Welcome to Hedgehog Class
Miss E Trafford
Year 4 Class Teacher |
Mrs S Riley
Support Staff |
Our Team
Miss Trafford is our Class Teacher and Mrs Riley is our Teaching Assistant.
Rocks, Stones & Bones
We are very excited about our summer term history topic all about the Stone Age to Iron Age. Rocks, Stones & Bones kicked off with our Stone Age Day on the first day of term. We had great fun hunting and gathering, practising our knapping skills and shelter building!
English & Reading
During the summer term, we will be basing our English lessons on the texts: Stone Age Boy and Stig of the Dump. We will be practising a variety of comprehension (VIPERS) skills including: inferencing and predicting and we will also be covering a number of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives, such as: using a wide range of conjunctions, indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophes and generating expanded noun phrases with adjectives, verbs and nouns.
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 words, it is also useful to ask questions and check your child’s understanding of the text.
Maths
Throughout this term, we will be covering: decimals, money, time, statistics and geometry. We will also have daily fluency sessions, whereby we will practise and develop our arithmetic skills and times tables.
Please continue to support your children’s learning by regularly asking questions or allowing them to play TT Rock Stars to improve their instant recall of the multiplication and division facts of all times tables (up to 12 times tables).
This term will also see the children complete their Multiplication Tables Check in June. Please find more information regarding this here: Information for parents: 2022 multiplication tables check (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Science
Our science lessons will link to our Rocks, Stones & Bones topic. We will be investigating the diets of stone age people, figuring out the types of teeth they must have had and finding out about the digestive system. We will also be exploring the human body and the nutrition it needs and where it gets this from, covering prey and predators. We will cover a range of working scientifically objectives throughout the term.
Humanities
As already mentioned, our focus will be history this term with our Rocks, Stones & Bones topic. We will be developing our understanding of chronology and how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources. We will be noting connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms as well as addressing historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference and significance.
RE
‘What did Jesus do to save human beings?’ is our key question for Summer 1. After the May half term, we will be focusing on sacred texts, specifically The Bible.
PSHE (Healthy Minds)
Our focus for the Spring Term is ‘Health and Wellbeing’. Within this, we will be focusing on balanced lifestyles, oral hygiene and dental care and personal hygiene routines.
PE
This term, we will be having PE on a Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday afternoons (beginning 4th April for ten weeks), we will have our swimming lessons at Bicester Leisure Centre. After the May half-term, we are lucky to be having some taster tennis sessions with Marsh Gibbon Tennis Club.
Home Learning
Our Pick’N’Mix style home learning will be uploaded to Google Classroom each half term. We will have weekly ‘Home Learning Museums’ whereby the children will be able to share their completed tasks.
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. We have our ‘Red Book’ in the office where you can record any out of school experiences and successes for them to be shared in our whole school celebration assemblies on Fridays.
To keep you informed on specific activities in school, I will use ClassDojo to share news and photos of events.
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 are some resources which you may find useful.
Miss Trafford is our Class Teacher and Mrs Riley is our Teaching Assistant.
Rocks, Stones & Bones
We are very excited about our summer term history topic all about the Stone Age to Iron Age. Rocks, Stones & Bones kicked off with our Stone Age Day on the first day of term. We had great fun hunting and gathering, practising our knapping skills and shelter building!
English & Reading
During the summer term, we will be basing our English lessons on the texts: Stone Age Boy and Stig of the Dump. We will be practising a variety of comprehension (VIPERS) skills including: inferencing and predicting and we will also be covering a number of vocabulary, grammar and punctuation objectives, such as: using a wide range of conjunctions, indicating possession by using the possessive apostrophes and generating expanded noun phrases with adjectives, verbs and nouns.
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 words, it is also useful to ask questions and check your child’s understanding of the text.
Maths
Throughout this term, we will be covering: decimals, money, time, statistics and geometry. We will also have daily fluency sessions, whereby we will practise and develop our arithmetic skills and times tables.
Please continue to support your children’s learning by regularly asking questions or allowing them to play TT Rock Stars to improve their instant recall of the multiplication and division facts of all times tables (up to 12 times tables).
This term will also see the children complete their Multiplication Tables Check in June. Please find more information regarding this here: Information for parents: 2022 multiplication tables check (publishing.service.gov.uk)
Science
Our science lessons will link to our Rocks, Stones & Bones topic. We will be investigating the diets of stone age people, figuring out the types of teeth they must have had and finding out about the digestive system. We will also be exploring the human body and the nutrition it needs and where it gets this from, covering prey and predators. We will cover a range of working scientifically objectives throughout the term.
Humanities
As already mentioned, our focus will be history this term with our Rocks, Stones & Bones topic. We will be developing our understanding of chronology and how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources. We will be noting connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms as well as addressing historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference and significance.
RE
‘What did Jesus do to save human beings?’ is our key question for Summer 1. After the May half term, we will be focusing on sacred texts, specifically The Bible.
PSHE (Healthy Minds)
Our focus for the Spring Term is ‘Health and Wellbeing’. Within this, we will be focusing on balanced lifestyles, oral hygiene and dental care and personal hygiene routines.
PE
This term, we will be having PE on a Wednesday and Thursday. On Wednesday afternoons (beginning 4th April for ten weeks), we will have our swimming lessons at Bicester Leisure Centre. After the May half-term, we are lucky to be having some taster tennis sessions with Marsh Gibbon Tennis Club.
Home Learning
Our Pick’N’Mix style home learning will be uploaded to Google Classroom each half term. We will have weekly ‘Home Learning Museums’ whereby the children will be able to share their completed tasks.
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. We have our ‘Red Book’ in the office where you can record any out of school experiences and successes for them to be shared in our whole school celebration assemblies on Fridays.
To keep you informed on specific activities in school, I will use ClassDojo to share news and photos of events.
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 are some resources which you may find useful.
