Year 4 - Bison Class

Welcome to Bison Class

Class Teacher: Mr Cullen

Teaching Assistant: Miss Watson

For information on why 'Bison' was chosen as our class animal, please check out the amazing work going on at Blean here: https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/projects/wilder-blean

Term 2

Welcome back everyone! I hope we all had an amazing October holiday and are now ready to continue our learning journey in year 4. We have lots of new and exciting learning this term, and I am very excited to see how much we all learn and the progress we make.

Enquiry Question - Geography

Why do so many people in the world live in megacities?

Throughout this topic, we will be learning what makes a city a 'megacity'. We will look at the benefits of megacities as opposed to smaller cities/towns and village life. We will locate the megacities around the world and compare the population statistics. We will look at the world's first ever megacity - Baghdad. It is a truly incredible look at the way humans organise themselves in this topic.

Forest School

Our Forest School days are: Thursday 7th, 14th and 21st November

Please send your child into school wearing their school uniform with a Forest School kit in a bag. Please ensure the Forest School clothes are appropriate for the weather that day.

Please send in wellies that can be kept in school to utilise the outdoor learning spaces every day.

Our PE lessons will be on a Monday afternoon. This term, we will be learning Rugby. Please send the children into school with their PE kits in their bag. Please ensure the PE kits are suitable for outdoor PE - we will try and learn outside when the weather allows.

Reading

Our book this term is: Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.

This is an amazing story about a British family that face hard times so choose to sail around the world on a year-long adventure. Disaster soon strikes and our main character finds himself in a nightmarish position. Michael Morpurgo is a fantastic author who has written many amazing children's books.

Please encourage your child to read every day at home! The more children read the better they perform in all areas of their life.

Please contact our teaching team if you would like any support with reading at home.

Key skills

All children have log-in details for Spelling Shed and TTRockstars. We would encourage children to avoid/limit screen time; however, if they are using a device, please encourage the children to practice their key skills of spelling and times tables with websites like these.

The Term 2 knowledge organisers below provide information on our learning for this term.

Teachers can be contacted via Class Dojo if you have any questions or queries regarding the home learning.

Please click here to access extra phonics, reading and spelling resources.

Please click here to access links to other useful home learning resources published online.

If you are unsure of any log in details please contact the teacher through Class Dojo or email office@pilgrims-way.kent.sch.uk