Welcome to Year 4! Your class teachers are Mrs Underwood and Miss Oliveira.
In 4U, our PE days are Tuesday and Friday. In 4O, our PE days are Wednesday and Friday. We do ask that children keep their PE kits at school during term time and take them home for a wash at the end of each half term.
Homework books will go home every Friday and we ask that every child selects one piece to complete from the menu each week. Please return the homework books by Wednesday so that your class teacher has time to see the amazing homework that has been completed before the books get sent home again on the following Friday.
Times table tests will happen every Wednesday. We will be sitting our MTC this summer so please do practice your times tables often. We really recommend playing on Times Table Rockstars as this is the most similar format to the MTC.
Spellings will now be self-assessed by the children as they use the words in their writing. There will be home learning tasks sent home twice a half term. These tasks are aimed to help children understand the meaning and context of the new vocabulary they are learning.
As our topic is ‘Temples, Tombs and Treasures’, our trip this half term will be to The British Museum. We are excited to see the real Egyptian artefacts in real life.
English
In English, our book for this half term is ‘The Queen’s Nose’. Through the CUSP curriculum, children will be exposed to ambitious vocabulary and will continue to improve their inference skills. We will also be using this text to stimulate high level written work by using a range of punctuation, editing and improving work, considering sentence structure and word classes. The children will learn how to structure poems which explore form and will write persuasive adverts.
Maths
In Maths, we will be starting the year by exploring at Place Value up to 10,000. We’ll then use this knowledge to compare numbers of different value, and complete addition and subtraction questions. Every child will develop their fluency, reasoning language and problem-solving skills within each Maths lesson.
History and Geography
We will move on to study ‘Temples, Tombs and Treasures’. The children will explore what life was like during Ancient Egyptian times by looking at the life of Tutankhamen, learning about the lives of Ancient Egyptians and investigating artefacts and hieroglyphics.
Science
We are starting our year by looking at how we learn and how we can overcome obstacles in our topic ‘Brainwave’. This topic encourages our students to use their Personal Goals of collaboration and resilience. Afterwards, we will move on to study ‘Temples, Tombs and Treasures’. The children will explore what life was like during Ancient Egyptian times by looking at the life of Tutankhamen, learning about the lives of Ancient Egyptians and investigating artefacts and hieroglyphics.
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