Teacher: Miss Maggs

Teaching Assistants:  Mrs Reader, Mrs Tucker (every day), Mrs Baker (Friday), Mrs Cairns (Wednesday afternoon)

Welcome to Year Four

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Our School Day

To find out details of how the Y4 pupils spend their time, please take a look at the timeline of our school day. Important times to note are arrival time (8.40am) and registration (8.50am). It is important the children are at school and settled in time for the day to begin.

Curriculum Support

The English national curriculum means children in different schools (at primary and secondary level) study the same subjects to similar standards - it's split into key stages with tests. If you would like to know more about each individual subject please visit our Curriculum Page. Each term our class topic will link in to the curriculum in a way that brings the subjects to life for the children. 

Autumn Term Topic

Our autumn topic is called 'Rampaging Romans!' The children will be learning about the impact of the arrival of the Romans in Britain. Below are some of the amazing Gladiator posters the children have already created!

Take a look at the documents below to see a grid of voluntary topic-related homework, and also a map of how our topic links to the curriculum.

PE

Our PE day is on Wednesday. The children will need to wear the Rosary PE kit to school on this day. We also take part in 'Fitness Fridays' with the rest of the school so the children will also need to wear PE kit every Friday. Please click here to find out PE kit requirements.

Forest School

We are very lucky to be able to offer regular Forest School sessions to all our classes at the Rosary School. Our grounds are perfect to help the children connect and engage with the outdoors, and learn through active and exciting tasks and challenges such as den building, making a fire or tools, and identifying insects and birds. Y4 Forest School sessions are every three weeks on Monday.  Children will need to wear Forest School kit to school on these days, details of which can be found along with the session timetable, as links from the Forest School page.

Reading & Book Change

The children are encouraged to read the books they choose at school regularly. Please read with them at least 4 times a week and record your comments in their yellow reading record. You can send a photograph of the comments to Miss Maggs via SeeSaw at the end of each week. When they are familiar with the book they should change it for a new one. Our book change days are Monday and Thursday. 

English & SPaG

This term the children will be writing historical stories based on 'Escape from Pompeii', poems based on the Romans, and exploring fables. Take a look at the Y4 Writing Map below to see what the children will be learning.

Rainbow & Read Write Inc Spellings

Our Rainbow Spellings in each year group focus on 'tricky words' that are commonly misspelled or do not follow regular rules. These words are re-visited tow years in a row and are tested regularly. In Y4 we continue to practise Read Write Inc Spellings which focus on the rules of spelling. Children have two weeks to look at each rule before they are tested in class, using some of the examples listed on the document below.

Maths

This term the children will be developing their number skills including learning Roman numerals up to 100 to fit in with our topic! We will also be looking at number and place values and geometry (properties of shapes). Take a look at the Maths summary documents below to help you understand what your child is learning. 

Rainbow Maths

There is a National Curriculum requirement for children to know their times tables up to 12 x12 by the end of Year 4, at which point they take an online test. To support this objective, children from Y2 onwards take part in regular Rainbow Maths tests. Each new academic year they start on 'Red' and work their way up through Orange, Yellow and so on. The document below shows what is required for each colour. We will give you more information about the test nearer the time.

Our Class Saint

Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu , honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. Mother Teresa said she received her "inspiration" to carry out what she described as the work of God, devoting herself to helping people who lived in the slums of Kolkata. On 17 August 1948, she stepped out for the first time in her white and blue sari, for which she is now so well known. Her charitable efforts have been widely celebrated and recognised all over the planet. Mother Teresa has won a string of awards for her charity work - the most notable being the Nobel Peace Prize which she was given in 1979. Mother Teresa died on 5 September 1997 at the age of 87, and was given a state funeral in India. She is remembered as an incredibly selfless person who wanted to help those less fortunate than herself. In 2016 Pope Francis recognised her as a saint. Mother Teresa had a huge heart for the poor and the ill. She had a beautiful mind and heart and many touching quotes are attributed to her including some of these wonderful sentences below:

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family."

"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone... person to person."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."

Additional Curriculum Resources

For further resources to support your child across all subjects, please visit our Curriculum page which features links to many useful sites.