Year 4 2024 - 2025

                                                                   Hello and Welcome to Year 4 2024-5!

We hope that you have all had a fantastic half term holiday and are ready to start our next term together. 

Mrs Forrest will teach Year 4 on Mondays and Tuesdays and Mrs Capel will teach Year 4 on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

We will alternate on Wednesday afternoons for PPA time (planning, preparation and assessment time).

We have so many exciting topics this half term and we are very excited to get started!

What we are learning this half term:

Our Christian value is: Forgiveness           

English: 

This half term we will be reading a fictional story called is 'Bob the Man on the Moon'. Bob has a special job – looking after the moon. He keeps it clean and entertains passing space tourists, as well as giving guided tours. He knows everything about the moon and that there are no such thing as aliens! We will write our own version of the story and go on to design and explain how a Moon buggy is operated from a control panel. Our class reader is The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman, which the children are really enjoying!

You can help your child by:                

• Hearing them read regularly              
• Helping them learn their weekly spellings and support homework tasks.

Maths:

This half term we will be learning about fractions. Children will explore what happens when a fraction is more than 1 (that is, the numerator is greater than the denominator). They will write, compare and order mixed numbers and will then look at how mixed numbers can be written as improper fractions and vice versa. Children will then move on to equivalent fractions using fraction strips and a fraction wall to aid understanding of fraction families.

You can help your child by:                               

• Supporting them with their homework tasks.                                                              
• Helping them to learn multiplication & division facts.

Spring Subjects and Topics:     

• ‘Anglo-Saxons’ in History                                                          
• Sewing an Easter (Spring) decoration                                                       
• ‘Logo Problem Solving’ in Computing                                                                     
• 'Going Shopping’ in French                                                                                                                               
• ‘Lean on Me’ in Music                                                                                                                                                           
• ‘British Science Week’ in Science                                                            
• ‘Don’t Hold on to What’s Wrong’ in PSHE                                                     
• ‘Why is Jesus inspiring to some people?’  in R.E        
                                                                                           

Indoor kit: plain yellow t-shirt, black shorts and black pumps.

Outdoor kit: plain yellow t-shirt, jogging bottoms and trainers.

Remember to have the correct P.E kit in school all half term, as it will be sent home at each holiday to be washed. Long hair must be tied back for P.E lessons. If your child wears trainers with laces, please practise tying laces before bringing them into school - thank you very much.

Homework will be set weekly, consisting of Maths tasks, consolidating the children's work in class that week. Homework will be set on Fridays and handed in on Wednesdays.

Spellings will be set on a Monday to be tested on the following Monday.

Reading:

Please have your reading folder in school every day. It is important that you read at home at least three times per week and have your reading record signed. Adults in school try to read with children once per week. It is very important that children are reading at home in order to progress.

Useful Websites

• BBC Bitesize - A primary school resource for children studying Key Stage 2 Maths, English and Science, featuring game activities and tests.

• Thinkuknow - If you are 7, 8, 9 or 10, I bet you probably like to use the computer for fun. Take a look at this website to help you go on the internet in a safe way and know who to talk to if you are worried.

• Topmarks Daily Ten- short maths activities that the children in Year 4 should be familiar with.

• Times Table Rock Stars- this fantastic app aims to help the children become more fluent with recalling their multiplication facts, which is especially important due to the multiplication check at the end of Year 4. Children all have log in details and work is set by the teacher. Please see us if you are experiencing any difficulties.

• Multiplication Tables Check - 2024 - Timestables.co.uk - a website which helps your child to practise their times tables, in a similar style to the Multiplication Tables Check, which takes place in June for Year 4 pupils.