Welcome to Class 9!
Class teacher: Miss Highfield
Teaching Assistant: Mrs O’Connell and Miss Robinson
Hello and welcome to Class 9. Since coming back to school after the summer holidays we have certainly hit the ground running. Our topic for autumn term is ‘Ancient Egypt’ and we are finding it very interesting! 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.
Our writing in English is also going to be based on Ancient Egypt and 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.
In maths, we have focussed so far on place value, and will be doing a lot of work using the four operations. We are working very hard to learn all our times tables in preparation for the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check.
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.
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.
We have also already completed a STEM project where we had to investigate levers in order to make an Egyptian shaduf. We enjoyed testing our Egyptian shadufs to see how many rubbers they could successfully lift.
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 up back to Ancient Egypt … bye for now!
Year 4 Curriculum Overview
What’s been happening in Class 9?
We have really enjoyed starting our DT projects and developing our maths skills in Year 4.
