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Year 4 Cedar Class 2026 - 2027

Mrs Lloyd

Meet the Cedar Class Team

Support Staff: Mrs Swindells and Mrs Thompson


Mrs Lloyd (Class Teacher)	Miss Lambert (PPA Teacher)

Miss Choy (HLTA)	Mrs Thompson (TA)	Mrs Swindells (TA)

Curriculum Information for Autumn 2

English

In our English lessons this term we will be focusing on Non Fiction. We will be learning about how to write successful explanations with our model text – How can we keep our teeth healthy? We will move onto Non Chronological reports about trains and finish the half term with a poetry unit based on the poem ‘From a railway carriage’ by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Reading

In our guided reading lessons we will be reading ‘The train to impossible places’ by P.G.Bell. We will focus on drawing inferences (inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions) and justifying them with evidence from the text, discussing words and phrases that capture the reader’s interest and imagination as well as identifying the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising.

Maths

In our maths lessons this term we will be working on Unit 4 and 5.

In Unit 4 we will be learning about measuring area. In this unit we will learn how to what area means, find areas of shapes by counting squares, draw shapes with different areas and compare the areas of different shapes.

In Unit 5 we will be learning multiplication and division. In this unit we will multiply and divide by 0 and 1, learn all of our times tables from 1 to 12, understand related division and multiplication facts and multiply three numbers.

Design Technology (DT)

In our design and technology lessons this term we will be exploring Cooking and Nutrition and learn how to adapt a recipe. We will be investigating biscuits, designing our own choosing ingredients based on a budget, making the biscuits and creating the packaging for our biscuits. We will be focusing on target audience to ensure that our biscuits and packaging are suitable for either children or adults.

Geography

In our Geography lessons this term we will learning about North and South America and be exploring the answer to the question: Can you come on a Great American road trip? We will be learning about the countries in North and South America, learning about important physical and human features and landmarks, compare cities in North and South America and go on a journey along Route 66.

Science

In our Science lessons we will be learning about Sound. We will be exploring how sounds are made, how they travel and how we hear them. We will perform a series of experiments to find out about explore pitch and what happens when sounds are heard over different distances.

Computing

In our Computing lessons we will be learning coding with Scratch. We will be exploring variables, use conditions and sensors to control what happens in a Scratch game, create variables to keep a score, debug and evaluate our games.

In our PE lessons we will be learning dance and balls skills.

In our dance lessons we will be copying and creating actions in response to an idea, choose actions related to a theme e.g. spy and carnival, develop a dance using matching and mirroring, learn and create dance moves in the theme of spy and carnival, use formations, canon and unison to develop a dance phrase and perform it.

In our ball skills lessons we will be developing our tracking and collecting skills, build confidence and accuracy when tracking a ball, develop our dribbling with our hands and feet, practice catching with one and two hands, practice throwing and develop our tracking and sending skills with our feet.

French

In our French lessons we will be learning about French traditions during the Epiphany and learning about the months of the year.

PHSE

In our PHSE lessons our topic is How can I make healthy choices? We will be learning about what a balanced diet is, investigating how physical exercise affects the body, how to keep our energy up throughout the day, how to support others, how to respond when things feel hard and why helping others is good for us.

In our RE lessons we will be learning about Christianity. We will be exploring the answer to the questions -Why do Christians think about Incarnation at Christmas? What is the trinity? We will be exploring how different bibles tell the story of the Nativity, learn about the Christingle and how it helps us develop our understanding of incarnation, find out why incarnation is an important concept in Christianity, investigate how Christians around the world celebrate the incarnation and how we can think more deeply about incarnation using Christmas carols.

Music

In our music lessons we will learning about body and tuned instruments. We will be having lessons with our visiting music teacher, Mr Taylor.

Important Information for Autumn 2

PE- Year 4 will have their PE sessions on Monday and Wednesday.

PE Uniform:

Team colour t-shirt
Plain black shorts
Black pumps for indoor PE
Trainers for outdoor PE
Black Tracksuits, sweatshirts and leggings can be worn for outdoor PE in colder weather
Ear rings must be removed and long hair must be tied back

Reading Book Changes

Expectations

It is expected that all children will read at home at least five times each week. This can be a mixture of reading with support from an adult and independent reading. It can be their home reader, a magazine, newspaper, library book, or any other book that your child would enjoy reading. All home reading should be recorded in home-school diaries, this can be as simple as individual date and signature and the book that has been read as well as comment about how your child has read.

All children at Whitby Heath read daily in class whether it be on a 1:1 basis or working within group. As a school, we aim for ‘Strive for Five’. Using our Dojo reward system to celebrate this achievement. As a result, parents will receive a notification of this via the Dojo app as well as children receiving a stamp in their Reading Record indicating their total number of reads each week.

Each child has an allocated day that their book/s will be changed, linked to their house teams:

Donaldson- Monday

Seuss- Tuesday

Dahl- Wednesday

Rowling- Thursday

In school, we use children’s Reading Records to keep a record of what the children are reading rather than a dialogue between parents and school. We love to see parent comments about how they have got on if you have listened to them reading aloud or have asked them some questions about what they have read. We look forward to catching up with parents about children's reading progress in our parent’s evenings.

Homework Information

Mirodo tasks: Set every week

English homework will be set every week on Class Dojo. This will consist of a spelling activity or an oracy activity. It will be rotated on a two week basis.

Times Tables

Please also practice the times tables that your child is on. Children are tested twice every week and cannot move on to the next times table until they have passed their current level three times. This includes multiplication and division.

ClassDojo

Should parents need to contact the Year 4 team please send a direct message through ClassDojo. All communication from school will be shared in this way.

Other useful websites for learning at home

Mirodo:

https://app.mirodoeducation.com/login

Mathsframe for the MTC

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check