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 2025...

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; shape; problem solving; reasoning

Science: Teeth and the digestive system; electricity

Computing: Word processing; programming; internet safety

RE: Why is there so much diversity within Christianity? How do religious groups contribute to society and culture?

History: The Romans and the Celts in Britain

Geography: Countries and major cities in Europe

PE: Swimming, cricket, rounders and athletics

Design Technology: Roman food and buildings

Art: Clay and mosaics

Music: Expression and improvisation; The show must go on!

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

Life skills: Kindness and prejudice, wellbeing, road safety, finances, understanding emotions

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 Thursday 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 are updated each Monday on Spelling Shed so the children can practise each week's words at home. The other priorities continue to be reading and times tables!
If you can spare any time to volunteer to hear children read at school then please us know!

Other things to remember:

This term, we will be having PE on Wednesdays. Please make sure your child comes to school in their PE kit on these days each week.
Year 4 will also be swimming for the first half term only on Fridays. Please ensure your child comes to school in their school uniform, with their swimming kit in a bag.
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 we will be outside on the grass every day.