Joseph Locke Primary School Y4 Narnia

Welcome to Year 4 Narnia

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Welcome to SSRS. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much!

Hello! Welcome to Narnia! Your class teachers this year are Mrs Scully and Mr Shaw. Mrs Mayhew and Mrs Johnson are the teaching assistants in our class this year. Our class are resilient, hardworking, enthusiastic and we always put 100% effort into everything that we do! We love to give out DOJOs and other rewards for hard work and children who go the extra mile.

As well as daily lessons of reading, writing and maths, we will also be studying exciting topics in science, geography, history, ICT, art and D&T! We will be having weekly PE sessions with Mr Sidebottom on Wednesdays. We will be starting our swimming lessons in February! Spellings are given out on Mondays and then we have our weekly spelling test on a Friday. Our library day is on a Friday – remember to bring your book back every week.

Remember – reading is the window to the world! We love to read in Y4. Make sure that you read often to keep up with reading miles. Both Mr Shaw and Mrs Scully love to read too and we can’t wait to share some fantastic stories with you in literacy, guided reading and at story time this year.

Over the year we will be discovering and celebrating each others talents and successes! Aim high Y4 – together we will succeed!

Y4 Narnia Information

Weekly spellings are handed out on a Monday and then are tested on the following Monday - remember to practise your spellings each day!

Our class library day sessions are on a Friday afternoon - remember to bring your library books back so you can have them swapped!

Our P.E lesson with Mr Sidebottom will be on a Wednesday afternoon. Remember to bring your swimming kit this term.

Remember to read every day at home and bring your reading record in every day. Each day you read will reward you with a stamp in your reading record. Prize draws are announced throughout the year to encourage children to reach certain destinations by a set date.

Keep rocking on times table rockstars to be the ultimate Rock star legend. Times table rockstars can be accessed through the times table rockstars app on your iphone or tablet.

Autumn Term Our history driving Topic this term is the Ancient Greeks! The children will be learning about life in Athens and Sparta. They will be making inferences about the past and looking at causes and consequences of the Greek wars.

This term in Science we will be exploring electricity. This term, the children will be making circuits and looking at conductors and insulators.

In PSHE, we are focusing on family and friendships, particularly looking at personal boundries and online safety.

In art, the children are studying moving figures and looking at artwork by Edgar Degas.

In Literacy, all lessons are book-based. We follow the Literacy Tree scheme at Joseph Locke. The children are going to love the fantastic stories that we have chosen this year. They will be given the opportunity to write for a wide range of audiences and purposes throughout the school year.

In Maths, the children will be learning about place value, rounding, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. We will also be working on multiplication facts on a daily basis. The children need to know all of the times table facts up to 12 x 12 by the end of Y4.

In ICT, we are exploring what the internet is made of and how to create digital patterns!

Homework Spellings: Spellings will be given on a Monday which will be tested on the following Monday.

Reading: We ask that children spend at least 10 minutes per day. This reading will count towards their reading miles in their reading records.

Children are also asked to spend time practising their times tables using the online app Times table Rockstars (TTRS)

Homework will also be set on Seesaw on a regular basis.