Welcome to Hedgehog Class
Welcome to the Hedgehog Class!
Our class is a fun, creative and exciting learning environment, where we aim for everyone to be happy, engaged and enjoy creating fantastic work and making great progress.
Our Team
Miss Fitzpatrick will be your Class Teacher alongside Mrs Toes, the Teaching Assistant.
English
This term in English we will be revisiting speech, present perfect tense, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases in a range of contexts. We will be analysing persuasive writing before wring our own about zoos, sort information in non-fiction texts logically and create a biography.
Reading
Reading will be taught in guided reading sessions where the children will discuss the meaning, infer character’s feelings/actions and grammar choice in a challenging text.
Reading is such an important skill; it really unlocks all areas of the curriculum. We would ask parents to hear their child read daily, 5-10 minutes a night is all that is needed. As well as supporting your child read the words it is also useful to ask questions and check your child's understanding of the text. At the back of some of our reading books there is a page full of questions. This ranges from understanding what the author has written and inference questions about the text.
Phonics
Phonics is taught every day to all the children in year 4. Where necessary, extra phonics lessons are provided. We will look at the spelling national curriculum and spelling rules, along with the Year 3 and 4 common exception words.
Maths
In maths, we will be looking at shape and statistics. For shape, we are going to compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes and identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to 2 right angles by size. We will also be identifying lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations and complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry.
Science
In Year 4, we focus on either Science or Topic every half term. This ensures we can ‘dig deeper’ into our lessons and allows time to develop different skills. This term we are looking at science – electricity and sound. We will be identifying common appliances that run on electricity, constructing a simple series electrical circuit and identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. We will also be recognising that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit. In our sound lessons, we will be identifying how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating, recognising that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear and that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. Finally, we will be finding patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it and find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.
R.E.
We will be exploring Buddhism in R.E. in term by looking at how the religion originated, understand the main believes of Buddhism and recognise Buddhist symbols and be able to explain what some mean or represent.
P.E.
We will have P.E. twice a week on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please leave P.E. bags in school all week, just in case an opportunity for an extra lesson is possible.
Homework
The Hedgehog class use Learning Logs for their homework. Tasks set are based on what we have covered that week and it is up to the children how they show their understanding. Homework will be handed out on Friday to be returned by the following Thursday.
Parent Partnership
We strongly believe in working closely with parents to ensure all children have a positive and successful experience in their education. We welcome any information you can share about your child and their individual learning experiences outside of school. This can be easily shared through the ClassDojo communication tool.
To keep you informed on specific activities in the school, I will use ClassDojo to share news and photos of school events. Every week I will post on our ClassDojo page what areas of the curriculum will are covering in English and Maths. At the start of every half term, I will post the curriculum map showcasing what we will be doing across all subjects. This however, could be subject to change.
If you are interested in supporting the class, either regularly or adhoc, with your time for reading or a particular skill you have please contact the me to see when would be a suitable time for you to visit the class. I am very grateful for any assistance.
Supporting Your Child at Home
Our experience has shown us that the support children get from home has a positive impact on their learning.
Below is a copy of the Year 3 and 4 common exception words. These words do not follow any rules and need to be learnt by heart.
Our class is a fun, creative and exciting learning environment, where we aim for everyone to be happy, engaged and enjoy creating fantastic work and making great progress.
Our Team
Miss Fitzpatrick will be your Class Teacher alongside Mrs Toes, the Teaching Assistant.
English
This term in English we will be revisiting speech, present perfect tense, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases in a range of contexts. We will be analysing persuasive writing before wring our own about zoos, sort information in non-fiction texts logically and create a biography.
Reading
Reading will be taught in guided reading sessions where the children will discuss the meaning, infer character’s feelings/actions and grammar choice in a challenging text.
Reading is such an important skill; it really unlocks all areas of the curriculum. We would ask parents to hear their child read daily, 5-10 minutes a night is all that is needed. As well as supporting your child read the words it is also useful to ask questions and check your child's understanding of the text. At the back of some of our reading books there is a page full of questions. This ranges from understanding what the author has written and inference questions about the text.
Phonics
Phonics is taught every day to all the children in year 4. Where necessary, extra phonics lessons are provided. We will look at the spelling national curriculum and spelling rules, along with the Year 3 and 4 common exception words.
Maths
In maths, we will be looking at shape and statistics. For shape, we are going to compare and classify geometric shapes, including quadrilaterals and triangles, based on their properties and sizes and identify acute and obtuse angles and compare and order angles up to 2 right angles by size. We will also be identifying lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes presented in different orientations and complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry.
Science
In Year 4, we focus on either Science or Topic every half term. This ensures we can ‘dig deeper’ into our lessons and allows time to develop different skills. This term we are looking at science – electricity and sound. We will be identifying common appliances that run on electricity, constructing a simple series electrical circuit and identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers. We will also be recognising that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit. In our sound lessons, we will be identifying how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating, recognising that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear and that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases. Finally, we will be finding patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it and find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.
R.E.
We will be exploring Buddhism in R.E. in term by looking at how the religion originated, understand the main believes of Buddhism and recognise Buddhist symbols and be able to explain what some mean or represent.
P.E.
We will have P.E. twice a week on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please leave P.E. bags in school all week, just in case an opportunity for an extra lesson is possible.
Homework
The Hedgehog class use Learning Logs for their homework. Tasks set are based on what we have covered that week and it is up to the children how they show their understanding. Homework will be handed out on Friday to be returned by the following Thursday.
Parent Partnership
We strongly believe in working closely with parents to ensure all children have a positive and successful experience in their education. We welcome any information you can share about your child and their individual learning experiences outside of school. This can be easily shared through the ClassDojo communication tool.
To keep you informed on specific activities in the school, I will use ClassDojo to share news and photos of school events. Every week I will post on our ClassDojo page what areas of the curriculum will are covering in English and Maths. At the start of every half term, I will post the curriculum map showcasing what we will be doing across all subjects. This however, could be subject to change.
If you are interested in supporting the class, either regularly or adhoc, with your time for reading or a particular skill you have please contact the me to see when would be a suitable time for you to visit the class. I am very grateful for any assistance.
Supporting Your Child at Home
Our experience has shown us that the support children get from home has a positive impact on their learning.
Below is a copy of the Year 3 and 4 common exception words. These words do not follow any rules and need to be learnt by heart.
