Class 4 2024 - 2025

Miss Hymers

Class Teacher Class 3 and Class 4, Art and Design, Design and Technology

Mrs Glew

Class 4 Teacher, Wellbeing and Fitness

Mrs Rowley

Class 4 Teaching Assistant, Eco Committee

Welcome to Class 4

Mrs.Glew, Miss Hymers and Mrs. Rowley,

Dear Parents and Carers,

As we approach the Summer term, we hope the below information will be useful to you in supporting and sharing what is happening in school with your child. If you have any questions or concerns, please do get in touch via the school office or pop in before or after the school day.

SATS will obviously drive the first few weeks of the term, children will be revising and practising their learning in years 4,5 and 6.

English Literacy

We will continue to inspire the children in their writing with a selection of poetry and short animations, including the Night Mail to give them opportunity to practise their sentence structures, descriptive techniques and use of dialogue in their writing. Performing some of our poetry in class will help with the preparations for the end of year show.

Maths
After revision of the year 4,5 and 6 curriculum elements we will end the term with mini real life projects related to our learning, including a focus on graphs.

Reading
We would appreciate support in ensuring your child reads daily at home, whilst we know that nowadays there are many things that compete for your child’s attention, there is also much written about the impact of reading on their future achievement.
Whilst in school all children have a reading book and are encouraged to enjoy reading in order to bolster their awareness of a variety of writing, increase their vocabulary and expose them to different genres and scenarios. We welcome your support on reading with them, being read to and discussing their books with them.

Your child should record their reading in their reading record at school each morning. If you have a reluctant reader, please do let me know and I can provide reading material until they are in the flow of their reading book.

Whole Class Reading
We will read either our whole class novel or extracts related to our curriculum subjects daily. Every child will read aloud at least twice a week, this will be a focused read; involving class and partner discussion, quizzes and comprehension questions.

Topic Work
In Geography we will complete our study of Columbia and move towards local fieldwork, whilst in History we will be learning about some of the key events in World War 2.

PE
We are looking forward to practising the athletics events for Sports Day, and for dance to help us prepare for the end of year performance.
NB Earrings cannot be worn at any time during PE. Please ensure your child can either remove and replace their own earrings or they take them out before school on the days of PE and put them back in after school.

Homework
Homework will be continue to be sent weekly on Thursdays, taking on more of a research and presentation style which will be needed at High School. We continue to encourage the children to take ownership of their homework and attempt it independently though obviously we welcome your support and input.

In year 6 we always have one eye on preparing your children for high school and encourage them to take increasing responsibility. There may be times when your child finds a gap in their understanding, please encourage them to talk to us if they need help or it is causing anxiety. Homework is a further opportunity for children to retrieve and revise information and embed knowledge, understanding and strategies though on some occasions may also be research in preparation for something in class. Homework will be set on google classroom so it is easy for both parents and children to find.

Spelling
In addition to the homework above, there will be a weekly spelling focus and list of words to learn, these words will be taught in class and opportunities to practise them provided in school. We welcome your support in learning these spelling patterns at home so that children can apply them confidently in class. The words can be learnt by using the games set on Spelling Shed, learning spelling patterns and using look, cover, say, write.

Snack Time

Children are allowed water bottles filled with water (not juice).

Only healthy snacks or toast are allowed at morning break time.

Children can buy up to two pieces of toast at a cost of 20p each.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any point this year. We operate an open-door policy and are available if you ever have any concerns.

Mrs Glew, Miss Hymers and Mrs Rowley

Spelling practice:

https://spellingframe.co.uk/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar

https://grammarsaurus.co.uk/portal/category/spag/games/