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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. Our PE lessons are on a Monday and Wednesday 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, Miss Gilpin 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. 

Summer- Term 2

Hello and welcome back to term 6! We are so excited to have you back after the half term break and have lots of exciting learning planned. Our theme this term is 'Exploring Our Environment'. In English this term we will be basing our learning on the text 'David Attenborough' by Maria Isabel and 'The Wolves in the Walls' by Neil Gaiman. We will read, watch and listen to third person recounts to help us create our own diary entries. Later on in the term we will then focus on writing letters. We will identify key features of letters to help us with our own writing. In our Book Dive lessons we will use the books ‘Fungus the Bogeyman’ by Raymond Briggs and the non-fiction book, ‘There are Bugs Everywhere’ illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.

In Geography this term our learning is based around the question ‘Where is the most polluted place in Sturton-by-Stow?” To begin the term, we will be looking at the location of Sturton using a range of different sources. We will look at ordnance survey maps to plan areas for investigation. We will plan a data collection by observing, car counting and litter collecting and grid reference points for locations identified on a map. We will then present our data using charts. Towards the end of term, we will interpret what we have found and conclude what the data has told us. By the end of our learning, we should be able to accurately answer this term’s question.

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In Science this term we are focusing on ‘Living Things and Their Habitats’. We will begin by understanding that plants and animals can be sorted and categorised in different ways. We will distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates by their characteristics. We will go on a minibeast hunt around our school gardens to try and look for vertebrates and invertebrates and create charts to show our results. We will learn about classification keys and how we can use them to identify different species. We will then create our own classification grids to sort and organise local species.  We will revisit our learning from last term about deforestation and how humans can have a detrimental impact on our own environment.

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

Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) Information

The purpose of the check is to determine whether children can fluently recall their times tables up to 12, which is essential for future success in Mathematics. A lot of rich, interesting maths is all about the multiplicative relationships and these are hard to fully grasp without fluent recall of the tables. For that reason, learning the tables is fundamental. 

Find below the information given during the parent meeting. 

Times Table Resources

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