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 is our Class Teacher alongside Mrs Toes and Mr Hankins, the Teaching Assistants.
English
Our English this term will be linked with our History Topic of The Romans. We will begin with looking at the legend of Romulus and Remus. Within this topic, we will be creating character and setting descriptions and focusing on fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases. We will also look at punctuating speech and organising paragraphs. While looking at Escape from Pompeii, we will use the present perfect from the verb and adverbs which express time and place. Finally, we will look at and write newspaper reports for Pompeii, Julius Caesar and Boudicca’s rebellion.
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.
Maths
In maths, we will be starting with place value. We will be recognising the place value of each digit in a 4 digit number, find 1000 more and less than a number, order and compare numbers beyond 1000, round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 and count backwards through 0. We will also read Roman numerals to 100. Then we will look at addition and subtraction. We will add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written method, estimate and use inverse to check answers and solve 2 step word problems.
History
In Year 4, we focus on either Science or history and geography 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 the Romans. We will find Italy on a map and research information about the country. Then we will look into Roman food, how they made their roads, why the Romans wanted to invade Britain, why the Roman army was so successful and explore the reasons why Boudicca led an uprising against the Romans in 60/61 CE.
R.E.
‘What kind of world did Jesus want’ is our Key question for R.E. We will make clear links between what world he wanted while he was alive and how Christians are spreading his message.
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 is our Class Teacher alongside Mrs Toes and Mr Hankins, the Teaching Assistants.
English
Our English this term will be linked with our History Topic of The Romans. We will begin with looking at the legend of Romulus and Remus. Within this topic, we will be creating character and setting descriptions and focusing on fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases. We will also look at punctuating speech and organising paragraphs. While looking at Escape from Pompeii, we will use the present perfect from the verb and adverbs which express time and place. Finally, we will look at and write newspaper reports for Pompeii, Julius Caesar and Boudicca’s rebellion.
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.
Maths
In maths, we will be starting with place value. We will be recognising the place value of each digit in a 4 digit number, find 1000 more and less than a number, order and compare numbers beyond 1000, round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 and count backwards through 0. We will also read Roman numerals to 100. Then we will look at addition and subtraction. We will add and subtract numbers with up to 4 digits using the formal written method, estimate and use inverse to check answers and solve 2 step word problems.
History
In Year 4, we focus on either Science or history and geography 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 the Romans. We will find Italy on a map and research information about the country. Then we will look into Roman food, how they made their roads, why the Romans wanted to invade Britain, why the Roman army was so successful and explore the reasons why Boudicca led an uprising against the Romans in 60/61 CE.
R.E.
‘What kind of world did Jesus want’ is our Key question for R.E. We will make clear links between what world he wanted while he was alive and how Christians are spreading his message.
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.
