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Welcome to Year 4!
Class Teachers: Miss Downey & Miss Casey
LSAs: Ms Donnelly, Ms Thompson & Miss Vick
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to talk to one of the Year 4 team.
We cannot stress enough how important it is for your child to read at home! Reading is brilliant and we want to encourage children to do it as much as possible. We are going to be reading books together as a class but we would also like the children to read regularly at home. They will have a reading folder to take home and a reading log to record any reading they do. We would like them to read at least 5 times during the week – this can be anything that they are interested in reading, not just books, but useful information that they need, such as (appropriate) websites, television guides, menus, magazines… the list is endless! The reading logs will be checked regularly.
Homework is sent out each Friday to be handed in the following Friday. We ask parents to support us with completing the maths, spelling, grammar and reading tasks sent out. A spelling test will take place every Friday.
4D PE days - Monday and Thursday (Swimming)
4C PE days - Monday and Tuesday
Please ensure that your child comes to school with their PE kit on these days.
PE kit consists of: a plain white t-shirt, black shorts and black PE pumps. Children may wear black jogging pants and a jumper in the colder months if they go outside. Due to the limited space we have in the cloakroom in our classroom, please can children refrain from bringing in large rucksacks/handbags. They are too big for the pegs and children cannot hang their coats up properly. Instead, we encourage them to bring the blue school reading book bags to put their belongings in. Thank you for your co-operation with this.
Don’t forget to bring water bottles in each day - it is important for the children to stay hydrated throughout the day. Please put a label on bottles and refill them every day.
Children can purchase milk cartons at the beginning of each half term (see the school office) and bring a healthy snack for break time. Please be reminded that we are a healthy eating school, if a snack is chocolate, crisps, cake or sweets it is NOT a healthy snack.
In Year 4 we have the exciting opportunity to learn and improve our swimming skills! These lessons will happen once a week and our currently on Thursdays. 4D are currently attending swimming lessons.
For swimming your child will need:
Swimming hat
Towel
Swimming costume/Swimming trunks. (No bikinis)
They can also bring a healthy snack to the pool.
It is recommended that you send your child in with their swimming costumes/trunks underneath their school uniform. This will make getting changed much quicker for them. If you are doing this, please remember to provide your child with a spare change of underwear. We also ask that you ensure your child has a warm waterproof coat, as we will be walking to the leisure centre in all weathers.
Pupils will learn to count in multiples of 25, 100 and 1000. They will explore the place value of 4 digit numbers as well as comparing numbers using mathematical symbols. They will complete number patters and learn to round to the nearest 1000, 100 and 10.
We would like to remind you the importance of pupils regularly using Times Tables Rockstars, and practicing their times tables. Fluency in this area can often help children with many other areas of Maths. The national Year 4 Multiplication Check is held in June, and consistent practice will help pupils complete this with ease.
Our first text of the year is ‘The Butterfly Lion’ by Michael Morpurgo. We will be producing our own diary entries based on the books, and learning how to write informal letters to the characters!
Science is now taught as Biology, Chemistry and Physics throughout the year. This gives children the opportunity to revisit learning and prepares them for High-school Science.
We will be exploring the life of the Ancient Greeks. We will be looking at all the different great Greek Gods, as well as looking at the start of the Olympics games as we know it!
The Amazonian region is used as a case study featuring a direct comparison between how the local woodland is used similarly or differently to the Amazon rainforest.
Year 4 will have the opportunity to research, design and create their own pencil case.
We will be looking at the famous work of Elizabeth Catlett. We will be learning how to draw in proportion and then create our very own clay sculptures.
