Welcome to
4M-The Mad Hatters
We follow the Cherry Fold values, Enjoy, Respect, Succeed!
Meet the staff
Miss Mills
Miss Swinney
Mrs Afzal
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 The Victorians. 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 Mousehole Cat, The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster and Gulliver’s Travels which inspire our writing further. Additionally, we use Acceleread 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 will 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 reading daily. 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:
J.K Rowling
PPA Time
Mrs Khan will be teaching on a Thursday afternoon. She will be teaching R.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.
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 Monday and Friday.
Please ensure a full kit is in school ready for your child’s lesson.
Please ensure all jewellery, including earrings, is removed before lessons.
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.
In English we are reading The
The Mouse Hole Cat.
Year 4 Curriculum Autumn 1
English
This half term we will be reading The MouseHole Cat and we will be writing a non-chronological report.
The key skills covered:
Explain the meaning of key vocabulary
Use commas to mark clauses in complex sentences
Use paragraphs to organise writing
Use Expanded Noun Phrases
Maths
In Maths we will be covering:
place value, addition and subtraction, length and perimeter and statistics
Science
In Science we are looking at States of Matter and Sound. The children will have the opportunity to investigate what happens to a solid when it is heated and a liquids when it is cooled.
In sound the children will investigate vibrations by making string telephones.
Geography
In Geography we are looking at the topic of energy by thinking about "Where does energy come from?" We will look at why it is important and compare how energy is created in the UK to that of America.
History
In History we are looking at the Vikings and deciding if the Vikings were raiders or settlers.
R.E
In RE we are looking at the Sikhism and thinking about "How we should live our lives?" Mrs Khan will teach this on a Thursday afternoon whilst Miss Mills has her PPA.
French
During French the children will be learning how to talk about their families. Mrs Khan will be teaching this.
Music
In Music we will be looking at Samba and Carnival sounds. Mrs Khan will be teaching this.
Computing
Isafety and we will have Burnley Football Club coming each Wednesday to teach us!
PE
In PE we will be covering team work and problem solving and attacking games.
PSHE
In PSHE we will be covering:
Keeping safe; Rights and Respect.
Art and DT
In Art we will be looking at painting.
In DT we will be creating a timer.
Year 4 Common Exception Words
Common exception words are a key aspect of the KS2 English Curriculum. Children can practise spelling these words which will help their school work and throughout the curriculum, as well as in independent writes.