Year 4 2024 - 2025

Mrs Heath

Miss Baron

Mrs Spence

Hi, welcome to Year 4.

We are Orleans class and I am Miss Baron the class teacher.

Mrs Spence will be teaching us all day on Thursdays.

This year, Year 4 will be taught separately in the mornings for Maths, English, reading and spelling. In the afternoons, Year 4 will be combined with Year 3 and will be taught by myself or Mrs Heath on rotation. This will be for the foundation subjects. I will be teaching the History this half term, PSHE and the Science and spellings on alternative weeks and Mrs Heath will teach Geography, computing and PE.

Our class value is CREATIVITY, which is such a great one to have because I have been blown away with how creative all our children are in their writing, art work, music and their thinking!

We are lucky enough to be learning the ukulele this year again with John. This takes place on Friday. Don't forget to bring your ukulele with you!

Our PE coach is Azz is back this year and he is coaching us on a Monday morning, so don't forget your PE kit and trainers on this day! Mrs Heath will also teach a session of PE on Tuesdays.

We have quite a bit more work to do in Year 4 and we are practising our handwriting using a programme called Letterjoin (see link below.) We also do our spellings using a programme called Spelling Shed, aswell as reading lots of different texts using our VIPERS for reading.

We use the White Rose Maths and we are working on place value, addition and subtraction and area and perimeter this half term.

You will see from our curriculum map all the different areas that we will be covering this half term.

Your child has a reading book and we encourage them to read their school reading book at least three times per week.

In the summer term, we will be taking the National Timestables check, so it's really important to make sure your child learns their timestables up to the 12 X table because these will be tested. There is a link to Timestables Rockstars and Timestables.co.uk at the bottom of this page that your child can access from home. It's really important that they do this.

We have lots to look forward to this year, including our school residential to Crosby Hall in the summer. We can't wait!

A typical day in Year 4 looks a bit like this:

8.55 - Register and morning task

9.05 - VIPERS or Spelling Shed

9.40 - English

10.45 - Break time

11.00 - Maths

12..00 - Lunchtime

1.00 - Foundation subjects

2.30 - Handwriting practice using Letterjoin

2.45 - Class novel reading

3.00 - Assembly or singing time