Welcome to Year 4 Owls Class Spring Term 2025!
Mrs Savage, Mrs Richardson, Mrs Yates and Miss Sentido are excited that you have come to visit our page!
Hold on to your hats because the Spring term is jam packed full of exciting learning opportunities.
Year 4 Overview
In English, we are reading...
'How To Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell. In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER!
Year 4 will be building upon the knowledge they gained in year 3. We will play maths games, use manipulatives to develop abstract learning and finally making that knowledge secure by applying class taught strategies and by solving word-based problems.
Why live near a volcano?
Year 4 will be learning that the Earth is constructed in layers, and the crust is divided into tectonic plates. They study the formation and distribution of mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes and use Mount Etna to identify how human interaction shapes a volcanic landscape.
Electricity
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.
Spanish
Year 4 will be learning different phrases and building on our previous vocabulary to enable year 4 to have a conversation. .
Remember to wear the correct uniform.
P.E. is on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Dragon's eyes
ear 4 will create and design a dragon eye . They will recreate their design using air drying clay.
Year 3 and 4 spellings
Useful websites and Curriculum Overview for Year 4:
Useful websites:
Purple Mash https://www.purplemash.com/sch/livingstone
Times Tables Rockstars https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student
Accelerated Reader
https://ukhosted27.renlearn.co.uk/2232240/
Twinkl https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub
Gooseberry Planet https://system.gooseberryplanet.com/#/
Extension activities https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/