Welcome to St Andrew Year 4

Class Teacher: Miss O'Reilly

oreie048@mastacademy.co.uk

Our Curriculum

We adopted a curriculum which is published by Cornerstones. English and all foundation subjects: History, Geography, Art, DT and Music are taught through our termly theme. Cornerstones will provide our children with a good level of challenge, giving them opportunities to solve problems, apply themselves creatively and express their knowledge and understanding across the full range of National Curriculum subjects.

Year 4 will experience 3 Imaginative Learning Projects in a year. Each individual project is split into sections, which see children progress through four stages of learning: Engage, Develop, Innovate and Express. We are confident that our curriculum will instill a curiosity and love of learning/school in our children. It will help them maintain their well-being and provide opportunities for each of them to achieve their full potential. In every lesson and homework piece, we make sure that there is an accessible challenge to extend learning and we even have a termly curriculum challenge for all the whole school to take part in! We have a daily maths lesson that is taught using our school scheme ‘Third Space Learning’.

Our Topic for Term 1 & 2: Ancient Civilisations 

This term, our exciting history topic is all about Ancient Civilisations! We will explore:

• Daily life in ancient Sumer and ancient Egypt: Learning about what life was like in the ancient civilisations. 
• History & Artefacts: Looking at the inventions of the people of ancient Sumer to see how these impacted their way of living and have changed over time.

Key Texts We Are Reading:

• Secrets of a Sun King - Emma Carroll
• Casting the Gods adrift - Geraldine McCaughrean

Other important information:

In St Andrew, we need to bring our PE kits in on Mondays and Thursdays. 

In addition to the reading, spelling and times tables practice we are expected to do each night, we are given homework on Friday and are expected to return it to school on Thursday the following week. 

Our Behaviour Policy

At All Saints school we have a very simple set of rules that apply to every child in every class. The rules are displayed in each learning space. 

Our school rules are:

To ARISE and shine:

We stay seated

We listen to each other

We use indoor voices 

We are organised for learning

Use the links below to access key information and support your child's learning