Oak - Year 4

Welcome to Oak Class 2025-26

In Oak Class, the children are taught by Miss Clear, with Mrs Cox teaching Music and French on Thursday afternoons and they are supported by Miss Snowdon and Mrs Grice.

The curriculum overview for Year 4 Sping term is attached below. Please have a look to see the learning that will take place this term.

Key information

• Learning practice will be set and due in on Mondays. See more information below.

• PE will be on Friday afternoons therefore children are to come to school in their PE kit. This may take place outside or in the school hall.

• Forest school starts on Tuesday 13th January for 6 weeks..

• Swimming will be on Mondays from 8th September - 13th October.

• Renaissance Learning link to access Accelerated Reader for quizzing - Renaissance Learning Login

• Our residential to Kilve will be from Wednesday 20th to Friday 22nd May.

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Learning Practise

• Children are provided with a learning practise folder. The learning practise sheet for each week will be added to this each Monday and will be completed and brought back to school by the following Monday.
• The answers are provided for children to mark their learning practise at home.
• Below is the expectation for Year 4:

Daily: ten minutes of reading school reading book every night. Record in reading journal for each book read.

Daily: Times Table Rockstars – games-based website supporting times table learning.

Weekly: 10 spellings for all children

Weekly: Maths, English grammar or English comprehension practise (answers given)

Half termly: Topic menu (6 tasks and complete a minimum of 2)

Learning updates

Thursday 15th January

In English, the children have written and published haiku poems about the seasons - these are on display on our cloakroom if you would like to come and see them one day at pick up time. Now the children are learning how to write a quest narrative linked to our new class book ' Varjak Paw' by SF Said.

In maths, the children have already mastered adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator and are now investigating equivalent fractions. 

The children really enjoyed their first Forest School lesson on Tuesday afternoon which had a first aid focus. The children learnt how to put someone in the recovery position, how to effectively bandage a wound that is bleeding, how to tie a sling securely and much more.

Friday 10th October

Oak Class had a great time playing inter house hockey matches in PE. The children tried hard to apply the skills we have been developing in PE lessons - dribbling, passing and tackling. There was excellent sportsmanship throughout the matches with children celebrating each others successes. In English, the children recorded themselves reading their persuasive speeches and we will soon e find out who is the most persuasive class member! Oak Class have also been working hard on their times tables and they have completed their first multiplication check of the year.

Friday 26th September

Oak Class are enjoying our new writing unit which is leading to us writing persuasive speeches to share with our class. This week we have been building our persuasive writing skills using conjunctions and emotive language. In maths we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 with increasing accuracy and we have been learning our three times table. In science we have been using data loggers to investigate the volume of sounds and the reasons they get louder and quieter. 

Friday 12th September

The children have made a fantastic start to the year and lots of great learning has been taking place in Oak Class. We are enjoying our first class book of the year 'The Queen's Nose' and our daily reading lessons linked to it. In writing, we have been using the idea of wishes from our class book to practise the writing skills of using prepositions, adverbs and adjectives purposefully. We had lots of fun in our first history lesson of the year when we acted out the events that lead up to the Anglo-Saxons arriving in England. The children have been busy in PE learning how to dribble a ball with control and precision in hockey and we had a brilliant swimming lesson on Monday.