Goldfinches WB 8.9.22

Date: 8th Sep 2022 @ 7:50pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog 

We have had a super start to Year 4. 

 Friday Superstar: Archie

Top Table: Ethen and Lydia

Mrs Judge, Mrs Evans and Miss Wilkinson have enjoyed getting to know all of our lovely Goldfinches. Highlights have been creating our own lunchtime and end of the day prayers, sketching our beautiful Goldfinches, beginning our gorgeous Pathways to Reading book 'A World of Animal Stories' and learning the words to Mamma Mia in our appraising music lesson.

Mondays: Mrs Judge  

Tuesdays-Fridays: Mrs Evans 

Miss Wilkinson is our Teaching assistant.  

This week:  

Wednesday 14th September: Please sign up for one of the four slots on our Meet the Teacher evening. 3.15pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm or 5.15pm - these are for parents and there will be a creche available for your children to attend on the evening.

We will continue to have lots of lovely activities to support getting to know each other and the classroom and to help us all settle quickly into our routines. 

Writing: We look forward to beginning our new Pathways to writing book.  

Reading: we have a wonderful selection of reading books which we will support your child to choose from and read both in school and at home. We have begun to read and discuss stories from ‘A World Full of Animal Stories’ 

Reading homework: Please support your child to read for 10-20 minutes daily and to sign their diary once they have read. In year 4 it is fine to have a mixture of your child reading aloud to you and them reading quietly to themselves.  We are still waiting for our order of reading diaries to arrive so as soon as they do we will issue your child with one.

Spelling: We will set our first set of spellings to go home to learn next Friday 16th September. 

Maths:   Our focus will be on place value and we will spend time recapping the  10x and 5x tables and using these facts to support our learning of the trickier ones.

Maths Homework:  There will be a weekly times table homework. This might be an activity or game on paper or a link on the class blog to an online game. 

PE: Our PE day is Friday morning and we have a lovely long session. Please come to school wearing appropriate PE kit- White t-shirt, black/blue plain hoodie and tracksuit bottoms or shorts, hair tied back and earrings removed or covered. As the grass might be wet first thing, please send your child with spare school shoes and socks to change in to after. 

Please don’t hesitate to contact us via a note in your child’s diary or through the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child.  admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk     01606668270 

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Miss Wilkinson.