Tamarisk Class (Year 4)

Welcome to Tamarisk Class

Staff

Class Teachers: Mrs Collins and Mrs Hobby

Class Teaching Assistant: Mrs Traves and Mrs Luckhurst

Term 1 Key Information

Tuesday 1st September 2026 - First Day of Term
Friday 4th September - FRIENDS tea and talk
Saturday 12th September - FRIENDS Boot Fair
WB Monday 14th September - Staff Run Clubs
Tuesday 15th September - Photographs
Monday 21st September - School Harvest Festival
Wednesday 30th September - Pop in Wednesday
Friday 2nd October - FRIENDS Bingo ( adults only in the evening)
WB Monday 5th October - Black History Month
Friday 18th October - FRIENDS Barn dance disco for children
Friday 23rd October - FRIENDS non uniform day

-Last day of term

Term 1 Connected Learning

This term, our learning question is: Should animals be kept in a zoo?

Through our Connected Learning, we will be learning about the key aspects of physical geography, which include climate zone, biomes and vegetation belts. We will also be focusing on the environmental regions around the world n particular the natural environments for gorillas and apes.

In English this term we will be reading 'Gorilla' by Anthony Browne, where we will write our own narratives based on the story. The children will earn how to use fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases effectively through their writing. In our Guided Reading we have a book called 'A Myth Hunter's Travel Guide by Tom Button, where we will be developing our skills in using dictionaries and using retrieval skills to find key facts from non-fiction text.

As part of our science, we will be exploring Humans and other animals; where the children will begin to understand the digestive system and the function of their teeth. They will learn about nutrition and aiming for a balanced diet to keep our bodies healthy.

In Maths, We will begin the year with securing and building on our understanding of place value with numbers up to 10,000. The children will be partitioning, ordering and comparing numbers in a variety of ways. We will begin to build on our times table knowledge by securing our 2,5 and 10 times tables and then starting on our Mastery in Number learning so that we can recall our multiplication facts mentally.

Finally, in RE, we will learn about the Creation story, where we will begin to explore the question 'What do Christians learn from the Creation story?' We will look at Genesis and how we can become caretakers of the world.

Forest school on Wednesdays

PE - Thursdays

Key Texts