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The school day begins promptly at 8.50. Children are encouraged into school and then straight up into their classrooms from 8.30am onwards. It is essential for your child to attend school everyday and to be in class on time.

The school office and class teacher should be notified of all absences.

The school day finishes at 3.20 and children can be collected from the KS2 playground.

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Penn Wood school has a strong community feel and to enhance the feeling of unity the school has a uniform which is smart, practical and appropriate for the school environment. Please ensure that your child wears the appropriate school uniform daily, which also includes flat, black shoes. We would also like to remind you that jewellery is not allowed apart from plain ear studs and watches. As the weather begins to get colder and you start to think about buying your child a new coat, please ensure that their school coat is plain and a dark colour.

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Oak - Tuesday and Wednesday PE lessons

Beech - Monday and Tuesday PE lessons
Chestnut - Monday and Tuesday PE lessons

As part of the National Curriculum, all children must partake in physical education. In order for your child to participate in PE lessons, they must come to school in a clean PE kit. Appropriate trainers for outdoor PE is essential for Health and Safety reasons.

Children will be allowed to arrive to school in their PE kits and not need to bring their school uniform on these days.

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Spelling practice – test on a Friday

Times tables and quick recall of number facts—(daily)

Microsoft Teams Reading - this will be set weekly or bi-weekly

In addition, extra homework will be sent home if your child’s teacher feels it will help your child to practice what they have learnt in school that day.

Your assistance in ensuring that your child completes the above homework to a good standard would be greatly appreciated.

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All Year 4 children are expected to read for a minimum of 20 minutes daily (this should be from a mix of genre and should also include both Fiction and Non-fiction texts) and they should complete their reading records each day.

When children have finished reading a book, they should upload a book review onto their class Reading Padlet.

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We will be reading a range of texts including class novels such as Kensuke's Kingdom and Why the Wales Came by Michael Morpurgo.

Investigating the following:
• setting and characters
• the characters’ choices
• the writers’ use of language
• discussions around children’s rights
• links to History, Geography and PSHE
• Reading and writing a range of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

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We will be learning about:

Place value

Number – Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division

Length and Perimeter

Time

Properties of Shape

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We will be learning:

months of the year

numbers to 31

the sentence structure, "mon anniversaire est le," "ton anniversaire est le."

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The children will learn:

to name major rivers of the world

the features of a river system, e.g. source, mouth, tributary, waterfall, meander.

how erosion shapes and changes a river over time

the human use of rivers for trade, food and transport

how major rivers such as the Thames and the Nile shape human settlements along them

how humans have changed rivers like the Thames to protect themselves from flooding, e.g. the construction of the Jubilee river.

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We will learn:

- to identify common appliances that run on electricity

- construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers

- identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery

- recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit 

- recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

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The children will learn:

how the Egyptian civilisation grew up around the River Nile, which supported farming and trade

how their use of irrigation made them successful farmers, growing their civilisation further

how their developing of building, mining and quarrying, as well as the invention of medicines and paper, left a significant impact on the ancient world

the Egyptians approach to the afterlife, and why mummification was used

how the civilisation developed between the Old and New Kingdoms

how archaeological discoveries such as the discovery of Tutankhamen have taught historians a lot about the era

how the discovery of the Rosetta stone led to the decoding of hieroglyphs and how hieroglyphs taught historians about the era

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Children will learn about:

how to stay safe when riding a bike or scooter

the consequences of bike or road accidents, and the impact on others

the role of emergency services in keeping us safe, and which emergency service to request

what is meant by a balanced diet

understand nutritional information on food and what it means

how too much sugar, salt or saturated fat can have a negative effect on our bodies

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We will be learning:

the violin as an instrument– focus on four strings, pizzicato playing

how to play instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency and control

to use and understand staff notation- pitch notation, crotchet, minim rhythms

how to sing together

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Children will learning about:

Judaism

What is the best way for a Jew to lead a good life?

Christianity.

What is the most significant part of the nativity story for Christians today?

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Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome to a new school year. The children have settled in very well and seem to be looking forward to the challenges of another important educational year, with a multiplication test taking place in June.

Miss Wooller, Miss Hitzman and Mr Khan have all noticed the mature attitude of the children and the determined start they have made to their studies.