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Whitehouse Primary School, 2 Doagh Rd, Newtownabbey

Year 4

Teachers:  Janine McNevison (Room 8) and Louise Weir  (Room 7). 
In KS1, we use the Seesaw app to keep families up to date with literacy and numeracy support videos, celebration of children's work, health and well being stories and links and much more. This is a great tool to promote engagement and communication between staff and parents.

We work hard to support parents with all areas of their children's learning and add support videos throughout the year. 

Year 4 Topics:  In Year 4 you will have the chance to learn about five different topics.

  • Children in World War 2 - Investigate what life was like for evacuees living in the countryside. Research rationing and create propaganda posters in ICT. We have our very own WW2 day where the children dress up as an evacuee, play games, dig for victory and post home letters written from the countryside! We even find out about how a special elephant survived the war at Belfast Zoo.
  • Materials - This is where you get to become a mad scientists and experiment with materials, their properties and how they change.
  • Reach for the Stars - How much do you know about our solar system? In this topic we will be looking at the sun, moon and the planets. We visit Armagh Planetarium where you can have a go at making your own rocket to launch outside, as well as visiting the digital theatre to explore the surface of the moon and see what constellations we can spot.
  • Northern Ireland – How much do you know about the country you live in? We will be learning about the six counties and the top tourist attractions.
  • Bugs, Birds and Beasts – Welcome to the animal kingdom where we will look at how animals are grouped, habitats and adaptation. We will be printing our own minibeasts in the style of Andy Warhol.

 Possible Trips: WW2 Museum, Belfast, Armagh Planetarium, Parliament Buildings at Stormont 

Highlights of Year 4: film and animation, outdoor learning, our class novels

Finishing Times: 

3pm finish: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.   
2pm finish: Friday

Homework Schedule:

Day   Homework  Due Date 
 Monday  Spellings, Mental Maths and reading  Friday
 Tuesday  Literacy or Maths Written Work   Wednesday
 Wednesday  Continue with reading and home learning  Friday
 Thursday  Revision of Spellings and Mental Maths  Friday
 Friday  Return reading books and red and yellow folders  

P.E. Days:  Y4 McN : Tuesday   Y4W: Thursday

Please come to school on P.E days dressed in the following:

Black joggers/plain black leggings/Black shorts

Black trainers/gutties

Whitehouse P.E t-shirt or school t-shirt

School jumper

Important Equipment:  Pouches - please send these with your child every day.

 

News

22nd Feb 2024
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25th Jan 2024
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24th Nov 2023
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24th Nov 2023
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Mystery Doug
5 minute videos
which answer
all types of
questions
 
 
WW2
Fact page
 
 
Materials
Properties of
materials
 
 
 

Mystery science
science
investigations
 
 
Planet topic
Find out about
the solar
system
 
 
N.Ireland
Facts about
Northern
Ireland
 
 
 

WWF
Bugs, birds and
beasts
 
 
Wordwall
Games
 
 
 
 

 
 

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