Year 4C 2020 - 2021

Autumn 2

  After a busy first half term we are glad to be back and we are working harder than ever! What amazing children we have in Year 4 back to school, back to learning with commitment and enthusiasm. This half term we will be looking at the successes of the Ancient Egyptians in History. In science we have the electrifying topic of Electricity. The children will be getting stuck into practical work, building their own circuits and lighting up mini-light bulbs, as well as understanding the importance of being safe and thinking about conserving resources.  

We are pleased to announce that this Year we will be taking part in Rochdale’s Linking Network Programme. This usually involves visits with and to our linking school in Heywood. This year however, it will be different in that we are doing “Virtual Linking.” We will be exchanging work, videos and messages with the children in a Covid safe way. There will still be lots of fun activities to do. 

In English we have been looking at some Japanese poems that involve lots of syllable counting! We will be moving onto a book about Tutankhamun and another one about a very clever black cat.

Place value will continue to be a big focus for the start of this half term.  This knowledge underpins everything else we learn about in maths. important! Further to this, we are starting to develop our skills in multiplication and look at challenging problems within all of our topics in maths. Later on this half term, we will explore the four operations in depth.

Although we have no swimming until the end of this latest lockdown, P.E. in school is continuing with Games and Gymnastics. Each class has individual times for P.E.

Thank you for your continued support.

Year 4 team!