Hello and welcome to Year 4.
My name is Mrs Neziri and I am the class teacher. I aim to make learning as fun and interesting as possible as we have a lot to learn during this year. In Year 4 we have two other adults that support us in our learning. Mrs Souter is with us all day. As well as helping us in lessons, she is very friendly and always has time to listen to any concerns children have. Mrs Collison is with us every morning. She supports our learning and helps us to become amazing artists. Mrs Webb teaches us on a Wednesday morning. She teaches us PE which we really enjoy and Literacy.
Here is information about just some of the learning that takes place in Year 4.
Lovely Literacy
In literacy this year we discover many different types of stories. We read stories from a variety of cultures, discuss stories which raise issues and also try writing stories set in imaginary worlds. We spend time learning about non-fiction texts as well, having a go at becoming a playwright, typing our own newspaper reports and explore texts that persuade and instruct. There are also some fun poetry weeks mixed in among all of this!
Marvellous Maths
Maths is a chance for us to really consolidate our learning from last year and explore new ideas in a creative way. We make sure we are really good at our times tables and learn these with a song or dance routine! Knowing different ways to add, subtract, multiply and divide gives us the confidence to try out lots of different types of sums and problems. We explore 2D and 3D shapes as well as carrying out investigations and recording our results in a variety of ways.
Spectacular Science
Through investigations, games, information texts and exploring we get creative in Year Four discovering all about habitats in our local area and how these are affected by their surroundings such as weather, buildings and people. Keeping warm is a topic that has lots of surprises in it and our electricity topic is a chance for us to make amazing things happen with circuits. Another really interesting topic is Moving and Growing where we find out all about our bones, muscles and the similarities and differences we have to other animals.
Tantalising Topics
Other popular Year Four topics include learning all about life during and after World War Two. We spend a long time getting creative in our learning to discover about many different aspects of life at this time. We are even lucky enough to go on an amazing trip to Stibbington, where we dress up as evacuees and are evacuated for the day to find out what life was like for children our age during WWII.
Our Local Area topic in Geography is already well underway. Please come and see our poems and art work in the school entrance which demonstrates part of our work done for this topic.
In P.E. we swim in the Autumn Term and learn how to balance, co-ordinate our bodies, develop our sports skills and play in teams for our other sessions.
In I.C.T we are lucky enough to have a lap-top trolley in our classroom so often use these to create graphs, typed pieces of work and power points to enhance our learning.
Music – recorders, composing rhythms and music on manuscript paper
D.T. – healthy food preparation, money containers and a link to our electricity topic
Art – 3D modelling with mod-roc and landscapes
R.E.- Sikhism and Hindusim and Christianity
Routines
Our P.E. days are Tuesday and Wednesday. Children need to have shorts, t-shirt, tracksuit and trainers in school on these days. In the Autumn Term we go swimming on a Tuesday so need swimming kit in school.
Reading
All children can take reading books home to read and share with their families. All you need to do is tell an adult in the class which book you are borrowing so we can mark it off in our special folder.
Rules and Motto
We made up four rules together:
Treat others how you want to be treated
Listen to the person that is speaking
Don’t wreck other people’s games
Don’t fight
Our Motto is: Year Four are fair, forgiving and fun!
