Support Staff - Mrs Swanson, Mrs Player, Mrs Howe, Miss Burt and Mrs Lawson

Welcome to Year 4

Welcome to Year 4.  This year Mr Bold will be your class teacher, with Mrs Swanson and Mrs Player as the class TAs and Mrs Burt, Mrs Lawson and Mrs Howe supporting across the year group. We are all looking forward to welcoming you all back in September for another busy term.

MESSAGES: PLEASE CAN CHILDREN NOT BRING TOYS INTO CLASS
PLEASE CAN CHILDREN COME IN WITH A WATER BOTTLE EVERY DAY

Homework

Spellings will be handed out every week. These will be worked on in class before being tested at the end of the week. 

Please continue to read at home and complete Accelerated Reader checks.

Continue to practise times table challenges on Times Tables Rock Stars.

PE Days

Children will have PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Please ensure that children come to school in their Bitham Brook PE kit on these days. 

Tuesday- Dance 

Thursday- Netball

Friday- Swimming

When the children have PE they should continue to wear their Bitham Brook PE kit into school with the school jumper over the top (if weather conditions require a jumper).  Please note the Bitham Brook PE kit is a plain white t-shirt and black shorts/leggings/tracksuit with trainers.  Other sports clothing is not acceptable as it is important, that as a school, we have pride in our appearance.  It is important that children do not attend school in casual clothing as we want to maintain the children's sense of education being important; pride in their appearance; and belonging to Bitham Brook.

Charlotte's Web by EB White

Year 4 learning this term

Maths

In maths, we will begin the term looking at some of the gaps from last year before moving on to place value and then addition and subtraction.

Writing

Our writing will be linked to our class book,  Charlotte’s Web.  We will be writing two different persuasive letters.

Reading

During reading, we will be working our way through our class book, Charlotte’s Web The children will be interrogating the text using a variety of skills.  The children will be able to continue with their own reading and testing their understanding using Accelerated reader.

PSHE

Our PSHE this term is ‘Being me in my world’.  Throughout this unit, we will be learning about being part of a group and how to take care of each other.

Science

In science, we will be looking at animals including humans. We will learn about our teeth and digestion as well as look in detail at animal food chains.

RE

The children will investigate ‘What do we mean by truth?’  We will consciously develop our critical thinking skills, learning how Philosophers think about the concept of truth and what it means to different people.

Art

In Art and Design this term, our topic will be drawing.  We will be learning about still life and developing sketching skills.

Geography

In Geography this term, the children will be learning about South America and in particular Brazil and the people who live there.

Computing

In computers, we will be using Purple mash to develop our online safety.  We will be learning about how to be safe in a digial world.  We will also work on learning about hardware and software and creating simple animations.

Physical Education

In PE, we will be doing dance, netball and swimming.

Music

In music, we will be looking at the origins of Samba Music and creating our own rhythmic break to perform a class piece using the samba band instruments.

French

In French we will be Learning useful French phrases to be able to have a french conversation with somebody in my class.

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