Year Four

Welcome to Faraway Tree Class and Paddington Station Class Page!

Faraway Tree Class

Paddington Station Class

Class Teacher: Mrs K Cordrey & Mrs H Chick

Class Teacher: Mrs E Smith

Teaching Assistant: Mrs W Jennings

Teaching Assistant: Miss A Knight

Key Information

PE –
- Paddington Station has PE on a Monday (Terms 4 – 6) and Fridays.
- Far Away Tree has PE on a Monday (Terms 1 - 3) and Tuesdays.
Swimming –
- Paddington has Swimming on a Monday during Terms 1 - 3.
- Far Away Tree will have Swimming on Mondays during Terms 4 - 6.

Please ensure that your child has both indoor and outdoor kits in school at all times.

Indoor Kit: White T-shirt and Black shorts.
Outdoor Kit: White T-shirt, Black Shorts, Tracksuit bottoms and Top/Jumper. Trainers and spare socks.

Homework

Reading - Children should read at least 3 times a week for 20 minutes each. These need to be signed and dated, as separate signatures, by an adult. Reading diaries are checked every Monday morning.
Times Table Rockstars - Children to complete 10 garage games for homework each week. These will be checked each Thursday.
Spellings - Children to complete their spelling homework each week which is set on a Thursday and is due to be completed by the following Thursday.
Optional Homework – Children will be set optional homework at the start of each term. Please see the weekly newsletter for more information.

Children will be asked to make up any of the home learning time that they have not completed in LCU. Please ensure that they complete their weekly assignments.

Paddington Station

Faraway Tree

Term One

Science

Year 4 have enjoyed creating Buzz Wire games in Science to test how different components create a circuit. They used their understanding of a series circuit to build their own switches using metal wire, electrical tape, a battery and a buzzer. We especially loved testing each other’s games!

Art

Year 4’s Amazing Art Day!

Year 4 loved creating our wax resist drawings using different shading techniques, like cross-hatching, to create patterns and contrast. Firstly, we used collage to create our own designs using different mixed-media. We then created a wax-resit background using crayon, paint and soap and scratched off our drawings. We loved seeing the different colours reveal themselves.

Term Two

Pavilion Design Technology

Year 4 have really enjoyed their DT Day! We have been building unique, 3D structures using a range of materials. We designed and adapted our pavilion designs by making initial structures out of cocktail sticks and blue tac. Once we had made our complete footprint design, we used lollipop sticks, card, wooden dowels, cardboard and paper to ensure our pavilion structure was stable and reinforced. We then used coloured paper and weaving techniques to add ‘cladding’ to our structure.

Gymnastics

This term, in our gymnastics lessons, Year 4 have been exploring ways of travelling across mats and benches using different levels, body parts and speeds, improving jumping technique, exploring mirroring when performing shapes with a partner and performing a variety of balances using counter tension and counter balance techniques with a partner.

Term Three

Music Day!

Year 4 loved learning about different textures in songs and compared the tempo, dynamics and pitch of pieces of music. We enjoyed replicating pieces of music using body percussion and creating our own sequences based on the different layers of the rainforest.