Welcome to Year 4
About us ...
We have two year 4 classes at Tudor School. 4U’s class teachers is Miss Foy who is assisted by Mrs Barry and Miss Hughes, and 4V’s class teacher is Miss Grundy who is assisted by Mrs Selvaganisan and Mrs Ross.
Both classes also enjoy a weekly sports session with Mr Higgins (our sports coach) and swimming at Sports Space leisure centre. Please do ensure pupils have the correct kit in school for these sessions.
Ms Smith is our phase leader for Lower Key Stage 2.
Please do look through our 'Welcome to Year 4' powerpoint below, where you will find further information that will support both you and your children as you start a fabulous new year with us.
Summer Term
Our topic this term is ‘What a wonderful world’. During this topic, we will be exploring different aspects of the world, mostly focusing on rainforests.
In English, we will be using a range of text types linked to our topic, including both fiction and non-fiction. We will by planning and writing our own narrative all about a magic flower in the rainforest that can cure any sickness. We will then move on to non-fiction text where we write-up a process of the water cycle in the rainforest. Following this we will write a non-chronological report using our research all about Brazil and persuading people to come and visit.
In Maths, we are learning a range of concepts, starting with time and recapping how to tell the time, moving onto working out time durations. They will also develop their multiplication and fraction understanding towards the end of the term.
Our Science focus this term will be looking into living things and their habitats with a cross-reference of Amazon Rainforest animals. For the second half-term, we will be learning about the different states of matters, which will involve many mini-investigations and experiments.
In Geography, diving into a geographical study of the rainforest where we will explore the layers and what they mean alongside mapping out the different parts. We will allow be focusing on world maps, alongside completing some research on Rio, Brazil. This will allow us to generate some geographical questions and plan how we will find the answers.
In Art, our focus is collaging. We will be looking at work from Vincent van Gogh and exploring the styles and colours that he uses. We will then take inspiration from his painting ‘sunflowers’ to help us design our own piece of which we will collage and display.
For the second half-term, in D&T we will be practising different sewing techniques that we will use in our design. Our brief is to create a suitable hammock bed for the rainforest. To do this, we will be testing different materials, exploring what sewing techniques will be best, planning and creating our final piece – followed by evaluating our final product.
In Computing we will continue to follow the Rising Stars curriculum, where we will be creating a holiday brochure and and then where we will find out about different weather conditions around the world and present our findings.
During our Music sessions we will be listening to Brazilian Samba music, and we will learn about the origin of the music, improvising composition and also having a go at creating our own piece of Brazilian Samba music and performing.
In languages, we will continue to learn French and will learn how to say certain words and phrases about where we live, followed by how to say different modes of transport and to be able to give directions in French.
