Welcome to our class page! My name is Miss Patchett and I am the class teacher based in Lapwings four days a week. We also have Mrs White who will be teaching Lapwings all day on a Thursday.

On this page, I will outline what our Summer Term 2 curriculum looks like. If you have any questions about this or anything else, please do not hesitate to contact me; my door is always open. Otherwise, please email: admin@starcross-primary.devon.sch.uk

Key information

• PE days are Tuesday and Thursday. Please come in wearing your PE kit.
• Spelling is set on a Monday via Spelling Frame, where children can practice their spelling. We will then complete a spelling test at school on a
• TTRS is to be completed at least three times a week as well as reading at least 4-5 times a week. Please record any reading at home in their reading records. Records are checked every Friday morning.

Here is a weekly timetable for Lapwings. This term our school theme is ‘Our Wonderful World’ and our Year 4 topic is ‘What wonderful ways do we use our planet?’

Reading

Our Whole Class Reading focus on a Monday and Friday will be Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson. The story begins in London, where Maia, an orphan, is living with her unkind relatives, the Carters. When she receives news that she is to live with distant relatives, the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. Murray, in the Amazon rainforest, she is both nervous and excited. Maia’s journey to Brazil is filled with anticipation as she imagines the exotic and unknown land that awaits her.

Our WCR sessions are supported by the Ashely Booth reading scheme and this term, Tuesday-Thursday, we will be looking at texts exploring rivers, states of matter, novels, classic stories, recycling and sports people.

English

In English this term, our first text is called ‘Edmund Hilary’s Amazing Achievement’ a narrative about a journey to Mount Everest.

This model text will be explored in class to help pupils write their own journey stories.

 Our key objectives will be to:

• Use noun phrases expanded by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and preposition phrases e.g. the teacher expanded to: the strict maths teacher with curly hair.
• Use inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech e.g. The conductor shouted, “Sit down!” – a comma after the reporting clause; end punctuation within inverted commas
• Use fronted adverbials e.g. Later that day, I heard the bad news.
• Use paragraphs to organise ideas around a theme
• Plan, draft and proof-read a story with the purpose of entertaining the reader

After this first unit, we will complete a second unit exploring poetry.

Maths

This half term in Maths, our focus will be money, shape, position and direction. We use the White Rose Maths scheme for Maths lessons, as well as daily flashbacks to ensure that previous learning is embedded. We also have a times table focus in preparation for the multiplication times table check in the Summer as well as mastery maths for 10 minutes a day.

Science

In Science, our focus will be ‘States of Matter’ where we will be exploring and investigating solid, liquids and gases. We will explore how their can be changes to states, investigate melting and evaporation and learn about the water cycle.

Geography

In Geography, children will explore the ways we use our natural world to live, understand human impact on the world, understand sustainability and describe human impact on the water cycle.

Design Technology

In DT, our outcome will be to make a shopping bag. Pupils will use running stitch to join fabric pieces securely, cut fabric safely and accurately, design and make a functional tote bag from a recycled T-shirt and evaluate the strength and appearance of their finished product.

PE

Lapwings PE days are: Monday and Thursday. This half term our focus will be dance and tennis.

French

In French this half term, we will be focusing on ‘Les Vetements’ By the end of this unit pupils will have the knowledge and skills necessary to describe what they are wearing in French by colour. This is a unit that brings together much of the grammar covered in our Intermediate teaching type (nouns, gender, articles/determiners, plurality, adjectival agreement, 1st person verb conjugation) so that pupils can express what they are wearing in full sentences in different scenarios in French.

RWE

Children will focus on the key question ‘How and why do people mark the significant events in life?’ In this unit, pupils will learn about the beliefs of people from different worldviews surrounding commitment and promises. They will discuss the meaning and importance of ceremonies of commitment for religious and non-religious people. They will take time to consider the links between ideas of love, commitment and promises within the ceremonies that they study. Pupils will learn about several rites of passage and use their knowledge to reflect upon whether it is good for everyone to see life as a journey, and to mark the milestones.

PSHE

In PSHE, we use the scheme Jigsaw. This half term, we will be looking at ‘Changing Me’ This unit will focus on being unique, puberty and menstruation, being part of a family, cycles of change, accepting change and looking forward.

Computing