Year 4
Welcome to the Year 4 Class page.
Hello and welcome back Year 4! I hope that you have had a lovely half term break and are ready to get started with some super learning!
Our English work this term will be based around the text: ‘Pugs of the Frozen North’ by Philip Reeve. We will be producing our own non-chronological report, persuasive poster, poetry and character descriptions. During guided reading, we will continue reading ‘James and the Giant Peach’ by Roald Dahl and using this book to develop our VIPERS skills (vocabulary, inference, predict, explain, retrieve, summarise).
In Maths, we will be learning about multiplication and division. We will be looking at the 3, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 times tables and the corresponding division facts. We will spend some time looking at arrays to help us with this and will be carrying out a variety of reasoning tasks to deepen our understanding of this area of maths.
Our Science topic this half term is Living Things and their Habitats. During our lessons, we will learn about how we can group organisms in different ways and will identify vertebrates and observe their similarities and differences. We’ll also be identifying and classifying invertebrates, creating classification keys, recognising positive and negative changes in the local environment and describing environmental dangers to endangered species.
In Geography, our topic is ‘mountains’. The children will describe what a mountain is and locate the world’s ‘Seven Summits’ on a map. They will describe the key features of mountains and how they are formed. Throughout the topic, the children will explore and locate the UK’s highest mountains and recognise the importance of the Himalayas for people living in the region.
In Design & Technology this half term, and linking in with our Geography focus on the Himalayas, we will design and create a Kantha purse. We will learn about the centuries-old, North-Indian tradition of stitching patchwork cloth from rags and have a go at our own Kantha-inspired up-cycled purses. The children will use needlework skills to complete their projects.
Tuesdays will be especially fun-packed! The children will start their day with their PE lesson, which will be hockey this term. They will then have their weekly Music lesson after break where they will continue to learn how to play the recorder and enjoy singing songs. On Tuesday afternoons, the children will also continue swimming lessons at Copley Baths. Please ensure that the children have their PE and swimming kits in school every Tuesday.
Every Thursday morning, the children will also continue to receive Spanish lessons. The Spanish lessons are always full of song, drama and fun!
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Thank you for your support.
Miss. Snioch and Miss Simm