Welcome to Year 4!

Class Teacher: Mrs Elaaoudi-Aitsy

Teaching Assistant: Mrs Sams

Class Governor: Mrs Roberts

PTFA Rep: Mrs Powell

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Important Information 

Homework is sent out on a Friday to be handed in by the following Thursday morning.

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

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This term, our theme topic question is...

'Who makes the decisions in Britain?'

This half term, we are going to be learning about the decision makers in Britain and how voting and Parliament work. This will link to our trip to the Houses of Parliament in London.

Click the picture below to learn more about how the decisions in Britain are made:

The Government website is full of information to inform us about how the Government works. Click the link below to find out more:

https://www.gov.uk/government/how-government-works

Key vocabulary:

Ancient, Modern, century and decade, AD and BC, Period, Monarchy, Parliament, House of Commons, House of Lords, Government, Prime Minister, Magna Carta, Reform, Suffragettes.

Continent, country, county, capital city, London, Westminster, OS map, grid reference, key, River Thames, Key.

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DT:

This half term, we are going to be making our own torches! We will be investigating and evaluating a range of existing torches and then designing our own for a target audience. We will be linking our learning to our Science work earlier in the year on circuits.

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Science:

In Science, our topic this term will be Making Connections - How does the flow of liquid compare?

This half term we are going to be investigating liquids to explore the relationship between viscosity and the flow of liquids through scientific enquiry. We will be planning, gathering data, analysing, concluding and evaluating data before presenting our findings to the topic question.

Key vocabulary:

Bar chart, Battery/cell, Condensing, Conclusion, Evaporating, Gas, Insect, Liquid, Motor, Precipitation, Predict, Solid, Switch, Temperature, The water cycle, Trustworthy, Variable.

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Our Class Author is: Emma Carroll

   Some of her books include: