Spring Term 2025

Happy New Year! We hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and a relaxing break with family. 

This next half term, we will begin our new history based topic 'We Are The Romans'. Over the coming weeks, we will discover about the period of history in which The Roman's built their huge empire, study timelines and research the impact The Roman's had on Britain. In art, we will learn about 'pattern' by creating mosaics in Roman styles.

We will complete English and Maths lessons during the morning sessions of our school day.

Our learning in English, will be based upon the book, Escape from Pompeii by Christina Ballit. The children will learn new vocabulary and take part in spelling and grammar lessons to support and improve their independent writing. Our final piece of writing at the end of this half term will be a newspaper report on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Our Maths lessons for the fist 3 weeks will still be based around multiplication and division - it is essential that children are practising their times tables at home as this will make maths lessons easier to access and develop fluent recall. The following weeks, we will concentrate on measurement.

This year, all children will be taking part in a statutory times tables check. This is done in small groups and accessed through an i-pad in test conditions. There will be 40 questions - each one needing to answered in 6 seconds. Multiplication skills will be practised frequently in school and encouraged to be practised at home too in preparation for this test.

During the afternoons, pupils will enjoy a broad and balanced curriculum, covering: Science, Computing, History, Geography, Art, PE, Languages (Spanish), Music, Design Technology, PSHE and RE during the afternoons. Please see a copy of our knowledge organiser which is displayed on Dojo, in the classroom window and also on this class page.

Homework:

Children will have tasks to complete each week on Century (online platform) as well as regular reading, TT Rockstar practise and spellings to learn.  All homework tasks will be set on a Friday and due the following Friday- this includes Century tasks and spellings. If your child is struggling with a piece of homework, please encourage them to ask us for support. Children should also be reading every night – this may be from their banded reading book or a library book. Please record these home reads in their reading diaries. The completion of homework will be monitored.

I will be running a homework club during break time on a Friday morning for children to complete any homework they can't or haven't completed at home. 

PE:

Our weekly swimming lessons will continue this half term on a Monday morning. These lessons will take part at Hyde Leisure Centre in their teaching pool.  For these lessons, children will need a swimming kit, consisting of; swim wear (girls- costume- no tankinis or bikinis. Boys trunks -no shorts), a swimming cap (for long hair) and a towel. No goggles will be allowed unless they are for medical reasons and proof will be required).
Our sports session will take place on a Monday afternoon. (but can change so please keep kits in school). Please ensure your child is equipped with the correct P.E. kit. PE kits should be black shorts, plain white t-shirt and black pumps (trainers, black or grey joggers are only acceptable for outdoor sports). If we are indoors we are strictly only allowed to wear pumps. Please refer to our uniform policy for more information.

If your child wears earrings, they need to be removed for these lessons (sports and swimming).

*Please note that  PE is part of the school curriculum and children are expected to take part in every lesson unless medical evidence is provided*

We will continue to use Class Dojo as a way of celebrating the children’s successes, good behaviour choices and as a communication tool. If you would like to share any successes at home on here, please feel free to do so.

Please don't hesitate to speak to myself or Miss Davies if you have any queries.

Mrs Hulland and Miss Davies

Year 4 Timetable

Monday- Swimming kit AND PE kit required please.

Friday- Homework needs to have been completed by today and submitted by 9.00am