Support Staff - Mrs Howe, Mrs Ward, Mrs Swanson, Mrs Lawson and Mrs Player

Term 5

Welcome back year 4. We hope you have all had a great break. We are looking forward to another busy term. Please ensure that your child brings a water bottle to school every day. Could you also make sure that your child has their name on everything so that they are easy to find. 

Please make sure that your child has a coat especially on those colder mornings. 

Homework

Spellings will be handed out on a Friday for a test the following Friday.

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. 

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.

The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes.

Year 4 learning this term

Maths

In Maths, we will be working on decimals, money and time, how they can be represented and how we can use them with the four operations.  We will continue throughout the term with our daily multiplication practise in preparation for the Multiplication fact check.

Writing

Our class book, Iron Man by Ted Hughes will be supporting our writing.  We will start the term writing a newspaper article about an event that takes place as a result of the Iron Man.  Then we will be ending the term writing a play script linked to the story.

Reading

During reading we will be working our way through our class book Iron Man by Ted Hughes and interrogate the text using the skills of inference and prediction as well as developing our vocabulary skills.  The children will be able to continue with their own reading and testing their understanding using Accelerated Reader.

PSHE

Our PSHE topic this term is called ‘Relationships’. In this unit, children will learn healthy relationships and how to be a good friend. We will also be looking at how to deal with conflict, loss and how to emotions in a healthy way.

Science

In Science, we will be looking at Electricity.  We will be learning about how electricity travels and how to create a circuit. We will construct simple circuits and look at what happens with different switches, bulbs, wires, cells and batteries.

Art

In art this term, we will be creating 3D structures.  We will be creating wire structures and combining a range of techniques such as overlapping and layering as well as learning about famous sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Louise Bourgeois

Geography

We will be learning about earthquakes and settlements.  We will find out why earthquakes take place and what effects they have in Haiti and Japan.

Computing

In Computing, we will be coding.  We will be debugging problems and learning how we can add in control actions.

Physical Education

In PE, we will be focussing on the sport of athletics.  We will be working on our running, throwing and jumping techniques in the build up to sports day in term 6.  The children will also participate in dance sessions.

French

We will be learning conversational French and improving our vocabulary. 

Music

We will be creating music using Garageband on the iPads.

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