Year 4
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Mrs Sherston |
We are an inquisitive class who love learning about new things and try our best every day. In order for your child to be fully prepared please ensure they have all that they need in school, including correct uniform. We are brave and courageous in taking on new challenges and inquisitive in all our learning. We show respect to our school and peers by following the St Lawrence Learner Values and being the best we can be.
Our Topic is "Burps, Bottom and Bile"
Open wide – let’s take a look inside. We’re on a voyage of discovery to investigate the busy world inside your body. Do you have a toothy grin or a winning smile? Take dental impressions and test the effects of sugary substances on your pearly whites. Follow a tasty morsel as it makes its way through your digestive system, helped by some mouth-watering saliva. And don’t forget the importance of good hygiene at both ends. And whilst we’re talking business, could you recognise an animal just by its poo? Are you brave enough to take the challenge? Make a working model of the digestive system and use it to persuade others to eat healthily. Learn how to look after this marvellous belching, squelching, mixture making machine we call our body.
In English literacy, we will be reading The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman. A magical and light-hearted adventure story, about a girl on a quest. In guided reading we will be reading the book “The Legend of Sally Jones” the story of a gorilla like no other.
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In Maths, we are using the White Rose scheme for Year 4. This will be building on knowledge learned in prior years and supporting all levels, so that every child is able to progress.
For our RE lessons, we follow the Guildford Diocese recommended curriculum. We will be exploring Humanism and how they celebrate stages in life and events.
We will be also working on other parts of the curriculum, so that everyone has a chance to shine.
Burbs, Bottoms and Bile Knoweldge Organiser
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Homework:
Their homework in Year 4 is set every Tuesday to be completed for the Monday, if they attend homework club they will hand in before on a Friday and is as follows:
Spellings – the children will be taught a new spelling rule each week which we will practise daily in class using a variety of activities to help them to retain the pattern. They will have a test the following Monday. Please help your child by practising their spellings at home with them; they will be stuck into their homework diary on the ‘Spellings’ page.
Spag – will be to be set weekly for all children. They will receive their printed homework sheet in their homework exercise book. These will be provided at a level that is both accessible and challenging to each individual child.
Maths – these will be set work, challenges and times tables and to remind you, the children will be doing the DfE Multiplication Tables Check in June.
Reading – reading for pleasure is one of the most important things a child can do. Please listen to your child read at home – even if they are a fluent, independent reader –we would like 15 minutes per day and to be signed by you to show reading has been completed at home.
If your child cannot complete their homework at home, a lunch time Homework Club has been set up for them to do it at school. It is important that they all do the homework activities we set in order to supplement their learning in class.
Please look at the list below of recommended books to read with your child. Sharing books with them is something you can do regularly to support them in their learning.
Listen to your child read and read to them. Ask them questions about what they are reading: Do they understand all the language? Are they following the plot developments? Can they make predictions about the progression of the story? Have they understood what's being inferred by the author?
These books are recommendations only, not compulsory!
PE:
The children will have PE on Tuesday and Friday.
We will participate every day in the daily mile.