Year 4
he Year 4 team is Mrs Molloy, Miss Gee and Mrs Baillie and Miss Richardson.
TLSA's - Miss Hewitt
Mrs Meyers, Mrs Taylor, Mrs Harvey
Welcome to Year 4
AUTUMN Term 2024
We are delighted to welcome your children to Year 4 and we are looking forward to the year ahead with your children.
In English, throughout the year, pupils will be studying a range of literature, including novels, short stories, picture books and poetry. In the Autumn Term, we will begin with, The Promise by Nicola Davies, How to Train your Dragon by Cressida Cowell and Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll.
This term, in Mathematics, pupils will be studying the following units: Place Value, Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division and Perimeter. We will be ensuring that pupils learn their multiplication facts up to 12 x 12 in a fun and engaging way to ensure they are confident and efficient for the statutory assessment in June 2025.
Our first topic in Science is Classification: The children will learn about the variety of living things and how they can be grouped according to shared characteristics. They will use and construct keys to identify animals and plants.
In DPC our topic is ‘Footprints From The Past’. Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago – long before people lived on Earth. No one has ever seen a dinosaur so how do we know anything about them? Fossil evidence and dinosaur bones provide our only clues. Like detectives, we will try to discover what dinosaurs looked like, what they ate and what might have happened to them in the end. As part of this topic, we will visit Oxford History Museum!
In Design & Technology, pupils will be learning about the techniques and skills required to enable them to design, plan and make pop up and movable items using levers. Our Art will link to our dinosaur topic and English, with clay dragon eyes, dinosaur collage and creating our own 3D fantasy dinosaurs.
On the sporting front, the Sports Coaches will lead weekly P.E lessons on Monday afternoons. During the PE rotations, Mrs Doyle will deliver French as part of our MFL curriculum.
All the children will receive weekly guitar lessons on Friday afternoons from Solihull Music Service, this will be a great opportunity for the children to really learn how to play a musical instrument.
The children will take part in the daily mile once again, the perfect chance for the children to move and refresh their bodies ready to continue learning.
It is important also that your child has a water bottle in school and a sensible pencil case ( that will fit into their draw) with pencils, ruler, rubber and glue stick.
Curriculum Overview
You can find more details of the Dorridge Primary Curriculum on the Curriculum and Subject pages on the menu to the left. Please see below a letter to parents that explains the sort of things that are being covered in each of the units.