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Year 4 Home Learning - 13th April

April 16, 2020
Dear Parents and Carers
Here are some suggestions from your child’s teacher of activities to help you keep your children occupied during the day. Please remember that they are indeed only suggestions and we do not want you to feel pressured in any way to turn your home into a home school. Do what works for you and your family and let us worry about getting your children quickly back up to speed when everything returns to normal. If you do only one thing, it would be best to keep your child reading. Reading to them, listening to them read and talking about what’s been read will be hugely beneficial. Beyond that, do what is easy, stress free and comfortable for you and your family.

Reading
We encourage you to read every day for 20 minutes to an adult at home. 
• Take time to share a book together (you can read/ listen to an audiobook or watch a story online together). Amazon have many free audiobooks that can be accessed through www.amazon.co.uk/Audiobooks 
• In the absence of reading books, you could access books similar to the ones you bring home www.oxfordowl.co.uk
• Find the definitions of words that are unfamiliar- you could use a dictionary or a google search. 
• Log on to https://vocabularyninja.wordpress.com/2020/04/09/shinobi-word-of-the-day-363 and check out the word of the day to learn a new word and its meaning.

Spelling 
We use the National Curriculum (document online) to set spellings for year 3/4 to practice. They are also at the end of this document.
If you have a spelling list in your homework book, practice the words by writing them out three times. 
Then try writing the words into a sentence. 
Or log on to Readiwriter. You can access this through https://login.readiwriter.com/ (Log in codes are the same as Mathletics).

Writing
Create a project on ‘Who Inspires me?’  
Research a famous (or interesting) person of your choice. The person could be anyone who you are ‘inspired’ by, from a favourite sports person like David Weir (Famous Paralympic wheelchair athlete) to someone who has achieved something amazing in history. How about Florence Nightingale ( very famous nurse!) or Amy Johnson (the first female pilot to fly solo) or Cleopatra (strong female Egyptian ruler). It could even be someone in your family who has had an interesting life!

You could …
• Create a fact file about them using the 5Ws. (Who are they? Why are they interesting? When were they important? Where do they live/come from? What are they most remembered for?)   
• Write a biography of their life using the research you have done.
You could : Try and include an opening question or interesting starting statement
                    Explain their early life (school etc)
                    Write about the key events in order of their life
                    List their awards or achievements
                    Write about why they are remembered today (their legacy)
                    End with why they are important to you to write about.     
• Write a newspaper article about your inspiring person visiting Exeter. 
You could : Try and create a snappy headline
                     Write your report with short paragraphs (made up or real) and include quotes from the public!
                    Draw a picture of the person visiting!
• Do a presentation of your facts to your family and see if they can ask (or answer) questions about your person!
                          
Maths
It would be brilliant if you could…
• Practice your times tables every day. These can be practised by writing them by hand, or by using Times Table Rockstars. https://play.ttrockstars.com/ 
• Or play hit the button on https://www.topmarks.co.uk/  
To keep practising your fractions – use objects from your home to make your own fraction museum and take photos (you could email them to us!)

Other Stuff
You could..
• Watch the clips about Egyptians found here: 

• Make a fact file including all of the things you have discovered about the Egyptians! Challenge yourself to answer these questions? 
- Who were they? 
- Why were they so important? 
- What remains of Ancient Egypt? 
- What was life like for them?
- Why were they so special? 

• Design and make online your own Egyptian pyramid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml 

• Make a model of your pyramid out of junk and recycling (There’s bound to be lots around the house!)

• Take the quiz on the website

• Write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphs


Spelling Words

Group 1:
the
some
even 
a
one
great
do
once
break
to
ask
steak 
today
friend
pretty
of
school
beautiful
said
put
after
says
push
fast
are
pull
last
were
full
past
was
house
father
is
our
class
his
door
grass
has
floor
pass
I
poor
plant
you
because
path
your
find
bath
they
kind
hour
be 
mind 
move
he
behind
prove
me
child(ren)
improve
she
wild
sure
we
climb
sugar
no
most 
eye
go
only 
could
so
both
should
by
old
would
my
cold
who
here
gold
whole
there
hold
any
where
told
many
love
every 
clothes
come
everybody
busy
busy
people
water
again
half
money
Mr
Mrs
parents
Christmas


Group 2: 
accident(ally)
forward(s)
potatoes 
actual(ly) 
fruit
pressure
address
grammar
probably
answer
group
promise
appear
guard
purpose
arrive
guide
quarter
believe
heard
question 
bicycle
heart
recent
breath
height
regular
breathe
history
reign
build
imagine
remember
busy/business
increase
sentence
calendar
important
separate
caught
interest
special
centre
island
straight
century 
knowledge
strange
certain
learn 
strength
circle
library 
suppose
complete
material
surprise
consider
medicine
therefore
continue
mention
though/although
decide
minute
thought
describe
natural
through
different
naughty
various
difficult
notice
weight
disappear
occasion(ally)
woman/women
early
often
earth
opposite
eight/eighth
ordinary 
enough
particular
exercise
peculiar
experience
perhaps 
experiment
popular
extreme 
position
famous
possess(ion)
favourite
possible
February


Group 3: 
accommodate 
especially 
programme 
accompany
exaggerate
pronunciation
according
excellent
queue 
achieve
existence
recognise
aggressive
explanation
recommend
amateur
familiar
relevant
ancient
foreign
restaurant
apparent
forty
rhyme
appreciate
frequently
rhythm
attached
government
sacrifice
available
guarantee
secretary
average
harass
shoulder
awkward
hindrance
signature
bargain
identity
sincere(ly)
bruise
immediate(ly)
soldier
category
individual
stomach
cemetery 
interfere
sufficient
committee
interrupt
suggest
communicate
language
symbol
community
leisure
system
competition
lightning
temperature
conscience
marvellous 
thorough
conscious
mischievous 
twelfth
controversy
muscle
variety
convenience
necessary
vegetable
correspond
neighbour
vehicle
criticise (critic + ise)
nuisance
yacht
curiosity
occupy
definite
occur
desperate
opportunity
determined
parliament
develop
persuade
dictionary
physical
disastrous
prejudice
embarrass
privilege
environment 
profession
equip (–ped, –ment)


By Lesley Whitley November 27, 2024
Wynstream Primary School has hosted a Gabrieli Roar workshop this month for three other schools, ahead of their performance at Exeter Cathedral on the 9th of December. Gabrieli is a choir and period instrument orchestra founded and led by Artistic Director Paul McCreesh. They perform and record choral, vocal and instrumental repertoire from the renaissance to the present day and have cultivated an international reputation for excellence, innovation and ambition. They offer first-class performance opportunities to young people through their education programme, Gabrieli Roar. Pupils from Montpelier Primary School, Ide Primary School and Ermington Primary School came along to join Wynstream’s choir of 45 pupils to prepare for the concert. This initiative is supported by the Devon Music Service whose representative at the rehearsal thanked Wynstream Primary School for hosting and said that their cooperation, organisation and choral preparation of the young people was “exemplary.” The children will be performing at ‘A Grand Georgian Christmas’, the show will be a festive exploration of English music for parish churches during the Georgian period. It has been designed to offer the perfect platform to encourage young singers to connect with choral and classical music. Tickets can be purchased here. Elise Redman, Headteacher at Wynstream Primary School said: "We are so proud of our choir and the dedication they are showing. We know that musical education is really important for children and supports their development in many ways. Rehearsing, working together and performing in front of an audience are all things that help build their confidence and that will help them flourish in every area of life." Matthew Shanks, CEO of Education South West said: “I am so pleased to hear that Wynstream Primary School played host to its neighbours for this exciting workshop. At Education South West we strongly believe in both the power of collaboration and the importance of promoting the arts and this initiative achieves both of those things. I wish the choir all the best with their performance next month.”
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November 1, 2023
As you are aware there is currently an amber weather warning in place as storm Ciaran moves towards Devon. An amber warning presents a risk to life, but there is also a large amount of uncertainty about this weather front which means it could increase to a red warning overnight. The combination of wind, rain, and the storm moving over warm sea waters increases risk of very high wind speeds, flooding and trees falling. An emergency strategy meeting has taken place today and it was agreed that we need to ensure school leaders fully appreciate that the current weather warning presents a risk to life and could worsen. Based on the information we have, Devon County Council have taken the decision today to ask all staff where possible to work from home. We are asking all schools to consider the high level of risk presented by this storm and make a decision today about their operations tomorrow. This potential risk to life means that we have taken the regrettable decision to close schools tomorrow. We do not do this lightly. The school will be shut to all pupils and staff. Information on work provided will be sent out later this afternoon Schools will be open as normal on Friday 3rd November. Thank you for your understanding. 
April 27, 2023
On Wednesday 19th April our children began to think about ‘rights’ and what being a ‘Rights Respecting School’ means. We will be looking for parents, carers, staff, governors, and children to help us on this journey. Please speak to Ms Redman or Miss Humphreys if you are interested in helping.  Please look at the following for more information: What is a Rights Respecting School? - UNICEF UK
April 26, 2023
A message from our Chair of Governors. Hello. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all back to the school after the Easter holidays. As you are aware Wynstream is now part of Education South West Academy Trust. The school has already been working with the Trust for the past year. Together we are continuing to deliver support, exciting opportunities and high quality of teaching and learning across the school and the community. I hope you will all join me in embracing this new journey of Wynstream's future. Your sincerely Michaela Young Chair
March 29, 2023
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March 29, 2023
Do you know anybody who would make a great Community (Co-opted) Governor for our school? There is a vacancy on Wynstream's Local Governing Body and we are inviting nominations. Governors are welcomed as valued members of the governor team and play an important role. Life as a governor is interesting and varied. Meetings are at least once every half term. Training and support will be available. Please do let friends and family know, and ask anybody who is interested to pop into school for more information, or call 01392 284990. More information as well as the nomination form can be found by clicking here. Thankyou.
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