Welcome to Year 4
Welcome to a brand new, exciting school year!
Below is some key information that you might need to refer to as the year progresses. Please feel free to contact me via email or call to the front office rather than at the end or start of the day and I will get back to you.
Please click here to access the Year 4 Welcome Sway
The Year 4 Team
Class Teacher: Miss Fisher
LSAs: Mrs Daltrey
This terms Caritas Curriculum Learning
Happiness is.... exploring our responsibilities.
Global warming and rising sea levels, deforestation and endangered animals, our planet is in peril! Join us as we learn how to save our planet and explore our responsibilities to care for our common world. Visit ravishing rainforests such as the Amazon, explore the freezing wonders of Antarctica and the Arctic but be careful to watch out for polar bears along the way! Learn how polar bears, penguins, monkeys – and many more animals - are adapted to live in their environments. Draw your own penguin pal and discover how their feathers help them stay warm and dry. Grow your own rainforest terrarium to learn about how a rainforest survives. Join us on our journey around the world and show your new knowledge in your writing. Follow in the footsteps of Greta Thunberg by writing balanced arguments about whether tourism or whaling should be allowed in these regions. Could you be the next David Attenborough? Find out as you write non-chronological reports about the marvellous animals you find in these habitats. Conjure your own ice palace as we write our own narrative story setting based on Robert Swindell’s Ice Palace. There is so much to look forward to this Spring term.
Our Caritas theme is ‘Love of others: Happiness is exploring our responsibilities’. We will be exploring Genesis 4:3-9 and learning about how we are our brother’s keeper because we have a responsibility to look after our neighbour.
The children will reflect on their own responsibilities in their communities (at home, church or in school), as well as their responsibilities to be stewards of the Earth and care for God’s creation – as we are instructed in the Pope’s letter entitled Laudato Si.
We will link our learning on this to our topic, Planet in Peril, by looking at the impact of human actions on global warming and climate change, and how this is changing the environments around the world. We will explore what we can do to help our protect our planet from this peril.
knowledge organiser spring.pdf
Year 4 Caritas Learning Overview
caritas curriculum year 4 one page.pdf
Homelearning
Home learning
Please find the home learning menus for the topic we are studying in the 'Our learning' tab to the side of this page. Please ensure that children complete their home learning each week either in their book on on their TEAMS notebook.
home learning spellings and times tables spring 1 2026.pdf
home learning planet in peril spring 1 2024.pdf
P.E.
Our PE lessons are on Monday and Wednesday.
Children are expected to bring their PE kits into school at the start of the half term ready and leave it in class ready for these days (it will be taken home at the end of the half term). Make sure that your child's names are on all of their kit. Please ensure that your child has the correct indoor and outdoor kit, as the weather gets colder and wetter children will need to be dressed appropriately as they will be in their kits all day. Earrings must be taken out before PE lessons, either by the parent or the child- staff are not permitted to do this.
Swimming
Swimming will be in the Summer term, this will need to be paid for before we go. Children will need their swimming costume/ swimming trunks, a towel and a swimming hat (for all children). It is advisable that the children take an extra set of underwear and socks just in case. Goggles are optional. .
Other Helpful Hints
Reading
It is expected that children are heard to read at home for at least 10-15 minutes a day and that this is recorded in their reading diaries. Your child must have completed the book and have their diary signed with a note informing staff of completion, in order for their book to be changed. It is important to check your child’s understanding of what they are reading, especially as they begin to read longer and more complex books. This can be done through discussing the book with your child and through questioning them about specific aspects after or during reading.
It is important that your child brings their reading diary in every day as we encourage them to talk to us about the reading they do at home as well as in class. We have reading time every day, and during the course of the week, children will read independently, with a partner or group and with an adult.
Spellings and Times Tables
Each week, as a part of their home learning, children will be expected to learn a set of spellings and a set of times tables which they will be quizzed on the following week. These spellings are based on the Year Three and Four National Curriculum spelling list. Children should be encouraged to look for and learn spelling patterns in these words and other words. It is expected that by the end of Year Four all children will know the times tables, by heart, up to 12x12. Please practise these regularly at home and do not forget that all children have a log on to Times Tables Rockstars.
It is more beneficial to work on spellings and times tables in short bursts; 5-10 minutes every day, rather than longer sessions. It is also very helpful to encourage your child to learn the meanings of these words (and other unfamiliar words) as well as helping them to develop their ability to apply these in context by writing a few sentences.