In year 4, our teacher is Mrs White supported by Mr Gilchrist. We are going to have a great time together!

We are going to enjoy so many different things this year from learning about Ancient Greece to understanding where our water comes from! We will be exploring the world we live in now and what has come before us. We will encourage each other to be the best we can be and have a lot of fun doing it!

We can't wait to get started.

Each term there will be a class newsletter uploaded to this section.

This will tell you all about what we are learning about, when our PE days are and what books we will be reading.

Here is our Term 1 Newsletter

Here is an overview of what books we will be looking at in each term and what our topic will be in those terms.

This term, we have been looking at the theme: Who am i and who am i becoming?

Our question this term is: I wonder how settlements have changed in the UK?

We know that where we live is an important part of who we are and who we will become. Our thematic learning helps us answer this question.

We worked like Harper Historian in History by comparing settlements in the UK over time. We can plot these types of settlements on a timeline from 800 BC Hill Forts through 410 AD Anglo Saxon Villages, to 1485 Tudor Towns, right up to Modern Cities in 2024. We compared similarities and differences using Venn Diagrams. Did you know that people lived in hill forts because they were better protected and could see their enemies before they attacked! After choosing a type of settlement to research, we wrote adverts persuading people to live in different settlements. Would you want to live in a Anglo Saxon village where everyone slept in one room and sometimes with their animals or in a wood and mud Tudor house that at least had windows?

During our art sessions we have been working like Alexa the artist by taking inspiration from other famous artists. We studied the life and work of Mary Beale who was the first British female professional artists. She worked in the 1600s and painted portraits of rich and important people. We took inspiration from her work and combined our shading and drawing skills to draw realistic self portraits reflecting on who we are now. 

Our DT sessions gave us chance to design like Daya. We know that structures are part of settlements. We researched suspension bridges and then designed our own using the technical knowledge. We used cardboard joining techniques to create suspension bridge models.

Year 4 have been doing lots of learning out the classroom this term. 

Welcome Week saw us explore the school grounds on an orienteering task. 

More Coming Soon!

We have been bowled over with our cricket session from Gloucestershire Cricket Association. It really helped us work as a Year 4 Team!

There are many things you can do at home to help your child with their learning.

First of all, we would love you to read for 10 minutes a day at home with your child. This can be them reading to you or you reading to them. Choose a favourite book or use a book from school. Please record this in your yellow reading diary. Children who read 5 times at home in a week will earn themselves a prize resin toy.

We would also like your children to practice their times tables at home each day. We would recommend using Times Tables Rock Stars to do this as your child already has an account through school. 10 minutes a day will support them in learning their times tables. Children who practice at home for 40 minutes each week will get to spend time with our Bank Leaze bunnies: Rocky, Star and Multi! Click here to head to TTRS.

Every child at Bank Leaze also has a Sumdog login. This will help them practice all the maths skills that they need to be successful in their year group. Click here to head to: Sumdog.

Times Tables and Spelling tests:

Every Friday, children will be tested in school on thier spellings. Spellings will be sent home termly, put on the website and set on Showbie. Arithmetic practice will be set on TT rockstars and Sumdog weekly. On Friday, children will receive a score out of 10 which will be recorded on Showbie. Please ensure Reading diaries are brought into school daily.