4B

Welcome Back Year 4!  

Hope you’ve all had a brilliant holiday and are ready and raring to go again. We are really looking forward to this half term and we hope you are too! Summer Term 1 is a very busy one, so here’s what we’ll be up to!

English

As usual, we’ve got lots of exciting activities planned in English. Our focus is on writing a narrative. We will be basing our work around the text ‘The Tunnel’ by Anthony Browne. The focus of this book is helping and supporting each other within our family. We will be analysing different texts and video clips to help inspire our own writing, so that we can carry on being awesome authors too!

We will develop our SPAG knowledge through continuing to learn about the various word classes and different spelling patterns, including the Y3/4 word list. We will be focussing on how to apply all our SPAG work into our own writing.

Maths

We will continue to develop our skills in the 4 operations and our understanding of Place Value, Decimals, Percentages and Fractions and Measurement. We will be focussing on the Using and Applying aspect of Maths through reasoning challenges. We will also be developing the use of number lines as a strategy to help us with calculations.

Please remember to carry on practising your times tables up to 12×12.

During the week commencing 10^th June Year 4 will take part in the statutory National Multiplication Times Tables Check. Please practice each day on TT Rockstars.

Science

Our topic this half term is Living Things. We will be learning about life cycles of different animals and their habitats.

Topic

Our topic for this half term is Rivers Of The World. We will be learning all about how rivers are formed and famous rivers in different countries.

RSE
We will be continuing to work on RSE scheme ‘Jigsaw’ and discussing issues which are important to us and help us work together as a team. This half term’s focus is ‘Relationships.’

Computing – Blogging

We will be learning about blogging and creating our own blogs.

Art

We will be looking  at art inspired by rivers and learning about famous artists who have painted rivers.

Music

We will continue to use our music scheme Charanga with a focus on the song ‘Blackbird’ by the Beatles.

RE

Our theme in RE is ‘ What can we learn form other religions about what is right and wrong?’

PE

PE will be on Tuesdays. Our focus this half term is Athletics and Tag Rugby.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR PE KIT.

HOMEWORK

We will continue to have a creative approach to our homework this term. You will be given Maths and Spelling homework each week as well as being able to choose from a range of creative activities in Topic.

Homework is given out on Friday and is due in the following Wednesday.

REMEMBER:

Homework handed in on Wednesday is GREEN.

Homework handed in on Thursday is YELLOW.

Homework handed in on Friday is RED.

We read in class every day, so make sure you always have your Reading Log in school. Please make sure you also read regularly each week at home and ask an adult to sign your Reading Log for you. We will sign your Reading Log every WEDNESDAY  to check you have read at home, so please don’t forget!!

 

KEEP IN TOUCH!

Parents & Carers are always very welcome to call in to discuss any aspect of their child’s learning, any other area of their school life or just to say ‘hello’. We are available anytime before or after school, except on Wednesdays because that’s when we have our Staff Meeting.

We are really looking forward to a great half term with you all!

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Turner, Miss Bruce, Miss Mees, Mrs. Wright & Mr. Jones

 

Welcome to Year 4 Autumn Term 1

We hope you’ve all had a brilliant holiday and are ready and raring to go again. We are really looking forward to this half term and we hope you are too! Autumn Term 1 is a very busy one, so here’s what we’ll be up to!

English

We’ve got lots of exciting activities planned in English. Our writing focus is based on a book called Meerkat Mail. We will be creating our own narrative using an adventure theme. We will be analysing different texts and video clips to help inspire our own writing, so that we can carry on being awesome authors too!

We will develop our SPAG knowledge through continuing to learn about the various word classes and different spelling patterns, including the Y3/4 word list. We will be focussing on how to apply all our SPAG work into our own writing.

In Guided Reading, we will be studying How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell, which is an adventure narrative.

Maths

We will continue to develop our skills in the 4 operations, our understanding of  Place Value, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and Area. We will be focussing on the Using and Applying aspect of Maths through Reasoning Challenges and improving our Maths fluency through Fluent in Five each day.

Please remember to carry on practising your times tables up to 12×12.

Science

Our topic this half term is  Dangers to Animals and their Habitats. We will be finding out about natural and physical dangers to animals in their habitat through our work in Forest School.

Topic

Our topic for the whole of this term is Invaders and Settlers. We will be learning all about the Roman Empire, the Roman invasion of Britain and also the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons.

Jigsaw

Our first Puzzle is called Being Me In My World.  We will be discussing how we learn, how we can help others and our school community.

Computing – 

We will be finding out about Systems and Networks and Internet Safety.

PE

PE will be on Tuesdays.

Swimming

Swimming will be on  Mondays.

For swimming lessons, girls will need to wear a one piece swimming costume and a swimming hat. Boys with a longer hairstyle will also need to wear a swimming hat.

Earrings cannot be worn for swimming.

Goggles cannot be worn unless medically prescribed.

Forest School

Forest School will be on Thursdays. Please make sure you bring a change of clothes, suitable footwear such as walking shoes, old trainers or wellies and a waterproof coat.

HOMEWORK

We will continue to have a creative approach to our homework this term. You will be given Maths and Spelling homework each week as well as being able to choose from a range of creative activities in Topic.

Homework is given out on Friday and is due in the following Wednesday.

We read in class every day, so make sure you always have your Reading Log in school.

Please make sure you also read twice each week at home and ask an adult to sign your Reading Log for you. We will sign your Reading Log every WEDNESDAY  to check you have read at home, so please don’t forget!!

Miss Bruce & Miss Mees