Welcome to
4B- The Harry Potters
We follow the Cherryfold values, Enjoy, Respect, Succeed!
Meet the Staff
Miss Byers
Miss Bux
Miss F Bamford
During your time in Y4, you will grow into an independent learner, aim to be more resourceful and resilient, make new discoveries about the wider world and develop lasting memories!
We follow a theme based curriculum in Y4, through which you will learn National Curriculum skills. Each half term, our theme changes so that you will be involved in lots of different activities, to enable you to become a better learner and achieve your potential. Examples of our topics in Y4 include; Journey to Egypt, The Vikings and Burnley V Barcelona. We ensure your learning is enhanced by engaging in Enrichment days/Activities. We will be having a visitor for our viking topic and during our topic, Endangered, we will be having an enrichment day which will include a visitor and lots of animals! This will also link to our science too. As well as all that, we engage in stimulating activities, in our Forest schools, making the most of our exciting outdoor learning environment.
In Year 4, we are encouraged to make our writing creative and exciting. We follow the Lancashire English Units and study novels linked to our topics such as, The Mousehole Cat, The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster and Gulliver’s Travels which inspire our writing further. Additionally, we use Acceleread to help us improve our reading, taking quizzes once we have completed novels and gain as many points as we can, the more we gain the deeper our understanding! In Maths, we follow the Lancashire Red Rose Maths Mastery Scheme, which deepens our understanding of key concepts. By the end of Y4 we will have taken the National Multiplication tables check and are Times Tables Wizards after having learnt up to our 12x tables!
To support you on your learning journey, we hope that you will receive help from your parents and carers. They can do this by listening to you read, helping you to learn your Spellings and Times Tables and encourage you to complete your weekly Grammar and Maths Homework Tasks.
Finally, we use Class Dojo to send pictures and messages home about what you have been learning and all the fantastic achievements you have made!
We want you to have fun whilst learning. Remember Enjoy, Respect, Succeed!
Reading
Children will have a reading book chosen by themselves appropriate to their reading level. Accompanying these books are their reading diaries, where you can write comments on their reading daily. Your child will also be given many opportunities throughout the week to read a variety of texts and will then undertake an online quiz to assess their understanding of the text.
PPA Time
Miss Bux will be teaching RE on a Tuesday afternoon, split with Mr Caldecott for PE.
Homework
In Year 4, children are expected to complete two to three pieces of homework a week.
Your child has been provided with both CGP English and maths books to complete their homework. Each week, they will be provided with different page numbers in order to complete different tasks from each book!
Spellings
Weekly spellings will be every Monday. You should practise these throughout the week, ready for our test the following Monday morning!
PE
PE will take place every Monday and Tuesday.
Please ensure a full kit is in school ready for your child’s lesson.
SNACK
It is important to note your child can bring a healthy snack at break times such as fruit or vegetables. We also encourage your child to bring water to drink in class throughout the day, but they may bring something else to drink with their packed lunch.
Class Novel
Below are the statutory words for year 3 and 4.
Common exception words are a key aspect of the KS2 English Curriculum. Children can practice these words which will help their school work, throughout the curriculum, as well as independent writes.
This is 4B having fun learning new magic tricks in the classroom as well as on a visit to Queen Street Mill where we looked for some inspiration for our final trick. This will be performed later in the year.
Climate Crisis
This half term we will be looking at What is Climate Change, how it affects us and what effect it is having on the polar bears in the Arctic.
As part of this study, we will be focusing our Geography lessons on the Arctic, we will be looking at its position in terms of the world, its weather and climate and why it is different to where we live. We will be looking at the features of the Arctic as well as its surrounding geographical features and presenting our findings on how the animals are being affected by Climate Change.
PSHE
This half term we are looking at Keeping Safe:
· We will be looking at what are dangers, hazards or risks.
· We will be looking at how to keep ourselves safe on and offline.
· Learning strategies to keep ourselves safe.
· Looking at positive and negative influences.
RE
During RE we will be studying Christianity- Jesus.
We will be learning about temptation and sacrifice what these words mean. We will then relate it back to ourselves and explore our own commitments before exploring if sacrifice is an important part of our religious lives.
4B's Climate Change documentary
Today in English we have created our own documentary to present what we have learnt throughout this unit and to influence our audience.
This afternoon as part of our Science - looking at how states of matter change from a solid to a liquid and back to a solid we made some rice crispy cakes to demonstrate how this works with chocolate.
This half term we are having sessions with Lancashire Music services learning how to play the Ukulele as well as learning to play a rhythm on a drum.