Welcome to Year 4 St Jeanne Jugan and St Patrick

STAFF: Miss Baker and Mr Pendlebury

Spring 2025

Key Information

Key events 

World Book Day - 7th March 2025

Forest School - 4P Spring 1 and 4B Spring 2 Wednesday mornings

Year 4 Timetable

Here is a normal daily timetable for Year 4 students:

8:30: School opens

8.30-8:45: Time Tables and Spelling practise

8:45am – 9.30am: RE.                          

9.30am – 10.30am: Maths                  

10.30am – 10:45am: First break           

10.45am – 12.15pm: Reading & English

12.15pm – 1.05pm: Lunch

1.30pm - 3.05pm: Handwriting/Science/Topic/PE/Spanish/PSHE

3.10pm: Prayer and home time 

PE

PE will take place weekly on Tuesday and Wednesday.

4P - Indoor Tuesday outdoor Wednesday

4B - Outdoor Tuesday indoor Wednesday

ALL children should come to school dressed in their PE kit and remain in this all day. 

Indoor kit consists of:

1. White shirt
2. Navy Blue shorts
3. Trainers

Outdoor kit consists of:

1. White shirt
2. Navy Blue shorts (plain, navy tracksuit bottoms weather dependent)
3. Trainers
4. School jumper/plain, navy jumper
5. Suitable waterproof jacket (weather dependent)

HOME LEARNING

Children are expected to complete home learning activities to help with their Maths and English.

SPELLINGS - Given out on a Monday to practise. They will be tested on Friday. 

MYMATHS - Online activities linked to classwork - they are expected to complete the weekly activities when set.

TIMESTABLES ROCKSTARS - Children should be aiming to practice their multiplication and division fact recall as often as possible. 5-10 minutes each day is ideal. Knowledge of these facts feeds into almost all other mathematical units we cover throughout the year. Short, frequent practice can be the most useful to support your child with progress in maths. 

CURRICULUM

Religion

This term we will be exploring the themes of community. We will also explore Caritas topics including solidarity and the common good and rights and responsibilities.​ We will be taking part in weekly collective worships as part of our ongoing journey within our faith.

English

In English we will be developing our reading, writing, spellings and grammar skills through a range of fiction writing and non-fiction opportunities - The focus this half term will be on strengthening our writing through setting descriptions, character descriptions, and diary entries. Our class read for this half term will be BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Reading

Guided reading sessions, whole class reading sessions and our daily class read will enable children to develop their reading skills and comprehension alongside an ever growing love of reading. 

Reading at home

We encourage parents to read with their child for 30 mins every night. This can be a school book or a book from home. 

Reading Records should be signed daily and brought in everyday for a member of staff to sign and change the book where necessary. 

Maths

At the beginning of this term we will continue to explore multiplication and division. We will then be moving on to length and perimeter, fractions and decimals

Keep learning your times tables - You should know your 2s, 5s and 10s from Year 2,  3s, 4s and 8s from Year 3 and Year 4 will focus on the rest of the tables, up to the 12 Times Table.  Year 4 will be completing a Times Tables Check at the start of Summer 2!

Practise your times tables everyday by logging onto Times Tables Rockstars and working on the battles and completing soundchecks regularly!

Science

This term we will be exploring living things and their habitats. We will learn how to identify a living thing and how to categorise them.

Topic

In Topic Spring 1 for Geography we will be learning about volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis and we will be investigating the impact of volcanos on civilisation and their surrounding area. We will be exploring the ring of fire where most of the worlds earthquakes occur.

In Spring 2 for History we will be learning about the Saxons and their impact on Great Britain and comparing their impact with that of the Romans. We will be looking at primary and secondary resources including artifacts.

PSHE

Throughout the Spring term we will be looking at the module Money and work which will focus on

• Spending decisions based on their budget, values and needs  

• How to keep track of money and about different ways to pay for things

Physical health and mental wellbeing

• To identify all factors that maintain a balanced, healthy lifestyle, physically and mentally, including when to go to the doctor.  

• How to maintain dental health, including how to brush and floss correctly and visiting the dentist regularly.

Growing and Changing

• The physical and emotional changes during puberty, how to discuss with a trusted adult and how to get advice and help. 

Keeping Safe

• The importance of taking medicines correctly and using household products safely. 

• To recognise what is meant by a ‘drug’ and the affect of, risks and side effects of drugs. 

For any further information please see the TenTen parent portal. The leaflet with the log in details has been attached below.

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

Children have been given logins for: - You will find these on the inside front cover of their reading journals.

- Reading Eggs

- Spelling Shed

- Times Tables Rock Star

- My Maths

These apps and webpages are fantastic resources for the children to access independently to help improve their core skills of reading, spelling and times tables. 

Any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.