Welcome to Year 4

Welcome to Year 4! What a fantastic start to the school year we have had already. It was lovely to see all the children return from the summer holidays looking happy, smart and ready to learn. I am very much looking forward to working with your children on some exciting topics this year. All information will be displayed under the tabs to the left. However, if there is anything you need to discuss which is not on here, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am very much looking forward to working with you in supporting your child.

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It's the last week of half term! Everyone is ready for the break after all of the hard work over the past 6 weeks. Nothing is stopping Year 4 though, as our History unit all about the Ancient Romans has kicked off brilliantly! We have spent all week getting to know what the Romans did for us, looking at their legacies such as town planning, currency and language, to their impact on Iron Age Britain after their invasion. We have just started to research the Roman Gods and get a better understanding of who the Romans believed in, worshipped and the 'whys and hows' of their faith in practice. Without a doubt the children are gripped and can't wait to learn more about this ancient civilisation!

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This week the children have been looking at Narrative Poetry, based on 'The Sound Collector' by Roger McGough. We focused on the language in the poem and his use of adjectives for sound, as well as the rhyming couplets that were in each verse. The children innovated the poem to create their own, including the rhymes which made for very effective writing! Maths has seen us dive into the world of addition and subtraction using formal written methods, but like everything this year, the class have smashed it! We have also presented our learning in Science as part of our POP Task, performing in small groups to present everything we have learnt over the past half term. 

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Year 4 have continued their hard work on their setting description of a Roman market, focusing particularly on the senses to add further dimension to their descriptions. Our Maths unit on Place Value has come to an end with Rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000 which the children have used a clever poem to help them with the process. We have really secured our understanding of the make up of number and will be moving onto Addition and Subtraction next week. Our wider curriculum has seen further work on sound in Science, looking particularly at sound waves and how these represent volume and pitch, plus more fantastic exploration of colour for our Art unit on Alma Thomas.

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We have started a new writing unit in English based on setting description this time. We have focused hard on the grammatical aspect of not only effective adjectives, but the use of expanded noun phrases containing a prepositional phrase! It sounds very complicated but the children have been AMAZING and can now use them brilliantly! We have continued with our French learning this week, looking at the modal verb 'pouvoir' (to be able to) and using this to say phrases such as 'I can sing/dance/play an instrument'. The children are so good at losing any embarrassment and giving it their best shot and the pronunciation has come on leaps and bounds in only a few weeks! Definitely a group of linguists in the making!

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The class have written their character descriptions of Flavia, the main character in our current English text, 'The Thieves of Ostia' by Caroline Lawrence. They have been fantastic at drawing on all of the learning over the past few weeks to create some very detailed, imaginative descriptions. Maths has seen the children apply their increasing skill and knowledge of Place Value to finding 1/10/100/1000 more or less than a given four-digit number, something which has proved difficult but the class persevered brilliantly! Science has taken a biology focus this week learning all about the anatomy of the ear and each parts role in allowing us to hear sound. The children can explain beautifully the journey of sound waves through the auricle, down the ear canal, vibrating the ear drum, through the ossicles and into the cochlea before heading up to our brain!

W/c 07.09.26
Welcome to the first week of Year 4! This week we have dived straight into our curriculum, looking at character description in English and Place Value in Maths. Our wider curriculum has started to look at Sound in Science, the artistic works of Alma Woodsey Thomas in art, the journey of life in differing religions in RE and our local geographical make-up in Geography. So many exciting topics for us to sink our teeth into and many more to come throughout the term!

.What We’re Learning This Term

English

• Character/Setting Description

• Biography

• Narrative Poetry

• Narrative (Opening Hooks)

• Diary

Maths

• Place Value

• Addition & Subtraction

• Area

• Multiplication & Division

Science

• Sound

• Electricity

History

• Romans

Geography

• Local Area Study

Design & Technology

• Mechanical Systems – Levers and Linkages

Art

• Painting & Collage – Alma Woodsey Thomas

RE

• Journey of Life and Death

• Spiritual Expression

PSHE

• Being Me in My World

• Celebrating Difference

Computing

• E-Safety

• Programming

Music

• Mamma Mia!

• Glockenspiel

PE​

• Dance

MFL (French)

• Numbers to 50

• Simple Phrases/Questions
   

Reading

Reading even for five minutes a day helps across all subjects. Please encourage daily reading and log it in your child’s diary. Reading books are changed weekly on a Monday matched to your child's reading ability and providing appropriate challenge. 
Please can Reading Diaries be in school every day.


P.E.

PE is on a Wednesday and Thursday. Children need:

• Shorts/joggers (weather depending)

• T-shirt (long/short sleeved)

• Spare socks and trainers
   

Hair must be tied back and earrings removed/covered (plasters provided by home). PE is a statutory requirement; non-participation requires a written note.