Year 4 2024 - 2025

                                                                   Hello and Welcome to Year 4 2024-5!

We hope that you have all had a fantastic summer holiday and are ready to start our first term of the school year 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: .Compassion                                        

English: 

In Year 4, we love reading books and our first class book is Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley.

This half term we will be reading an adventure story called 'Into the Forest' by Anthony Browne, about a boy who goes into the woods and meets a variety of characters. The children will send letters to characters in the book and will write their own version.                                               

Next, we will be researching information about rainforests and their inhabitants. Then we will write non-chronological reports on rainforest creatures.                                                               

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 how to recognise the place value of each digit in a 4-digit number; count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1,000; order and compare numbers beyond 1,000; round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000; add and subtract numbers with up to four digits using the formal written methods of column addition and subtraction.                           

You can help your child by:                               

• Supporting them with their homework tasks.                                                              
• Helping them to learn multiplication & division facts, such as x2, x5, x10, x3, x4 and x8

Our theme for this half term is: Rainforests!

• ‘Rainforests’ in Geography                                                          
• ‘Rainforest Art’ in Art                                                                                       
• ‘Animals Including Humans’ in Science                                      
• ‘Coding’ in Computing                                                                    
• ‘Mamma Mia’ in Music                                                           
• ’Get Heart Smart’ in PSHE                                                     
• ‘What does it mean to be a Hindu today? in R.E        
• P.E is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

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 short English and 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.

• Freddy Fit on the 6th September
• Class Photographs 
• Rainforest Day!
• Class rewards when we earn enough rocket fuel for a treat!

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.