Welcome to Year 4!
Your Teachers are Miss Clack-Walsh and Miss Burne.
Your LSA is Mrs Barnett
Our Values and Virtues: Curious and Active
Our class saint: St Josephine Bakhita
Saint Josephine Bakhita was a slave who eventually became a Saint! Her very difficult life shows us what it truly means to love and forgive.
Welcome to Autumn 1.
Below you will find information about what your child will be learning this term.
Please make sure all items of uniform are labeled including PE kit.
Please read with your child whenever possible. Target of at least 3 times a week. Please sign their reading diary at least 3 times a week.
PE is every Thursday Please come in PE kit.
Class PE will be on Friday every other week - please come in PE kit
In Year 4 children complete the Times table test at the end of the year. You can practice the test using the link below.
Prayer
In Year 4 we focus particularly on the following prayers. Please support your child to pray these at home.
BUILDING THE KINGDOM
we are very proud to be a part of the Building the Kingdom programme, the aim of which is to embed distinctive Catholic Curriculum design for the transformation of society. As said on their website, ‘through the National School of Formation, a dynamic and challenging approach to teaching and learning in a Catholic School has been developed. This initiative calls for the contextualising of all learning within the beliefs and values of the Gospel and the Catholic tradition, aspiring to reach the highest possible levels of learning. We call it Building the Kingdom…’
Through Building the Kingdom, we explore the big questions of purpose and meaning that arise throughout the Liturgical year, and then create lessons and events which engage students with the skills needed to be agents for a Spirit fuelled transformation of society.
Through our curriculum work this term we will be focusing on:
CST-Dignity of the human person
God made each one of us. This makes us incredibly special. It doesn’t matter who we are, who our friends are, what we own, or what we look like. What matters is that we are special because we are God’s children. This means that we must treat others with respect and fairness because God made us all.
British Value: Individual Liberty
Individual liberty means each of us having the freedom to make our own choices and do what we want – within reason. As long as we respect the other three British values and the rights of others, then we are free to pursue our ambitions, and follow our own will.
Creation The story of Abraham to Joseph
Most children will know the stories of creation, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph from the Old Testament. They will understand from the story of creation that human beings are made in God’s image and likeness and that this needs to be valued and respected in other people. They will be able to identify how God called and protected both Abraham and Isaac.
Jesus teaches us how to pray
Most children will know that Jesus prayed to the Father and they will be able to identify some of the prayers that he learnt growing up in the Jewish faith. They will be able to explain why it is important to call and to pray to God the Father. They will know some of the traditional prayers of the Church including the prayer
of the Rosary.
Curriculum: I am warrior
I am strong brave and powerful. Meet me in battle, draw your sword wield your axe challenge me if your dare! I am warrior focusses on the Roman period in History. We will also be looking at other civilisations such as the Celts, Gauls and other barbaric tribes. We are brave, powerful warriors, and we will meet in battle! This half term, we’ll divide into two warring groups: the Celts and the Romans. In our battle games, who will be victorious? We’ll research Celtic and Roman warriors and write soliloquies as soldiers. Using different source materials we’ll investigate the Roman Empire and read Roman numerals. After designing and making shields, we’ll test them in battle and practise our attacking and defending skills. The Celtic warrior queen, Boudicca, will inspire us to create stories, models and artwork. We’ll write plays about gladiators and a menu for wealthy Romans. Using maps, globes and information books, we’ll compare Britain (the home of the Celts) and Rome (the home of the Romans).
Science - sound
Learners will look at sound vibrations and how sounds travel through different mediums. Children will then think about the sounds they hear which are pleasant and unpleasant, as well as being safe with sound by understanding how to insulate sounds. During the unit, learners will get the chance to design and build their own sound-making devices and to test materials that are good at insulating sounds.
Iliona never imagined that her sea voyage from Greece to Egypt would lead to Rome, but when she is captured by pirates and auctioned off as a slave, that's where she lands. Readers are invited to view the wonders of Rome through Iliona's eyes--the luxury, the excess, and the politics.
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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