Tuesday 8th November 2022
Dear Parents and Carers of Year 4 pupils,
RE: Year 4 Curriculum – Autumn 2, 2022
We hope you all had a great half term break. Here is some key information regarding Autumn 2.
Our Topic
Our topic this term is ‘From Farm to Fork’ with our geography focus on farming and the various processes in the food chain from agricultural production to consumption. We will also be focussing on the artist, David Hockney, as part of our ‘Take One Artist’ week.
P.E. Lessons
Please continue to ensure your child wears the appropriate kit to school on alternate Tuesdays for PE with Mr Gibbs (PPA). In addition, each class will have PE on the following dates:
Cobalt Class: Tuesday 15th November, 29th November, 13th December
Azure Class: Wednesday 16th November, 30th November, 14th December
Turquoise Class: Tuesday 15th November, 29th November, 13th December
Homework
Reading: Reading is essential to help your child make progress in all areas of the curriculum. We expect children to continue to read for 20 minutes each day and record their reading in their reading journals which we check on Friday mornings. You can support your child by listening to them read and discussing what has been read.
Maths: In Year 4 children need to continue to learn all the times tables up to x 12. Please encourage your child to learn their times tables regularly including the related division facts. They need to answer quick-fire multiplication questions and would benefit from practising online using websites such as Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com) TTRS does not have a hand in date. Your child can practise times tables and test themselves on TTRS and we will also be using this website as a teaching tool at school. Two further websites for online learning of the times tables would be: https://www.timestables.co.uk/ and https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Finally, we will continue to set tasks for your child to complete on Mathletics. As before, we will set tasks that involve learning from previous weeks as revision.
Home Learning Project: This term’s home learning projects are explained on the reverse of this letter. Please continue to assist your child to select and complete their tasks. Thank you so much for all the help you provide your children we were incredibly impressed by all the hard work and effort that went into last term’s projects!
Thank you again for all your support, and as always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to arrange a phone call from us via the school office.
Mr Gough, Miss Horgan and Miss Januario