Welcome to Year 4
Year 4 Essential Information
Year 4 Curriculum Map
Year 4 Essential Information - Autumn 1
Welcome to Year 4! It has been so lovely to welcome the children back from their summer breaks, full of their summer stories and ready to learn.
Our Year 4 team this year is Miss White, Miss Dakin and Miss McNamara.
Miss Dakin is the class teacher on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Miss White is the class teacher on Tuesdays and Fridays.
On Thursdays, Miss Dakin will teach in the morning and Miss White will teach in the afternoon.
Miss McNamara is Year 4 teaching assistant.
If you need to get in touch, please contact us on:
anna.white@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk and chloe.dakin@adel-st-john.leeds.sch.uk
It is always best to copy both class teachers into your communications with us, so that we are both aware of anything that is going on.
Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Dakin and Miss White
Homework In Year 4
Reading: Reading helps children’s learning in a huge number of ways, including improving their vocabulary, developing the quality of their writing and building their comprehension skills. We expect children to read at home at least three times per week. Your child should record the books they have read in the green reading record and bring this to school for checking each Monday.
Spellings: A new spelling list will be sent home each Friday and should be practised regularly, in short bursts throughout the week, ready for a test on the following Friday. The children will also have some opportunities in class to practise. In the Friday test, five of the ten words will be tested, as individual words, and the new spellings for next week will be taught in a spelling lesson.
Times Tables Rock Stars: Using TTRS to practise times tables regularly at home is a very good idea. Just a three minute burst every day should see recall speeds continue to improve.
PE
PE Days this half term will be Wednesday and Friday. Please ensure that your child comes to school on those days dressed in PE kit including a pair of trainers.
Things to remember:
- All children should bring a named flask or bottle of water to school. This should be taken home and washed every day.
- Named pumps must be worn in school. Children should be able to tie laces quickly if they have lace-up pumps/outdoor shoes and pumps should be checked by a parent every half term to ensure they are in good condition to prevent trip hazards.
- Named, appropriate clothing for the weather should be brought every day – please ensure your child has a coat in school every day.
- School Policy is that, other than for religious reasons, children should not wear jewellery in school apart from a watch (smart watches are not allowed). These need to be removed for PE lessons.
Year 4 Class Blog
Clay Modelling
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
Following on from last terms art work on the Vikings we created some clay models linked to this work. The children were able to choose what they wanted to create and then they worked on adding patterns and finer details.
The children really enjoyed this work and they created some fantastic models as you can see!
Computing Wrapping Paper!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
This week the Year 4's have been finishing their computing unit by designing their own wrapping paper. Their task was to create a design which used more than one shape with a count-controlled loop! They had to input different algorithms to create different shapes, colours and designs.
It was an incredibly hard task and they all did so well! As you can see in the photos they were on their way to making some fantastic wrapping paper designs!
Viking Art
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
This term we are learning about the Vikings. In art we have been exploring some of the patterns that were found on a chest, stones, doorways and jewellery.
The children looked closely at the patterns and zoomed in closely on certain parts, having a go at sketching them and unpicking them to see if they could spot any animals or familiar patterns.
They worked incredibly hard on this as it wasn't easy and have done a fantastic job. We are going to be continuing to explore more Viking art across this term, finishing with some clay modelling!
Reading Book Recommendations!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
Following on from parents evening I wanted to show you where you are able to find some books which are recommended for Year 4.
On our school website if you go to the 'curriculum' drop down option and then to 'reading' you will find a document for each year group which has 50 book recommendations listed.
There is also the following link where you can find more...
I hope this helps!
Science Day- Bubbles!
Peter Dalrymple (PDalrymple) on: Year 4 Class Blog
Today we had a science day which was focused around bubbles!
We started the morning exploring how we could make the biggest bubbles and which surfaces we could get the bubbles to land on. The children were also experimenting with whether they could pass a bubble to one another.
We then started to focus on our investigation question 'can you make a bubble inside a bubble'?
We made predictions and talked about the equipment that we might need and then the children had some time to test various ways of making a bubble within another bubble.
The children did so well with this and they were able to make multiple bubbles inside one another!
We had such a fun day and got to experiment, ask and answer lots of questions!
Well done Year 4!
