Year 4
Welcome to the Year 4 Class page.
Hello and Happy New Year! We have so much to look forward to this term!
English work this term will be based around the text ‘Escape from Pompeii’ by Christina Balat. We will use this text as a stimulus for our writing, which will include a variety of genres: poetry, letter writing, a descriptive recount, newspaper reports and explanation writing. We will be using ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes for our guided reading text this term, focussing on VIPERS questions. We will also spend lots of time looking at how we can read with prosody (expression), spending weekly sessions thinking about rhythm, emphasis, pitch, tone and when to pause.
In art this half term, we will be looking at The Art of Display. We will explore how the way we display our work can affect the way it is seen and create artwork inspired by the idea of “Plinth”.
During this term, the children will continue to develop their understanding and grasp of the building blocks of maths via their daily maths lessons. Within lessons, work will focus on multiplication and division, units of measurement and calculating the perimeter of rectilinear shapes and polygons. We will also begin learning about fractions and decimals. We will regularly work to solve problems and explain answers using our knowledge of the subject. In addition to maths lessons, the children also complete daily arithmetic questions, aimed at embedding core mathematical skills such as column addition and subtraction, rounding and times tables. Please remember to log on to Times Tables Rock Stars at home and to read at least three times a week.
In history, we will be studying the Romans and looking in detail at the Roman army and Roman soldiers, as well as analysing the impact that the Roman conquests had on the way of life of the people living in Britain. We will also spend some time studying Roman villas, using them to find out more about what day-to-day life was like for some Romans.
This term, we will investigate the topic of sound. The children will be describing and explaining sound sources and how they travel, exploring the ways to change the pitch of a sound and exploring how sounds change over distance.
In ICT, the children will develop their understanding of how digital images can be changed and edited, and how they can then be resaved and reused. They will consider the impact that editing images can have and evaluate the effectiveness of their choices. They will also think about the retouching of images and consider the moral implications of ‘fake’ digitally altered images.
On Tuesday afternoons, some of the children will continue swimming lessons at Copley Baths, while those not swimming will get to enjoy an afternoon of PE and Computing. On Wednesday afternoons, all of the children will also enjoy a dance session. On Thursday mornings, the children will continue to receive Spanish lessons from one of the Mossley Hollins language teachers.
Children should remember to bring a healthy snack and a refillable water bottle in to school every day and ensure that they have their PE/swimming kits in school for the relevant days.
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Thank you for your support.
Miss. Snioch and Miss. Simm