Welcome to Class 4

All About us

General Information

In Class 4, we follow a broad and balanced curriculum to allow our children to be independent and successful learners, develop independence and be responsible citizens. We are ambitious in Class 4 and want children to build strong, positive relationships with both staff and their peers, this will then allow them to be confident individuals and prepare them for adulthood. Class 4 have PE and also work with a music specialist on a Wednesday afternoon who supports the delivery of our music curriculum.

Throughout the year we will cook a variety of sweet and savoury items. This will link to our chosen topics within each term. We will also be looking at how to prepare food safely and hygienically, as well as looking at healthy options.

As a school we also have 2 mini buses, which we try to use as much as possible during the school year to experience Culture Capital. Children will visit local Museums, and Binchester Roman Fort linking to our history topic about ‘Roman Britain’. We will also explore our local area looking at power prints before creating our own linking to Roman Britain, using inspiration from the work of our chosen artist Favianna Rodriguez. We are also going to have the opportunity to participate and conduct our own experiments linking to our topic ‘States of matter’ in Science.

English

In Class 4 we aim to teach our English Curriculum using a class book. Currently our focus is on the genre playscripts. Our chosen class story is The Twits written by Roald Dahl. Children will explore this story and use it as inspiration to create their own playscript before we introduce persuasive writing, where children will become estate agents and try to sell The Twits house!

Maths

As a school we follow the White Rose long term plan, encouraging children to develop their learning using the concrete – pectoral – abstract approach (CPA). Children also practice their times tables in numerous ways including Times Table Rock Stars. Children further develop their knowledge each morning on arrival to school by completing daily morning calculations involving the main four operations as well as calculations based upon current and previous topics.