Welcome to Year 4!

Working with the children in Year 4 are:

4GT Class Teacher: Mrs Tomkinson - gtomkinson@redhill.worcs.sch.uk 

Supporting Staff: Mrs Madeira, Mrs Hodgson and Mrs Ezzaquany

4EG Class Teacher: Mx Green - egreen@redhill.worcs.sch.uk

Supporting Staff: Mrs Ezzaquany, Mrs Addis, Mrs McCorrie and Miss Milton

 

Year 4 Information:

Below you will find some key information about life in Year 4. This includes the important skills your child will be developing, the enrichment opportunities they will experience, and other useful details about their time with us this year. We hope this gives you a clear picture of what to expect and how we will be supporting your child’s learning and wellbeing.

To help you further, we’ve also included additional documents at the end of this section. These provide more detail about our curriculum and offer ideas about how you can support your child’s learning at home.

 

English writing text: 

After the Fall by Dan Santat 

The children will be writing a persuasive speech to convince Humpty to climb again. 

Skills focus - Persuasive writing, including fronted adverbials to add more detail, subordinate clauses, emotive and persuasive language and editing.

Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

The children will be writing an overcoming the monster story to entertain.

Skills focus - Descriptions of both the hero and villain, story planning, fronted adverbials, paragraphs to sequence in chronological order, direct speech using inverted commas and expanded noun phrases to describe the characters 

 

Maths:

Place Value

Skill focus - Representing, partitioning, estimating and comparing numbers up to 10,000, Roman numerals and rounding to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

 

Guided Reading:

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

During our guided reading sessions, children will have regular opportunities to read aloud, helping them to develop fluency, confidence, and expression. We will model and encourage the use of intonation, pacing, and emphasis to bring meaning to the text. In addition, children will respond to a series of carefully planned questions based on the reading VIPERS, ensuring they build a wide range of comprehension skills. These sessions will allow children to deepen their understanding of texts, discuss ideas with their peers, and apply strategies that support them as independent, thoughtful readers.

V = Vocabulary

I = Inference

P = Predict

E = Explain

R = Retrieval

S = Sequence or Summarise

 

Religious Education: What do Hindus believe God is like?

Science: How do I digest my food?

History: What can we learn about the Anglo-Saxons from what we see today?

Art: Welcome to the jungle - Henri Rousseau

PSHE: Being in my world

Computing: Internet Safety

French: Presenting Myself

Music: Funk - James Brown

PE: PE days for this half-term will be on Thursday afternoon - Tag Rugby and Friday morning - Swimming. Please ensure that children come to school dressed in their PE kits on these days. On swimming days, they will need to bring swimwear, towel and goggles (if required) in a separate (waterproof) bag. 

 

Enrichment Opportunities this half-term:

TBC

Important Diary Dates:

Tuesday 16th September - 5pm - Manor Adventure Residential Meeting

Tuesday 7th October - 10am - Harvest Service (Year 4 to lead)

Friday 10th October - all day - Hello Yellow Mental Health day

Tuesday 14th October - morning - School Photos

Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd October - Parents Evening appointments