Welcome to Year 4
Class Teacher: Mrs Pemberton and Mr Hayler
Teaching Assistant: Ms Ronan
Mrs Pemberton & Mr Hayler are Year 4’s teachers. Our Teaching Assistant is Ms Ronan. Our Year 4 motto is to be the best we can be and to always learn from our mistakes! We love the power of the word 'yet' when developing our skills.
We are very lucky that in Year 4 we learn about a variety of exciting topics, ranging from Ancient Greece, Angry Earth, Sound, Electricity, Anglo Saxons and many more. Our knowledge of different topics takes place across the curriculum in a variety of exciting ways. We love Art and being expressive!
We like to work hard in Year 4 and our outstanding behaviour, effort and work is recognised in various ways. We have a class recognition board and we work as a team; encouraging and helping each other to achieve our class target. A ‘Star of the Week’ certificate is presented to a child each week who has demonstrated our school and Trust virtues. We are always looking for great hand writers, who have worked hard to improve an element of their handwriting. This is recognised in a weekly certificate.
We aim to promote and celebrate independent, resilient learning, by completing homework, practising spellings and times tables, reading and changing our books and generally organising ourselves more independently in preparation for Years 5 & 6. Our online learning platform Seesaw serves as a great tool for sharing homework and achievements alongside other online apps such as Times Tables Rockstars and Spelling Shed which help to foster an independent and consistent home learning approach. Spellings are given out half termly and are posted on Seesaw through an overview of the Half Term.
We love to read! We read together for fun, to learn more about the world around us and to explore the English language. In Year 4, we develop confidence in rapid recall of times tables multiplication and division facts for all tables up to 12 x 12. This is a measured statutory requirement of Year 4 children. Times Tables Rock Stars is a wonderful school app, which will support home learning. Short burst, fun, frequent rehearsal is key to confident recall. Home support with this, as with reading and spelling helps tremendously to develop confidence in key Year 4 curriculum skills. Happy confident children are our goal!
We hope you have enjoyed reading about Year 4 – It’s a busy and exciting place to be!