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
To start this term off, we will be looking at list poems and kennings. We will look at the different features of these poems before creating our own. Next, we are moving onto Horrid Henry books. We will be focusing on setting and character descriptions, punctuating dialog, the use of fronted adverbials and conjunctions to express time and cause. At the end of the unit we will be writing our own story, ‘Horrid Henry’s Trip to the Dentist.’ To end the term, we will begin to look at our Class Book, ‘Pugs of the Frozen North.’
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 focusing on Fractions and decimals. We will -
Geography
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 geography with Mountains, Volcanoes and Earthquakes. We will describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, recap the layers of the Earth, introduce plate tectonics and how they move, understand and explain how mountains and volcanoes are formed and what needs to happen for a volcano to erupt. Finally, we will recognise why earthquakes and tsunamis occur and explain how to keep safe during them.
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 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
To start this term off, we will be looking at list poems and kennings. We will look at the different features of these poems before creating our own. Next, we are moving onto Horrid Henry books. We will be focusing on setting and character descriptions, punctuating dialog, the use of fronted adverbials and conjunctions to express time and cause. At the end of the unit we will be writing our own story, ‘Horrid Henry’s Trip to the Dentist.’ To end the term, we will begin to look at our Class Book, ‘Pugs of the Frozen North.’
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 focusing on Fractions and decimals. We will -
- recognise and show, families of common, equivalent fractions
- count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten.
- solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions
- add and subtract fractions with the same denominator
- recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
- recognise and write decimal equivalents to 1/4 , 1/2, 3/4
- find the effect of dividing a one- or two-digit number by 10 and 100, identifying the value of the digits in the answer as ones, tenths and hundredths
- round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number
- compare numbers with the same number of decimal places up to two decimal places
- solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places
Geography
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 geography with Mountains, Volcanoes and Earthquakes. We will describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, recap the layers of the Earth, introduce plate tectonics and how they move, understand and explain how mountains and volcanoes are formed and what needs to happen for a volcano to erupt. Finally, we will recognise why earthquakes and tsunamis occur and explain how to keep safe during them.
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 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.
