Author: year4

Every year on 26th September, schools across Europe join in with the European Day of Languages, celebrating the diversity of language across the continent.  At St Nicholas this year, every class chose a European country to learn about.  Beech class chose Czechia (formerly the Czech Republic).

We created flags, learnt about the country – capital city: Prague; population: 10.3 million; size: 30,452 sq miles; currency: Czech koruna (£1 ~ 30Kč) – and learnt some of the language.

We can say hello and goodbye, both formally and to friends and family, and we can also count to 10!

Formal greetings
Dobré ráno – Good morning
Dobrý den – Good day
Dobrý večer – Good evening
Na schledanou – Goodbye

Informal greetings
Ahoj – Hello!
Ahoj – Goodbye!

Year 4 have been loving our music lessons this term with Mrs Vincent. The children all enjoy getting involved in both singing and playing instruments. Already this term we have learned 3 new short songs, about minims and crotchets and so much more! We can see how much our music lessons are improving our listening skills which is essential in all areas of our learning. We look forward to the rest of our lessons this term!

On Friday, Birch class enjoyed reading in the school library. Everyone loved looking through the books and found lots of different topics to choose from! All children chose a library book to take home and read with their family. The children were so excited to share their books and the beanbags were a real hit with the children, what a lovely way to cosy up with a book.

Hello everyone, welcome to year 4. It was so lovely to see so many smiling, happy faces coming into the classrooms this morning, ready to start new classes.

This term is packed with lots of new learning which we are excited to share with the children. You can see below an overview of the term and the wide variety of different areas we will be covering.

Term 1 Overview – Rivers (PDF Download)

KIRFs (Key Instant Recall Facts)

This term in our maths key facts, we are asking the children to ensure they know their 3x, 4x and 8x tables.

T1 KIRFs Year 4 (PDF Download)

Our PE day this term is Thursday, so please ensure children have their full PE kits in school for Thursday. PE kit requirements can be found on the website here – Uniform – St Nicholas CE Primary Academy (st-nicholas-newromney.kent.sch.uk).

We are really looking forward to the year ahead.  If you have any questions, please contact your class teacher.

Many thanks

Year 4 team