Year 4R 2024 - 2025

Welcome to 4R

Autumn 2

After a busy first half term, we are glad to be back and we are working harder than ever! This half term we have two school trips and class 4H have their class assembly on Thursday 28^th November, so we look forward to seeing some parents/ carers coming to watch!

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, once again, year 4 will be taking part in Rochdale’s Linking Network Programme. This will involve visits with and to our linking school in Heywood. This year, our first meeting with the children and staff from Hopwood Primary will be at the M6 Theatre, where we will watch a show together. A letter has just recently been sent home with children giving the details for this day.

In English, we will be 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. Further to this, we will be looking at addition and subtraction with 4- digit numbers and we are starting to develop our skills in multiplication. Later on this half term, we will explore the four operations in depth.

In R.E we will be exploring what Hindus believe God is like, exploring Aum and Brahman.

In DT we will be designing and creating money containers, where they will practise their sewing skills to join pieces of material together.

Swimming will continue on Monday mornings again this half term and we will be continuing with Games in PE on Thursdays. Please can we remind that swimming kits need to be brought in every Monday morning and PE kits should be left in school for lessons! Black pumps or black trainers are the only acceptable footwear for outdoor PE lessons.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Robinson and the Year 4 team!