Silkstone Primary School

Welcome to Class Four

In class 4 your children will be working with Mrs Dolan on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Miss Sivakumaran on a Thursday and Friday (whilst Mrs Ruddock is on Maternity Leave). Mrs Hopewell is the teaching assistant who will work alongside us all week.

To support your child with their learning it is important to listen to them read at least 3 times a week, help them to learn the spelling patterns on edshed and practise their times tables on TT Rockstars. We ask that the reading record is handed in on a Thursday so that we can see how reading is going at home. We truly believe that being able to read opens our mind up to new ideas, creative imaginations and the learning of new vocabulary. Reading with and to children is still so important and so where you can find time or opportunity to do this it will really benefit your child..

Each Friday we will take part in our times table champion challenge. To become a times-table champion, the children will need to work through their times-tables (up to the 12 times-table), passing the required time for each set. They will then move onto the Hot 132! There are two of these! In this test, they will have to answer all 132 multiplication and division facts, comprising facts from all the times-tables. Once you have completed the hot 132 your child will have opportunity to extend their rapid recall to higher number such as 14 x, 15 x, 16x, 17x and the inverse. Your child will be challenged to complete this in less than 7 min and 30sec to become the ultimate times table champion! Your child will bring home their test with a score and time on so you can see how well they are achieving.

PE is on a Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon so please make sure your child has their PE Kit in school on these days.

On a Monday your child will be learning the ukulele and they need to remember to bring their instrument back in on a Monday.

We are happy to meet with any parent if you have any concerns or queries.

We look forward to a great year with your children.

Curriculum Map Autumn 2025

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Academic Year 2024-2025

Our Curriculum Map for the Spring Term

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We are Designers

We designed and carefully cut out and sewed these beautiful stockings for Christmas.

We are Poets

Creating and performing Shape Poetry.

We are Artists

Creating shape painting using masking tape.

Developing animation in Computing

We are Romans

We had a fabulous day living as Roman soldiers at Murton Park.

We are Artists

We created Still Life collages inspired by Paul Cezanne.

We are Writers

We are using drama to help us develop our characters and settings in our writing.

We are Scientists

We explored our school grounds to find minibeasts as part of our learning in science and recorded our findings carefully.

Mile Run

We all did our best to run a mile around the school to raise funds for Epilepsy Action. We were really proud of our achievement.

Curriculum Map Autumn 2024

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Academic Year 2023-2024

Mini Mudder

We were covered in mud and had a brilliant time on the Mini Mudder Challenge.

Sports Day

We had a great time at Sports Day, taking part in lots of races and cheering on our friends.

D.T. Moving Monsters

Class 4 have been looking at pneumatic mechanisms and created their own moving monsters.

Year 4 Cricket

Year 4 enjoyed learning different cricket skills.

Summer Term Curriculum Overview

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We are Scientists

States of Matter - Investigating particle movement in solids. liquids and gases. To help us to understand how the particles behave in solid materials, liquids and gases we worked collaboratively using our bodies to represent the different states. Some of us were particles in a solid. Some of us were particles in a liquid and some of us represented the particles in a gas.

Which chocolate will melt the fastest? In Y4 we have investigated the effects of temperature on different chocolate types to find out which chocolate melts the quickest. We predicted, we identified what would make a fair test, we carried out the investigation in small groups, we compared our results and concluded our findings. We had a great afternoon!