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Year 4 - Badgers
Year 4 Badgers
Welcome to Badgers class page!
Class teacher - Mrs Bilas abilas@inspiream.org.uk
Teaching Assistant - Mr Bonnici
Forest School is on a Wednesday.
Children should bring in their Forest School kit every Wednesday.
PE is on a Thursday. Children should come into school dressed in their PE kit.
What are we learning this term?
Main Experiences:
Winter is Looming - This is an Art based experience where children will be learning how to weave. Once they have grasped the skills of weaving they will be designing and weaving a book mark.
Raiders to Settlers - In this History and English Experience we will be learning about life in Anglo-Saxon Britain. We have organised an exciting hook where some Viking experts will be visiting Seal for the day. Throughout this experience we will be reading the book Anglo-Saxon Boy to help familiarise ourselves with some of the key historical events that happened during this time.
Discrete Experiences
English - The Lighthouse. For the first few weeks of term we will be creating a narrative based on an animation called 'The Lighthouse'.
Reading - Anglo-Saxon Boy by Tony Bradman. We will be reading this novel throughout Term 1 focussing on the skills of retrieval, prediciton and inference whilst also discussing a range of vocabulary.
Maths- Place Value up - The children will be counting, ordering, comparing, problem solving and reasoning with numbers up to 10,000. Addition and Subtraction - Children will be adding and subtracting numbers to 10,000 using a range of mental and written methods.
PE - Hockey and Dance with a professional dance teacher.
RE - Our key question is; What do Christians learn from the Creation story? Throughout this experience, we will read the creation story and reflect on its meaning.
Wellbeing – In Wellbeing we will be learning how to discuss and manage our emotions.
MFL - In French we will focus on 'Our School' which will include counting in French numbers and school related vocabulary and phrases.
How can you support at home?
Reading
Please ensure children are reading daily at home. This can be recorded in the children's reading records and will be checked regulalry by an adult in school. Further information about home reading can be found in your child's reading record.
Times Tables
Times Tables are extremely important in Year 4. Each child has a login to Times Table Rock Stars to support them with learning their times tables. Please encourage the children to log on and practise regularly at home. We will be organising some Year 4 tournaments and competitions for Times Table Rock Stars, so keep a look out for them in the future.
Recommended book list - Year 4
Max and the Millions – Ross Montgomery
Desirable – Frank Cottrell Boyce
My Brother is a Superhero – David Solomons
There’s a Werewolf in my Tent – Pamela Butchart
The 13 Storey Treehouse – Andy Griffiths
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor – Jon Scie
The Peppermint Pig – Nina Bawden
Operation Gadgetman – Malorie Blackman
The Children of Green Knowe – Lucy Boston
How to train your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
Lizzie Dripping – Helen Cresswell
The Great Elephant Chase – Gillian Cross
The Twitts – Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
War Game – Michael Foreman
Toad Rage – Morris Gleitzman
The Last Castaways – Harry Horse
The Falcon’s Malteser – Anthony Horowitz
The House that Sailed Away – Pat Hutchins
Fairy Tales – Terry Jones
The Hodgeheg – Dick King Smith
The Worst Witch – Kill Murphy
The Way to Sattin Shore – Philippa Pearce
The Firework maker’s Daughter – Philip Pullman
The Suitcase Kid – Jacqueline Wilson
George’s Marvellous Medicine –Roald Dahl
Billionaire Boy – David Williams
Cliffhanger – Jacqueline Wilson
The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth – Eoin Colfer
The Invisible Dog – Dick King Smith
The Battle of Bubble Sqeak – Philippa Pearce
Give Peas a Chance – Morris Gleitzman
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – Michael Morpurgo
The Yearling – Marjorie Rawlings
The Buried Crown - Ally Sherrick
Learning Experiences 2023-2024
Raiders of Settlers
In this experience we will be learning about the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons. About how they came to Britain, lived and eventually left when they were defeated by William the Conqueror.
Winter is looming
In this experience we will be looking at how we can use textiles to create ourselves a book mark. We will be learning about many different techniques to be able to weave. The children will make their own decision about which will be the most effective to create their outcome of a bookmark.
Changes that matter
In this experience we will be looking at the water cycle and how it effects our planet. We will be writing a non chronological report about this for our outcome.
Staycation
In this experience we will be looking at the national parks within England. We will learn about why the became national parks and how they effect tourism in the local area. We will then create an outcome persuading people to go to the national parks.
Learning Experience's 2024 - 2025
Winter is Looming
HOOK
To begin this Art-based experience the class had a go at some paper weaving to familarise themselves with the weft and warp threads.
OUTCOME
Raiders to Settlers
HOOK
An exciting workshop (26th September) led by Viking experts that will teach the children all about life in Anglo-Saxon times and include amulet making, dressing up and a battle simulation.
OUTCOME
Winter is Looming
Winter is Looming
Hook
To begin this Art-based experience the class had a go at some paper weaving to familiarise themselves with the weft and warp threads.
Outcome
The children have each made a wovenbook mark which they can take home and use when reading at home or gift to someone special. Children have used the tabby weave technique to weave their bookmarks, some children have also deepened these skills further by using the closed slot technique to weave multiple colours on the same row and the rya technique to add tassels to the bottom of their bookmark.
