Welcome to Year 4's class page! The year 4 staff are:

Teachers - Miss Jenkins (Lilac) & Mr Pass (Lime)

Teaching Assistants - Mrs Morgan-Price, Miss Hemming, Mrs Ratcliff, Mrs Topham

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

PE

Tuesdays - Indoor PE

Fridays - Outdoor PE

Woodland - Spring Term

Thursdays - please see the timetable attached below

Lilac Class's first woodland session is on Thursday 9th January

Lime Class's first woodland session is on Thursday 16th January

Homework

Homework is due every Wednesday. New homework is sent home every Thursday.

Reading Diaries

To continue to develop their reading fluency, we expect the children to read five times per week. This should be recorded in their reading diaries.

Reading diaries will be marked on Fridays. Please remember to keep your child’s reading diary in their bag each day – this means that teachers can regularly assess your child’s reading progress and record any reads completed at school.

Times Tables

The children are expected to practise on Times Table Rockstars at home every week. As well as this, they must practise their Times Table Challenge sheet to help them improve their score in the times table challenge each Thursday morning. 

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Spring Term

Our topic this term is 'Savage Saxons and Vicious Vikings'. Within this unit, we will have a real emphasis on history and learning about settlements in Britain. Our English will link in with this as we will be writing stories about dragons. Our class novel for this term is 'How to Train Your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell.

 

 

 

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Autumn Term

We created poppies to represent remembrance day. 

The children have been studying 'biographies' in English. To help learn about biographies, the children have been reading a variety of 'Little People, Big Dreams' books in their reading lessons. 

 

We have been learning about electricity and circuits in Science. Here is a picture of a complete circuit which the children have made:

 

 

The children thoroughly enjoyed the visit from 'The History Lady'. It was wonderful to witness their engagement as they asked insightful questions, shared their knowledge and participated in a variety of activities. These interactions greatly enriched their understanding of the Romans topic.

In Year 4, we started writing magical setting descriptions. As a hook into this writing unit, we enjoyed a 'magic morning'. 

We have had a fantastic start to the autumn term!

The children were asked what their favourite activities have been so far - here is what they said!

• Roman mosaics
• Magic morning 
• Creating a circuit for a lightbulb 
• Times tables rockstars 
• Creating our own circuit games in PE

Our topic for the autumn term is "It's a kind of magic!" Our writing will be inspired by Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. We will also learn about the Romans (we have booked "The History Lady" to provide the children with an incredible experience).