Rabbit Class

Class teacher’s welcome

 

Hello and a huge welcome to Year 4!

I hope you have all had an amazing summer holiday and are feeling ready to embark on a wonderful learning journey in Rabbit class. I am so excited to get to know you all and have been preparing some fantastic topics for us all to learn and enjoy together.

See you soon!

Mrs Horsman

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Curriculum news

At a glance – Autumn 1 

  • Maths:  Place Value, Addition and Subtraction
  • English: Escape from Pompeii,  Romulus and Remus
  • Science: Animals Including Humans
  • History: What did the Romans do for Britain?
  • RE: What kind of world did Jesus want?
  • Computing: The Internet
  • PSHE: Me and My Relationships
  • Music: Shape rhythms  
  • Art:  Sketch work/Clay

 

Home Learning  

All children are encouraged to complete a home learning project to build on their class Geography and/or Science learning and examples or ideas will be posted here once we have spoken to the children about it, along with a date to return these.

The projects are designed to run alongside the learning for a half-term and we will look forward to inviting you into school at the end of the term to share the children’s projects. 

 

 

 

Spelling

At All Saints’ Primary School, we follow the Read, Write Inc. spelling scheme in Key Stage 2. This Autumn term, we will start to learn 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. 

Weekly focus TBC

Week  Focus  Example Words 
 

 

Dates for the diary

PE days: Wednesdays pm (Mrs Horsman), Thursdays am (Mrs Horsman)

 

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.

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