Dear Parents,
Welcome to Year 4. We hope you had an enjoyable summer holiday. We are looking forward to
the year ahead. The class teachers this year are Miss Robertson (Class 15), Miss Horn (Class
16), Mrs Luc (Class 17) and Miss Basey (4RA). If you have any quick concerns you can come and
see us in the playground at the end of the day. For longer meetings, please phone the office to
arrange a convenient time with your child’s teacher. Please find below details of what your child
will be learning this half term.
Mrs Luc, Miss Horn, Miss Robertson, Mrs Partap and Mr Fletcher
Topic Focus: Rotten Romans-What did the Romans ever do
for us?
In our Creative Curriculum topic, the children will be investigating the history of the Romans,
particularly in Britain. They will find out about key events and how the way of life changed in
Britain at that time. In DT, the children will design and build a Roman siege weapon to combat
the fierce Celts! In Science, we will be learning about solids, liquids and gases and their changing
state. In French we will be learning how to describe our physical appearance and the place we
live. In PE we will be doing gymnastics and invasion games (football).
Maths
English
In English this term we will start by
exploring the book, ‘Journey’ by Aaron
Becker, using this as a stimulus for our
own writing. This will be followed by a unit
on ‘Varjak Paw,’ by S.F. Said, a thrilling
adventure on which we will base our own
narratives and explanation writing.
This half term we will be concentrating on
ensuring we know the 6,7,8 and 9 times
Etables thoroughly. We will develop our
xknowledge of place value in numbers up to
10,000.
tWe will use addition and subtraction to
esolve problems.
nWe will also regularly carry out maths
dinvestigations to develop the children’s
eenquiry and reasoning skills
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PE days Class 15 Outdoor, Thursday Indoor. Class 17
Monday Outdoor, Thursday Indoor. Class 4RA Tuesdayi Outdoor, Friday Indoor.
Indoor PE is done in bare feet, school shorts (blue) and tschool t-shirt (white). Children MUST
bring trainers to do outdoor PE. In cool weather, children
i may wear jogging bottoms and a school
jumper outside. Children MUST remove earrings and watches
for PE.
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Important dates
Please try to come to the Tuesday afternoon
celebration assembly if your child has won Star of
the Week.
Class Assemblies
Class 4RA – 27.9.16
Class 15 – 4.10.16
(Classes 16 and 17 assemblies will take place after
the half term holiday).
Museum of London Trip on The Romans
Class 17 and 4RA – 26th September
Class 15 and 16 – 17th October
3rd – 7th October: Black History Week
17th – 21st October: STEM (Science, Technology
Engineering and Maths) Week
E-Safety
British Values
Value of the month: Responsibility.
Each month we will be focusing on a new value
that aims to create a positive atmosphere
around the school. This month our value is
We will continue to teach the importance of esafety to the year group when using the
internet. Remind your children of how to stay
safe online whenever they use the internet at
home.
If you would any further advice on e-safety,
please feel free to speak to your class teacher.
Reminders
Please encourage your child to bring money for
book club every Wednesday in order for them to
buy books during Book Week.
Please make sure your child has a book bag.
Your child needs this if they are to take home
their reading books and improve their reading.
The book bags should be brought in to school
every day even if they haven’t finished their
reading books.
Please ensure that PE kits come to school on
Mondays and go home on Friday. Don’t forget to
include trainers for outdoor PE. Tracksuit
trousers may be worn outdoors. Indoor PE is done
in bare-feet, shorts and t-shirt.
Don’t forget the ‘Healthy Snack Shop’ is open
Tuesday to Friday at playtime for children to
purchase fruit or fruit juice.
Homework
-We encourage you to read with your child for
10 minutes every day. Please record the books
and pages your child reads in their reading
champion book (this will be given out to children
next week). In addition, talk to them about the
books they are reading and ask them about:
plot; characters; setting; predictions about what
will happen and why.
-The pupils have their own log-in details for
Mathletics and should use this three times a
week. Tasks are regularly set and we encourage
you to challenge them as part of their maths
homework.
-A Creative Homework timetable for the half
term will be sent out in the first week with the
due dates for each section specified.
-Spellings are set on Wednesday and tested the
following week (Tuesday).
Please go onto our school website to find out more about the curriculum and
see our wonderful work displayed.