Meet the team: 

Class teachers- Mrs Gittins 

Teaching Assistant- Mrs Rowlands

Here you will find our class updates, photos and any important information about our class. Please pop back here to see what we have been doing during the term and to find out what is coming up.

Dates 

Friday 27th March: Break up for the Easter holidays at 2pm

Wednesday 29th April- 1st May: Year 4 Residential

Monday 4th May: Bank holiday

Wednesday 20th May: National Numeracy Day

Friday 22nd May: Break up for half term at 3.15pm

Important Class Information

PE Days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Children need to come to school wearing their PE kit.

Year 3 and 4 will be taking part in a cricket session each Tuesday, so will also require PE kit on these days.

Reading Books: reading books will be changed Tuesdays and Thursdays. Please continue to listen to your child read daily, even for 10 minutes, and get your child to complete the reading task in the reading journal.

Break time snack: If you wish for your child to have a snack at break time, please provide a healthy choice of fruit or vegetables.

Lunchtimes: Children will be eating lunch in their houses (Apollo, Endeavour, Galileo and Phoenix), and houses will be rotated regularly. This provides children with the opportunity to mix with other year groups and to make new friends. 

Homework: Homework grid is attached below and is due in 18th May.

Curriculum

This Term’s Topic: Let there be Light

Our topic this term is based around science and the importance of light. We will be investigating where light comes from and why we need it for life on our planet. We will investigate how it can reflect off of some surfaces; investigate how shadows are formed and create a fair test; understand that the sun can be dangerous and how to be safe in the sun.

In history, we will look at religion through the years with a focus on Roman, Viking and Saxon Gods.

In art, we will studying areas of light and dark.

The key question we will be looking at in RE is to understand what it means to be a Hindu in Britain today.

We will continue with My Happy Mind in Wellbeing with this term’s focus on Engage.

In Mathematics, we will continue to focus on fractions, decimals, money, measure – length, mass and capacity.

In Computing, the children will understand using data from spreadsheets; they will be collecting data and input into Excel; create simple charts and answer questions about data.

In English, we will be exploring poetry and then be creating character descriptions.

Times Tables Rockstars: Regular practise of TTRS will help pupils to retain knowledge that they can utilise facts in other mathematical learning. All pupils should have their login details and can play on phones or tablets!

Times Tables: It is important all pupils learn their timetables up to the 12 times table and know these by the end of year 4.  On Times Tables Rockstars, pupils can play 'Sound Check,' an MTC simulator that presents 25 multiplication questions (up to 12×12), with a six-second time limit for each question.

Thank you for your continued support. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries.