Welcome to Willow's Class Page
Year 4 consists of 3 classes: 4RP/AN (Mrs Patel's and Miss Nasir's Class), 4SD (Mrs Din's Class) and 4KM (Mr Mellor's Class). On our class page you will find information about our fabulous learning taking place in the term ahead as well as weekly updates. There are links to websites and platforms to support your children with their learning at home. If you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to contact one of the Year 4 team.
Learning Together, Growing Together
Our core values of Endurance, Justice, Friendship, Compassion and Peace underpin all that we do.
We aim for attendance above 96%
This Half Term's Learning
Spring 1
In our Maths lessons we will continue with our learning about multiplication and division. We will investigate factor pairs, how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and how to multiply up to 3 digit numbers by 1 digit in a formal method.
In English lessons we will introduce a new poetry unit based on the amazing poem, ‘Still I Rise‘ by Maya Angelou. We will then begin a narrative unit based on the classic ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘ by Roald Dahl.
In RE lessons we will look at the qualities needed to be an inspirational leader.
In History our new theme will be based on Vikings. We will look at the Viking way of life, food, games how we know the Vikings came to this country.
In Geography we will find out about climate zones and biomes, in particular we will focus on The Amazon and Antarctica.
In PE we are developing skills with our partners ‘Beyond the Physical.’ Our focus this term is ‘Inspire, Create and Perform’ , using a range of equipment to develop skills for sports.
Thank you for your continued support with spellings and times tables- the whole year group is making fantastic progress- well done!
Physical Education
Our PE Days are:
- Tuesday (Indoor)
- Friday (Outdoor)
Our PE day has been changed to Thursday to facilitate some external coaching.
On these days, your child may come to school in their PE kit: plain white T shirt, black shorts or joggers and plain black trainers. A plain black hooded jacket may also be worn.
Jewellery is not permitted for safety.
Keep active: try a 5 minute workout with Joe Wicks.
Famous For A Fortnight
This is a very prestigious award presented every 2 weeks to a child in each class who has impressed their teachers with their academic work, effort, engagement or demonstrated one or more of our core values. We are all really proud of your achievements.
Week Beginning: 19th January
- 4KM : Charley
- 4AN : Olivia
- 4SD : Inayah
Week Beginning: 8th December
- 4KM : Zac
- 4AN : Mohammed Hazi
- 4SD : Sahir
Week Beginning: 1st December
- 4KM: Edward
- 4SD : Isabelle
- 4RP/AN : Marlee
Week Beginning: 17th November
- 4KM : Ayad
- 4SD : Jude
- 4RP/AN: Huzaifah
- Very well done to you all- a shining example to us all.
Week Beginning : 27th October
- 4KM : Blake
- 4SD : Naythan
- 4RP/AN : Sapphire
Week beginning : 13th October
- 4KM : Molly
- 4SD : Alessia
- 4RP/AN : Haris
Week beginning : 29th September
- 4KM : Tommy
- 4SD : Amaya
- 4RP/AN: Leo
Week beginning: 15th September
- 4KM : Lilly
- 4SD : Rhys
- 4RPAN : Mitzi-Mai
Spring Term Timetables
Times Tables
All children in Year 4 must learn their multiplication tables. In July there is a National Multiplication Tables Check. All children in Year 4 are encouraged to learn all of their multiplication facts up to 12 x 12.
To enable this, we will be working our way up the times table ladder each week. You will receive a weekly PING to tell you of your child’s achievements and what to learn at home next. Times table books must be returned to school for our weekly test each Thursday.
TTROCKSTARS: this is a brilliant program to encourage times tables practise. It is recommended to complete 21 minutes of GARAGE each week to develop multiplication fluency in the Autumn Term.
All children have a login and are encouraged to use it as often as they can.
Here is the link to the website:
Year 4 Curriculum
Writing
We use Jane Considine’s ‘The Write Stuff’ as a basis for our writing. The Writing Rainbow helps us during our sentence stacking and independent writing.
Reading
We love reading in Year 4.
Here is a link to some recommended reads for Year 4 .https://www.thereaderteacher.com/year4
Every child has a reading book and a book they have chosen from our fabulous library.
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr Suess.
Reading daily is essential
Spelling
Spellings: This year we will be using Ninja Spelling resources. Each week we will distribute 10 spellings.
We will practise them in school and then test on Thursday.
Please ensure that your spelling book is back in school in time for the test on Thursday each week.