Welcome to Year 4

Meet the Team

Teacher: Mrs Barratt

Teaching Assistant: Miss Chorlton

Overview of the Year

In Year 4, we will be nurturing and encouraging independent thinking, learning and decision making. We will continue to encourage children to demonstrate our school values and learning behaviours through all we do as we prepare them to be more independent and confident in what they can achieve.

Children will often ask questions and in Year 4, we will encourage them to think for themselves too, making decisions on how to present their work, how they learn best and make their own choices. These are vital skills as they move through the rest of school.

Throughout the year, we work towards our online Multiplication Check, ensuring our children are confident in all their times tables up to 12. Through regular practise, games, songs and activities, we will endeavour to make our children fluent.

Curriculum

Throughout the year we will learn about the United Kingdom, the Greeks, volcanoes and mountains, the Romans and Europe. We will have workshops and trips to enhance children’s learning furtherand bring it to life including a visit to Chester. Please see the overviews below for more information on each term.

Within the curriculum we study significant people who are relevant to our themes, such as: Julius Caesar, Jane Goodall and William Morris.  Our curriculum is further enhanced by the study of additional significant people, Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Stevie Wonder, Nicola Adams and Henry V111.  We learn about the significant people to inspire and motivate our children as well as promoting our values and learning behaviours. 

Homework

Children in Year 4 should:

• access TT Rockstars throughout the week
• complete their White Rose Maths homework book weekly in line with our class work
• read regularly at home, reading with an adult at least 3 times a week and recording it in their reading journal
• learn weekly spellings that they should know the meaning of, be able to use correctly in a sentence and be able to spell them, applying the words accurately in their work

Class Dojo

Class Dojo is a platform we use for acknowledging positive behaviour, sharing children’s learning and communicating with parents.

Children can earn Dojo points for demonstrating our school values and learning behaviours and this is celebrated in our weekly assembly.  To promote team work and collaboration, a whole class Dojo target is set and when it is achieved the children receive a reward of their choice.  These have included, a pyjama party, a scooter day, a crafts afternoon and a disco.

myHappymind

At Moss Hey we follow myHappymind which is an NHS-backed curriculum for primary schools. It focuses on building resilience, self-esteem, and happiness in children. The lessons and activities contain quizzes, songs, animations and feature lovely characters. The children will complete five modules, Meet Your Brain, Celebrate, Appreciate, Relate and Engage. Each Year group works through the 5 modules allowing for a whole school culture to build. Within each module children learn positive habits which they will then use all of the time. The children have journals to record ideas and feelings.

Please see the 'Meet the Teacher' presentation below for more information about Year 4.