Welcome to Year 4 CB

Mr C Bateson – Class Teacher

Mrs MC Mather – Teaching Assistant 

TTRS Club: 8.30am

Start time: 8.45am

End time: 3.30pm

PE – Monday & Wednesday 

Children come to school dressed in their PE kits.

PE Kit

White t-shirt

Navy blue shorts

Trainers (any colour) or plimsolls

Plain black, navy or grey jogging bottoms t-shirt, shorts and trainers.

Jewellery – No child is permitted to take part in physical activity wearing earrings including out of school sports partnership events during the school year.

Movement Break

Every day, we take part in a movement break which includes activities such as: skipping, ball skills, outdoor gym, trim trail and the daily mile.

Reading

Reading is tremendously important to learning in school and is a fantastic life skill. The school use the Accelerated Reader scheme and all children are heard read by an adult at least once every week. It is extremely important children bring their reading books in every day. Children also have access to our class and school libraries to enjoy a variety of texts.

In addition to having their own reading book and library book, we read for pleasure each day as a class. Our current reading for pleasure book is ‘The Last Bear’ by Hannah Gold, which the children are thoroughly enjoying. In our English lessons, we are reading ‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’ by Joe Todd-Stanton.

Homework

Year 4 homework consists of reading, spellings and times tables. I may leave other tasks to complete throughout the year on Google Classroom.

Children should read every day at home for 10/15 minutes. Reading books are to be brought back into school daily.

Spellings are learnt in school over the week and are available on Spelling Shed for pupils to learn at home.

Timestables Rockstars has been set for your child to work on at home for 5/10 minutes daily. We also have  TTRS Club in class every morning at 8.30am.

Codes for TTRS and Spelling Shed can be found on the inside cover of your child’s reading diary.

Autumn topics

Our topics for the Autumn Term are as follows:

Maths: Place Value, Addition and Subtraction and Multiplication and Division.

English:  ‘The Barnabus Project’ by The Fan Brothers and ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes

Science: How would you survive for a day without electricity? (Electricity) and How do we use forces and magnets in everyday life? (Forces and magnets)

History: Stone, Bronze and Iron… What have they go to do with history?

Geography: Why do so many people visit the Mediterranean?

Art: Shape and tone

DT: Pneumatic toys

Computing: Computing Systems and Networks and Creating Media

Music: Instrumental and developing singing

PSHE: Climate change and being safe

R.E: What do Hindus believe? And How and why is Advent important to Christians?

French: Les Animaux

PE: Fundamentals, Gymnastics, Fitness and Yoga.

Respect Rules

We follow our Respect Rules in school which include:

  1. Listen to and follow instructions.
  2. Keep hands, feet and objects to ourselves.
  3. Be polite and show kindness to the whole school community.
  4. I will do my best at all times.
  5. Use appropriate school language: no name calling, teasing or bad language.

Year 4 are working towards individual and class rewards:

Reward card: children who complete ‘checkpoint’ stages on their cards will receive a prize.

Class rewards – we work as a team to incur reward points that will go towards a class treat of our choosing.

 

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