Welcome to Willow's Class Page
Year 4 consists of 3 classes: 4AM (Mr Maniar's Class), 4SD (Mrs Din's Class) and 4KM/SW (Mr Mellor and Miss West'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 as well as a gallery of photographs to showcase our curriculum in action. 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.
Physical Education
Our PE Days are:
- Tuesdays: Indoor PE
- Fridays: Outdoor PE
This half term we are developing our skills in Athletes and also taking part in some Multi Skills activities.
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.
Autumn Term Timetables
School Council Members
Our Year 4 representatives on the School Council were chosen by each class in a democratic vote. This year our School Council members are:
- 4AM:
- 4AS:
- 4KM/SW:
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.
Week Beginning: 9.9.24
Our Famous For a Fortnight awards were presented to:
- 4AM : Nola
- 4SD: Sophia
- 4KM/SW: Rosie
Week Beginning: 23.9.24
- 4AM: Yasin
- 4SD: Jesse
- 4KM/SW: Lacey-Mae
Always Child
Our Always Child awards were presented to:
Year 4 Curriculum
Times Tables
All children in Year 4 must learn their multiplication tables.
We use Times Table Rock Stars to support their rapid recall of these. All children have a login and are encouraged to use it as often as they can.
Here is the link to the website:
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
The children have new spellings every week, they are on the website below for them to practice at home. In addition to these words, we have Orange Words, which are a list of words Year 4 children are expected to be able to spell.
This Week's Learning
Week beginning 30.09.24
English
This term our sentence stacking is based on Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost Thing.’ We will be using similes and adverbs, nouns and time adverbials to develop our writing further. We will plan and write our independent write this week.
Maths
This week we will be looking at Place Value. We will be ordering numbers to 1000 and rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
RE
We will be exploring different places of worship in the local area. We will be looking at the significance of these to believers and looking at similarities and differences between faiths.
Science
We are looking at ‘States of Matter.’ We are focus on comparing and grouping solids, liquids and gases and observing the changes of state and the water cycle.
Computing
We will be introducing spreadsheets, use tools to calculate totals and use formula wizard and formatting cells.
History
We will be studying the Ancient Egyptians. We will be investigating the work of Howard Carter, the discovery of Tutankhamen, looking at pictures and artefacts and finding out about the life of rich Egyptians. We will also be looking at the mummification process.