Welcome to the Hawks (Year 4)

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Class Teacher

Class: Hawks 

Year: 4

English: This term we will be focussing on 2 units – Summer Term 1 - Non-chronological reports where the children will make a zoo information board for a rainforest exhibit and summer term 2 -explanations and letters where the children will write a letter in role as an expert containing an explanation about cave formation.

Maths:  Multiplication tables are a focus throughout the year.

For summer Term 1 we will be looking at Place Value and calculations as well as Geometry and for Summer Term 2 our focus will be statistics and calculation and problem solving including measure. 

Science: This term we will be looking at Animals including humans, where the children will gain an understanding of the major organs and their purpose within the body. The digestive system and its importance as well as the different types of teeth and their structure and uses. Following on from this will be additional lessons taught on food webs and food chains.

Design and Technology: This term the children will look at healthy food and will design and make a healthy snack i.e. a pitta bread wrap. 

History:  This term the topic is going to be Crime and Punishment where the children will be introduced to the broad trends of crime and punishment from the Romans to the 21st century. 

Geography:  This term the unit is Climate Zones and Vegetation Belts where the children will learn about lines of latitude and the different climates in a variety of countries as well as biomes and vegetation belts and the connections between these and climate. 

Art: Art will be linked to our Animals including Humans unit our Climate Zones and Vegetation Belts unit.

Music: All the learning in this unit is focused around one song: Blackbird by The Beatles - a song about civil rights.

Physical Education: This term the PE units will be Tennis and Athletics. 

Computing: This term we will be programming sprites in scratch and looking at databases.

Religious Education (RE): The units for this term will look at the impact of the Pentecost for Christians and how and why people mark the significant events of life. 

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE):  I’m unsure what to put for this.

Modern Foreign Languages: This term we will be learning about to express ourselves when we are feeling unwell and will be able to say which parts of the body are hurting. The children will then move onto learning jungle animal names and being able to describe those using adjectives. 

Citizenship: British values will be an ongoing theme for the whole school throughout the term.

You can contact the Mrs Thorne at:

hawks@martinwilson.shropshire.sch.uk