Year 4

Welcome to 4B!

After a fantastic start to the academic year, we are excited for what’s to come. The children have been embracing the MASTER values, fostering a positive and productive learning environment where everyone can thrive. In 4B, we value acceptance, celebrate each other’s successes, and show respect not only for one another but also for our learning space. This year, reading and mastering times tables will be especially important in supporting our learning across all subjects. Parents and carers, we look forward to sharing our learning journey with you through regular Dojo posts, workshops, and our ‘Watch Me Learn’ session later this 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 4 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 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?

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.

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

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 kick off with the topic of electricity, featuring the renowned inventor Thomas Edison. In history, as we dive into the study of the Romans, we’ll have the chance to explore and examine a variety of ancient artefacts, and in art, we’ll even get to create our own Roman mosaic!

In RE, we’ll be exploring Hindu beliefs about God and what it means to be a Hindu living in Britain today. Our PSHE lessons will focus on self-awareness and celebrating differences.

During PE, we’ll participate in invasion games, learning strategies and tactics for success. In French, we’ll practice greetings, numbers, days of the week, months, and learn about our classroom and where we live.

Our computing lessons will be supported by the use of digital devices, and this half term, we’ll be learning about computing systems and creating media with our devices.

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

Routines/key information

• Toast money needs to be paid on a Monday for the week
• Maths homework is handed in on a Friday
• Online reading diaries are checked on a Friday
• Behaviour and TTRS winners announced each Friday on dojo!

Trips and experiences this term

• Romans Trip to Chester 
• Pantomime 
• First Aid workshop
• Aspirational visitor