Year 4 2025 - 2026
Mr Bullen
Welcome to Year 4
The Year 4 team is Mr Bullen (class teacher), Miss Anders (PPA teacher) and Mrs Ross (class TA). We are all looking forward to teaching your children this half term.
If you need to contact the Year 4 team, please catch me at the end of the school day or contact me on joe.bullen@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk
For the spring 1 half term, we will be having a PE session on Monday afternoons. Please make sure your child has their full PE kit on for this day. We will also be going swimming every other Tuesday (normal uniform and swimming kit in a bag please). Dates for swimming are:
Tuesday 6th January
Tuesday 20th January
Tuesday 3rd February
Tuesday 24th February
Tuesday 10th March
Tuesday 24th March
In English we will be reading the text Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit. In our Guided Reading we will be reading a non-fiction text all about Volcanoes. This will link perfectly to our geography unit which looks at our world by focusing on volcanoes!
In Maths, we will be continuing to look at multiplication and division and then looking at graphs and data. Please also encourage your child to complete TTRS as part of their homework. Any problems accessing this please do let me know.
Our computing unit will explore networks and staying safe online. In our DT, we will be looking at British inventors and how they changed how we live today.
Miss Anders will be teaching the science (Danger to living things) and the French this half term.
We will continue to add to our class toolbox with strategies to help us when looking at the Zones of Regulation.
Homework:
Homework tasks will be linked to our learning in school. It should take your child about 20 minutes and it should be able to be completed independently or with some adult support.
Homework will be set on a Friday and is due the following Wednesday.
Reading:
We love reading in Year 4. Children become better readers by practising reading as much as possible. We would encourage children to read with an adult or to be read to at home every day for 10 minutes. Children will bring home a levelled reading book that they can read with you. The children can also take a library book of their choice to read at home or in school. This is to encourage reading for pleasure and to help the children explore their reading! If the children could return their reading books to school on Wednesday, ready for their book change on Thursday.
Times Tables:
Being able to recall times tables quickly and accurately helps children to succeed in all of our Maths lessons. Please help your child at home to practise times tables as much as they can. Questions, chanting and Times Tables Rockstars are all good ways to learn.