Welcome to Year 4!

Spring Term 2024

I hope you have all have a fantastic break and are well rested and ready to start a new term. Have a look at the topic webs below to find out more details about our learning for this term.


English

Throughout the school, we use a book-based approach when teaching English, which enables the children to deepen their love of reading and provides them with opportunities to experience exciting texts. With this approach, we have an ‘Anchor text’ as a basis for the children’s writing each term. The children will explore this text in detail, alongside other high quality texts with similar themes. Our Anchor text for the Spring term is ‘Varmints’ by Helen Ward and Marc Craste .


Author of the Term

We also like to celebrate fantastic authors at Whirley to continue fostering a love of reading. Our Author of the term is Piers Torday. Below are a few examples of some of the books he has written.

If you have any of his books at home that you would like to share with the class, please bring them in, or enjoy them as your reading for pleasure book during our DEAR (drop everything and read) time.

Maths

We teach Maths every morning at Whirley. We follow the ‘White Rose’ Scheme of Learning, which helps children develop mastery in Mathematics. We encourage children to become resilient, independent learners, who can solve and justify problems, think creatively, and communicate their answers. On a Friday morning, our Maths lesson will be focusing on Multiplication and Division practise in preparation for their Multiplication Check in June.

This term we will be covering:

  • Multiplication
  • Length and Perimeter
  • Fractions
  • Decimals

Homework

Homework will be handed out every Friday and should be returned the following Friday.

At the front of your green homework book, there is a homework timetable for you to follow.

There will be either a maths or English worksheet every week.

There will be a DOJO activity every other week.


Spellings

Each Friday, I will upload spelling for you to practise on to Spelling Shed, you will find your login details at the front of your reading planner. You should be practising your spellings as much as possible – complete at least 10 games each week to help your spelling brain turn colourful. There will be extra DOJO points for the children that smash the 10 games target, and help Year 4 get to the top of the Spelling Shed leader board.


Times Tables

By the end of Year 4, you should know all of your times tables up to 12 x 12. The best way to turn your maths brain colourful is to use TT Rockstars. Your login details are at the front of your reading planner. Have a look at your heat map, this will show you which times tables you are good at, and which ones you need to improve by practising more.

To help you remember your times tables, each Friday, our maths lesson will be used to help you.

If you find times tables easy, challenge yourself and practise your division facts.


Reading

You will choose your own reading book to take home every Monday but, only if an adult has signed your reading planner. You need to practise your reading as much as possible and be ready to share your thoughts about your book with Mrs Hennerley or I.

Ask an adult to ask you questions about what you have read, if they are not sure what to ask you, below is some questions that will turn your reading brain colourful.


P.E

In the Autumn term, your P.E lessons will be on a Tuesday afternoon and a Friday afternoon.

Please make sure you have both indoor and outdoor P.E kits in school at all times.

Indoor kit – green shorts, white t-shirt, pumps or bare feet.

Outdoor kit – Whirley jacket, black joggers/leggings and trainers.

Meet the Team