Termly Learning Focus
Dear Parents and Carers,
We hope you have had a restful summer and are ready to start Year 4! We have many exciting things planned for this year and we can’t wait to get to know you all.
Our first piece of writing will be based on the book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. We will be retelling the story to write our own version. In Maths, we will begin the year with Place Value. In Science, we will be looking at All Living Things in the hope that we become experts in classification and in geography we will be learning about Europe.
Words that will be taught this term:
(Please use these when out and about with your child – the more they hear them, the more they stick!)
Amphibian |
Reptile |
Mammal |
Vertebrate |
Invertebrate |
Classification |
Mountain range |
Boundary |
Landmass |
Continents |
Population |
Thousands |
Estimate |
Compare |
Order |
Across the rest of the curriculum, we are growing our learning in:
Science |
Geography |
DT |
PE |
Computing |
All Living Things |
Europe |
Pneumatics |
Indoor – Gymnastics Outdoor – Invasion games |
Networks |
How can you help with your child’s learning in school and at home?
To support your child’s learning this term, we would like the children to recap countries in Europe. They could create a fact file on this country based on what they have found out. We would love to see you being creative! Please send any additional home learning in your class emails.
4MB: Miss Boonstra mboonstra@croylandprimary.org.uk
4DB: Ms Duncan aduncan@croylandprimary.org.uk
Miss Berwick eberwick@croylandprimary.org.uk
To share in our learning, please follow us on twitter to keep up to date @CroylandKS2
Don’t forget:
PE DAY Indoor Outdoor |
Monday – Indoor Tuesday - Outdoor |
LIBRARY DAY
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Every other Monday |
MUSIC DAY
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Tuesday |
SWIMMING DAY
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N/A |
HOMEWORK CLUB DAY
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Thursday lunchtime |
HOMEWORK EXPECTATION
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Children to read for 10 minutes three times per week. This must be signed in the reading journals and will be checked on a Friday. Practise spellings on Spelling Shed – 3 games per week as a minimum. Practise times tables on TT Rockstars - 3 games per week as a minimum. |
HOMEWORK TO BE HANDED IN
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Homework completion will be checked on Friday morning. Children who have not completed the required homework expectations will go to homework catch up club on a Friday lunchtime.
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PE Kit
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Boys |
Girls |
Indoor |
White t-shirt Black shorts/ plain joggers in the winter. |
White t-shirt Black shorts or black cycling shorts/ plain joggers in the winter. |
Outdoor |
White t-shirt Plain tracksuit Trainers (Yrs 1-6) |
White t-shirt Plain tracksuit Trainers (Yrs 1-6) |
Long hair needs to be tied back for PE.
Jewellery should not be worn for PE or swimming or after school clubs
Please remember:
- Child’s water bottle and snack – we are a nut free school- please do not send nut products in. Snacks need to be healthy.
- To book meals on ParentPay
- Update contact details (mobile numbers, email addresses, home address) at the office
- To advise office of any illness for your child