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Welcome to our Year 4 class page

I hope you all had a restful Easter break, I can hardly believe we are already into our Summer 1 term. We have an exciting and busy term to look forward to.

Our topic this term is geography based and we will be learning all about maps as well as looking at human and physical features of Castleton (our residential) and Tickhill. Details are below on the knowledge organiser.

Our class reading text this half term is continuing with Varjak Paw by S.F. Said. A modern classic of an adventure story, Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue cat who has never been outside before; he and his family have always lived in the isolated house at the top of the hill. Varjak is forced out into the city when a sinister gentleman and his two menacing cats take over his home. The story also considers what it is to be persecuted for coming from a different culture, and, at the same time, find strength in the wisdom passed down from our ancestors. 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. In R.E. we will be thinking about the Kingdom of God and Pentecost. Our computing unit is all about animation. In art, we will be learning about digital manipulation. This half term we have music and we are looking at performance and pitch. Our science this half term focuses on living animals and their habitats and we will discover how to classify living creatures. Our PE lessons will focus on Invictus indoors and net and wall skills (tennis) 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.

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 Spring 2 class text

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.

VIPERS question stems to help you child with comprehension

VIPERS Stems - Question Stems Pack.pdf

Spring 2 Science knowledge organiser

British Science Week

This year in British Science Week Year 4 looked at the effect of particle size. In this activity, we explored how different-sized particles interact with our respiratory system, using a fun, hands-on model to simulate how we breathe in and filter the air around us. Have a look at the photos below.

If you would like to know more or try some science at home have a look at:

https://www.britishscienceweek.org/activity-packs/