Cedar Class Teacher
Mrs Emery
Year 4 Cedar and Beech
Beech Class Teacher
Miss Gaskell
(Mondays – Wednesdays)
Beech Class Teacher
Miss Guest
(Thursdays – Fridays)
Year 4 – Support Assistants
Mrs G Sandhu
Our Spring term Class Novels:
The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
The Land of Roar – Jenny Mclachlan
The Butterfly Lion – Michael Morpurgo
Topics and themes for Spring term
English- Pathways book ‘Escape from Pompeii’
We will be writing a diary entry.
Maths
- Calculating with multiplication and division
- Fractions
- Time
- Decimals
- Area and Perimeter
Science – Electricity
- Identify common appliances that run on electricity.
- Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
- Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.
- Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.
Geography – UK focus
- Locate & name UK countries, capital cities and main cities
- Topographical features of UK: coasts, mountains, hills, rivers etc.
- We will be focusing on Snowdonia.
Music – Recorders
This year we will be taking the whole cohort to the recorder festival in February. We have practised many songs and are excited to show off our skills.
