Year 4 2024 - 2025
Mr Bedford
Mrs Meyer
Mrs Burrows
Welcome to Year 4
The team - Mr Bedford, Mrs Burrows and Mrs Meyer (teaching Mr Bedford's class on Mondays and Mrs Burrows's class on Tuesdays).
Mr Bedford's class is known as Chaffinch and Mrs Burrows's class is known as Goldfinch.
Our Spring Term topic is:
Were the Marshalls worth their salt?
A local history unit. We will be learning about:
- How the Romans were the first to discover and extract salt in Northwich.
- How salt was transported along saltways.
- The building of canals and how that changed our local area.
- The history of the Marshall family.
- How salt was mined in our local area.
- How salt pans worked.
- How our local area has changed over time and how it has been shaped by the salt industry.
Alongside our topic, we will be learning about:
Art & design: Lowry (using a restricted palette, mixed media)
Computing: data logging, programming-repetition in shapes.
Science: living things and their habitats.
PE: gymnastics, badmington, invasion games- rugby skills, hockey skills.
RE: - Christianity- parables, Easter concepts.
PSHE: - exploring friendship, fair trade - children's lives in other countries.
MFL - Greetings in French, family.
Click here for the full Key Stage 2 Curriculum Overview
P.E Days
Mrs Burrows's Class- Tuesday & Friday
Mr Bedford's Class - Monday & Friday
Homework
Homework will be set on Mondays on Teams and should be handed in by Friday. It can be handed in over the course of the week. There is no need to wait until Friday.
Celebration assemblies
These will be on Fridays at 9am, every third week. You will get a message from school if your child is receiving an award in assembly.
If you need to get in touch with a member of the Year 4 team, please phone or email the school office, speak to us on the playground at home time or write in your child's diary.