Year 4
- Home Learning -
Tuesday 19th November
Please bring to school when you return. Thank you,
Miss Ironmonger
Year 4 Transition Booklet
Autumn Term 2024-2025
We hope you've have had a fabulous summer holiday and are looking forward to this year in Year 4. This term, our essential question is, 'What would it be like to live in the Amazon Rainforest? For more details about what we are learning this term, please click on the coverage below.
Reading records will be checked on a Monday and house points will be awarded if you have read 4 times the previous week.
Homework will be set on a Friday and should be handed in by the following Wednesday.
Spellings will be tested on a Monday; a copy can be found below as well as in your homework books.
Swimming and PE will both be on a Friday.
Miss Ironmonger and Miss Hailes
Curriculum overview
Spellings - Autumn Term
School council and eco warriors
RAINFOREST POEMS
We have read the poem ‘A sensory stroll’ and have written our own poems about the rainforest.
Clarinet Concert
Year 4 held a clarinet concert for the school. They sang songs and also played several notes on the clarinet for some festive themed songs. The children watching were very impressed. Follow the link to the video page below to see their performances.
My Style Homework
Anti bullying week
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Clarinet - look at the progress we have made in 6 weeks
English - sharing our own version of the Kapok Tree with Year 3
Science ~ Investigating the poles of a magnet and how they attract or repel.
Science - Where does a basketball bounce best?
Science - investigating how different surfaces affect the distance a toy can travel
PE - Experimenting with individual and partner balances in gymnastics.
PSHE
PSHE - sorting different types of bullying
Computing - learning about keeping safe online
Developing our tonal shading techniques in art today.
Maths - place value
Maths - partitioning numbers
Music - Our first clarinet lesson
Playing the clarinet
Week 1 - playing the clarinet
Geography - We have been using maps to find Brazil and the UK
PE - We have been developing our hockey skills including sending and receiving with accuracy, dribbling, and push passing.
Art - Here are some of the amazing 'Discovery Pages' that the children created at the start of our Amazon Rainforest project.
Multiplication Test - information for parents
Please encourage your child to practise their times tables in preparation for the end of Year 4 Multiplication Check. Using the following websites and APPs will enable your child to become more proficient in their recall of multiplication facts
ttrockstars.com - children have individual log ins in homework books
www.timestables.co.uk
www.topmarks.co.uk - hit the button. This is also available as an APP
Online links
Usernames and passwords in homework books
Purple Mash
https://www.purplemash.com/harlaxton
TT Rockstars
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
Leader in Me
On a daily basis, the children try to demonstrate our core values within school. As we aim to practise them so often, they become good habits that we can use not only in school but also at home too.
- Habit 1: Be Proactive (You’re in Charge)
- Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind (Have a Plan)
- Habit 3: Put First Things First (Work First, Then Play)
- Habit 4: Think Win-Win (Everyone Can Win)
- Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood(Listen Before You Talk)
- Habit 6: Synergise (Together Is Better)
- Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw (Balance Feels Best)
Websites for additional homework ideas.
Documents for parents
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