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Welcome to our Year 4 class page
I hope you all had a lovely Summer, we have had a lovely start to our Autumn term and have an exciting and busy term to look forward to.
October 10th was world mental health day, in class we learned about what mental health is and how we can help ourselves and others. We created posters.
Art - as part of our history topic we had looked at how many Vikings and Anglo Saxons had amulets. Archaeologists found one in Sweden and it was named Thor's Hammer. We learned more about using clay and the correct tools. We designed our own based on the artefact and then created them in clay.
Our harvest presentation - Whose world is it?
Gymnastics - through gymnastics we have continued to develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
We had fun watching the Tour of Britain cycle race
Our Anglo Saxon and Viking day
Burying our time capsule - hope the map we drew helps us find it next Summer!
Transition days
Our PE lessons will be on Tuesday and Friday and will focus on gymnastics indoors and football skills outdoors. Please ensure P.E. kits are kept in school all half term, including outdoor trainers, as we may have other opportunities.
Homework will be given on Friday and collected the following Friday. We often mark together in class so the children can learn from what they have done. Please do not stress over homework, if your child is struggling please come and talk to me. Spellings are learned together on Monday, we practice together during the week and the children have the option to bring them home to practice too ready for a test on Friday. I have sent a copy of the year 3/4 statutory list home.
What are we doing in the Autumn 1 term?
Our topic this term is history based and we will be learning all about the Anglo Saxons and Vikings and their struggle for the crown of Britain. Our knowledge organiser is below for you to look at. We launched our topic with a whole day of Anglo Saxon and Viking activities including making a leather key ring, drawing our initials in runes using antler.
Our class reading text this half term is Anglo-Saxon boy by Tony Bradman: Magnus is the son of Harold Godwinson, lord of the Southern Saxons and ruthlessly ambitious claimant to the throne of England. Overnight, Magnus finds himself cast centre-stage in the family feud that led to one of history's most famous battles - the Battle of Hastings in 1066. We will continue to develop our reading comprehension skills using VIPERS - I have placed details of this on our page, please scroll down to read more and use to help your child with their reading comprehension skills. In R.E. we will be thinking about creation and we will ask the question "What do we learn from the creation story?" In art we will look at the origins of Thor's hammer, design and create our own in clay. This half term we have music and our first focus is learning a song as part of our class presentation at the harvest festival in church on Wednesday 25 September at 2.00.
We have a very busy and exciting half term planned, should you at any time need to discuss anything please do contact me and we could meet after school, alternatively please leave a message on the class e-mail account or with the school office.
Mrs Lowe
Our history topic knowledge organiser
What is Vipers?
VIPERS is an acronym to aid the recall of the 6 reading domains as part of the UK’s reading curriculum. They are the key areas which we feel children need to know and understand in order to improve their comprehension of texts.
VIPERS stands for
Vocabulary
Inference
Prediction
Explanation
Retrieval
Sequence or Summarise
The 6 domains focus on the comprehension aspect of reading and not the mechanics: decoding, fluency, prosody etc.