Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

 

Staff Team

Class teacher

Mr Josh Rowe

Teaching assistants

Ms Jody Cook, Mr Kevin Lam, Ms Libby Wattam

 

Curriculum Information: During Term 1, we will be learning …

Maths

Place value, Addition, Subtraction 

English

Character descriptions, Letter, Dairies

Science

Living things and their habitats, States of matter

Geography

Rivers, Latitude and longitude

History

Anglo-saxons, Vikings

RE

How are religions the same and different? 

French

The calendar

Art

Drawing, Painting

DT

Food and nutrition, Mechanisms 

Music

Percussion, Singing 

Computing

Storyboards and movies, Coding

PE

Fundamental movement skills, Gymnastics

PSHE

Families and relationships

 

PE Days

PE sessions in Year 4 are on Tuesday and Friday. Please make sure your child wears their PE kit to school on these days.  Our PE kit is plain black shorts; leggings or joggers; plain white or school PE t-shirt; school jumper. 

Homework

Maths: 10 minutes (minimum) of Times Tables Rockstars practice - 3 times per week. 

Reading: 10 minutes (minimum) of reading every day - independent or with an adult (This can be a book brought home from school or an online book read on Accelerated Reader).

Periodically through each term, children may be set a research project based on our current unit of learning in History/Geography, where they will get the chance to design, build, create or present what they have learned about at home.