Harvington C of E First and Nursery School
‘Together we love, learn and grow’
Year 4
Welcome to Year 4!
Class Teacher: Mrs Elaaoudi-Aitsy
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Sams
Class Governor: Mrs Roberts
PTFA Rep: Mrs Powell
Welcome Letters
Spellings
Long Term Overview
Year 4 Calculation Policy
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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 topic is...
'Was the Saxon time, positive or negative for Britain?'
The children will be learning about when the Saxon period was, Saxon tribes and why Anglo Saxon's migrated to Britain.
Click on the picture below for an overview about the Anglo Saxons.
Key vocabulary:
Anglo Saxon, tribe, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Migrate, Ancient, Modern, Century, Decade, AD, BC, Period, Enquiry, Representation, Impact, Primary Source, Secondary Source, Artefact.
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DT:
This term our DT learning will be how to make a sling shot car. We will be learning about chassis and launch mechanisms, designing and making the car body and finally assembling and testing.
The children will be learning to understand that all moving things have kinetic energy, and that air resistance is the level of drag on an object forced through the air. We will also be looking at how the shape of an object affects how it moves.
Key vocabulary:
Chassis, Energy, Kinetic, Mechanism, Air Resistance, Design, Structure, Graphics, Research, Model, Template.
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Science:
In Science, our topic this term will be Energy: Sounds and Vibrations.
Key vocabulary:
Air, Volume, Sound, Pitch, Eardrum, Insulator, Vibration, Waves.
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Our Class Author is: Emma Carroll
Some of her books include:
