Pavender Class
Children in year 4 are taught in Pavender Class. Pavenders were non-talking, rainbow-coloured fish that lived in the oceans of Narnia. Mrs Reed is our Teacher and our Teaching Assistants are Mrs Thomas, Mr Thomas and Mrs Rowlatt.
What the children say:
Learning is fun in Pavender Class and we always get to do the best work!
Everyone is friendly, kind and helpful. I'm in my 'happy place' here!
What we do:
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.
Literacy
During our Literacy lessons, my pupils will study Colin Thompson’s marvellous book called ‘Castles’. Pavender Class will create their own castle description whilst learning about complex sentence structures. Additionally, they will write a castle poem and also create a biography about Prince Philip who lived in Windsor Castle. SPAG will focus on possessive apostrophes and the present and past progressive tense.
Maths
Our main topic areas this term are:
-Practise all the times tables so that they can recall all of them and the division facts up to 12 x12.
-Comparing, ordering and rounding decimals
-Recognise tenths and hundredths and place them on a numberline.
-Divide 1 or 2 digits by 100.
-Rounding to estimate money
-Use the four operations to solve money problems.
-Telling the time to the nearest minute in the 12 and 24 hour clock.
-Am and Pm
-Comparing time durations and start and end times.
Topic work this term
Our topic this term is Castles. We are going to find out where the Royal residences are in the United Kingdom. We will study Hillsborough Castle, Balmoral Castle and Windsor Castle . We will create a visitor’s guide using videos, images and text which will include the history of the castles, their inhabitants, the geographical location and the local area land use as well as the activities that you can complete there. We are hoping to visit Windsor Castle in term 6 too.
Science
Pavender Class will learn about electrical safety and how to create circuits. Through a variety of experiments, they will find out what makes a good and bad conductor. Then, Year 4 will be challenged to make an electrical buzz wire game.
PE
On Wednesdays, Pavender Class will learn to play rounders. In these lessons, they will develop their understanding of the rules of rounders and learn how to field and bowl.
Royal Architecture and Portraiture
Children will learn about the Royal portrait artists and how they have completed their craft. Then, they will make sketches and draw and paint Prince Philip and the Queen. They will study the architecture of the Royal castles and then practise sketching, drawing and painting one of the Royal residences.
Religious Education
Our RE topic for this term is called, ‘What is the best way for a Jew to show commitment to God? During our lessons, we will learn about the synagogue, the kosher dietary rules and how they worship God.
Please take a look at the Kilve Court presentation.