Welcome to Year 4!

April 2023

Hello and welcome back into a new term! I hope you all had a great Easter break. We have a busy Summer term ahead and are looking forward to seeing how the children can be aspirational, resilient and curious this term! Our Summer 1 overview is uploaded below for you to see.

We have already been on our trip to learn all about Ancient Egypt - the children loved it! Whilst a the museum the children became detectives, and had to try and work out how King Tutankhamun died. Was it an illness? A sporting injury? Or was he murdered? There was lots of evidence for each and the children all drew their own conclusions about what happened but the truth is no-one really knows! Take a look at some of the photos below to see more.

We are also looking forward to swimming this half term, we will be going every Wednesday starting on Weds 26th April. Please ensure your child has with them:

A towel

A swimming costume/trunks (no bikinis please)

A swimming hat

Hairbrush/comb

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself or your child's class teacher, our email addresses are below and we are now present on the playground after school Tuesday-Friday as well. 

Miss North

Our class email addresses:

4Dahl@uptonjun.dorset.sch.uk          (Miss Old)

4Rosen@uptonjun.dorset.sch.uk          (Miss North - year leader)

4Wilson@uptonjun.dorset.sch.uk         (Miss Roxby)

What an amazing half term we have had! The children have loved learning about the History of Poole and we were so lucky to have Poole Museum come and visit us twice this half term to really engage the children. The children loved seeing all the artefacts that were brought in and especially enjoyed the waterproof paper! We finished the topic with a visit from Sunseekers, to tell us all about what Poole is like in the modern day, with plenty of superyachts and tourism. 

Next half term is also busy with a trip to the Tutankhamun Exhibition in Dorchester in the first week, and swimming from week 2 every Wednesday. Please ensure your child has all the equipment listed on the letter over the Easter holidays. Thank you to everyone that has volunteered to help out with these events.

We hope you all have a wonderful Easter holiday, and we look forward to welcoming you back on Monday 17th April.

The Year 4 Team

World Book Day!

We had a fantastic day on Friday celebrating World Book Day! The children looked fantastic in their costumes, and loved telling us all about the book characters they had chosen. We really loved looking at the book character potatoes too, it was a tough competition to judge! We enjoyed it when the potato linked to the character the children had chosen to dress up as too. 

We had a great day where the children wrote their own book review about a book they have read at home or in school, they learnt all about Eric Carle (illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar) and then tried to draw an animal in his style. They also made bookmarks, had a book swap and tried to guess the teacher bookcases!

What a fantastic half term of learning we have had! The children have learnt all about sound, how it travels, and have carried out multiple experiments investigating sound. We have made our very own torches in DT using electrical circuits and have learnt all about the rainforest in Geography! Did you know that an area roughly the size of 5 football pitches is cut down every minute? The children finished their Geography topic by looking at the positive and negative impacts of deforestation followed by an intense debate over whether it should continue or not! During Literacy the children all wrote some fantastic letters based on our story, Cinnamon, describing the main character's journey into the jungle and what she found when she was there. Keep your eyes peeled for some wonderful examples of their letters! 

We hope you have a restful half term and we look forward to welcoming you, and your children back into school on Monday 20th February.

Miss North

Reading cup

4Dahl have been the proud winners of the reading cup (the highest % of children have read at least three times that week) for the last 4 weeks running!! Can anyone knock them off the top spot? Come on 4Rosen and 4Wilson! You can do it!!

Wow!

Mia Rye (4Rosen) has been writing her very own book at home! She brought it in to share with the class this week; we were very intrigued by the blurb on the back and loved the illustration on the front! We can't wait to read more...

PE Uniform

Just a gentle reminder that PE uniform should consist of a house coloured T-shirt (this does not have to be the branded school PE top, it can just be a plain coloured t-shirt in your child's house colour), black shorts and a pair of trainers.  Warm track suit bottoms and the school’s Fleece Jacket can be worn for outdoor games in the colder months.  There have been more and more children coming in wearing branded hoodies and trousers which is not PE uniform.

Thank you,

The Year 4 team

January 2023

Hello and welcome back into a new term! I hope you all had a great Christmas break. We have a busy Spring term ahead and are looking forward to seeing how the children can be aspirational, resilient and curious this term! Our Spring 1 overview is uploaded below for you to see.

As always, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself or your child's class teacher, our email addresses are below and we are now present on the playground after school Tuesday-Friday as well. 

Miss North

Our class email addresses:

4Dahl@uptonjun.dorset.sch.uk          (Miss Old)

4Rosen@uptonjun.dorset.sch.uk          (Miss North - year leader)

4Wilson@uptonjun.dorset.sch.uk         (Miss Roxby)

Reading cup! 

4Rosen were the proud winners of the reading cup last week! Miss North was over the moon!