Year 4
Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome to Year 4, where lots of fun and exciting learning takes place. Miss Pennington is our class teacher and in the mornings we are joined by Mrs Joyce. On this page you will find find our class news and lots of interesting pictures showing you what we have done.
Summer 2018
This term will be full of lots of new and exciting learning! We started the term with the arrival of our class pets; five little catepillars named Bob, Jake, Ninja, Daisy and Jerry. Over these few weeks we are going to study their development and life cycle, hoping to release them as healthy butterflies into the garden area. Below is a rundown of the topics we are studying this term.
Literacy- Persuasive Writing, Adventure Stories, Fairytales, Shape Poems, Plays and Dialogue, Recounts, Myths and Legends and Traditional Poems.
Maths- Converting Measurements, Perimeter and Area, Angles, Shape and Symmetry, Position and Direction, Statistics and a recap of Multiplication and Division.
Science- Living things and their habitats, and Animals including Humans.
Geography- Beyond the Magic Kingdom: what is the Sunshine State really like?
History- The Roman Empire and it's impact on Britain
RE- The Mission of the Church and Belonging to the Church
Computing- Animation and Word Processing
PE- Athletics and Rounders: Striking and Fieldling
Art-Plants and Animals
PSHE- Positive Mindset and Equality
Spring 2018
This term we are very lucky to have Keith from the Newcastle Falcons to teach us Tag Rugby, we spend our time learning how to tag each other and pass accurately. Not only were we tackling each other but we are tackling numbers in class.
Our topics for this spring term are:
Literacy- How to train your dragon fantasy story writing, Recounts, Diary Writing, Newspaper Reports and Performance Poetry.
Maths- Equivalent Fractions, Adding and Subtracting Fractions, Reading Time, Finding Time Differences, Decimals (Tenths and Hundreths), Equivalent Fractions and Decimals, and Money.
Science- Electricity and Working Scientifically.
RE- Jesus the Teacher and Jesus the Saviour.
Geography- What makes a Megacity?
History- The Changing Power of Monachs.
PE- Gymnastics and Tag Rugby.
Computing- Programming and Word Processing
Art- Bodies and Insects.
French- Mon Anniversaire.
PSHE- Relationships.
Swimming
On Friday mornings we all go swimming to Kendal Lesiure Centre, Rob our instructor has sorted us into groups and we get to work on our skills each week. This will run until the end of this term.
Reading and Homework
Children will be awarded a gold star for reading at least three times a week. They should bring in their home-reading books everyday, which will be checked regularly. It is important that we develop a love of reading, we want them to enjoy reading and sharing books with you. Please can parents write a message in their records to confirm they have been reading. Homework will be handed out on a Friday each week and should be returned the following Tuesday. It will be something they have covered in the week or may be to prepare them for the following week, if your child needs help please ensure they see me on Monday so I can help them. There is also the Rmeasimaths programme they can use at home, it would be very useful if they could log on at least once a week and do a session.
Rewards
Rewards will be given out to children who are demonstrating good values and behaviour. Also, rewards will be given to those who are showing perseverance and being a good friend, which are two of our class targets chosen by the children. We have a weekly prize box for those children who have earned 5 gold stars a week.