Year Four

Generous and Grateful 

Our class saint: St Josephine Bakhita

Saint Josephine Bakhita was a slave who eventually became a Saint! Her very difficult life shows us what it truly means to love and forgive.

• Saint Josephine Bakhita - Read some information about our class saint 

Welcome to Spring 1.

Below you will find information about what your child will be learning this term. 

Please make sure all items of uniform are labeled including PE kit.

Please read with your child whenever possible.  Target of at least 3 times a week.  Please sign their reading diary at least 3 times a week. 

PE is every Monday with our PE coach. Please come in PE kit.

Class swimming will be on Thursday every other week - please come in PE kit.

In Year 4 children complete the Times table test at the end of the year. You can practice the test using the link below. 

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

In Year 4 we focus particularly on the following prayers.  Please support your child to pray these at home.  

BUILDING THE KINGDOM

We are very proud to be a part of the Building the Kingdom programme, the aim of which is to embed distinctive Catholic Curriculum design for the transformation of society. As said on their website, ‘through the National School of Formation, a dynamic and challenging approach to teaching and learning in a Catholic School has been developed. This initiative calls for the contextualising of all learning within the beliefs and values of the Gospel and the Catholic tradition, aspiring to reach the highest possible levels of learning. We call it Building the Kingdom…’

Through Building the Kingdom, we explore the big questions of purpose and meaning that arise throughout the Liturgical year, and then create lessons and events which engage students with the skills needed to be agents for a Spirit fuelled transformation of society.  

Through our curriculum work this term we will be focusing on: 

CST-Dignity of the human person
God made each one of us. This makes us incredibly special. It doesn’t matter who we are, who our friends are, what we own, or what we look like. What matters is that we are special because we are God’s children. This means that we must treat others with respect and fairness because God made us all. 

 

British Value: Individual Liberty

Individual liberty means each of us having the freedom to make our own choices and do what we want – within reason. As long as we respect the other three British values and the rights of others, then we are free to pursue our ambitions, and follow our own will. 

Christmas

The role of angels in the Christmas story

Messengers of the Good News today

The first crib Saint Francis of Assisi.

Jesus Light of the World

The presentation of Jesus

The Nunc Dimittis prayer

The Baptism of Jesus

The transfiguration

Spring 1

Curriculum: Traders and Raiders

Big and strong, powerful and brave, the Saxons wave their battle axes and brandish their swords as they begin to invade Britain’s shores. Sail back to the Dark Ages, where battles were rife and fear reigned. Find out about the lives of the Saxons, including how they lived and where they came from. Meet the bloodthirsty Vikings from Scandinavia – never before had such terror swept the land. Make a Saxon sword or a Viking brooch and decorate it with intricate patterns. Choose to be a Saxon or Viking and trade your crafty goods, but let’s keep it cool. We don’t want a fight breaking out. Are you ready to shine a light on the dangerous and deadly Dark Ages?

Science - States of matter

This unit ‘States of matter’ takes children through lessons where they learn how to: compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases; observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C); and finally, identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.This is the first time children have explored the topic of states of matter.