Welcome to Year 4!

Your Teacher is Ms Rutkowski 

Mrs Kaiser your Learning Support Assistant. We will also be having help from Mrs Barnett and Mrs Vandenberg this term

A very warm welcome to Spring 1. Below you will find information about your child's 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.  Your child has a reading puppy to read to in their book bag. 

PE is every Tuesday please come in PE kit Swimming will be on a Thursday please also come in PE kit.

In Year 4 children complete the Times table test at the end of the year. Your practice the test using the link below. 

Homework books will be given out on Wednesday and collected in on Wednesday.  Homework pages will be highlighted in your child's book.

Thank you for your support 

Spring 1 2023

Values and Virtues: Eloquent and truthful

Eloquence must be used in a truthful way – to speak truth about myself and others, about relations between people, about the world, and about God.  Education is the search for truth and the eloquent articulation of what we discover.  As Jesus tells us, “The truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)

RE SPRING 1

Christmas

The role of angels in the Christmas story

Messengers of the Good News today

The first crib Saint Francis of Assisi

Jesus Light of the World

The presentation of Jesus

The Nunc Dimittis prayer

The Baptism of Jesus

The transfiguration

Traders and Raiders 

Big and strong, powerful and brave, the Saxons wave their battle axes and brandish their swords as they begin to invade Britain’s shores. Sail back to the Dark Ages, where battles were rife and fear reigned. Find out about the lives of the Saxons, including how they lived and where they came from. Meet the bloodthirsty Vikings from Scandinavia – never before had such terror swept the land. Make a Saxon sword or a Viking brooch and decorate it with intricate patterns. Choose to be a Saxon or Viking and trade your crafty goods, but let’s keep it cool. We don’t want a fight breaking out. Are you ready to shine a light on the dangerous and deadly Dark Ages?

Understand the differences between and compare solids liquids and gases

Understand evaporation and condensation

Autumn 2 2022

Autumn 2022

Faith-filled and Hopeful Pupils are growing to be Faith-filled in their beliefs and hopeful for the future. Catholic Schools help their pupils grow by passing on the living and faith-filled tradition of Jesus Christ; by having persevering faith in the pupils, and by encouraging them in turn, to have faith and hope in themselves and others.

RE Moses to King David

Most children will know and be able to recall in words, actions and writing the
stories studied in this unit. They will understand that God chose and called Moses
and David for special tasks. They will recognise that God protected his people and
that in the Psalms of David we find images of God caring for and protecting his
people. They will understand that through the anointing with the Oil of Chrism in
the Sacraments, Christians celebrate and respond to God’s call in their lives today.

RE Advent

Most children will know that Jesus was descended from the House of David.
They will know some stories about some of Jesus’ ancestors and will be able to
recognise how important their relationship with God was to them.
Children will be able to place some of the characters into an historical sequence
and will identify some important symbols for these different people as featured on
the Jesse Tree.

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: 

RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Man has the right to live. He has the right to bodily integrity and to the means necessary for the proper development of life, particularly food, clothing, shelter, medical care, rest and finally the necessary social services. In consequence, he has the right to be looked after in the event of ill health; disability stemming from his work; widowhood; old age; enforced unemployment; or whenever through no fault of his own he is deprived of the means of livelihood.’

Pacem in Terris

Buckle up, sunglasses on. We’re going on a road trip across the good old US of A. Flying from London Gatwick, and landing at JFK airport New York, it’s time to explore the sights and sounds of the Big Apple. Use your map skills to navigate your way around some of its most famous landmarks and send a postcard home to ask the question ‘Do you wish you were here?’ Learn how to send an email to book a day trip or reserve a room. Make sure you ask the important questions ‘Does your hotel have a pool? Is there 24-hour room service?’ Meet the Iroquois tribe; Native Americans with amazing customs and traditions. Then plan a bespoke road trip for Mr Smith and his family of four. They want to spend three weeks in the sunshine. It’s going to be a long ride. Put the roof down and let the wind blow through your hair. We’re off.

This unit ‘Electricity’ takes children through six lessons where they learn how to: identify common appliances that run on electricity; construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. Children also learn how to: identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery; recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit; and finally, recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.This unit ‘Electricity’ takes children through six lessons where they learn how to: identify common appliances that run on electricity; construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. Children also learn how to: identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery; recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit; and finally, recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

Values and virtues Compassionate and loving 

RE Autumn 2022

Creation The story of Abraham to Joseph

The creation of humans Abraham and his promise to God.   Joseph and his brothers

Jesus teaches us how to pray

Jewish traditions prayers psalms

Looking closely at the Our Father and the Rosary

I am Warrior! I am strong, brave and powerful. Meet me in battle. Draw your sword, wield your axe and challenge me if you dare. Invade and attack. Romans versus Celts, the fight is on. Discover warring Britain: meet Claudius, Boudicca and Julius Caesar and find out what the Romans did for us. Get ready for Gladiator School and learn alongside Spartacus and Spiculus, brave fighters of the Roman Colosseum. When all that battling makes you hungry, relax, lie back and feast yourself on dormice and grapes, or perhaps a roasted swan sprinkled with nuts?

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.