Welcome to Wombats Class!

Your class teacher is Mrs Pollard and the teaching assistants working across year 4 will be Mrs Reinis and Miss Cooper. Miss Munns will also be working across year 4 as a teaching assistant and a student teacher.

Key Information

Spring 2

We are looking forward to welcoming the children back after the half term. Below is the key information you will need:

Wombats will have Forest school on alternate Mondays. The kit for this includes, a change of footwear (preferably wellies), and a complete change of clothes that fully cover arms and legs. The dates for Forest school are:

03/03/25– Wombats

17/03/25 – Wombats

31/03/25- Wombats

Year 4 will have PE on a Tuesday. This half term, Wombats class will either be in the swimming group or the PE group. You will have received an email by the end of the last week of Spring 1 to inform you which group your child is in. 

Swimming kit should include swimming shorts or swimming costume (no bikinis), a swimming hat, and a towel. If you would like your child to wear goggles, we will need a written permission letter or email.  PE kit should include a white top, black tracksuit and trainers. The children may be inside or outside for PE. 

For PE, swimming and Forest School, earrings must be removed before the school day and hair needs to be tied back. School staff are no longer permitted to remove earrings, and tape cannot be used to cover them. Children will not be able to participate with earrings in.  

*REMINDER*  Please remember to name all jumpers/coats etc, we have a lot of lost property that is not named, so we cannot return it to the correct child. If you are missing any items that were not named, please ask to look in our lost property tub. 

 

Curriculum update - Spring term

English

We will be focusing on the books 'Our Tower' and 'Amazing Islands'. Our focus skills are to expand noun phrases by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases, organise paragraphs around a theme (to organise and sequence more extended narrative structures), choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition, use commas after fronted adverbials and use speech dialogue. 

Maths

We will begin by learning the written methods for division and multiplication before moving on to fractions, decimals and measurement. We will continue to focus on learning our timestables and becoming fluent in these. 

Science

Our first unit is 'Electricity' where we look at currents, static energy, safety around electricity and conductors/insulators. We then move on to learning about 'Solids, liquids and gases' and the matter that makes up these states. 

History

As historians, we will explore the world of ancient Rome and Roman Britain and the discoveries they made, and how these discoveries impact our modern world. 

Geography

Tectonic plates, Volcanoes and Earthquakes will be the focus of our spring learning in Geography. We will find out about how these naturally occuring diastors impact the world. 

PE

We will be covering orienteering, Roman dance and swimming during our PE slot this term. 

RE

We will be firstly learning about what it is like to live as a Hindu in Britain today and comparing this with our own lives. Following this we will learn about why Christians call the day Jesus died, Good Friday, and the link to Easter celebrations around the Christian Faith. 

Music

For the first half term, Wombats will be learning about changes in pitch, tempo and dynamics. After half term they will learn to play the Ukulele with Mrs Bright. 

French

In French, our focus topics are 'At the team room' and 'In the classroom'

Art

The focus in these lessons will be creating effect through painting and mixed media, focusing on light and dark. 

PSHE

We will start our learning by focusing on safety and our changing body, before moving on to learn about citizenship. 

Computing

We will learn about creating codes to create shapes and data logging. 

 

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Autumn 2

For the second half term up to Christmas, Wombats will have Forest school on alternate Mondays. The kit for this includes, a change of footwear (preferably wellies), and a complete change of clothes that fully cover arms and legs. The dates for Forest school are:

- 11th November
- 25th November
- 9th December

Year 4 will have PE on a Tuesday. This half term, Wombats class will be swimming. The children will be assessed using our swimming scheme up till Christmas, so we can identify those who will need more swimming later in Year 4, and those who have met the National Curriculum standards. Swimming kit should include swimming shorts or swimming costume (no bikinis), a swimming hat, and a towel. If you would like your child to wear goggles, we will need a written permission letter or email. 

For PE and Forest School, earrings must be removed before the school day and hair needs to be tied back. School staff are no longer permitted to remove earrings, and tape cannot be used to cover them. Children will not be able to participate with earrings in.  

 

*REMINDER*  Please remember to name all jumpers/coats etc, we have a lot of lost property that is not named, so we cannot return it to the correct child. If you are missing any items that were not named, please ask to look in our lost property tub. 

 

Curriculum update - Autumn term

English

We will be focusing on the books 'Gorilla' and 'Greek Myths'. Our focus skills are to expand noun phrases by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases, organise paragraphs around a theme (to organise and sequence more extended narrative structures), choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition and use commas after fronted adverbials.

Maths

We start the year recapping our place value knowledge, before moving on to learning written methods linked to the 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division). 

Science

Our first unit is 'Animals including humans' where we look at healthy eating, human teeth and food chains. We then move on to learning about 'Sound' and how it travels through different materials through observations and experiments. 

History

As historians, we will explore the world of ancient Greece and the discoveries they made, and how these discoveries impact our modern world. 

Geography

Climate and Weather will be the focus of our autumn learning in Geography. We will find out about different climate zones, extreme weather and how this changes around the world. 

PE

For the first term, we will be learning the ball skills needed to play netball on a Tuesday, aswell as a gymnastics unit on a Wednesday.

RE

We will be firstly learning about the Holy Trinity, and how this links to our own lives. Following this we will begin to learn about Hinduism, learning about what they believe God is like. 

Music

For the first half term, Wombats will be learning songs and rhythms in class. After half term they will learn to play a tuned percussion instrument with Mrs Bright. 

French

In French, we begin by recapping our french phonetics to support us in our focus topics 'presenting myself' and 'my family'

Art

The focus in these lessons will be creating power prints through different drawing/collage techniques. We will then combine all the skills learnt to create a large group piece together. 

PSHE

We will start our learning by focusing on family and our relationships, before moving on to learn how to look after our wellbeing and physical health as we grow older. 

Computing

We will learn to recognise the internet as a network or networks and begin to understand why we should evaluate online content. 

 

Autumn Photo Updates

Forest School

 

English

Art - Sketching

 

Poet Visit- Mark Grist