Y4L 2019 - 2020
Miss Lawne
Year 4 Teacher
Welcome to Year 4 at Holy Family with Miss Lawne and Mr Guy!
We hope that during the year you will enjoy finding out about all the wonderful things we will be learning in our lessons. To keep up to date with what is happening inside our classroom follow us on twitter @HolyFamilyL8_4L
Come and See
This half term, our topics are Called and Gift. In our Called topic, we will be exploring how we respond to being chosen and about Confirmation. In our Gift topic, we will be exploring the gift of love and friendship and learning about the Church's season of preparing to recieve God's gift of love and friendship in Jesus.
English
In English, we will be busy writing a letter of complaint to the RSPCA about animal cruelty. We will also be starting a new Talk for Writing unit where we will explore the book Farther. We will use this story develop our grammar, punctuation and spelling skills and write our own journey tale.
Maths
In maths this half term, we will be developing our addition, subtraction, multipication and division skills of four digit numbers. It is important to practise your times tables every day as by the end of Year 4 we need to know all our times tables up to 12x12!
Science
Our topic this half term is Living Things and their Habitats. We will be learning how living things adapt to their habitat and also how to classify living things based on their characteristics.
Topic
Our topic this half term is Climate. We will be locating different climate zones on globes and maps and describe and give examples of a variety of biomes and vegetation belts.
Computing
This term our topic is called Heros. We will be using the programme Scratch to make our own animation.
PE
This half term our PE days are on a Friday and we will be focusing on indoor athletics. We will be developing our throwing, jumping and running skills for relay races, standing long and high jump and chest throw.
Should you ever wish to discuss anything about your child, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Year 4 team in order to arrange an appointment. We will be on the exit gate every evening or, you can contact the office if you wish to request an appointment.
We look forward to working with your children this year!
Miss Lawne and Mr Guy
