WELCOME TO YEAR 4

It has been lovely welcoming Year 4 back into school.  They have settled in beautifully and have already made great efforts in all their learning. We have designed and agreed a brilliant class charter, have made pledges of kindness and have thought about and created our aims and goals for the year.  We have a full and varied curriculum this year and are looking forward to developing our skills and learning lots of interesting things.

In English, children take part in either a daily phonics group, focusing on reading and writing, or a writing group. Whichever group they attend, reading remains a vital part of their learning.  We would greatly appreciate your support by ensuring your child reads at home every evening whenever possible. Regular reading makes a significant difference to children's confidence, fluency and overall progress.

The children are really excited to be exploring the Stone Age. We have already introduced the children to the topic and spent our time completing fun group activities, Stone Age quizzes and creating menus for our ice age restaurant ‘Mammoth’s Munchies’ and are very excited about our topic this term.  This will help the children to develop an understanding of life in prehistoric Britain and how very different it is to our current everyday life.

Our Art activities will be linked to the Stone Age and we will create a cave painting learning how to mix colours and develop our sketching skills and painting skills.

In Science, we are learning about different types of Rocks and their properties to then move on to Light next term.  We will be taking part in investigations ensuring we conduct fair tests and record our data accurately.

In Maths we are looking at place value and using resources and manipulatives to help us to develop and build on our existing knowledge.  We will be looking at thousands on the place value chart and focusing our learning.  When we have enhanced our learning in this area, we will be looking at adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

This term's PE lessons are Basketball and Gymnastics.  The children are very excited about these sports. Please remember that no jewellery should be worn on PE days for health and safety reasons.

In RE, we will be focusing on what kind of world Jesus wanted. Pupils will learn about the concept of ‘Gospel’ which tells the story of the life and teaching of Jesus. They will learn about the calling of the first disciples and how Christians today try to follow Jesus. In Term 2 we will be considering the impact of the Pentecost. Pupils will learn about Pentecost and consider what this might have meant for the first Christians and what they mean for Christians today. 

We will be completing lots of timetables activities to help us learn our tables.  It is really important that children practise regularly at home so they can make steady progress. 

Thank you for your continued support. We are looking forward to an exciting and successful term of learning together in Year 4.