Welcome to Year 4's Page
This year our teacher is Mrs Parkes and our Teaching assistant is Miss Fogg. Miss Fogg and Mrs Shenton will take the class on a Wednesday afternoon for music and P.E. and Mrs Goodall will take the class every other week on a Monday afternoon.
Our Topic question this term is: How has nursing and medicine changed over time?
Our main focus will be History of Nursing and Medicine with a focus on Florence Nightingale and Mary Secole.
R.E. we will be looking at Commitment an what it means.
Our science topic this term is sound and hearing.
In music we will be following the Charanga music scheme.
In French we will be revisiting months of the year and birthdays. We will learn days of the week and how to say what the date is.
Please make sure you have swimwear (and goggles if needed,) a towel and that hair is tied up and earrings removed on swimming days.
Thursday: Children will need their swimming kits as we will be swimming at Etwall Leisure Centre on Thursday mornings. There will be 5 sessions per term.
Friday: Homework sent out.
Homework will be set on a Friday to be returned for the following Thursday - unless otherwise stated. Spellings will be sent out with the homework and tested on the following Friday
Please help your child learn their spellings. They not only need to be able to spell the words but also understand what each word means and use them correctly in sentences.
There will also be a termly project style piece of homework.
Children in year 4 need to have a good grasp of the times tables. To help your child, make sure they can say the numbers in sequence first. Then they need to be able to give answers out of sequence as well as work out the divisions. Encourage your child to practise in lots of different ways. Good websites to use are Transum and Hit the Button.