Welcome to Year 4 

Teacher: Miss Fallows

Class TA's: Miss Shan & Miss Begum

Hello Kingfishers!

Miss Fallows, Miss Shan and Miss Begum are really looking forward to welcoming the children back and getting started on another exciting term in Kingfishers.

In English, we’ll be using the story The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind to inspire our writing. Children will be working towards writing a diary entry and a biography, focusing on using the correct tense, organising ideas and developing their writing skills.

In Maths, we’ll be learning more multiplication and division facts. We will continue to practise tables regularly in preparation for the government test in June. Children should be practising regularly at home.

In Science, our topic is sound. Children will explore how sounds are made, how they travel and how pitch and volume can change, through lots of hands-on activities.

Design technology lessons  will be about electrical systems. The children will design and make their own working torches, using simple circuits and testing that their designs work.

In Geography, we’ll be learning about energy, including renewable and non-renewable sources, and thinking about where our energy comes from and how it is used.

PE will take place on Wednesday afternoons, and children will continue to go swimming on Thursday mornings. Swimming is a required part of the curriculum, so all children need to take part. Please make sure your child brings their full swimming kit to school for their swimming lesson.

Reading books should be taken home every day so children can read to an adult and record their reading in their reading records. Children can now change reading books in class and do not need to wait for an adult. We recommend reading for at least five/ten minutes each evening. 

We aim to send spellings home every Friday to practise for the following week. We aim to do spelling tests on Fridays, although this may occasionally change due to timetable changes.

If you have any questions or need any support, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

We’re excited for a fun term full of learning, creativity and discovery in Kingfishers!

Thanks,
Miss Fallows, Miss Shan & Miss Begum

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