Welcome to Year 4

In Year 4, you will find Ms Lakhani, Mr Brown, Mrs Clarke and Ms Cross.

We have an exciting year planned which starts with our weekly swimming sessions. These are on Thursday afternoons; don't forget your kit (including your swimming costume, towel and swimming hat) as well as your £1.50 donation towards the coach.

Ms Lakhani's class has swimming on Thursday afternoon.

For cold weather please ensure your child has appropriate PE clothing, such as tracksuit bottoms and a suitable jumper. Ms Lakhani's class have PE on a Thursday and Friday and Mr Brown's class have PE on a Monday and Friday.

Literacy and Maths homework will be given to the children on Mondays and it is expected to be handed on Fridays. Spelling and times tables tests will take place on a Friday. There may also be creative homework tasks set throughout the year which we hope the whole family will get involved in.

Children are expected to read at least five times each week, with an adult commenting once a week, and hand in their Reading Challenge books every day.

Below is what we will be learning each term:

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Literacy	Diaries Explanation	Story (What if…?) Persuasion	Stories from other Cultures Discussion	Discussion Poetry	Suspense Non-Chronological Report	Myths and Legends Recount
Maths	Number and Place Value Geometry	Multiplication and Division Addition and subtraction	Multiplication and Division Addition and subtraction	Multiplication and Division Geometry	Decimals Measurement Fractions	Statistics Geometry Addition and Subtraction Measurement
Science	States of Matter	Electricity	Living things and their habitats	Animals including Humans	Enquiry	Sound
Computing	We are Animators E-safety	Create a Weather Report/Travel Commercial E-safety	Produce a Wiki E-safety	We are Musicians E-safety	We are Software Developers E-safety	We are HTML Editors E-safety
Art	Shields	Sketching	Painting	Collages	Oil pastels	3D
DT	Pop-up	Torches		Fajitas	Food Tech	Structures
Geography		Local Study/Comparison		Rainforest
History	The Romans and the impact on Britain		Non-European Society (Mayans/Aztecs)		Ancient Greece (Influence on the Western World)	Ancient Greece (Influence on the Western World)
Music	Warrior chants	Glockenspiel	Stop!	Lean on me	Blackbird	Reflect, rewind and replay
PE	Dance/Gymnastics/Swimming Football	Dance/Gymnastics/ Swimming Hockey	Dance/Swimming Netball	Dodgeball/Swimming Tennis	Dodgeball/Swimming Athletics	Dodgeball/Swimming Athletics
PSHE	Relationships and behaviour	Valuing Difference	Keeping myself safe	Rights and Responsibilities	Being my Best	Growing and Changing

If you would like any further information regarding you child's learning, please speak to your child's class teacher.

If you require more information about the curriculum that your child is following at school, please email the school office: office.2055@orchard-fields.oxon.sch.uk