Year 4: Miss Thomas 2024 - 2025

Welcome to the final term of year 4!  I can't believe we are in Summer term already! I'm so excited to continue our learning journey this year, covering more exciting topics in our foundation subjects and exploring more texts during guided reading and English lessons.

PE will continue to be on a Thursday and Friday this half term so please ensure PE kits are in for those days. We will keep the kits in school and send home for washing at the end of the half term.

There will be two sets of reading books this year, a colour banded book and a reading for pleasure book. These will be changed once a week when planners have been signed.

In Key Stage Two homework will be set as a grid, with the children expected to complete one question a week from the grid. We also expect children to have read 3 times a week, practiced TT Rockstars and their spellings. Reading at home will be monitored weekly.

Spellings will be sent home on Mondays and there will be an informal spelling test in class on Fridays.

This half term we will continue our learning journey looking at the following topics in each subject:

In English we will conitnue to read Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit and then move onto 'Alba, the hundred year old fish'.

In Guided Reading we will be reading Emil and the Detectives.

In Maths we will move onto decimals.  It will benefit the children to continue to practise their times tables at home in preparation for our times tables check later this year.  For this, the children are given 25 times table equations and are given six seconds to input the answer, so quick retrieval of facts is key to this test.  You can practise this test by following this link: Multiplication Tables Check - 2025 - Timestables.co.uk

In History we will continue learning about our topic the ancient greeks and in Geography we will be learning all about the geograpy of Earthquakes.

In Science we will be exploring light.

We will be learning how to play the glokenspeil to Blackbird in music and brushing up on our French!

Thank you for all your hard work so far!  Let's keep working hard in year 4 and enjoy our learning journey together!

Miss Thomas