Year 4 Summer Term 2021

Tash Wilby

Class teacher, Phoenix Class

Verity Hanson

Class teacher, Griffin Class

Andrea May

Year 4 Teaching Assistant (Wednesday to Friday)

Jamie-Lee Millman

Year 4 Teaching Assistant (Monday and Tuesday)

Amy Mann

Forest Schools Teacher, PPA cover

Dan Clucas

PE and games coach, PPA cover

Mark Smith

Apprentice PE and Wellbeing coach

Kim Stevens

Licenced Thrive Practitioner

Ben Winn

Music tutor

Number: addition and subtraction

Geometry

Number: fractions

Measurement

Number: multiplication and division

Our key text is Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival. Inspired by this we will be doing a range of writing including informal letters, recount writing, book reviews and thought bubble recounts. We will then be producing a range of non-fiction writing inspired by our science work on mental and physical wellbeing.

This year our science project is brief-led as children work towards producing a ‘community legacy outcome’ based on a strand from the Norwich 2040 City Vision.

Year 3 brief: to develop innovative approaches to promote physical and mental wellbeing in school and the wider community.

This term we are going to be focussing on using a range of ways to manage conflicts and disagreements; being assertive rather than threatening or bullying, and learning how to show what is socially acceptable in different contexts.

Each Monday we have our class meeting where we discuss the big issues affecting our school and explore solutions. Each Friday our class reps attend the Pupil Council where they present our class responses for further discussion.

This term Year 3 will be learning the ukulele. They will be led by our new Sistema Norwich tutor Liz.

This term, children will develop a range of personal and interpersonal skills as well a new knowledge, skills and understanding through a range of activities and projects that include: shelter building, outdoor maths, wild art, flint and steel, scavenger hunts, bug hotels, pond dipping, clay animals and swings and knots.

We are going to be looking at different habitats and what plants grow throughout the year. We will be growing plants and vegetables seasonally throughout the year.

This term, children will be learning the skills and competencies associated with a range of invasion games including basketball, netball and tag rugby

We are going to be focussing on the use Seesaw and upskilling Year 3’s in the different ways to use it when responding to learning.