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European Day of Languages

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 We took a break from the normal French lessons to celebrate the European day of languages, which is celebrated every year on the 26th September. The country and language allocated to Year 4 was Spain.The children learnt about the country including traditional foods, greetings and counting to 10 in Spanish. They created a visual fact file about Spain, which included colouring in the Spanish  flag and  identifying where Spain is on the map.
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Marvelous Maths

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This week, Year 4 have solidified their understanding of place value and have begun to explore the world of thousands! We started with a discussion: where might we see 'thousands' in day to day life? Grains of sand in a handful, pebbles in our garden, thousands of people at a festival. Then we began to explore ways that we can manipulate and pick apart 3-digit and 4-digit numbers. We have now learned the important skill of flexible partitioning, which we practised with the help of place value counters. Here are some pictures to show what we did.
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Welcome to Year 4!

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