Year 4 Hazel Class

Curriculum Information Page

Welcome to the Year 4 (Hazel Class) page.

We hope this provides you with important information to support your child's learning this year.

Please do get in contact if there is anything that we can help you with.

Mr Hodder and Mr Gooch.

Mr Hodder’s teaching days are Monday, Thursday & Friday- mhodder@necton.norfolk.sch.uk

Mr Gooch’s teaching days are Tuesday & Wednesday- tgooch@necton.norfolk.sch.uk

What we will be learning this Summer Term 2023...

This term’s enquiry question is:

Why is the past important for

our future?

This is what we will be learning about in each subject area:

English: Character descriptions; information texts; poetry; stories with a historical context

Maths: Developing mental and written methods; fractions; time; statistics; problem solving; reasoning

Science: Teeth and the digestive system; electricity

Computing: Word processing; programming; internet safety

RE: What does sacrifice mean? Why is there so much diversity within Christianity?

History: The Romans and the Celts in Britain; Inventions

Geography: Countries and major cities in Europe

PE: Gym, Athletics, OAA, Cricket

Design Technology: Roman food and buildings

Art: Clay and mosaics

Music: How does music shape our way of life? How does music connect us with the environment?

Spanish: Where I live, school, likes and dislikes, food and drink

Life skills: Kindness and prejudice, wellbeing, road safety

How you can help your child with their learning:

Use the Knowledge Organisers (at the bottom of this page) to help your child learn the information we are exploring this term.
Hear your child read and ask him/her questions about the story. Take time to discuss and celebrate their book choices (from home or school) and please continue to read to your child too!
Reading books can be changed in our school library every Wednesday and we will be collecting in the children’s Reading Records on Fridays. We will reward every 10 reading stamps with a merit. Big Cat books can be changed in class any day.
Practise times tables with your child – please use TT Rockstars to help with this!
Ensure they complete home learning tasks. Spellings will be given out each Monday via Teams (and also often on paper). The other priorities continue to be reading and times tables!
Check out our class twitter account @NectonY4 for updates and photos of our learning.
If you can spare any time to volunteer to hear children read at school then please us know!

Other things to remember:

This term, our PE sessions will be on Mondays and Fridays. Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days each week.
Apart from gym, PE will be outside whenever possible, so they will need to wear something appropriate for all weathers.
Children need to have earrings removed for PE lessons, or taped if they can't be removed.
Please name all school uniform.
Please ensure your child has a water bottle every day.
Please ensure long hair is tied back at all times.
Children should also have a change of footwear (and socks) for break/lunch as they will be outside on the grass.

IMPORTANT DATES THIS TERM:

Tuesday 18th April - Summer term begins

Tuesday 25th April - Year 4 visit to Ancient House, Thetford

Monday 1st May - BANK HOLIDAY

Monday 8th May - BANK HOLIDAY (CORONATION)

w.b. 15th May - STAY SAFE WEEK 3 (including Walk or Wheel Week)

Wednesday 24th May - SEND Parents Evening

Monday 29th May to Friday 2nd June - HALF TERM

Saturday 24th June - FOSA Necton Summer Fete

Wednesday 28th June - Sports Day

Wednesday 12th July - Move Up Morning

Friday 21st July - Last day of summer term