In Year 4 the children learn with Mr Rhodes and Miss Murray, and Miss Donaghy, Mrs Hall and Mrs Wild are our teaching assisstants. On a Tuesday morning, 4R will be taught by Mrs Lilley, while on a Friday, 4M will be taught for either half the day or all day by Mrs Lilley. Mrs Beswick will continue to teach 4R for some reading sessions this term too!

Swimming will continue this term but will not take place in the first week, so the first session will be Wednesday 30th April. The lessons take place at Armley Leisure Centre. Our P.E session is now indoor on a Friday.

Later this term, the children will sit the Multiplication Table Check. This is a national assessment of children's times tables ability where they will be answer 25 questions on an i-pad, with 6 seconds to answer each question. There is no pass mark for this assessment.

Year 4 Curriculum

Please see below for details about Year 4's curriculum.

If you would like any further information about our curriculum, please speak to a member of the Year 4 team.

Our learning in each subject this half-term will be:

• History -  Anglo-Saxons (and the Titanic in literacy)
• Science - Electricity and Circuits
• Computing - Coding
• P.E - Danicng and swimming
• Art - Rainforest watercolours
• Music - The music of Spain

Homework

Spelling homework is now set on a Friday and will come home in the children's spelling journal. Maths homework is set at the start of a term and will be a bingo card with nine activities to complete before the end of half-term.

Spelling homework is due back to school by the following Wednesday.

https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb/

Year 4 Robinwood Residential

We will be taking the children to  Dobroyd Castle Robinwood Activity Centre in April. Any useful documents about this visit will be uploaded here when we receive them.

Until then, you can have a look at some of the past visits to Robinwood by clicking on School Life > Residentials > Robinwood.