Year 4
Welcome to Year 4
Nurturing bright futures
Respect Responsibility Resilience
Meet The Team
4P Class teacher - Mrs Duck
Class email: bethany.duck@castlephoenixtrust.org.uk
4G Class teacher - Mrs Bolus
Class email: abigail.bolus@castlephoenixtrust.org.uk
Year 4 teaching assistants: Mrs Harvey and Mrs Chudasama
Welcome back to school! We hope you had a lovely Summer break and are as excited as we are about the year ahead! We will be learning lots of exciting things this year and cannot wait to see you all grow and develop!
PE
Tuesday afternoon PE
Friday afternoon Swimming (Autumn 1) & PE (Autumn 2)
It is essential that your child has the correct PE kit for their lessons. Please do get in touch if you need any help with this.
Swimming kit should consist of a swimsuit / trunks and a towel. Children with long hair should have this tied up. If your child wishes to wear goggles or a swimming hat, this is your choice and not a necessity.
During the Autumn term, in history we will be exploring our topic, Roman Britain. We will also be learning about European countries in geography.
In science this term, we will be looking at Living Things and States of Matter.
This term, in Computing we will be looking at coding and spreadsheets. Within D&T this term, we are going to design and create our own tomb building machine from recycling. In music during the Autumn term, we will be taking influence from Mamma Mia and playing glockenspiels.
Within RSHE this term, we will be learning about families and friendships, safe relationships and respecting ourselves and others. During the Autumn term in French, we will be revising colour and parts of the body.
Maths
In Maths this term, we will be exploring place value and number. Within these units, children will be learning the value of a number between 0 - 9,999 and they will be able to compare and order numbers within this range. Within our number unit this term, children will be further developing their addition and subtraction skills.
We will be completing Mastering Number sessions daily to further develop children's fluency skills.
Times tables Rockstars (TTRS) is an excellent way to encourage children to learn their times tables, we are focusing on every times table this term in preparation for their Multiplication Year 4 Check. All children have been given their logins and are able to log in and play! It is important that children are given the opportunity to practice their tables daily.
English
During the first half of the term we will be using the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' as inspiration to write our own narratives and descriptive text. We will then be looking at a poem called "The Colour Collector" and writing our own poem based on this.
Our end of day reader will be The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Rauf.
Children will be taking part in Read Write Inc. Spelling lessons, or Read Write Inc. Phonics lessons three times a week. Please ensure that you are giving your child the opportunity to practice their spellings / phonics with you each week and are accessing Ruth Miskin's Virtual Classroom via QR codes where appropriate.
Reading Books will be changed once the child has finished reading their book. Children will be heard in class by their class teacher or TA at least once a week. Children should be reading 3 times at home to an adult and recorded in their reading records with a signature of who heard them read. Please refer to the home reading agreement for further information. In class, we have a rewards system that allows children to receive a prize in assembly, once they have completed eight books or have read eight times.
Reading Eggs via www.readingeggs.com/signin
An online reading platform with lots of exciting books and rewards to be had! This is a brilliant way to promote your child's love for reading, whilst improving their fluency and comprehension.
Timetables
