and add 'ies'

berry - berries

jelly - jellies

city - cities

baby - babies

body - bodies

cry - cries

Group 3 - le

double

trouble

bible

grumble

humble

horrible

terrible

example

simple

purple

Group 4a - 2nd sound

grip

grub

swim

spin

stop

drop

trip

skin

snip

grit

Group 4b - ar sound

farm

park

cart

chart

card

start

charm

smart

hard

march

Friday 19th October 2018

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing an activity e.g. pyramid, look, cover, write, scrabble spellings or write them in a sentence. You will be tested next week (week beginning 22nd October 2018).

Group 1 and 2 - homophones

saw - sore

rain - rein - reign

heal - heel
draw - drawer

hair - hare

Group 3 - le

candle

handle

needle

noodle

poodle

bundle

able

table

Group 4a - l sound

glad

flap

club

plan

flat

plum

slug

slim

plug
flag

Group 4b - reviewing sounds

queen

pie

untied

cried

coast

cloak

faint

Friday 12th October 2018

Poetry - Acrostic Poems

For your home learning task this week I would like you to combine what we have been learning in Welsh and Literacy this week- Pwnciau Ysgol (School Subjects) and Acrostic Poems.

My home learning task:

Write an acrostic poem about a school subject and use the Welsh word for that subject as your main them.

For example: Celf = Art

Creative ways to express yourself.

Everyone can make their own art.

Lovely colours and textures.

Freedom to use different materials.

Welsh Subjects

(Pwnciau Ysgol)

Friday 12th October 2018

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing an activity e.g. pyramid, look, cover, write, pneumonics or write them in a sentence. You will be tested next week (week beginning 15th October 2018).

Group 1 and 2 - homophones

by - buy - buy

for - four

need - knead

some - sum

which - witch

Group 3 - le

uncle

cycle

icicle

obstacle

miracle

circle

bicycle

Group 4a - reviewing sound

sand

rest

next

jump

help

kept

band

fact

left

text

Group 4b - ue sound

blue

glue

rescue

continue

true

Friday 5th October 2018

Science - Air resistance

This week Year 4 have been investigating what air resistance is and how different sizes and weights of objects falling causes more air resistance. 

Home Learning Task

Eddie the Egg has jumped out of a plane without his parachute!!!

You need to design and create a parachute for him so that he doesn't crack when he lands.

TIPS:

• Complete your experiment using a hard boiled egg first and then test it with a non-boiled egg.
• Make sure you drop the egg in an outside area and put a plastic sheet on the floor in case the egg breaks.

Answer these questions as you go along to help gather your thoughts and ideas:

1.What equipment will I need?

2.How did I make the parachute?

3.What is my prediction? (What do I think will happen?)

4.What happened when I dropped the parachute?

5.What could I do to make my parachute better? 

Take photos of your experiment and bring them in with your parachute to show the class! 

Friday 5th October 2018

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing an activity e.g. pyramid, look, cover, write, or write them in a sentence. You will be tested next week (week beginning 8th October 2018).

Group 1 and 2 - homophones

beech - beach

key - quay

bear - bare

mail - male

pair - pear

Group 3 - double letters

bubble

ripple

paddle

cuddle

sizzle

wiggle

bobble

Group 4a - pt/xt/ct sound

kept

wept

next

text

tact

act

Group 4b - oa sound

road

coal

float

coast

toad

oats

loaf

stoat

cloak

soap

Friday 28th September 2018

Maths Home Learning - Subtraction

This week we have been working on subtraction using a number line. Remember, we’ve been finding the difference by jumping on a number line.

Here are some examples to help you:

Example 1 - Subtracting from 2-digit numbers.

Example 2 - Subtracting from 3-digit numbers.

What if I have to count past another 100 number?

No problem! Count up in hundreds like this:

Home learning task

TLQ: How do I use the line method to subtract?

Choose which level you would like to start with and challenge yourself to try the next step.

Friday 28th September 2018

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing an activity e.g. pyramid, look, cover, write, or write them in a sentence. You will be tested next week (week beginning 1st October 2018).

Group 1 and 2 - homophones

hole - whole

flour - flower

grate - great

cell - sell

cheep - cheap

Group 3 - double letters

battle

cattle

nettle

middle

muddle

puddle

apple

giggle

little

bottle

Group 4a - m, f, l sound

jump

camp

ramp

left

sift

rift

help

golf

self

Group 4b - ie

pie

untie

cried

Thursday 20th September 2018

Topic Home Learning Activity

Year 4 went on a fantastic trip to the Newport Transport Bridge this week. During and after the trip they learnt a lot about when, how and why the bridge was made.

This week your home learning task is to go on a Bridge Hunt.

What do I do?

Go on a bridge hunt with your grown-ups around the local area, taking photographs or drawing pictures of the bridge to show your class.

• What types of bridges have you seen?
• What materials are they made out of?
• Choose the most interesting bridge you found and see what you can discover about it online.

Thursday 20th September 2018

Spellings

Here are your new spellings.  Please practice them at home by completing an activity e.g. pyramid, look, cover, write, or write them in a sentence. You will be tested next week (week beginning 24th September 2018).

Group 1 and 2

                                                         be bee

                                                  see sea

                                                  new knew

                                                 write right

through threw

Group 3

                                              needle bible

                                              ladle steeple

                                             people noodle

                                               poodle table

fable beetle

Group 4a

keep

queen

need

feet

sweep

sheet

teeth

green

tree

sheep

Group 4b

wind

pond

mend

can't

rent

hand

sent

and

WELCOME TO YEAR 4

Here you will find your weekly Home Learning Tasks.

Friday 14th September 2018

Spellings

Choose to use either the 'pyramid' method or 'look, cover, read, write, check' method below to practise your spellings. Then write a sentence for each new spelling to show you have understood the meaning.

e.g.       two - I have two brothers called Tom and Bob.

You will be tested on Thursday 20th September 2018.

Pyramid Method                                                             Look, Cover, Read, Write, Check

l                                                          length    length    length    length 

le                                                                         

len

leng

lengt

length

Friday 7th September 2018

Energetic Engineers - If I Built a Car

In our topic this term we will be looking at how to build a car to cross a bridge. 

Today we read the story If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen. We talked about the different features of the car and have started designing our own cars!

Your Topic Home Learning Task this week is to design and label your own car 

Watch this video of the story being read aloud to help you design your own car:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgEPZwfPBk 

Below is a picture of what labelling parts of a car looks like.

You can also draw the inside of the car like this to show all the amazing features you design:

Thursday 6th September 2018

Spellings

Today we looked at two different spelling methods to learn our new topic words for our topic ENERGETIC ENGINEERS!

Choose to use either the 'pyramid' method or 'look, cover, read, write, check' method below to practise your spellings. You will be tested on Wednesday 12th September.

Pyramid Method                                                             Look, Cover, Read, Write, Check

l                                                          length    length    length    length 

le                                                                        ✔✔✔✔✔✔     ✔✔✔✔✔✔    ✔✔✔✔✔✔   len

leng

lengt

length

Spelling group words:

Group 1, 2, 3                                                                            Group 4

School and Eco Councillors

This week we have been looking at the qualities to be a good School or Eco Councillor.

If you want to be a School or Eco Councillor you can give a presentation in front of the class tomorrow and share why you think you should be given the role.

To help your presentation you can...

...write a speech telling us why you should be chosen.

...make a poster showing us why you should be chosen.

...make a powerpoint presentation showing us why you should be chosen.

Reading Record Booklets

In your Book Bags you will find a small blue Reading Record booklet. Every time you read at home with an adult or older sibling have them write in your book to show how well you read  You could read to your parents, sister, brother, aunty, uncle, grandparents....and more!

Adults, when filling in the record please write the date, the title of the book, how many pages were read and a nice comment.

E.g.

06.09.18

James and the Giant Peach

Pages 1-10

Lovely reading today Sarah! 

These are your spelling words to learn at home by completing an activity.  You will be tested on them w/c 21/5/18.

Group 1 and 2

misread

misfortune

misinform

misplace

exclaim

exile

export

explode

retry

retake

return

replay

Group 3

big - bigger- biggest

thin - thinner - thinnest

hot - hotter - hotest

sad - sadder- saddest

wet - wetter - wettest

Group 4

chain

trail

sheep

green

cried

untie

coast

coach

continue

rescue

For the first two weeks of the new term (commencing 16/04/2018) Year 4 are going swimming in the Cardiff international pool. They will need to bring swim wear and a towel (goggles if you have them) to school everyday. 

They shall return just before lunch. 

These are your spelling words to learn at home by completing an activity.  You will be tested on them w/c 12/3/18.

Group 1 and 2

kind/kindness

cold/coldness

pretty/prettiness

lazy/laziness

curious/curiosity

Group 3

kindly

friendly

weekly

homey

lonely

nearly

freely

boldly

calmly

cleverly

Group 4

pain

jail

tail

claim

snail

mail

drain

plain

chain

trail

Year 4 these are your new spelling words.  Please learn them by completing an activity of your choice.  You will be tested on them w/c 05/02/2018

Group 1 + 2

educate - education

create - creation

stupid - stupidity

hard - hardness

happy - happiness

Group 3

school + s

pocket + s

brush + es

 baby (drop the y) +  ies

berry (drop the y) + ies

witch + es

glass + es

tune + s

Group 4

blush

crash

dish

much

chest

thud

cloth

that

bring

bunch

A land of rugged mountains

A land of finest state

The sound of rushing rivers

Gives us cause to celebrate.

A land of ancient forests

Green valleys, grazing sheep

Gives the people of St David

A land they wish to keep.

Follow the red dragon flag

In parades led by Welsh bands

Raise voices in the choirs

To salute this lovely land.

For here in Wales, or far away

The Welsh remember still

And on St David’s day with pride

Wear leek or daffodil.

By Brenda Williams

Year 4 these are your new spelling words.  Please learn them by completing an activity of your choice.  You will be tested on them w/c 12/2/18

Group 1 & 2

pollen - pollinate

apology - apologise

length - lengthen

depth - deepen

beauty - beautify

Group 3 (y + ies)

baby babies

fly flies

berry berries

jelly jellies

puppy puppies

Group 4

smash

shed

brush

lunch

chips

them

then

with

this

Year 4 our song for the Eisteddfodd is Cyfri'r Geifr (Oes Gafr Eto).

Here are the lyrics so you can practice at home to show off those amazing singing voices to your families!

First verse

Oes gafr eto?

Oes heb ei godro?

Ar y creigiau geirwon

Mae’r hen afr yn crwydro.

Chorus

Gafr wen, wen, wen.

Ie finwen, finwen, finwen.

Foel gynffonwen, foel gynffonwen,

Ystlys wen a chynffon

wen, wen, wen.

(First Verse)

Second Chorus

Gafr goch, goch, goch.

Ie fingoch, fingoch, fingoch.

Foel gynffongoch, foel gynffongoch,

Ystlys goch a chynffon goch, goch, goch.

(First Verse)

Third Chorus

Gafr las, las, las.

Ie finlas, finlas, fin las.

Foel gynffonlas, foel gynffonlas,

Ystlys las a chynffon las, las, las.

Year 4 these are your new spelling words.  Please learn them by completing an activity of your choice.  You will be tested on them w/c 5/2/18

Group 1 & 2

bear

fear

hear

tear

wear

clear

dreary

earth

learn

heart

Group 3

witch/es

dish/es

box/es

brush/es

march/es

Group 4

bang

sing

long

cling

swing

bring

string

strong

sling

song

Spellings for this week 

Group 1&2

practicing the 'igh' sound

night

fight

right

light

bright

slight

fright

eight

weight

height

Group 3

game/s

table/s

tune/s

rope/s

change/s

Group 4

such

much

chop

chat

chips

lunch

chill

rich

chest

bunch

To help us gain an insight into what it was like to be Roman and what they got up to we had a wonderful time exploring Caerleon, the Roman Fortress. We marveled at the Roman baths and pretended we were Gladiators in the Amphitheatre. We explored the museum and became Roman soldiers and school children.

To help us learn all about team work we ventured on a trip out to Storey Arms. This trip would test our co-operation and team work ability but we still managed to have lots of fun. We enjoyed working together and learning outside of the classroom. We completed a wobbly maze, crane skills and orienteering.

We have just started our new topic of the Romans and we were very lucky to have Evan Chapman come into school to talk to us all about the Romans and what they did. 

We asked him lots of tricky questions.

We have recently finished our topic of 'Energetic Engineers' where we looked at forces and their effects. 

We then created toys out of recycled plastic bottles to demonstrate our understanding of construction and knowledge of how to create a circuit. We tested them and showed them to Year 3 of how they worked and how we made them. 

We were lucky to have our very own Father Phelm come into our class and we got the chance to interview him about what it is like to be a vicar. He answered all of our interesting questions and even our bizarre ones!

These are your new spelling words to practice at home.  You will be tested on them w/c 11/12/17.

Group 1 and 2

man - men

person - people

child - children

foot - feet

tooth - teeth

sheep - sheep

Group 3

drop - dropped

grab - grabbed

stop - stopped

hug - hugged

slip - slipped

Group 4

trust

spent

crisp

crust

stand

blend

slept

grand

Please learn your new spelling words at home by completing an activity of your choice.  You will be tested on them w/c 4/12/17

Group 1 and 2

calf - calves

knife - knives

half - halves

leaf - leaves

wife - wives

thief - thieves

Group 3

rush - rushed

hiss - hissed 

wash - washed

touch - touched

miss - missed

Group 4

flag

twig

plan

skin

trip

snip

grub

stop

spin

skip

these are your new spelling words to learn at home.  Please complete an activity of your choice to help you learn them.  You will be tested on these w/c 27/11/17

Groups 1 and 2

berry - berries

jelly -  jellies

city - cities

baby - babies

body - bodies

cry - cries

Group 3

save - saved

love - loved

note - noted

bathe - bathed

dance - danced

Group 4

must

jump

next

past

damp

act

pond

left

pant

help

sent

kept

These are your new spelling words for this week.  Please complete an activity of your choice to help you learn them.  You will be tested on them w/c 20/11/17.

Group 1 and 2

churches

passes

brushes

washes

kisses

dishes

boxes

finishes

buses

princesses

Group 3

cook - cooked

play - played

jump - jumped

work - worked

look - looked

Group 4

plan

twig

from

club

stop

swim

trap

flag

drum

snap

skip

swam

grip

frog

These are your spelling words to learn over the half term.  Please complete an activity that will help you remember the spelling of these words.  You will be tested on them w/c 6/11/17

Group 1,2,3

force

length

gravity

height

bulb

battery

wire

magnetic

air resistance

stopwatch

helicopter

positive

negative

Leonardo Da Vinci

Group 4

bulb

wire

force

gravity

magnetic

battery

helicopter

stopwatch

These are your new spelling words.  Please practice them at home by completing an activity of your choice.

Group 1 and 2

saw - sore

rain - rein - reign

heal - heel

draw - drawer

hair - hare

Group 3

candle

handle

needle

noodle

poodle

bundle

able

table

Group 4

glad

flap

club

plan

flat

plum

slug

slim

plug

flag

These are your new spelling words to practise at home.  Choose an activity that will help you learn them.  You will be tested on the w/c 9/10/17.

Group 1 and 2

buy - by - bye

four - for

need - knead

some - sum

which - witch

Group 3

uncle

cycle

icicle

obstacle

miracle

circle

bicycle

Group 4

sand

next

jump

rest

wind

band

help

went

Year 4 these are your new spelling words.  Please learn them by completing an activity of your choice.  You will be tested on them w/c 3/10/17.

Group 1 and 2

beach - beech

key - quay

bear - bare

mail - male

pair - pear

Group 3

bubble

ripple

paddle

cuddle

sizzle

wriggle

hobble

Group 4

kept

wept

next

text

tact

pact

act

fact

Here are your new spelling words. Please learn them by doing look, cover, write, check, making a wordsearch, writing sentences or making a word pyramid.  You will be tested on these words w/c 25/09/17.

Group 1 and 2

hole - whole

flour - flower

great - grate

cell - sell

cheep - cheap

Group 3

battle

middle

muddle

apple

giggle

cattle

nettle

puddle

little

bottle

Group 4

jump

camp

ramp

left

sift

rift

help

golf

self

These are your new spelling words. Please learn them by completing an activity of your choice. You will be tested on them w/c 18/9/17.

group 1 and 2

be - bee

see - sea

new - knew

write - right

through - threw

Group 3

needle

ladle

people

poodle

fable

bible

steeple

noodle

table

beetle

group 4

wind

pond

mend

can't

rent

hand

sent

and

Welcome back Year 4 we hope you had an enjoyable summer break!  These are your words to learn for w/c 11/9/17.  Please complete an activity to help you learn you words (look, cover, write, check, word pyramid, putting your words into sentences etc.)

group 1 and 2 

homophones

to,  two, too

their, there, they're

hear, here

where, wear

group 3

 'le'

grumble

handle

simple

bundle

crumple

tingle

single

tumble

candle

group 4

rust

nest

lost

test

last

gasp

mask

mist

Hi year 4, here are some spellings for you to learn by Monday 3rd July 2017.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

tiny

miniature

microscopic

little

small

insignificant

meagre

scanty

minute

miniscule

petite

Coch

rebuild

refill

return

rewrite

reuse

recycle

reform

revisit

replace

Sound Discovery

oak

road

boat

coat

goal

soapy

croaks

loaded

floated

toasted

Hi year 4, here are some more spellings for you to learn and practise in your homework books by Monday 26th June 2017.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

ginormous

gigantic

colossal

massive

humongous

enormous

huge

elephantine

Coch

demist

decamp

defrost

decrease

decode

defuse

deform

Sound Discovery

treat

tear

fear

near

clear

flea

cream

bear

tear

wear

pear

bread

health

Hi Year 4, here are some more spellings for you to learn and practise in your homework books for your test on Monday 19th June 2017.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

microscope

microchip

microbiologist

microfilament

micrographic

micropores

microfilm

microphone

Coch

wishful

painful

joyful

hopeful

forgetful

hopeless

painless

tuneless

fearless

thankless

Sound Discovery (both groups)

oil

soil

boil

coin

joined

noise

noisy

boing

tinfoil

android

Hi year 4, here are some more spellings for you to learn. Don't forget to check out the post underneath this one which tells you what we did with the money we raised selling our fruit kebabs!

Porffor and Gwyrdd

sapling

duckling

weakling

assembling

concealing

doubling

dawdling

bawling

Coch

bush

bushes

church

churches

baby

babies

berry

berries

puppy

puppies

Sound Discovery A and B

string

strap

street

strum

strong

strop

strut

stray

straw

strange

Sound Discovery B

school

stool

shoot

soon

boot

roof

spoon

root

hoof

pool

Hi Year 4, here are some more spelling words for you to learn and practise in your homework books over half term by the week beginning the 5th June 2017.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

transport

transfer

transparent

transplant

transmit

minibus

miniature

mini-beasts

minimum

Coch

carry

carried

cry

cried

try

tried

spy

spied

marry

married

Sound Discovery A

school

stool

shoot

soon

boot

roof

spoon

root

hoof

pool

Sound Discovery B

hook

foot

wood

look

hood

brood

shook

good

wool

stood

Hi Year 4, here are some more spelling lists for you to learn and practise in your homework book by 22nd May 2017.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

bisect

bicycle

bifocals

biplane

telephone

telegraph

telescope

telephoto

television

Coch

drop

dropped

grab

grabbed

stop

stopped

hug

hugged

Sound Discovery A

hook

foot

wood

look

hood

brook

shook

good

wool

stood

Sound Discovery B

noun

house

loud

shout

out

mouth

about

sound

round

couch

Hi Year 4, here are some more spelling words for you to learn by 15/05/2017. Don't forget to practise them in your homework by writing them out three times and using them in a sentence.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

autograph

autobiography

automatic

automobile

circumference

circular

circulate

circuit

circus

circle

Coch

save

saved

love

loved

note

noted

bathe

bathed

Sound Discovery A

noun

house

loud

shout

out

mouth

about

sound

round

couch

Sound Discovery B

soil

coin

boil

point

moist

joint

join

coil

joist

tinfoil

Hi year 4, here are some more spellings for you to learn and practise in your homework books by the week beginning Monday 8th May 2017.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

misread

misfortune

misinform

misplace

exclaim

export

retry

retake

return

replay

Coch

cook

cooked

play

played

jump

jumped

work

worked

look

looked

Sound Discovery A

soil

coin

boil

point

moist

joint

join

coil

joist

tinfoil

Sound Discovery B

winter

cork

charm

number

short

start

harsh

fork

north

servant

Hi Year 4, welcome back to school! We hope you've had a lovely Easter break.

Remember that we are not in school on Monday for the bank holiday and Thursday for the inset day, but it's really, really important that you're in school on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

We're still looking for people to bring in cardboard boxes and kitchen roll tubes to school for junk modelling.

Here are some more spellings for you to learn by next Tuesday (02/05/2017):

Porffor, Gwyrdd and Coch

don't

I'm

hadn't

haven't

couldn't

you're

they're

you'll

you've

he'll

I'll

I've

I'd

doesn't

isn't

can't

Sound Discovery A

winter

cork

charm

number

short

start

harsh

fork

north

servant

Sound Discovery B

dinner

farm

term

cart

sharp

after

sport

torch

chart

never

Hi year 4,  it's the last week of term so we have some spelling words for you based on our topic: Blood, Bones and Gory Bits. Some of the words are difficult, so be sure to learn and practise them in your homework books over the Easter holiday ready for your spelling test on Monday 24th April 2017. Please can you also start collecting cardboard boxes, Pringles tubes, kitchen roll tubes (no toilet roll tubes please) etc over Easter and bring them in on the first day back because we're doing junk modelling! Enjoy your two weeks off, stay safe and come back feeling refreshed and ready to learn!

All groups

lungs

eyes

heart

digestive system

kidney

stomach

stomach ache

breathe

breath

intestines

liver

Hi year 4, here are your spellings to learn and practise in your homework books for your spelling tests on the last week of term (the week beginning 3/4/2017).

Porffor and Gwyrdd

artist

cyclist

scientist

hypnotist

socialist

semi-finalist

columnist

typist

botanist

optimist

Coch

sensible

horrible

terrible

edible

example

simple

crumble

dimple

Sound Discovery A

for

car

term

sharp

torch

after

sport

herb

far

fern

Sound Discovery B

corn

cord

sport

torch

short

horse

cork

sort

fork

thorn

Hi year 4, here are some more spellings for you to practise in your homework books for your test on the week beginning the 27th March 2017.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

"ic" words

aerobic

athletic

dramatic

scientific

organic

cosmetic

mechanic

bionic

Coch

dle/ble words

noodle

poodle

bundle

double

trouble

bible

fable

humble

grumble

rumble

Sound Discovery A

"or" words

corn

cord

sport

torch

short

horse

cork

sort

fork

thorn

Sound Discovery B

"er" words

after

never

dinner

clever

winter

number

under

sister

her

shelter

Hi Year 4, we would like to say a massive thank you for taking part in our pink and blue day and raising an amazing £60 for Marie Curie and Holme Towers Hospice. Marie Curie have sent us a message to say thank you and we want to share it with you:

Thank you Mrs Proctor

Thank you! We really appreciate your £60.00 gift that you’ve donated in memory of Jacqueline Burt. It’ll make a real difference to people living with terminal illness and their families.

The generosity of kind supporters like you makes it possible for people with a terminal illness, and their families, to get the care and support they need, for example through hands-on care in their homes or in one of our hospices.

Here are some new spellings for you to learn by the week beginning the 20th March 2017. Don't forget to practise them in your homework books by writing them three times and putting them in sentences.

Porffor and Gwyrdd

imaginary

boundary

dictionary

commentary

hereditary

voluntary

secondary

necessary

anniversary

extraordinary

Coch

uncle

cycle

icicle

obstacle

miracle

circle

bicycle

candle

handle

needle

Sound Discovery A

after

never

dinner

clever

winter

number

under

sister

her

shelter

Sound Discovery B

farm

chart

start

charm

smart

scarf

hard

march

harsh

dart

Dear Mums and Dads,

After hearing about my recent bereavement, some of the children were keen to raise some money for a cancer charity. On Tuesday we will be having a pink and blue day. Children may wear their own clothes and something pink or blue to school. They may bring a small donation if you wish. Thank You,

Yvonne Proctor

Hi Year 4, here are some more spellings for you to learn by 13th March 2017. Practise them in your homework book by writing them out three times and writing a sentence about each one!

Porffor and Gwyrdd

al words

arrival

bridal

central

magical

seasonal

topical

survival

national

tropical

international

Coch