Welcome to Year 4
Nurturing bright futures
Meet The Team
4P Class teacher - Miss Duck
4P Teaching Assistant - Mrs Hine
4P Email: 4p@pottersgreen.org.uk
4G Class teacher - Mr Willcock
4G Teaching Assistant - Mrs Gee
4G Email: 4g@pottersgreen.org.uk
Welcome back to Year 4! We hope you had a lovely Christmas break and are as excited as we are about the Spring Term ahead! During the Spring term, we will be learning about Plague, Pox and antibiotics in History as well as finding out about our Amazonia Great Rivers in Geography. In Art this term, we will be creating our very own vista pieces.
In Science this term, we will be learning all about electricity and will create our own electrical circuits. We will also be learning about digestion, in particularly looking at teeth and food chains. During this term in Computing, we will be learning about hardware and online safety, as well as logos and animation.
In RSHE this term we will be exploring themes around how data is shared and used, what makes a community and shared responsibilities as well as decisions about money and keeping it safe. During the spring term in RE, we will be exploring the questions: Why are festivals important to religious communities? and What can we learn from religions about deciding what is right and what is wrong?
In French this term, we will be learning the following topics: Members of the family, Following a French story, Zoo animals, Pets and Easter.
Maths
In Maths this term, we will expanding our place value knowledge and exploring 4 digit numbers. We will further develop our addition and subtraction skills and then move on to learning area, time and multiplication and division. In Year 4, our times tables continue to be a very important part of our learning and therefore we ask children are practising their times tables daily. Please speak with your child's teacher, if you need support with this.
English
This term in Year 4, we will be reading part of The Plauge as well as Feast. We will be taking influences from the authors of these books and creating our own work based on them. As our whole class story, we will be reading Street Child by Berlie Doherty, as well as a variety of poetry. During reading lessons, we will explore a variety of texts and use our comprehension skills to explore different themes.
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 Seesaw where appropriate.
PE
During the Spring term, Year 4 will have PE on a Monday and Tuesday.
Year 4 will have outdoor PE on a Monday morning. An outdoor PE Kit is required which includes black jogging bottoms, a white t-shirt, jumper/hoody and trainers. We recommend bringing in a carrier bag too as trainers are often muddy and covered in grass, so will not be able to be worn in the classroom. Children must have a full change of clothes for PE including an appropriate change of footwear.
Year 4 will have dance lessons on a Tuesday afternoon. As dance will be inside, children will need appropriate clothes to wear in the PE hall such as, a white t-shirt, black shorts or jogging bottoms and trainers.
Homework
Children have homework set on Seesaw weekly. We will set the homework on a Friday and expect it to be completed by Tuesday of the following week. If your child cannot access Seesaw, or you need support, please get in touch with your child's teacher via the office or class email.
Times tables Rockstars (TTR) 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.
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
A new 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.
Knowledge organisers