Welcome to Year 4!

4H children are taught by Miss Horton, along with Mrs Ashbourne.

4G children are taught by Miss Gray, along with Mrs Godley.

Spring Term:

English: This term, we will continue to focus on punctuating sentences accurately and applying new spelling rules. We will learn how to perform and write playscripts, using the book ‘The Adventures of Dish and Spoon’ to help us. After that, we will move on to studying Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, during which the children will have fun with descriptive writing. Just before half term, we will work on writing autobiographies and learn about the life of Rosa Parks. After half term, we will read and study three texts that focus on the lives of refugee children- Boy at the back of the class, Whisper and Home Ground. The children will use these texts as inspiration to plan and write their own refugee story.

Maths: Throughout the Spring term, we will focus on fractions, decimals and money. Your child would benefit from becoming more familiar with using a range of coins, adding up prices and understanding change. We will continue to prepare for the Year 4 Multiplication Check through in-class practice and Home Learning. Your child has a login for Times Tables Rock Stars in their reading record. Please encourage them to keep using this website.

Science: Our topic in the first half term is Electricity. The children will learn how to design and build simple electrical circuits featuring lights, switches and buzzers. They will also learn about electrical safety. After half term, we will focus on Living Things and their Habitats. This will include classifying animals into different groups, studying specific habitats and understanding environmental change. 

Topic (History and Geography): Through the Spring term, Year 4 will study Women Throughout History. They will learn how to use primary and secondary sources to find out how the role of women has changed over time and to investigate how the Suffragettes influenced this.

D&T: This term, the children will be designing and assembling torches, which links with our Electricity unit in Science.  

R.E and PSHE: In RE, the children will learn more about Christianity, focusing particularly on spiritual leaders, different celebrations such as Easter and Holi and the importance of forgiveness. We will also look at Humanism and have a key speaker come in to complete a workshop based on this belief. In PSHE this term, the focus will be ‘Dreams and Goals’, followed by ‘Healthy Me’.

Computing: In the first half term, the children will be looking at the use of the internet and in the second half term, they will learn how to edit audio recordings.

Music: This term, Years 3 and 4 are taking part in a chorister programme run by Hertfordshire Music Service. Every Monday afternoon, the children and teachers will develop their singing skills during a session run by someone from the service. 

Have a look in the folders to see some of the fun we have been having!