Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

Summer term 2022

Key dates for your diary:
Monday 25th April – Return to school
Friday 29th April – Eid celebrations
Friday 29th April - 4S and 4KS – Listen, Inspire, Compose music workshop
Monday 2nd May – May Day Bank Holiday
Tuesday 3rd May – Viking Longship Workshop
Thursday 5th May - 4S and 4KS – Listen, Inspire, Compose music workshop
Monday 16th May to Friday 27th May – 4KS swimming lessons
Monday 23rd May – Sports Day
Thursday 26th May - 4S and 4KS – Listen, Inspire, Compose music workshop
30th May to 3rd June – HALF TERM
Monday 6th June – return to school
Monday 6th June to 17th June – 4A swimming lessons
Wednesday 22nd June – 4A Listen, Inspire, Compose music workshop
Friday 24th June – Founders Day – school closed to pupils
Wednesday 29th June - 4A Listen, Inspire, Compose music workshop
Thursday 30th June – class photos
Wednesday 6th July - 4A Listen, Inspire, Compose music workshop
Thursday 21st July – school closes for summer break

VISITS AND VISITORS
We are excited to announce that on 3rd May, all Year 4 pupils will have the opportunity to take part in an exciting workshop where they will work together to build a Viking longboat.
We will also be welcoming our composers back (Chloe Knibbs and Dr Angela Slater) to work on their third and final music project with their respective classes.

RECOMMENDED READS FOR YEAR 4 PUPILS The Legend of Podkin One-Ear, Kieran Larwood and David Wyatt The Railway Children, E Nesbitt Dogman series of books, Dav Pilkey Kay's Anatomy, Adam Kay The Ickabog, JK Rowling Mallory Towers, Enid Blyton The Polar Bears' Explorers Club, Alex Bell and Tomislav Tomic How to Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell Viking Voyagers, Jack Tite

English
Our first text will be Krindlekrax, written by Philip Ridley, which is a classic fantasy adventure novel. The expected writing outcomes are a magazine interview, a persuasive letter to the local authority, recount in role as Ruskin and a book review.

We will follow this up with One Plastic Bag – Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia by Miranda Paul. This tells the true story of Isatou Ceesay who saw the problem that the proliferation of plastic bags was causing in her country, the Gambia, contaminating the environment and killing the goats that swallowed them. She collaborated with other local women to crochet thread made from the plastic bags to create purses resulting in a thriving trade and reducing pollution.
Finally, in poetry, the children will read, share, perform and write poems about the environment.
We will also be reading class

Maths

During the summer term, we will cover the following areas:
• Decimals and money
• Telling the time
• Properties of shape
• Position and direction
• Statistics
Things to practise at home:
• Times tables and associated division facts using TT Rock Stars, verbal and paper methods. Children are expected to be fluent in all multiplication and division facts by the end of year 4.
• Number bonds (pairs of numbers) for 10, 20 and 100.
 

Wider curriculum

Science:     Summer 1 – Teeth and the Digestive System     Summer 2 - Habitats
History:     Summer 1 - Anglo-Saxons & Vikings: The Struggle for Britain
Geography:     Summer 2 – Coasts: how are they constantly changing?
Art:     Summer 1 – Birds In The Trees
D.T:     Summer 2 – A Sports Day Lunchbox
Music:     Summer 1 – Blackbird (The Beatles)     Summer 2 – Reflect, Rewind and Replay
R.E:     Hinduism
P.S.H.E:     Summer 1 – Relationships     Summer 2 – Changing Me
P.E:     

Summer 1 – rounders and the fundamental skills of PE: balancing, running, jumping, hopping and skipping
Summer 2 – athletics and cricket
Computing:     Logo, Animation, Effective Searching, Making Music
French:     Summer 1 – fruit and vegetables     Summer 2 – revising language covered in Year 4

Spring term 2022

Key dates for your diary:

Tuesday 4th January – Return to school

Tuesday 11^th January – Professor McGinty and Ancient Egyptian workshops

Wednesday 12^th January – 4A Listen, Inspire, Compose music w/shop

Wednesday 19^th January - 4A Listen, Inspire, Compose music w/shop

Thursday 20^th January – 4S and 4KS – Listen, Inspire, Compose music w/shop

Thursday 27^th January – 4S and 4KS – Listen, Inspire, Compose music w/shop

7th to 11^th February – Online Safety Week

Friday 11^th February - 4A Listen, Inspire, Compose music w/shop

Thursday 17^th February – 4S and 4KS – Listen, Inspire, Compose music w/shop

21^st February to 25^th February – HALF TERM

Monday 28^th February - Staff Training – SCHOOL CLOSED TO PUPILS

Tuesday 1^st March – pupils return to school

Wednesday 2^nd March – Parents’ evening

Thursday 3^rd March – Parents’ evening

Friday 18^th March – Comic Relief

Friday 8^th April – school closes for the Easter holiday

Dear parents and carers,

Welcome to Spring Term 2022. We are thrilled to be welcoming your children back to school and are confident that we have another exciting term ahead of us.

The year 4 team are:

Mr Adkins – class 4A

Miss Samuels – class 4S

Mrs Spinks – class 4KS

Our teaching assistants are Mrs Movahed and Mrs Pugh.

Should you need to speak with your child’s teacher please send an email to; enquiry@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk. For appointments or absences from school please call the office or send an email to; attendance@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk

Our PE days will continue to be Monday and Tuesday; just as last term, we will be asking the children to come into school wearing their school PE kits on the days that they have their PE lessons.

Year 4’s allocated library session will also continue on Wednesday morning.

Year 4 choir is held every Monday after school. Year 4 football club will resume later in the term once the evenings become lighter.

There will be 3 assemblies during the week, taking place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.

Homework for year 4 will be set on Tuesday and Thursday, using Seesaw. In addition to this, we hope that children will be reading for pleasure; this could be a book from home, their chosen library book or their e-Collins book which has been chosen by their teacher. 

VISITS AND VISITORS

We are excited to announce that on 11^th January, all Year 4 pupils will have the opportunity to enjoy a day of workshops on Ancient Egypt. Professor McGinty will be visiting all classes; the cost of this is £4.20 and we are asking that you pay through ParentPay.

RECOMMENDED READS FOR YEAR 4 PUPILS

There’s a Werewolf in My Tent, Pamela Butchart              The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, CS Lewis

The Land of Roar, Jenny McLachlan                              The Butterfly Lion, Michael Morpurgo

The Thirteen Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths              Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

Autumn term 2021

Class teachers can be contacted via email to enquiry@bournvillevillageprimaryschool.org.uk or via the school phone number. However, if your enquiry is regarding absence, please use attendance@bournvillevillageprimary.org.uk .

P.E

Our PE days will be Monday and Tuesday; just as last year, we will be asking the children to come into school wearing their school PE kits on the days that they have their PE lessons.

Library

Year 4’s allocated library session will be every Wednesday morning; this is an opportunity for your child to choose a book he/she would like to read at home and perhaps share with you.

Homework

Homework for year 4 will be set on Tuesday and Thursday, using Seesaw. In addition to this, we hope that children will be reading for pleasure; this could be a book from home, their chosen library book or their e-Collins book which has been chosen by their teacher.

Visits and visitors

We are excited to announce that on 26th November, all Year 4 pupils will have the opportunity to watch the performance of Alice in Wonderland at The Old Repertory Theatre in Birmingham. A letter including all details will be sent to you week commencing 13th September. Our residential trip to Knapp House in Devon is planned to take place in May 2022. A separate letter will be sent to you also in September, giving you full information about the dates, costs and payment schedule.

Curriculum overview

English

Our first text will be The Lost Happy Endings, a modern fairy tale, written by Carol Ann Duffy. The expected writing outcomes are a diary entry, an alternative ending to a fairy tale and a longer narrative (story). We will follow this up with two texts based on the topic of wolves: Wolves by Emily Gravett and Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean. The planned outcomes from these texts are non-chronological reports, a letter (to the wolves in the walls) and poetry. We will also be reading a class novel and poems which will be selected by the class teacher in addition to our texts used in English lessons.

Maths

During the Autumn term, we will cover the following areas:

• Place value (up to 4 digits)

• Formal and mental methods for addition and subtraction, multiplication and division

• Measurement – length and perimeter

Things to practise at home:

• Times tables and associated division facts using TT Rock Stars. Children are expected to be fluent in all multiplication and division facts by the end of year 4 so this will be a focus for us in school and for homework. • Counting forwards and backwards from 0 to 100 and 100 to 0.

• Counting forwards and backwards in multiples of 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10