Welcome to Dosbarth Tryfan

Year 4

Class Teachers: Miss Beynon and Mrs Manuel

In our class there are 6 Areas of Learning that we cover through a topic/project approach. These 6 Areas of Learning are:

• Language, Literacy and Communication
• Maths & Numeracy
• Science and Technology
• Humanities
• Expressive Arts
• Health and Wellbeing

P.E. is on Wednesday (Swimming session) and Friday (outdoor games) this term 

Please come dressed for P.E. wearing

white t-shirt, black shorts/plain joggers, trainers and red jumper/cardigan/hoodie.

Please can children have their hair tied back and jewellery removed.

Please practice reading at home every evening. Reading little and often will really help improve your accuracy, fluency and understanding. Bring your school reading book and record to school every day please and take home every night!

Please bring a healthy snack with you for breaktime, eg fruit, cheese or crackers (no chocolate sweets or crisps please) and a water bottle to keep hydrated throughout the day.

Seesaw will be used to share some work with parents or keep you up to date with events in school (alongside emails from school.)

MyHappyMind continues to be used as part of our Wellbeing Curriculum. Please find addition information on the links below or parent app.

- https://myhappymind.org/pre-login/

- https://myhappymind.lpages.co/myhappymind-parent-app-introduction/

Spring Term 2025 our Topic is Wet Wet Wet! - all about Water!

Our work supports all AOLEs - here is an example of what we will be covering: Changing State and the Water Cycle, how our bodies use water, water colours, Handel's Water Music, water around the world, glaciers and ice-bergs, pollution, conserving water. We use EPIC (Everyone Planning in Class) to get pupils' ideas and incorporate them into our work. 

Our on-going work in Literacy includes: phonics, hand-writing, grammar, punctuation reading sessions, and we will be focusing on Pie Corbett and writing our own stories in response to 'Message in a Bottle'.

Please encourage your child to use Prodigy English, 'Wordshark', and 'Spellblast' on their hwb account to improve spelling.

Numeracy continues to cover our 4 number operations and Shape, Data and Measure activities. Our problem solving and reasoning activities continue with a variety of individual, pair and group tasks such as 'Talk It, Ask It'.'

Please encourage your child to use Times table Rockstars, Topmarks 'Hit the Button', Topmarks 'Daily Ten', TTBlast on their hwb account to support times tables and number in Maths.

Do not hesitate to contact us on Seesaw, or through the school office. 

Kind Regards,

Miss Beynon and Mrs Manuel.

Here is some of our recent work: