Hello Year 4 parents! The first term of the year has been very busy, and the children have all settled in well to new routines. Our theme this term has been “Who am I, and who am I becoming?” and a lot of our work, particularly in PSHE and art, has been based around these ideas. Our artwork has explored some of our strongest memories, and we have considered our future paths by imagining our older selves.
Our book this term was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a text many of you will be familiar with! The children wrote their own portion of the narrative, imagining something dreadful happening to a child who broke the rules. Naturally, that would never happen in real life!
Maths has mostly been revising concepts of place value and recapping methods of addition and subtraction, while next term we will move into multiplication. A reminder that your child’s ability to recall number bonds (e.g. 6 and 4 is 10, 7 and 8 is 15, 54 and 46 is 100), and times tables (up to 12 x 12) quickly and accurately is key to their confidence and success in maths going forward. If you do get the chance to practise these with your children it will help them out a lot!
Our Oasis country of the year is Mozambique and the children are really enjoying a developing knowledge and understanding of the wider world, as well as a focus on changes in Bristol in history. They may have already told you about the replica digestive system that we produced in class – definitely an experience!
We have finished off with Heritage Week as one of our themed weeks, and considered Maya Angelou and how she protested against segregation, as well as some of her poetry. We have also begun to think about Remembrance and why we wear poppies in November.
We hope you all have a wonderful half term, and will see you in November.
The Year 4 team
Mr Haycock, Miss Clutsom and Miss Harrington
