Pine Marten Class

Class teacher’s welcome

Welcome to Pine Marten Class Page!

I am so excited to share with you all the wonderful work and exciting things we get up to in Pine Marten Class. It is going to be a fantastic year with lots of engaging and exciting opportunities for new learning. We are a loving and nurturing class and this year we will continue to support the children to flourish and develop both socially and academically throughout their school journey.

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Curriculum news

At a glance – Summer 2

Maths: Shape, Statistics, Position and Direction

English: The Great Kapok Tree, Biographies

Science: Living Things and Their Habitats – Conservation

Geography: International rainforests

RE:  What faiths faiths can be found in our country and community?

Computing: Photo editing

PSHE: Growing and Changing

Music: Recorders (Music and Arts): taught throughout the year by the Music and Arts Service.

DT: Torch making

Home Learning 

All children are encouraged to complete a home learning project to build on their class Geography and/or Science learning.

Ideas include…

Research and create a project based on facts about rainforests (fact file, PowerPoint etc)

Create anything using arts and crafts based on the theme of rainforests.

Design a poster or leaflet about conservation (perhaps how we could help, the effects of de-forestation etc)

Spelling

At All Saints’ Primary School, we follow the Read, Write Inc. spelling scheme in Key Stage 2. This Summer term, we will continue learning the Year 4 spelling rules, as well as revisiting previous spelling patterns in order to fully imbed the children’s understanding of each spelling rule.

Week

3rd June	Adding the suffix -ed for words ending in -y	copy -> copied
9th June	Adding the suffix -ful	colourful, wonderful
16th June	Words with the -sh sound spelt -ch	brochure, chef, machine
23rd June	words ending in -el	tunnel, channel
1st July	Adding the suffix -ous	adventurous, dangerous

Dates for the diary

PE days: Mondays (Mrs Pashley), Wednesdays (Mr Megson)

Summer 2: Sports Day – Tuesday 17th June

Links to support learning

Reading

Please encourage your child to read daily for a minimum of 10 minutes. At least 3 reading sessions per week should be recorded in the school Reading Record. Children should all have a school reading book (that can be changed regularly) but should be encouraged to read other material as well.

Read more about English in Y4 in the National Curriculum Programmes of Study

Maths

Your child in Year 4 will be taking the statutory multiplication tables check (MTC) for the first time, in June this year. It is an online test, completed in school, for all pupils in Year 4. Pupils are asked to answer 25 questions on times tables from two to 12. They are given six seconds per question, with three seconds rest between each question. To help prepare your child for this check, we recommend using Times Table Rock Stars (login on inside front cover of Reading Record) – Y4 introduces 6, 7, 9, 11 & 12, as well as building on 2, 3, 4 5, 8and 10 multiplication tables (from Y3 & Y2).

Moreover, written methods for addition, subtraction and multiplication are taught as in the pictures below.