Welcome to Class 10!
Class teacher: Mrs O’Brien
Teaching Assistant: Miss Robinson & Mrs O’Connell
Welcome to Class 10!
Class 10 have made an amazing start to Year 4! The children continue to demonstrate the school rules and Core Christian values each day through their positive mindset and attitude to learning.
Topic
Our topic for Autumn Term is ‘Ancient Egypt’, which the children are showing great interest in. Lots of the children already know so many great facts and are keen to learn more! We are going to be learning all about the different stages of mummification, significant achievements and events that happened in Ancient Egypt along with using our inference skills to explore many sources and artefacts.
English
Our writing in English is also going to link to our topic of Ancient Egypt. We will be writing for a range of purposes using books like ‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’ by Joe Todd-Stanton to inspire us.
Maths
As you are aware, in Year 4 the children are continuously preparing for the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check. The children are working so hard to nail those tricky times tables! In Maths, so far, we have focussed on place value, partitioning and estimating on number lines.
Science
In science, we are learning about the digestive system and so far, we have made a working model of the digestive system and measured the length of different organs that from part of the digestive system. The children LOVED the practical lesson where we created our very own ‘digestive system’ using a digestive biscuit, banana, water, lemon juice and tights. Make sure you ask them about that lesson! It was very fun (and a little bit disgusting).
PSHE
In PSHE, during our first half term our topic is ‘Friendships’. We will be discussing online friendships, what discrimination is and how we can challenge it as well as the impact of bullying both online and offline. After half term we will move onto ‘Relationships and Respect’ and in this topic we will be discussing the importance of respecting ourselves and others, what privacy, boundaries and confidentiality are and why they are important.
STEM
We have also already completed a STEM project where we had to investigate levers in order to create our own Egyptian shaduf in groups. We enjoyed testing our Egyptian shadufs to see how many rubbers they could successfully lift.
PE/Gymnastics
PE lessons are every Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.
I am so excited to watch how Class 10 grow throughout the next year. They are already absolute superstars. I am so proud of their progress so far and they are only in their first term of Year 4!
Year 4 Long Term Planning
What’s been happening in Class 10?
