Our whole school question is: What Makes our Environment Special?

 

Welcome back to another new term, and hopefully warmer, brighter days are coming. 

Key information

This term, forest school will continue on Fridays. Please ensure children bring with them a change of shoes and wear appropriate forest school clothing.

PE will continue to be on a Thursday.

Reading record books will be collected on Tuesdays. Please ensure the record books are signed and show a clear record of home reading. It is very important that we have this evidence to allow children to progress through our coloured book bands.

Term 4

This term we will have lots of exciting learning opportunities in year 4. We will immerse  ourselves within the rainforest and learn about the different layers, from the upper canopy to the forest floor. We will also explore the animals that make the different layers of the rainforest their home.  

 

 English 

We are continuing to develop our  writing skills. Through the Write Stuff we will sentence stacking and developing  our vocabulary. With the help of focused writing lenses, we will be writing  a narrative story based on The Great Chocoplot by Chris Callaghan. We will then write a poem around the theme of a river, building on our background knowledge of the Amazon. 

During our Vipers lessons we will be exploring the chapters of the Emma Carroll classic, Escape to the River Sea. We will work on developing all our reading skills, with a focus on inference and retrieval. 

Maths  

This term we will be focusing on fractions. Understanding what a fraction is, how to make a fraction and equivalent fractions. We'll also look at fraction families, converting fractions and improper fractions. A great excuse to make a cake at home and practise slicing it into equal fractions.   As the times table check looms closer, it is vital that each child knows all their times tables up to 12. Times Table Rock Stars have lots of useful resources and games to ensure fluency and games are a fun way to learn the times tables. In school, we will continue with our daily session of Maths Mastery where multiplication patterns are broken down, looked at and practised.

Geography 

 

In our geography  lessons we will be locating biomes, identifying  rainforests and drawing conclusions between locations using photos, pictures and maps. We will be looking closely at the rainforests close to the Equator. We will look at the significant differences and similarities between these rainforests.  We'll focus on the importance of each layer of the rainforest, look at the types of animals that live in the rainforest, and delve deeper into deforestation and palm oil and other issues threatening the rainforests across the world.

 

                                                              Science    

Our Science this term is 'Living things and their habitats'. Within this topic we will be identifying the different types of trees based on their leaves, recognising environmental changes and applying our knowledge of Life Cycles, food chains and classification.

Exciting News

Wednesday 1st July

 

Although it is in the summer term, we are very excited to announce that year 4 will be going to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury to see Annie the musical. This will be an amazing opportunity to watch the spectacular West End Show. Further information  will be coming your way.