Brookburn
Primary
School

Our Values

Respect yourself

Respect others

Respect property and your community

History – Discovery and Legacy

English

In English, the children begin a new unit of work based on the book, Escape from Pompeii. This links with their geography from last half term, when they studied Mount Vesuvius and the Campania region of Italy. The children will write descriptive pieces to describe the friendly, bustling city before the tremors began. They will learn about the eruption of 79AD to write a newspaper article using the appropriate language and features, including direct and reported speech.

Maths

Science

• investigate how more cells ‘push’ the electrical charge around a circuit
• understand that devices work ‘harder’ when there is more electrical charge
• prepare a data table to record findings and learn to research.

Other Curriculum Areas

Design Technology – Children will be designing, making and evaluating their own torches, applying their electricity knowledge from science.

Music – Children will learn ‘Lean on Me’ along with xylophone accompaniment, looking at notation of notes.

Physical Education – Swimming lessons continue and children will develop their cricket skills with the coaches at school.

Computing – Children will learning about different types of data, its uses and how it is collected.

French -Children will learn about the Romans and will learn some key facts about the roman empire including inventions.

Empowering Learning and Personal Development

Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
Rights of the child; looking after money and sustainability.

Empowering Learning Skills:
In Year 4, children are being taught empowering learning skills to help them be an ‘effective participator.’ These skills allow children to get the most from their lessons and learning, while also helping them regulate, applying the strategies they have been taught. This half term we are focusing on:
• listening carefully to points made by others
• being determined to not give in too easily
• managing disappointments and keeping emotions ‘in check’

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

The articles in our school charter are: –

Article 2- The convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.

Article 12- Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously.

Article 28- Every child has the right to an education.

Article 31- Every child has the right to relax and play.