Saturn Class

Autumn Term

2026-2027

Miss Rennolds, Mrs Board, Mrs Harney and Mrs White,  Miss Shearing,  Mrs Cheshire and Mrs Appleton welcome you to Saturn Class and look forward to working with you this academic year.  Year 4 is a great year with lots of exciting projects and opportunities.

Miss Rennolds will teach Tuesday -Friday, Mrs Board will teach on Monday and Mrs Harney will cover PPA on a Tuesday afternoon.

Remember to check Class Dojo for class news and updates.

Maths

The children will be learning about place value, addition and subtraction, area and multiplication and division.  They will complete a sheet of 60 multiplication calculations daily starting with a mix of 2s, 5s and 10s, this is to prepare them for the MTC check in June when the children will need to recall all facts up to 12 x 12 at speed.

 

Spelling

Spelling includes daily and weekly spelling activities that are built on the fundamentals of teaching spelling with strong phonetic foundations.   We also  use  Emile spelling which is a comprehensive, progressive and detailed scheme for teaching and learning spelling effectively. https://emile-education.com/

TWS
Autumn 1

Digestion – Explanation

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse – Narrative

Autumn 2

Still I Rise – Poetry

Arthur and the Golden Rope – Narrative

Reading

The children will need their reading book in school daily and should aim to read for at least ten minutes five times a week at home.  Reading is power and the gateway to learning and knowledge.  We will have regular whole class reading sessions to work on fluency, accuracy, prosody and automaticity.  The children will complete activities to develop their comprehension skills.

Geography
Adventures Across the Americas

What can we discover about the Americas by exploring their climates and countries?

History
Autumn 2

Invaders and Settlers-The Anglo Saxons
Who were the Anglo-Saxons and why did they come to Britain?

Science
Autumn 1
Eat, Chew, Digest.

What do our teeth and digestive organs do when we eat?

Autumn 2
The Science of Sound

What do vibration, pitch and volume tell us about how sound works?

Art
Autumn 2
The Power of Colour

How do warm and cool colours change the feeling in art?

DT
Autumn 1
Preserve it.

What makes food decay and how can we slow it down?

Music

Autumn 1

Samba drumming

The children will learn to play samba rhythms on a variety of percussion instruments and create a class Samba band. We will finish with a performance to the parents.

Computing
Autumn 2

Learners will apply their knowledge and understanding of networks, to appreciate the internet as a network of networks which need to be kept secure. They will learn that the World Wide Web is part of the internet, and will be given opportunities to explore the World Wide Web for themselves in order to learn about who owns content and what they can access, add, and create. Finally, they will evaluate online content to decide how honest, accurate, or reliable it is, and understand the consequences of false information.

French
Autumn 1

Presenting myself

PSHE
Autumn 1

Me and my Relationships

Autumn 2
Valuing Difference

RE
Autumn 1-Christianity.

How does believing Jesus is their saviour inspire Christians to save and serve others?

 

Autumn 2-Islam.

Why do Muslims call Muhammad ‘The Seal of the Prophets?’

PE
Autumn 1
Swimming

The children will learn a variety of strokes and perform self-rescue techniques.

Basketball

The children will learn the attacking and defending principles of this invasion game.

Autumn 2
Gym

The children will develop rolling, balancing and jumping techniques to create complex sequences.

Handball

The children will learn the attacking and defending principles of this invasion game.

Outdoor Learning

The children will be learning knotting skills and some simple weaving techiques.

Homework

In Saturn Class your child’s homework is to read regularly at home.  As children become more independent, they may choose to read alone, however remember to ask them to read aloud so you can hear their fluency and accuracy.  Ask them questions about the text to check their understanding-summarise events, give the meaning of words from the text and make inferences.

The children all have a login for Times Table Rockstars.  Frequent practise of times tables and division facts improves fluency and recall of facts.  Ten minutes daily on garage will help them in so many areas in maths and you can check their heat map to see their progress.  Chanting or writing the multiples of a given number and repeatedly asking your child facts they are stuck on will aid them too.

Books for Topics

If you are struggling for inspiration for great books for Year 4 children to read, follow this link or check out some of the recommendations below.

https://www.booksfortopics.com/booklists/recommended-reads/year-4/

MTC

In June, the children will sit a statutory test of 25 random multiplication questions to check if they know their multiplication tables up to 12 x 12.  We will practise times tables in school but children must practise regularly at home 10 minutes daily is advisable, in order to have fluency of recall. See the link below for further information.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6543c1ef9e05fd0014be7c64/2024_Information_for_parents_Multiplication_tables_check_PDFA_v1.1.pdf