Year 4

English Lesson:

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/geography/physical-geography/nile-river-facts/ 

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Nile-River/346183

Routines - Term 3

PE is on Wednesday (Swimming) and Friday (Fitness).

Children will need to wear their full PE kit to school on Friday.

Please ensure full swimming kit is brought into school in a named bag on Wednesdays.

This should include a swimming costume/trunks, a towel, goggles and swimming hat.

Outdoor Learning will be on Thursdays. Children will need wellies in a named carrier bag as well as appropriate wet weather gear (waterproof coat and trousers).  We advise that Outdoor Learning kit remains in school for the duration of the term as we may take advantage of other opportunities for outdoor learning within our timetable.

Homework will be set on a Monday and completed by Friday. Children should complete their work neatly (using a pencil) in their orange Homework books. This will consist of a main task linked to English, Maths or Foundation subjects, as well as a spelling activity related to our weekly rule.

Reading is crucial to every child's progress across the entire curriculum and we expect that every child reads to an adult at home at least 3 times a week.  Please record this in their blue reading record and ensure it is brought to school every day. 

Online Apps

Children’s log-ins can be found on the inside their Reading Records. If you are having problems with these websites, please let us know as soon as possible.

Times Table Rockstars  – https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth

Nessy  -  https://id.nessy.com

Accelerated Reader (Book Quizzes) – https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6699465

If your child requires daily medication, you must inform the school office via phone or email; also inform the class teacher. You will be required to complete a form that gives permission and details of the times and dosage of the medication required.

Inhalers: Children will need to keep their inhaler in their school bag and be responsible for taking them on visits or to events. In each classroom there is a medical box and it is advised that the school keep an extra inhaler for your child in this box, for use in school. Please inform the office if your child has to use an asthma inhaler so we can record it on the pupil record and send a named and in-date inhaler to school to be kept in the medical box.

Allergies: Please inform the school immediately, if your child has an allergy to anything or if your child needs specific medication e.g. an epi-pen. Make sure that your child brings their epi-pen to school every day. It should be kept in a named bag and labelled with the instructions attached. Please supply a spare epi-pen to be kept at school for emergencies.

All children are expected to wear the correct school uniform from Tuesday 2nd September. Only black school shoes, no trainers or ankle boots.

On P.E days, the children will wear their P.E kit to school, including House T-shirt. Only school jumpers should be worn with navy or black shorts, skorts or leggings and trainers.

Please ensure children bring in suitable wet weather gear, including wellies and waterproofs, on Outdoor Learning days. 

To sign up for music lessons, please see the links below:

Rocksteady – https://www.rocksteadymusicschool.com/

Other Music Lessons – https://uksouthglos.speedadmin.dk/registration#/

Email: music@wema.org.uk 

English:

We will begin the new term by exploring the beautiful story ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’ by Grahame Baker-Smith. Using this text as inspiration, pupils will focus on writing a first-person narrative from the perspective of a raindrop, developing their descriptive writing skills. Following this, we will move on to our non-fiction focus for the term. Children will explore the purpose and key features of non-chronological reports, learning how information is organised and presented clearly for the reader, before planning and writing their own.

Alongside this, we will continue to develop our reading skills through regular Guided Reading sessions. We will introduce, explore and apply our new spelling rules and patterns, weekly.

Maths:

In Mathematics this term, we begin by diving deeper into the world of Multiplication and Division and we will consider how to multiply 3 numbers and identify factors.  Later, we will look at formal written methods for multiplying and dividing and solve a variety of problems relating to this.  Swiftly, we move onto applying our knowledge of Length and Perimeter.  We will then begin our learning of Fractions.

Time tables are an important part of our mathematical teaching and learning throughout the whole of Year 4. Pupils will complete the National Multiplication Tables Check during the Summer Term. Please support times table learning and speedy recall of multiplication and division facts at home. We recommend regular use of Times Table Rockstars (TTR) app, including use of the Soundcheck feature. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

Foundation:

In Science, we will be exploring sound including how it travels, pitch and volume and experiment with how to insulate sound.

We will be learning about rivers and the water cycle in Geography and discovering where water goes.

In Art, we will be using mixed media to sketch nature and create a relief print by the end of term.

Improving our swimming and general fitness will be the aim for this term in PE. Children will track their progress throughout the term. 

We will explore how we can stay safe in PSHE and the responsibilities of ourselves and others around us to help. This will include; risks and hazards, first aid and being safe in the wider world.

RE will focus on how people’s values and commitments might be demonstrated in the lives of leaders and believers, we will be thinking about how we should live and who can inspire us.

We will be learning how to program in Computing and create instructions by planning, modifying, and testing commands to create shapes and patterns.

Within our Music lessons, we will be following the Charanga scheme and learning the song ‘Stop!’ which is a song/rap about the importance of anti-bullying and respecting others.

What a fantastic term of learning! We cannot wait to get started!