Welcome to Year 4 - Dream Class. We have 32 children in Dream class this year, all striving to achieve their own personal goals. I, Miss LeVardi, am the Year 4 teacher and alongside myself will be Mr Abbondandolo and Mrs Bride. Mrs Bride will be working with us in the afternoon and Mr A will be working with us in the morning. We all share the same goal - to guide, support, learn, laugh and make memories. We are looking forward to the exciting, and hard-working, journey ahead!

I can’t believe the year is almost over and we are in our final term of the year. Our aim this term is to ensure the children have fun as well as becoming more secure in the learning they have completed throughout the year.

This term, we will be learning continue our learning. Within English lessons, we will be exploring the text The Great Chocoplot and working on ensuring we are using all our year 4 features within our writing. Our final English unit will be persuasive advertisements. In Maths, we are going to finish the year by completing our position and direction unit and then complete revision to ensure we are confident within all mathematical areas.

In geography, we will be finishing our learning about the local area and we will continue to explore the local area and complete map work within lessons. We will also be completing our learning about transport in History which also links to our local area. Within Science, we are learning about teeth and the digestive system. Within this, we will learn about our different types of teeth and how to look after them. We will also look at the journey our food takes through our digestive system.

Your child's well-being is of vital importance to us and we want to ensure that they are happy and progressing. If you ever have any queries, questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us via my staff email:

elevardi@olsa.lancs.sch.uk

Routines in Class

At the start of the day, children will enter the classroom where they will settle into Number Sense which is a new programme we are using for times tables this year. 

Morning break will be at 11am (other than a Friday which is 10:30am). If you wish, you may send a healthy snack in with your child for them to consume at this time.

Reading:

We ask that you read with your child as often as possible.  Children are expected to quiz fortnightly on Accelerated Reader. This helps aid their fluency and stamina to digest larger volumes of text that are expected within the Year 4 curriculum. Children have also been given an individual target for the term (this is their target from last year in Spring 2). If your child reaches their target or beats it they will have a trip to the park to celebrate their achievement.

PE:

PE in Spring Term will be on Monday Afternoon (Miss LeVardi) and Tuesday Morning (PE with Coach Tom). Children should come into school dressed in their PE kits. This consists of: Black leggings/joggers, PE Top and hoody, jumper or cardigan. Please ensure that all earrings and jewellery are removed for sessions. 

Homework:

Children are expected to complete 4 nuggets on Century Tech each week, 2 maths and 2 literacy. Alongside this, it is important children are practicing their times tables in preparation for the Multiplication Check in the Summer Term

Timetable

Staff contacts:

Miss LeVardi: elevardi@olsa.lancs.sch.uk

Links to Online Resources