Year 4 Update

The Year 4 students have had an energetic and productive start to 2026. Over the first four weeks, they’ve settled confidently into their daily routines and embraced their learning with enthusiasm. We were also lucky enough to welcome AFL players from the Melbourne Football Club, who spent time with us and made the start of the year even more memorable.

Our Learning – Weeks 4&5

English

*During our English Daily Review, we will be revising key English skills so that we can remember and apply them automatically in our reading and writing.

*Practise our typing skills to develop our accuracy and speed.

*Learn to identify the author’s purpose and position in a persuasive text. 

*Explore the meaning of the suffix -ate, -ant.

 *Identify the difference between fact and opinion.  

*We are learning to identify and write compound and complex sentences and use them to strengthen our persuasive writing.

Maths

*During our Maths Daily Review, we will be revising mathematical concepts learnt.

*Think in place values terms to rename numbers, using knowledge of ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.

*Represent two-, three- or four-digit numbers in different ways.

*Add and subtract place values by thinking in tens, hundreds and other place values. 

*Constructing five-digit numbers, recording and rounding them.

SEL

*Understand and name positive or comfortable emotions and negative or uncomfortable emotions that children may feel at school.

*Understand from an Aboriginal perspective about how white people came to the land and declared it ‘Terra Nullius’. 

Inquiry

During Inquiry this term, students will work in groups to research a topic of their choice.

*To create open and closed questions for research.

*To identify strategies to persist and adapt when challenges arise.

*To understand the skills needed for effective collaboration and use ‘if-then’ thinking to solve problems.

*We are learning to generate new ideas and try different possibilities.

Events and Reminders

School hats - please ensure that your child brings their Hillsmeade hat to school. During Terms 1 and 4, students are required to wear their hat while outside. If they do not have one, they will be required to play under shade sails or the wellbeing room during recess and lunch play.

Drink bottles - please remind your child to bring a drink bottle to school daily so that they have easy access during class learning time.

Pencil cases - Please ensure that students bring their pencil case to school for use in the classroom.

Labour Day Public Holiday - Monday, 9th March students will not be required to attend school.

Family Fun Night - Monday, 23rd March - 3:30-5.15pm.

Homework

Reading: Please continue to encourage your child to read every night. Ask them to record the title of the book and the number of minutes read in their diary.

Students are required to bring their diaries to school so that teachers can check them on the day specified.

The Year 4 teachers thank you for your ongoing support.

Ongoing Reporting

This year we have begun sending home learning tasks through Compass so that families can see how their children are progressing with learning. The second learning task will be uploaded to Compass on Friday 20th February.

Our Learning

Year 4s meet some Melbourne Football Club Players: