Rabbit Class

Class teacher’s welcome

Hello and a huge welcome back to Autumn 2 in Year4!

I hope you all enjoyed the half term holiday and are ready for Autumn term 2, with all the fun it has in store! There will be a lot of new learning in our topics, as shown below, as well as some festive preparations starting very soon. I’m sure this will be another exciting part of the Year4 journey for us all.

Best wishes,

Mrs Hayes

Roman coil pots We used traditional methods to make these!

Curriculum news

At a glance – Autumn 2

Maths:  Multiplication and division, Length and Perimeter, Fractions

English: Mill brochure (persuasive writing), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Science: Sound

Geography: UK – Yorkshire

RE:  How do ancient stories influence modern celebrations?

Computing: Audio Production

PSHE: Valuing Differences

Music: Shape rhythms

Art: Sketch work/Clay

Home Learning 

All children are encouraged to complete a home learning project to build on their class Geography and/or Science learning and examples or ideas will be posted here once we have spoken to the children about it, along with a date to return these.

The projects are designed to run alongside the learning for a half-term and we will look forward to inviting you into school at the end of the term to share the children’s projects. Please could these be handed into school by Tuesday 16th December.

Ideas could include:

A brochure/leaflet advertising a part of Yorkshire

A home made instrument/sound machine

A model of the workings of a human ear

These are just ideas, let your children’s imaginations go wild to use the knowledge they have learned to create anything linking to it!

Spelling

At All Saints’ Primary School, we follow the Read, Write Inc. spelling scheme in Key Stage 2. This Autumn term, we will start to learn the Year 4 spelling rules, as well as revisiting previous spelling patterns in order to fully imbed the children’s understanding of each spelling rule.

Spelling patterns will be taught over a two weekly basis for the most part, with consolidation added. The following are spellings for Autumn 1.

Week	Focus	Example Words
3rd and 10th Nov	Prefix ‘inter’	international, Internet
17th and 24th Nov	Words with ‘ay’ sound -spelt eigh, ei, ey	eight, veil, grey
1st and 8th Dec	Adding the prefix ‘ous’	anxious, courageous, dangerous
15th Dec (Christmas)	The ‘s’ sound spelt ‘sc’	ascend, muscle, fascinate

Dates for the diary

PE days: Wednesdays pm (Mrs Horsman), Thursdays am (Mrs Horsman)

Carol Service: Years 3 and 4 Carol Service, 16th December at All Saints Church

Links to support learning

Reading

Please encourage your child to read daily for a minimum of 10 minutes. At least 3 reading sessions per week should be recorded in the school Reading Record. Children should all have a school reading book (that can be changed regularly) but should be encouraged to read other material as well.

Read more about English in Y4 in the National Curriculum Programmes of Study

Maths

Your child in Year 4 will be taking the statutory multiplication tables check (MTC), in June this year. It is an online test, completed in school, for all pupils in Year 4. Pupils are asked to answer 25 questions on times tables from two to 12. They are given six seconds per question, with three seconds rest between each question. To help prepare your child for this check, we recommend using Times Table Rock Stars (login on inside front cover of Reading Record) – Y4 introduces 6, 7, 9, 11 & 12, as well as building on 2, 3, 4 5, 8and 10 multiplication tables (from Y3 & Y2).

Moreover, written methods for addition, subtraction and multiplication are taught as in the pictures below.