Swift - Year 4

Hi, I am Mrs Brown and I teach Year 4 Swift class. I have been a teacher for 7 years and am excited to be back in KS2.

I lead Maths across the school and love seeing all the learning the children are doing in maths and the progress they make.

Outside of school I love listening to music and going to the theatre and getting to eat my husband's delicious cooking.

Our weekly timetable:

Important dates for the diary this term for Swift Class

Wednesday 11th March - Music trip

Week 5 - Library trip

Our Learning this term:

Maths

This term Year 4 will be starting their topic in fraction. They will be recognising fractions, understanding equivalent fractions, ordering fractions with different denominators as well as adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators.

English

Our class book this term continues to be Who let the Gods out? By Maz Evans. We will continue to read the book and find out what happened to Virgo and Elliot. We will be writing some biographies about Greek Gods and Goddesses as well as improving our narrative skills.

We will continue to use a range of Year 4 writing skills such as subordinate clauses, speech, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases.

Reading

While reading our class book, the children will be building on their inference skills and justify their answer using information from the text. Year 4 will continue to read independently every day and use Accelerated Reader to complete quizzes about the book.

Curriculum

This term we are continuing to explore the history topic of 'Grooving with the Greeks'. We will be exploring the impact the Ancient Greek have on modern day, and thinking about Greek theatre, their beliefs and the Olympic games.

Science

This term we are going to explore Electricity. Year 4 will be learning what is needed to make a circuit work and how we can fix ones that don’t work. We will learn the symbols for the components of a circuit too.  We will be making a working torch in DT too.

This term RE, our focus is on the big question, is Why do Christians call the day that Jesus died ‘Good Friday’? We will be exploring what happened on Maundy Thursday and why it is important to Christians as well as the meaning of Easter.

Learning at home for Swift Class

Reading at home daily. Read AR books, ready to quiz
Spelling shed
TTS Rockstars

Be ready for learning! In Swift Class, your child will need to have these items in school:

PE kit (to be worn on PE day - Friday)

Water bottle (no squash or juice)

Small rucksack (big enough to hold lunchbox and reading books)

Wellington boots (to leave in school when weather appropriate)

Coat (weather appropriate)

Please don’t bring other items into school, as we do not have space to store these, and it can cause upset if things are lost or damaged.

Highlights of our learning so far this year:

Term 3

Grooving with the Greeks

We loved trying to make a Pantheon with spaghetti and marshmallows.

We enjoyed making Greek theatre masks too.

Our Greek pots were fantatsic! We used the slab technique to make the shape, and scratch and slip to add handles.

Term 2

We have loved our Canterbury topic.

We started off the term by going on an adventure around Canterbury. We spotted the different types of shops and came back to make a graph of them.

Swift class were lucky enough to take part in RISE art workshops this term. Every child made pieces of art that have been made and sold at the Christmas market. Look at our incredible designs!

Term 1

We enjoyed our hook afternoon! We made our own Anglo Saxon names and wrote them in Runes, and created broaches.

We had so much fun on our trip to the Abbey. We enjoyed finding out about how Christianity came to England and seeing all the exciting parts of the Abbey.