Year 4

Welcome to the first half of the Autumn Term. We have two classes in Year 4, Lime and Hazel. You can meet your teachers to the right.

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Welcome to Year 4, we have an exciting half term ahead and a full curriculum of activities planned.  Our main topic this half term will be ‘Greek Legacies’.  The children will have the opportunity to develop a better understanding of the impact that ancient civilisations have had on modern day life.  During this learning, we will be reading ‘Greek Myths’ by Jean Menzies and through our shared text: ‘Myth Hunters Guide’ by The Literacy Company.  Throughout our English lessons, we will be consolidating our learning from the previous year and be developing new writing skills with a sharp focus on a fictional journey narrative.  The pupils will be developing their character and setting descriptions, using fronted adverbials, paragraphs and conjunctions to extend their range of sentence structures.  Reading sessions will develop the skills of inference, retrieving information and using evidence from a text to justify responses and understanding.

In Science, we will be studying ‘Animals, including humans’ – looking closely at digestive systems and teeth, as well as food chains.  In Maths, we will be focusing on number and place value, including Roman numerals.   We will also develop our speed and fluency of our times table recall, in preparation for the Multiplication Table Check (MTC) in June.   In RE, we will be studying Judaism and exploring how Jews show faith through practises and celebrations.

This half term the children will have PE on a Wednesday morning. They should come into school with their PE kit on and school jumper. If the weather is cold, children can also bring in an additional jumper or hoodie for outdoor activities.  This half term we will be working on our gymnastics skills and developing our tag rugby techniques.

Reading Books: Reading books and reading records should be brought in every day. Children will read daily and any reading at home should be noted in their reading records. As always, the children are responsible for changing their own books and ensuring that quizzes are completed in class. They will be given plenty of opportunities to change their reading books.

Home learning:

Home learning will be set each Friday for children on Seesaw. In addition, we would like the children to be reading regularly (preferably each day) and practicing their timetables on Times Table Rockstars.