Welcome to Class 9!
Class teacher: Miss Highfield
Teaching Assistant: Mrs McRitchie
Hello and welcome to spring term in Class 9. Since coming back to school after the Christmas holidays, we certainly have been extremely busy. Our topic for spring term is ‘Early Man’ and this will take us on an adventure through prehistoric Britain, exploring the footsteps our predecessors left behind! We are going to be learning about the changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age.
Our writing in English will be based on the novel ‘The Wild Way Home’ by Sophie Kirtley. We will be completing tasks such as writing a diary entry from the perspective of Charlie, creating a playscript based on a chapter of the book and designing an advert advertising Stone Age land for sale.
In maths, we are currently studying fractions, and this involves learning about fractions greater than a whole, equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions. We will also move on to a measurement topic where we will be learning all about length, area and perimeter. We are still working very hard to learn all our times tables in preparation for the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check.
In science, we are learning about states of matter and the key question we are investigating is ‘How do some materials change state and why?’.
We are looking forward to investigating levers, linkages and pneumatics in DT when creating our Stone Age tool. We are also excited to learn all about different printing techniques in art when creating our cave paintings.
We have an hour-long guitar lesson on a Thursday morning every fortnight and our PE lessons are every Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.
We must go now because our time machine is ready to take off back to prehistoric Britain … bye for now!
Year 4 Curriculum Overview
What’s been happening in Class 9?
We had a fantastic time on our recent visit to the River Tees to bring our learning to life!
We are really enjoying the start of our new Ancient Egypt topic in Class 9!