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Welcome to Year 4!

Our teachers in Year 4 are:

Hi, I'm Mr Kidd and I am a Year 4 Teacher who teaches Einstein class. I am also a member of the Senior Leadership Team which means I help make decisions that affect the whole school. I am in charge of Year 3 and 4 and make sure the children are learning well and making good progress and I am also a Designated Safeguarding Lead. In the summer, I run the rounders club for Year 5 and 6. In my spare time, I am a football referee and play cricket for a team in Coventry. 

Hello everyone, I'm Miss Thomas and I teach Pankhurst class. Before teaching, I was a gymnastics coach and continue this through my clubs with year 5 and 6 in Spring term. I am the Computing lead at Queens and most of you will see me on Safer Internet Day. Outside of school, I do many varieties of dance which I have pursued since I was 4 years old! 

I am Mr Bolus, a Year 4 teacher at Queens and currently teach Chanel class. I am subject lead for Design and Technology. In my spare time I enjoy participating in a range of sports (particularly football) and enjoy watching Coventry City play as well as socialising with my friends and family. I also like drawing, painting and  gaming. 

Spring Term Curriculum In Action 

In Spring 2, we will be focussing on the big question 'Should we save the Rainforest?' in Geography. We also have an amazing rainforest explorers workshop to kick-start our topic off! In Science, we are moving on to Chemistry with a focus on Solids, Liquids and Gases, thinking about the particle structures of these and applying it to things we use in every day life.

In Writing, we are going to be looking at persuasive adverts and sustainability - in line with our rainforest topic - to come up with alternatives for plastic straws. If you would like to see what our inspiration is, you can visit the Stroodles website! 

In Maths, we are continuing to look at fractions, moving onto equivalent fractions and converting improper fractions to a mixed number and vice versa. 

Our Re topic this term is all about Good Friday, in the run up to Holy week. We will be answering the question 'Why do Christians call the day that Jesus dies 'Good Friday?' whilst also looking at the importance of Palm Sunday and what we now know as Easter Sunday. 

In Spring 1, our English focus was on Fiction texts. Our children read the 'Dreams' chapter of the BFG and rewrote their own dreams based on a job role that they admire. The children became experts in using Roald Dahl's Gobblefunk words and imitating the BFG's speech. 

In Maths, we began with a focus on measures and ended the term beginning to look at adding and subtracting fractions. Our Science topic this term was classification. As part of this topic, we took part in an animal classification workshop in December at the Think Tank Birmingham. The children enjoyed doing an animal hunt in the school's ground and classifying these based on individual characteristics. 

Our History focus has been Dragon Slayers, in reference to the vicious Vikings. This followed on nicely from our Angles to Angels topic in Autumn 2 and we dove into the Viking's invasion of Lindisfarne and the importance this had. At the end of the half term, our children wrote a diary entry from the perspective of an Anglo-Saxon monk that, fortunately, survived the Lindisfarne attack.