Meet Our Staff

4 Birch

Teacher: Ms A Singh

Learning Mentor: Mrs L McGrory

4 Hazel

Teacher: Ms F Tomsa

Teaching Assistant: Miss C Dawson

Key Information

PE

4 Birch - Monday and Thursday

4 Hazel- Monday and Tuesday

Your child is to come in to school in their PE kit on these days.

Homework

Home work is sent home on a Wednesday and due in on a Monday
• Read every day (and discuss their reading)
• Practice spelling patterns and apply these to known and new spellings

Termly Update

Summer 1

We kicked off this half term with a visit to Hertfordshire University for big steam day. In English we have shared our knowledge and expertise about toys and play to write non chronological reports.  In Maths we have learned more about fractions and formal multiplication and participated in Battle of the Bands in Times Table Rock Stars.

For our geography rainforest topic, we have explored longitude and latitude, learnt about rainforest layers, plants and animals and where and why rainforests are located where they are.

In science we have learned about states of matter, change, evaporation and the water cycle. As artists in computing, we have explored tessellations using Inkscape, and designed our own images based on Islamic art in Scratch.

In art we have studied the artist Henri Rousseau and discussed the art of collage and Rousseau’s Tiger in a storm and then created our own collages.  We have developed our composition skills in music using different musical instruments and learned about chord structures and different musical terminology such as triads and global pentatonics.

In PE we have been developing our tennis skills and picked up tennis expertise from an amazing tennis coach. Additionally, we have explored character and emotions of different people during World War 2.

In French, we talked about the weather, and with such sunny days around, we can confidently say that c’est tres chaud!

It has been a very productive time for Year 4.

We explored what school might have been like for Ancient Greek boys and girls, had a pavement show to look at and share our inventions for explanation texts in English, learnt a lot about electricity and did lots of sewing and design work to make seasonal stockings. 

In maths, we focused on lots of different areas such as place value, measurement, formal addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and took part in a food quiz to learn more about mass and capacity in the real world. Additionally, we really enjoyed our weekly cracking times tables.  For French, we role played being at the café, ordering and paying for our favourite food and drink.  In PE we came together successfully in teams to meet different problem-solving challenges and played handball.  Daily, we ran the daily mile with great gusto.

This final week, we made a variety of crafts items for our Deco Days.