Rabbit Class (Year 4) 2023 - 2024

Welcome to the class page for Rabbit Class.

Here you will find all of the exciting and wonderful things that your child will be learning during their time in Year 4. If you have any questions, please use Class Dojo or speak to a member of our team at drop off/ pick up.

Thank you

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The Lost Happy Endings : Duffy, Carol Ann, Ray, Jane: Amazon.co.uk: Books

In our writing lessons we will be reading The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy. This is a story about an evil witch who steals all the happy endings from traditional tales! We will first be writing our own 'twisted tales' to earn the happy endings back, then writing a persuasive letter to the witch to try and convince her to return them. We will be practising our use of speech with inverted commas, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases. 

 

 

 

 

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In reading this half term, we are looking at Blue by Britta Teckentrup.

We will be using our different VIPERS skills: Vocabulary, Infer, Predict, Explain, Retrieve and Summarise to improve our understanding of what we read.

Reading Comprehension - Salterlee Primary School

Reading plays a significant role in children's development and we encourage it as much as possible! It comes with many benefits including:

 

Inspires imagination and creativity.

Enrinches cultural awareness and understanding. 

Increases empathy and improves relationships with others.

Lifts well-being levels and improves mood.

Improves progress in vocabulary, spelllings and even maths.

Encourages children to take a screen break.

 

You can support your child at home by reading with them daily and recording it in their reading diaries to help them add stamps onto their Book Worm. 

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You could ask your child about what they think might happen next in the story, how do they think the character is feeling, who is the author and what do they do. 

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In maths this half term, we will be learning all about fractions, with a focus on improper fractions and mixed numbers.

Times Tables — Fazakerley Primary School

In June, all Year 4 pupils take part in the Multiplication Tables Check where they are given 25 questions on any multiplication facts up to 12x12. To ensure that our children are ready for this, we will be practising our times tables daily. As part of our practice, each child has their own login for Times Table Rockstars which they can access both at school and at home. Just a few minutes of practice each day can really help children to improve their knowledge and speed! 

 

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This half term in science we are going to be learning all about sound. We will learn how sound travels as vibrations, how the different parts of the ear work and how the pitch of a sound can be changed. We will also be taking part in British Science Week and showing off our amazing experiment at the Science Fair in March. 

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In French, we will be learning how to talk about the days of the week and months of the year. We will learn how to count to 31 and then apply this knowledge to talk about birthdays. 

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Our humanties focus for this half term is Geography. We will be learning all about 'Wonderful Winsford'! We will be looking at the human and physical features of our local area, as well as how it has changed over the past century. 

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This half term in music we will be exploring songs from 'around the world', songs with a theme of 'recycling' and 'building'!

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Your child will have 2 PE lessons each week. Their days this half term are Wednesday and Friday. Please ensure they come into school in their PE kit on these days. This half term we will be learning how to play hockey and how to perform a gymnastics 'bridges' routine. 

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 Mondays- Each Monday, your child will be given 10 spellings to learn over the course of the week which are tested on Friday. They will have opportunities to learn their spellings each morning in class, however, extra practice at home is essential.

Thursdays- Each Thursday, your child will be given either maths or English homework (alternating weeks) which is posted online on our class Dojo page. Homework is expected to be in the following Tuesday. If you need a paper copy of the homework, please ask!

 

Other useful links:

Oxford Owl - Linked to our phonics Read, Write Inc programme https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/free-ebooks/   

Story Nory - A range of stories by classic authors as well as poems musicals and fairytales. https://www.storynory.com/archives/classic-authors 

Story Berries- Read along with audio clips. https://www.storyberries.com

Monkey Pen-  Free downloadable children’s books in PDF format. https://monkeypen.com/pages/free-childrens-books

Free Children’s Stories-  https://www.freechildrenstories.com

Keeping Safe Online-  www.esafety.gov.au/kids 

Topmarks- A great way for children to practise many of their maths skills https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=3

Newsround is a very good outlet for your child to watch each day to gain a wider understanding of what is happening not only in our country, but the rest of the world. We will be watching newsround every afternoon in class. 

 

 

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DARNHALL PRIMARY SCHOOL
Sandyhill Road,
CW7 1JL,
and Darnhall School Lane CW7 1JR
Mrs Sarah Tomlinson, Headteacher
Mr Davie Kindon, SEN Contact