Miss Thompson will be teaching Monday to Wednesday

Mrs Jones will be teaching Thursday and Friday

Mrs Oakey is the class teaching assistant

This term (Spring 1) our Global Theme is 'Saving Our Environment'. 

We will learn about how people are dependent on the environment and develop a basic understanding of the causes and effects of climate change.  We will look at and consider environmentally responsible living and the ecological footprints we leave.

Our big Geography question is 'Where would you rather live?'. We will be comparing Derby with the seaside town of Whitby!

In Science we will looking at habitats and focusing on classifying animals.  We have already looked at invertebrates, made our own insect and done beautiful detailed drawings of a butterfly. As science links with art and DT this half term we are hoping to create our own insect sculptures too!

Please see the science knowledge organiser below.

Spellings

Below are a list of Year 4 spellings that we will focus on each week. The children will be given their new spellings on a Friday and will be given a dictation to write to show they have understood the spelling pattern the following Friday.

Maths

This term our topics are Multiplication and Division and Length and Perimeter.  

• We will look at Factor Pairs then we will move on to focus on division.
• We will measure in kilometres and metres, work out perimeter and the missing length of rectilinear shapes.

Below is an example of some of the reasoning and problem solving work we will do linked to length and perimeter.

TT Rockstars

TT Rockstars is a fantastic and fun way for your child to practise their times tables. They will be set the times tables they currently need to practise to help them to become secure with each table and improve their speed.

We have a display in the classroom where the children can move their names up as they achieve a new rock status. Playing in 'Studio' will reward them with a higher rock status!

In the Summer Term Year 4 children nationally take part in a times tables test.  They are expected to know all their times tables up to 12x12 and be able to answer every question in under 6 seconds. Playing TTRS in 'Soundcheck' is a very good example of what the test will be like.  Below is a document with more information for parents.

Home Learning

Login details have been sent home for SeeSaw, TTRS and Lexia.

Below are a selection of websites/resources you can also access:

Oak National Academy publishes lessons daily each week for all subjects.

 https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-4

BBC Bitesize has a variety of lessons for English, Maths, Science, History and Geography. Many of which have extremely helpful videos to explain the learning to the children. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/this-terms-topics