Welcome to Year 4

Meet the Team

Teacher: Miss Roberts

Teaching Assistants: Mrs Bluer & Mrs Groarke

Please see the 'Meet the Teacher' presentation below for more information about this year group.

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 Greeks, the Romans and why water is so important to the world. We will go on educational trips to enhance children’s learning and bring it to life through visits to Chester and Venture Out. Please see the overviews below for more information on each term.

Throughout the year, we will focus on different significant people within our topics, but we will also do work on Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Stevie Wonder, Nicola Adams and Henry VIII.

Homework

Children in Year 4 should:

• access TT Rockstars throughout the week
• complete Maths Flex activities 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
• through the year, they will also bring home the class reading scrapbook where they should complete it on an author, book or character of their choice

Class Dojo

In Moss Hey Primary School, we use Class Dojo to reward positive behaviour from children when they follow our School Values and demonstrate our Learning Behaviours. As a class, we will aim to reach our target number of dojos to have the reward we have selected such as a pyjama party, own clothes, sports day, crafts or baking.

We will also use it to share pictures and videos of what we are doing in school, send messages of upcoming events or to contact me throughout the week.

My Happy Mind

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 habitats which they will then use all of the time. The children have journals to records ideas and feelings.