WELCOME TO YEAR 4 2024 - 2025!

Welcome to year 4.  I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to have another fun filled year with your children! Please find below some information on what we will be covering during this term and the knowledge organisers that will help your child understand some of the vocabulary and key concepts.

Curriculum

This term, we have a jam-packed curriculum of exciting learning opportunities including:

English: We will be linking our English to our exciting History topic - Invasion. We will be learning how to construct an extended narrative, focusing on historical settings. Following this we will be learning about the features of a non chronological report where we will produce our own report on Viking daily life.

Maths: Our focus to begin with will be place value where we will be learning how to work with numbers up to and beyond 1000, partitioning and representing numbers in different ways, Roman numerals, rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. We will then move on to addition and subtraction. 

Times tables will play a big part in year 4 and we will be doing a lot of practise in fun ways to get the children ready for their Year 4 multiplication test in the summer term.

RE: We will be learning about Hinduism during the first half of the Autumn term where we will learn about the different festivals and how Hindus worship. Following this we will be focusing on the People of God where we will learn about specific people from the bible and the role they played.

People Skills:  Our topic is Families and Relationships followed by health and wellbeing.

 

Science:       Food and the Digestive System                                                         

This project teaches children about the human digestive system. They explore the main parts, starting with the mouth and teeth, identifying teeth types and their functions. They link this learning to animals' diets and construct food chains to show the flow of energy.

History: Invasion

IThis project teaches children about life in Britain after the Roman withdrawal. Children will learn about Anglo-Saxon and Viking invasions up to the Norman conquest.

Art: Contrast and Complement

This project teaches children about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of tertiary colours, warm and cool colours, complementary colours and analogous colours, and how artists use colour in their artwork.

D&T: Fresh Food, Good Food

This project teaches children about food decay and preservation. They discover key inventions in food preservation and packaging, then make examples. The children prepare, package and evaluate a healthy snack.

Music: 

French:  

PE: Our PE days are now Tuesday afternoon and swimming on a Friday. As before, children should come to school wearing their swimming costume underneath their PE clothes on a Friday. This helps speed up the changing process, giving us longer in the pool!

Please ensure hair is tied back and all jewellery is removed. PE kit should consist of a white t-shirt, black or navy shorts of jogging bottoms and trainers. A black or navy hoodie can be worn for when the weather turns a bit colder. 
 

Staffing

Alongside myself (Mrs Doel), Miss Jackson will be teaching  be teaching PE and music to the class on a Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Lowings will also be working in class with us on a Thursday morning.

Please find new Knowledge Organisers for some of the above subjects at the bottom of this page. It would be really useful as an extra homework task to read these through with your child to gain further knowledge about the subject topics we are learning.

Behaviour

The ‘Good to be Green’ behaviour system will continue as usual across the school with children starting each morning and afternoon on a green card. Class Dojos can be earned by children for doing what is expected throughout the day, with Class Dojos of the Week being displayed in the class. Each Friday the Dojo winner of the week and runner up will receive a certificate  .

Platinum Cards are awarded for going way above and beyond and for really wowing! A certificate and prize will be presented in Thursday’s Celebration Assembly in front of the whole school. House points are also awarded for Platinum Cards and they will be displayed on the website Platinum page.

Yellow cards serve as a warning for not behaving as expected and red cards will be given if this warning is not heeded. If your child receives a red card, you will be informed, a break time will be missed to reflect on the behaviour, the incident will be logged and house points will be deducted.

 

Homework

Homework can be brought in on a Wednesday to show to the class. The homework menu is not  compulsoryhowever, children are required to read at least 4 times a week to an adult who should sign their reading diary. This will be checked weekly.

 

Weekly Timetable  Please note that this is subject to change on a weekly basis. English, maths, spellings and story will remain constant.