Welcome to Year 4
Miss Corrall - Clover Class
Mrs Colt - Heather Class
Miss Birch - Year 4 Teaching Assistant
Miss Hull - Year 4 Teaching Assistant
Summer 1 - 2024
Welcome back to the first half of our Summer Term. We hope that you have all had a good break and are ready for an exciting half term ahead. We have lots of engaging learning planned for the weeks to come and the children will be enthusiastic to begin our new geography based topic on Rivers. This half term, our topic question is:
"How do humans live with rivers?”
Our class text this half term is:
‘Song of the River' by Gill Lewis
Over the half term,. we will also be learning about:
o Maths - Decimals, Time and Money
o Science - Electricity
o Computing - Programming
o Geography – Rivers
o DT – Gears (Rack and Pinnion)
o Spanish - Shopping for Fruit, Vegetables and Clothes
o PSHE - Committed Friendships (Trust, Honesty, Risk)
o PE - Athletics and Tennis
o RE – Buddhist Festivals
o Music – Composing to moving images.
Key Dates
Please note the following dates for your diary:
Monday 15th April - Return to School
Monday 6th May – Bank Holiday
Mon 27th - Fri 31st May – Half Term
Knowledge Organisers Below you can find our knowledge organisers for our subjects this half term. These can be used to quiz at home about topics or to revise key concepts.
PE & Outdoor Learning
In the Summer term, PE takes place on TUESDAY (alternate weeks) and WEDNESDAY. See below for details.
PE kits consist of PLAIN black shorts or jogging bottoms, PLAIN white t-shirt, and trainers. Please pack an extra warm top for outdoor PE lessons.
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W/C 15th Apr |
W/C 22nd Apr |
W/C 29th Apr |
W/C 6th May |
W/C 13th May |
W/C 20th May |
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Clover |
Tues – PE Wed – PE |
Tues – OL Wed – PE |
Tues – PE Wed – PE |
Tues – OL Wed – PE |
Tues – PE Wed – PE |
Tues – OL Wed – PE |
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Heather |
Tues – OL Wed – PE |
Tues – PE Wed – PE |
Tues – OL Wed - PE |
Tues – PE Wed - PE |
Tues – OL Wed - PE |
Tues – PE Wed - PE |
Outdoor Learning is on alternate Tuesdays.
Outdoor Learning kits consist of:- Warm clothing
- Black jogging bottoms or leggings
- John Clifford jumper, cardigan or warm plain jumper
- Waterproof coat, trousers or all in one
- Extra layers
- Warm socks
- Hat, scarf, gloves
- Wellies or old trainers (brought to school in a named bag and preferably to be left at school)
All the kit should be clearly named and in a bag which can be hung on your child’s peg. Children have the opportunity to build dens, explore the mud kitchen, look after our animals and can get messy. Please send in clothes that you do not mind getting messy or wet.
Homework in Year 4 Reading:Each week, we ask that all children read with somebody at home at least three times a week. This could be any adult or an older sibling or friend. Please sign their diary and add a comment. Every little bit of reading really does help children on the learning journey. Spelling:We also ask that the children practise their weekly spellings which can be found inside of the Communication Diary. We conduct a spelling quiz each week as part of a dictation lesson, and these words form part of our English teaching for the week. Times tables:A vital aspect of Maths is that the children have a secure recall of times tables so we ask that they spend some time each week on TT Rockstars practising these. Log in details can be found in your child's Communication Diary.
