Bishops Cannings CofE (Aided) Primary School

In Pavender Class we cover all subjects within the National Curriculum. We focus on the enjoyment of our learning as well as challenging ourselves in all subjects. Everyone works really hard to achieve their best in all areas of school life.  Our literacy work is often cross-curricular and makes links to work in science, geography and history. In Maths, we build on and develop skills learnt in previous years. We cover the four methods of calculation, then moving on to problem solving. In addition to this, we study data handling, shape space and measure. We do our best to give children practical experiences in Maths for example through cooking and measuring.

History - Bronze Age

They will discover the secrets of Stonehenge, the Amesbury Archer and how different artefacts tell us about the past. After researching into the Bronze Age, they will realise how the introduction of bronze had a significant impact during this period of time. In our lessons, we will find out about their religion, music, art housing and farming methods.

Science- Habitats and Living Things

Pavender Class will to ask questions about their local habitats and they will carefully observe and record the living things in the local area. They will create classification keys too.

Literacy

During our Literacy lessons, my pupils will study different characters and settings within a story. They will have the opportunity to create their own story whilst learning about inverted commas and different sentence structures. Additionally, they will complete an explanation text which describes how toys are constructed. Also, they will learn to use expanded noun phrases, adverbs, apostrophes, commas, prepositional phrases and determiners.

PE-Gymnastics and Dance

On Wednesdays, Pavender Class will have gymnastics or dance sessions. In these  lessons, they will develop their balancing, jumping and rolling skills. In both gymnastics and dance lessons, the children will devise sequences that they will perform to others.

Coding

Year 4 will be taught how to create basic code to make characters move around the screen. They will also learn to debug their programming.

Maths

Our main topic areas in maths this term are:

· Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers

· • Compare and order numbers with up to 2 decimal places

· • Read Roman numerals to 100

· • Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000

· • Multiply and divide

Animation

Barry, Berrie and Bingo

We have created our stage sets and written our play.  Also, the children had fun making Bingo the wild pig. Our next step is to make  Barry, Berrie and the sabre tooth tiger from plasticine. Following this, they will create musical sound effects and practise the different voice overs for each character. Once we have completed all of these elements, we will be ready to record our film.