Welcome to Year 4!
This year, we are in mixed Year 3/4 classes and our Year Group Leader is Mrs Cooke (formerly Miss Airey). Our class teachers are Miss Pope, Miss Swainston, Mr Price, Miss Wyatt and Mrs Gleave (formerly Miss Parkes). Mrs Hill, Mrs Dale, Mrs Iveson and Miss Dixon also work with us to assist within the classrooms.
If you have any concerns throughout the year, it would be best to discuss this with your class teacher or Mrs Cooke after school or you can message them via Class Dojo. Alternatively, you can call the reception to book a meeting with your child’s class teacher.
Below you will find some of the exciting things that we have planned for the upcoming year. Please be aware this may be changed and updated throughout the year.
Our curriculum
At Sir Donald Bailey, we are always looking to improve our curriculum to ensure that children are getting the very best education possible. This is no different in Year 3 and 4 where we will be reviewing and improving our curriculum from previous years. We try and ensure that there are curriculum links where possible so that our children become immersed in a topic.
We cover brilliant history topics such as The Romans and The Ancient Greeks and science topics such as the water cycle, healthy eating, electricity and sound. Throughout the year, we will have days dedicated to some of these topics and where appropriate, we will have expert visitors into school to speak to the children about their specialist areas.
Spellings
Each week, children will be given a set of spellings to learn. It would be great if you could support your children to practise these regularly at home.
PE
Full school PE kits should be in school all week. Please bring them in on a Monday morning and leave them in school until the Friday afternoon. All children will have two PE lessons per week but the days of these lessons may change. In the summer term, the children will have swimming lessons. More information regarding swimming lessons will be given closer to the time.
Robinwood Residential
In Spring term, the year 4 children will be going to Robinwood Activity Centre in Todmorden where they will take part in various fun-filled activities over a three day period. This is a great residential and it will be a trip to remember. Please find a link to the website below:Â https://www.robinwood.co.uk/
Roman Day
During summer term, the children will get the opportunity to dress up as Romans and will take part in a day that involves various Roman activities such as Latin writing, Roman marching, games and the chance to look at some real Roman artifacts.
If you have any enquiries or queries please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Year 3/4 team.
