Support Staff - Mrs King and Mrs Lawson

Welcome to Year 4

Welcome to Year 4. We are all looking forward to welcoming you all back in September for another busy term. Please can you make sure that your child has a water bottle in school. Could you also make sure that your child has their name on everything so that they are easy to find.

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 and Thursday. Please ensure that children come to school in their Bitham Brook PE kit on these days. 

Tuesday- Dance 

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

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.

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

Physical Education

In PE, we will be doing dance on a Tuesday and swimming on a Friday.

Music

In music, pupils will explore major and minor music through singing, listening, and playing. We will build on prior skills of playing a drone and ostinato alongside a song with more complex repeated patterns.

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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