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
Pugs of the Frozen North is our book for English this term. We will look at many grammar objectives such as, the use of possessive apostrophe, punctuating speech correctly and using expanded noun phrases, to help improve our adverts, newspaper reports and recounts. The book will also be used during our Guided Reading sessions where we will infer characters thoughts and feelings, summarise paragraphs, discuss words and phrases and predict what could happen next.
The final week of term will be spent looking at the Water Cycle in more detail. We will create first person recounts, comic book strips and write a fronted adverbial poem.
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 are looking at area, perimeter and measurement. We will be able to find the area and perimeter of rectilinear shapes and convert between different units of measurement.
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. Will be covering both our ‘States of Matter’ topic and ‘All Living Things.’ We will start by identifying what makes something a solid, liquid or gas, observe different materials changing state and link our knowledge to the Water Cycle. In ‘All Living Things’ we will recognise that living things can be grouped in different ways and explore classification keys.
R.E.
‘Why do Christians class the day Jesus died as ‘Good Friday’?’ is our Key question for R.E. We are going to explore Holy Week, infer the feelings of different characters within the Easter Story and look at how Christians celebrate Easter across the world.
P.E.
We will have P.E. twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday. Please leave P.E. bags in school all week, just in case an opportunity for an extra lesson is possible.
Homework
The Hedgehog class will receive their homework on Friday and it is to be returned by the following Wednesday. Maths homework will be set on Mathletics and it will be based on what they have covered that week. They might receive times table sheets to help with their weekly multiplication test. I also recommend spending some time on Timestable Rockstars.
Comprehension will be set fortnightly. Little Talk for Big Write helps your child with their Big Write. Only notes are need to be written for this if at all. Spellings are also set of Friday and will be tested on Wednesday.
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
Pugs of the Frozen North is our book for English this term. We will look at many grammar objectives such as, the use of possessive apostrophe, punctuating speech correctly and using expanded noun phrases, to help improve our adverts, newspaper reports and recounts. The book will also be used during our Guided Reading sessions where we will infer characters thoughts and feelings, summarise paragraphs, discuss words and phrases and predict what could happen next.
The final week of term will be spent looking at the Water Cycle in more detail. We will create first person recounts, comic book strips and write a fronted adverbial poem.
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 are looking at area, perimeter and measurement. We will be able to find the area and perimeter of rectilinear shapes and convert between different units of measurement.
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. Will be covering both our ‘States of Matter’ topic and ‘All Living Things.’ We will start by identifying what makes something a solid, liquid or gas, observe different materials changing state and link our knowledge to the Water Cycle. In ‘All Living Things’ we will recognise that living things can be grouped in different ways and explore classification keys.
R.E.
‘Why do Christians class the day Jesus died as ‘Good Friday’?’ is our Key question for R.E. We are going to explore Holy Week, infer the feelings of different characters within the Easter Story and look at how Christians celebrate Easter across the world.
P.E.
We will have P.E. twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday. Please leave P.E. bags in school all week, just in case an opportunity for an extra lesson is possible.
Homework
The Hedgehog class will receive their homework on Friday and it is to be returned by the following Wednesday. Maths homework will be set on Mathletics and it will be based on what they have covered that week. They might receive times table sheets to help with their weekly multiplication test. I also recommend spending some time on Timestable Rockstars.
Comprehension will be set fortnightly. Little Talk for Big Write helps your child with their Big Write. Only notes are need to be written for this if at all. Spellings are also set of Friday and will be tested on Wednesday.
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.
