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Year 4

  • Class Teacher: Miss Knapton
  • Teaching Assistants: Mrs Roebuck, Mrs Harrison and Miss Powell
  • PTFA Rep: Mrs Creeber and Mrs Whitehouse

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Important Information

Homework this half term is to spend time reading, practising spellings and learning the 6x table facts.

Click on the image below to practise your tables.

Spellings will be sent home at the beginning of each new half

term. Spelling tests take place on a Friday.

Please make sure your child has a named PE kit, water bottle, reading book and message book in school every day.

Our PE days are Monday and Thursday. This half we will be going Swimming on a Thursday for our PE.

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This term, our Geography topic question is...

'Where does our food come from?'

This half term, we are going to be learning all about where in the world our food comes from. We will be looking at different biomes and how their different conditions can affect what grows in these places. We will also be considering the positive and negative impact of locally sourced food.

Click on the picture below to find out more:

Key vocabulary:

air freight, carbon footprint, consume, distribution, export, fertiliser, food bank, food miles, grant, import, pesticides, produce, qualitative, quantitative, reliability, responsible trade, sample size, scale bar, seasonal food, source, sustainability, trade, trend

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This term, our Science topic is...

'Digestion and food'

This half term, we are going to be learning all about the human digestive system. We will learn about the different parts of the system, especially teeth. We will also look at animal food chains and how we can sort animals by what they eat.

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Key vocabulary:

canine, digest, digestive system, faeces, , incisor, large intestine, molar, mouth, oesophagus, premolar, producer, saliva, small intestine, stomach

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Art

This half term, we are going to be exploring drawing skills. We will be learning about tone, texture and proportion to create a 3D image based on our own compositions.

Key vocabulary:

collage, composition, form, highlight, proportion, shadow, three-dimensional

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Reading this half term:

We will be reading Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll

Our Class Author is: Emma Carroll

Some of her books include: