After an excellent start to the academic year, we are looking forward to the year ahead. All children have been following the MASTER values, and this has created a positive learning environment in which we can learn happily and productively in. In 4W, we are all accepting of each other, enjoy celebrating each other’s successes and show respect not only for each other, but for our learning environment. Parents and carers, we can’t wait for you to see us learning on regular Dojo posts and in workshops as well as our ‘Watch me Learn’ session later in the year!  

This year, there are a number of things we can do to show enthusiasm towards our learning and be the very best learners we can be. Some suggestions are: 

Read at least 3 times a week. We encourage you to read 5 times a week to enter our Bookworm competition and to improve your reading fluency. Our reading books can be taken home, we will take a trip to the library during the year and we also have access to Bug Club to help us with reading. We also read a class novel together, so ask us what we are reading at the moment to find out more. Some of the books we will read this year are: 

– Voices in the Park 

– George’s Marvellous Medicine 

– Leaf 

– How to Train Your Dragon 

Practise your spellings. We are required to learn the following words in Year 3 and 4 alongside our spelling rules. Weekly homework to practise these will support you with this. 

Practise your times-tables. In June, we will be taking part in a statutory times table test called the MTC (Multiplication tables check). More information can be found about this below. To prepare you for this, we will have three times table sessions in school a week, but make sure you access TT Rockstars to take part in battles and practise your times tables at home! If you need further support with this, why not join our times tables club on Wednesday?

Complete your topic homework. Topic homework is based on the learning that we do in our wider curriculum subjects. You will be given a range of tasks to choose from. We try to vary the activities so that everyone can complete one that is of interest to them! 

Our Curriculum

Across the curriculum, we will be exploring a variety of different themes and topics. 

In geography, we will be starting with map skills and grid references before moving on to researching different mountains. 

Our science lessons will begin with electricity and our famous scientist – Thomas Edison. 

While learning all about the Romans in history, we will have the opportunity to explore and identify many ancient artefacts, and we’ll even be able to create our very our Roman mosaic in art! 

In RE, we will be considering what Hindus believe God is like, and what it means to be a Hindu in Britain today.  

Our PSHE sessions will focus us as individuals and celebrating differences.  

In PE, we will be taking part in invasion games and learning tactics in order to be successful in these. 

Our French lessons will allow us to greet others, learn numbers in French, days and months and about our classroom and where we live. 

The use of digital devices support our computing lessons. This half term we will be learning about computing systems and creating media using our devices.  

Please look on our class dojo page for lots of photographs and updates of our learning.  

Routines/key information 

• Toast money needs to be paid on a Monday for the week 
• Spelling test is on Mondays 
• Maths homework is handed in on a Friday 
• Reading diaries are checked on a Friday

Trips this year 

• Romans Trip to Chester 
• Pantomime 
• Electricity Workshop: MOSI 
• Local area visit 
• Viking experience in school  

Statutory testing 

 This year in Year 4, we will be working towards doing our Multiplication Times Table Check (MTC) which is a statutory assessment of 25 times table questions which are timed. We will do this in June during a 2 week period. The children will carry out the test on their own device, and they will be given 6 seconds to answer each question; the whole test takes approximately ten minutes. The results of the test will be shared with parents in the end of year report. There will be a workshops for parents about the MTC coming soon. 

Welcome to 4T! Every morning, 30 superstars enter our classroom ready to learn with big smiles on their faces. We work hard every day to impress our teachers and show our academy MASTER values all of the time. By having a growth mind-set, we understand that we can achieve anything by working hard and never giving up. We support each other in everything we do, and we love to celebrate our successes as a class. We can’t wait to share our learning and successes with you in Year 4. 

“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world” 

In 4T, we love being transported to new worlds just by reading a book. We are incredibly lucky to have a book corner which is filled with exciting books for us to take home and borrow, read to our friends or snuggle up on a bean bag and read to ourselves. One of our favourite times of the day is listening to our class novel during DEAR time. We also enjoy reading on our devices in guided reading, in the library and within all of our lessons. This year, we will be reading the following texts: 

– Voices in the Park 

– George’s Marvellous Medicine 

– How to Train Your Dragon 

– Ironman 

We would love to have as many children as possible entered into the Bookworm this year to win a prize. To achieve the bookworm, you need to read at home 5 times per week for a whole half term.  

Across the curriculum, we will be exploring a variety of different themes and topics. In geography, we will be starting with map skills and grid references, before moving on to researching different mountains. Our science lessons will begin with electricity and our famous scientist – Thomas Edison. While learning all about the Romans in history, we will have the opportunity to explore and identify many ancient artefacts, and we’ll even be able to create our very our Roman mosaic! Please look on our class dojo page for lots of photographs and updates of our learning.  

Routines/key information 

• Toast money needs to be paid on a Monday for the week 
• Spelling test is on Mondays 
• Maths homework is handed in on a Friday 
• Reading diaries are checked on a Friday 

Our trips this year 

• Romans Trip to Chester 
• Pantomime 
• Electricity Workshop:MOSI 
• Local area visit 
• Viking experience in school  

Statutory testing 

This year in Year 4, we will be working towards doing our Multiplication Times Table Check (MTC) which is a statutory assessment of 25 times table questions which are timed. We will do this in June during a 2 week period. The children will carry out the test on their own device and they will be given 6 seconds to answer each question; the whole test takes approximately ten minutes. The results of the test will be shared with parents in the end of year report. We will be using Timestable Rockstars lots to practise and there will be a workshops for parents about the MTC coming soon.