Welcome to
4K- The Wimpy Kids
We follow the Cherry Fold values, Enjoy, Respect, Succeed!
Meet the Staff
Mrs Khan
Miss Swiney
Mrs Kershaw
During your time in Y4, you will grow into an independent learner, aim to be more resourceful and resilient, make new discoveries about the wider world and develop lasting memories!
We follow a theme based curriculum in Y4, through which you will learn National Curriculum skills. Each half term, our theme changes so that you will be involved in lots of different activities, to enable you to become a better learner and achieve your potential. Examples of our topics in Y4 include; Anglo Saxons, The Vikings and Burnley v Barcelona. We ensure your learning is enhanced by engaging in Enrichment days/activities. We have a Viking visitor coming in to spend the day with us, and, during our topic, Endangered, we have a visitor bringing lots of animals too! This also links with our science. As well as all that, we engage in stimulating activities, in our Forest school, making the most of our exciting outdoor learning environment.
In Year 4, we are encouraged to make our writing creative and exciting. We follow the Lancashire English Units and study novels linked to our topics such as The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster and Gulliver’s Travels which inspire our writing further. Additionally, we use Accelerated to help us improve our reading, taking quizzes once we have completed novels and gain as many points as we can; the more we gain the deeper our understanding! In maths, we follow the Lancashire Red Rose Maths Mastery Scheme, which deepens our understanding of key concepts. By the end of Y4 we will have taken the National Multiplication Tables Check and have become Times Tables Wizards after having learnt up to our 12x tables!
To support you on your learning journey, we hope that you will receive help from your parents and carers.
They can do this by listening to you read, helping you to learn your spellings and times tables.
Finally, we use Class Dojo to send pictures and messages home about what you have been learning and all the fantastic achievements you have made! We want you to have fun whilst learning. Remember Enjoy, Respect, Succeed!
Reading
Children will have a reading book chosen by themselves appropriate to their reading level. Accompanying these books are their reading diaries, where you can write comments on their daily reading. Your child will also be given many opportunities throughout the week to read a variety of texts and will then undertake an online quiz to assess their understanding of the text.
Author of the term
Roald Dahl
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Class Novel
PPA Time
Miss Holt and Mr Cooney will be teaching on a Friday afternoon. They will be teaching P.E, French and Music.
Homework
In Year 4, homework is given out weekly on a Friday in their purple books. The children are expected to complete 20 minutes of TTRockstars, reading and spelling practice every day. This is to be handed in on Thursday each week.
Spellings
Weekly spelling tests will take place every Friday. Your child will have a copy of the spellings for each half term stuck in their purple homework books.
Times Tables
You can log in to your TT Rock stars account here using your username and password:
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
PE
PE will take place every Tuesday and Friday.
Please ensure a full kit is in school ready for your child’s lesson. Earrings must be removed.
SNACK
It is important to note your child can bring a healthy snack at break times such as fruit or vegetables. We also encourage your child to bring water to drink in class throughout the day, but they may bring something else to drink with their packed lunch.
Below are the statutory words for year 3 and 4.
Common exception words are a key aspect of the KS2 English Curriculum. Children should practise spelling these words which will help their school work throughout the curriculum, as well as in independent writes.