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Lancasters!

We are a lovely mix of curious and passionate young learners from year 4 . We are looking forward to sharing with you all the fantastic learning that takes place in our classroom. In Lancasters, we strive to always try our best whilst having fun along the way, so please keep checking our class web page for news and updates. We are taught by Miss Gilpin (Mrs Robinson on a Tuesday afternoon) and also have the wonderful Miss Aslin, Mrs Fordy & Miss Bembridge to help us with our learning. Our PE lessons are on a Monday and Tuesday so the children need to come into school dressed in weather appropriate kits on these days. 

Homework

Each week there will be a 10 minute session set on Times Table Rockstars. The log in details can be found on the inside of your child's reading record. On a Monday, one of the adults in class will check your child's reading record to see that they have recorded 3 reading sessions throughout the week. These can be completed in school or at home reading with an adult or independently. 

Spring - Term 1

Hello and welcome back to school! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and Happy New Year. We are so excited to have you back in year 4 with lots of exciting learning planned for the brand new year. Our theme this term is 'Great Scott! It's Electric!'. In English this term we will be basing our learning on the texts 'Back to the Future' by Kim Smith and 'Over to You' by Roger McGough. To begin the term, we will be exploring and understanding features of a science fiction text by evaluating the concept of time travel, future technology and sci-fi settings. We will create our own sci-fi vocabulary bank and be exploring different settings and the differences between past and future. We will develop original characters from the story to create our own stories to describe where they travel, what problems arise and then how they will return. Later on in the term, we will be understanding features of a poem with a focus on metaphors by reading and performing a range of poems. We will look at features of a poem and compare metaphors and similes. We will explore metaphor rich poems, highlighting the ones we discover and discuss their meanings. We will then create our own structured metaphor poem to perform out loud.  

In our Book Dive sessions, we will be exploring the books 'Everest' by Alexandra Stewart and 'Over to You' by Roger McGough. 

In History this term our learning is based around the question ‘How did the life differ for the different types of people within the Shang Dynasty?' We will begin the term by exploring sources, extracts and the timeline to discover about daily life for the people of the Shang Dynasty including what school life was like. We will find out what their houses were like and about the Shang Dynasty Kings. We will learn about how the Shang Dynasty ended and how the Zhou Army stormed the Shang Palace. We will end the term finding out about the Shang Royal burials and what was buried with them. 

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In Science this term we are focusing on ‘Electricity’. We will begin by exploring different household items and discuss whether they need electricity to work. We will then learn about building circuits, understanding how the different components work. We will then identify an error in a circuit and correct them. We will learn what electrical conductors and insulators are and investigate using these within our circuits. We will also learn what switches are and use these in our circuits. 

Find below our knowledge overview for what we are doing across all the subject areas this term. 

In Year 4, we have the MTC (Multiplication Times Table Check). This doesn't happen until towards the end of the school year, however it's really important that we get lots of practice at knowing our times tables!

Times Table Resources

Please find below some links to practise your times tables below: