Year 4 - September 2022

Hello and Welcome to Year 4,

My name is Miss Pratt and I am the teacher for Year 4 this academic Year.  I will teach Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Mrs Hierro will teach on a Tuesday.  WE are supported by Mrs Johnson and Mrs Gilligan.

Below is some information about what we will be learning, our topics and some ideas on how you can help your child at home.  I hope you find it useful.

If you do have any questions or concerns regarding your child's learning, please do not hesitate to contact me, via the school office, and we can arrange a mutually convenient time to speak.

Kindest Regards,

Miss Pratt

Information for Year 4 Class

School Day: Your school day will commence at 8.45am and will finish at 3.15pm.  You must come into school through the Oakleaze Road entrance and onto the KS1 playground.  You will then enter the class via the KS2 entrance leading into the locker room.  Morning break will start at 10.45 and end at 11.00am.  Lunchtrime will be 12.30pm - 1.30pm.

English: - In term 2 we will become journalists and report on important stories in our articles topic.  We will also be continuing to read a wide range of texts, which will be used to support our learning in English by inspiring our writing.

Maths: - We will start with a recap on place value before moving onto addition and subtraction, multiplication and division.  We will use the column method as well as estimating and inverse and efficient calcualtions.  Throughout the term, children need to practise all their times tables, they need to know them at speed and be able to use them to calculate the linked division facts.  Some useful website are :  Topmarks, BBC Bitesize and Times Tables Rockstars.

Religious Education (RE): - In RE our learning will start with Creation and considering the stories and their meaning.  We will then be providing opportunities for all pupils to consider the areas they would like to reflect and write prayers for.  Towards half term, there will be a Multi-faith week.  After half term, we will learn about Advent.

Homework:    Homework will be set each week on a Wednesday on in their homework books. It will consist of spellings, times tables and reading. Spellings will be tested weekly in school. Times tables will be set on Times Table Rock Stars. Children need to practise all of their times tables up to 12. This is extremely important as in Year 4 they will be assessed at the end of the year.  Please also listen to your child read as much as possible. It is important that parents write in and sign their child's yellow Reading Record book every time they hear their child read, and that this and their reading book(s) are brought to school every day.  Parents should also ask their children questions about what they have read: in particular asking them to retell the story, make inferences and predictions, and comparisons to other books they have read.  Reading doesn't have to be restricted to levelled reading books - children should read different genres such as magazines, newspapers, instructions, information books and comics.

How to Help your Child at Home:  There are lots of fun things you can do at home to help with your child's learning - reading is a key important one, but also ask them about their day - can they recall what they learnt in each lesson?  Practise writing their numbers with them and letter formation.  Handwriting can also be easily practised at home.

Year 4 - 2022 - 2023 Long Term Plan

Please click here to view our Long Term plan for this Year.  This document details our topics and focus for each subject for Terms 1 through to 6 for this academic year.