Year 4

 
Welcome to Year 4
Our Spring Term Theme is:
Eco Life!

During the Spring term, Year 4 will be thinking about nature and the environment with our theme 'Eco Life'.  In science, we will be learning about how we classify living things, states of matter as well as exploring the water cycle. In geography, we will be developing our knowledge of physical geography around the UK by looking at mountains and rivers.  We will be refining our drawing skills by exploring movement and sketching whilst looking at the art of April Coppini. 

Please see the homework expectations:
Our Books this Term
In English this term, we will be using the books ' 'A River' by Marc Martin and 'Song of the River' by Gill Lewis to inspire our writing. We will be writing a range of text types including free verse poetry, fantasy narrative and persuasive letters  We will also be using these texts to develop our comprehension skills focusing on inference and retrieval. 

Maths

In Maths, we will be focusing on our practice on times tables as well as furthering our work addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will be developing our problem solving skills by applying our new learning to a range of different contexts.

Reading

Children are expected to be reading at home at least 3 times per week to support their learning. Reading Records should be brought into school every day and will be checked on a Thursday.  

Times tables

Children are encouraged to continue using TimesTable Rockstars at home each week. Every child has their username and password to enable them to log in. This will be checked in school, if you have any problems logging in, please speak to the class teacher.

For an overview of our learning this term, please read the parent overview below.

Things to remember:

    • PE days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.
    • PE kits should be kept in school at all times.
    • Reading books need to be in school every day.
    • Elm have swimming in the first half term and Willow will swim in the second half term.
    • These sessions will be on Thursdays and the children will need to have their kits in school.