Welcome to Year 4!

The Teacher in Year 4 is Mrs Gilbert Scott (Mrs GS)

Learning Support Assistants:

Mrs Jarman, Mrs Basu and Mr Beckett

Important Information:

New Timetable

The school now runs on a two week timetable (see attached).  The first week back after half term will be Week 1.  

P.E

Monday and Tuesday every single week - i.e. in both Week 1 and Week 2   

Forest School and Music

Both on Wednesday of Week 2

Curriculum Information

Autumn 2

Below is a brief overview - more information, such as knowledge and skills progression documents for each subject is available on the school website under the 'About Us' tab.  

Maths

Autumn 2 begins with a unit on Area, looking first at what area is and how to measure area by counting squares.  The term will end with a unit on Multiplication and Division.  We are continuing our 'Maths for Mastery' scheme which examines times tables in detail and the children are now having regular times table checks at the start of Maths lessons.  A lot of them are finding this difficult: please help your child with their speedy recall of times tables by using any method that suits.  See the links below for some ideas.  

English

SPAG starts off in Autumn 2 by looking at adverbs to start sentences and fronted adverbials.  We will continue our Guided Reading session every Tuesday.  This half term, the text we will be reading as a class is 'Horrid Henry' by Francesca Simon, which comprises of four very funny short stories.  We have enough copies to share in school, but if your child would like to bring in their own copy, that would be very helpful.  Our Spelling and Handwriting sessions continue every Thursday.  We are now following the 'Mrs Mactivity' scheme which includes the Statutory Spellings for Year 3 and Year 4 (see attached).  Every Friday, the children will write for an extended period of time - 'Big Write'.  As daunting as it may sound, the children love this opportunity to let their creativity flow independently.  

Humanities

Our topic this half term is Geography based and all about Rainforests.  We will start by examining images of the people and the environment in this biome.  Following that, we will use atlases to locate each of the major rainforests.  Our case study will be the Amazon and we will be learning about both the Physical and Human Geography of this region.  The focus towards the end of the unit will be on why rainforests are important and how we can all protect them.  
 

Science

We are continuing with our topic on States of Matter, (Solids, Liquids and Gases), which has exciting experiments to explore how both melting and evaporation rates are affected by temperature.    

DT

In DT this term we will be exploring different textile fastenings and making a book sleeve out of felt.  

Homework

The most important element of homework is reading: please listen to your child read at least two or three times each week.  In addition to reading, please continue to use Times Tables Rockstars, or any other method to improve your child's speedy recall of Times Tables (see links below).  Your child may also do a task from the homework grid attached below - to be handed in on Wednesdays.  If you have time, please practise the Statutory Spellings for Year 3 and 4 attached below.