Welcome to Year 4 and 5!

Our class teachers are Mrs Moore and Mrs Myers. Our teaching assistant is Mrs Collins.

This Term's Learning:

English: Our driver text is ‘The Chocolate Tree’, by Linda Lowery and Richard Keep

Maths:  Fractions and geometry (properties of shapes).

Science: Animals including Humans

RE: Commitment to God - Judaism

Computing: Logo

Design and Technology: DT Structures - Pavilions

Art:  Festival Feasts - Sculpture

History: The Maya Civilisation

PSHE: Health and Wellbeing – Safety First

MFL:  House and home

We have PE on Wednesday afternoons. Please can all children always have the correct PE kit in school every Wednesday, including trainers and suitable clothing for outdoor lessons in all weathers.

As part of our drive to keep active for our mental health and wellbeing, we will all take part in 'The Golden Mile' on Tuesday and Friday mornings. Please could children arrive to school wearing trainers suitable for running on grass and with their school shoes to change into afterwards.

Children taking in part in sports clubs or sporting events during the school day or after school, should also have the correct PE kit in school on those days, including specialist footwear, such as football boots.

More details about what we will be learning this term can be found on our curriculum overview below.

Homework:

A reminder and details of the homework activities can be found in your child's homework and reading log book and will include:

• Reading - please can children aim to read at least 5 times each week and log their reading in their reading record book.
• Spellings - the children are asked to practise a weekly list of spellings list by completing 'Spelling Soup' choice activities (aiming to achieve at least 15 spelling soup points each week) and/or logging into Spelling Shed and completing the assigned activities.
• Times tables practice - the children have many different methods for learning their times tables but they also enjoy challenging themselves on 'Times Table Rock Stars' and Timestables.co.uk.
• Maths - the children have a homework book and are set 'weekly workouts'.
• English - the children have a homework book and are set weekly grammar or punctuation practice activities.
• Wider Curriculum - the children are given a project to complete across each term.