Brookburn Primary School

Staff

Ms Faulder	Assistant Headteacher – Lower Key Stage 2 Teacher – Class 4SF
Mr Sumner	Teacher – Class 4CS
Dr Elderfield	Key Stage 2 Teaching Assistant Lead
Mrs Wainwright	Teaching Assistant
Miss Krell	Teaching Assistant
Ms Bharucha	Teaching Assistant

Geography

In geography, our school-wide unit this half term is entitled ‘Our Planet’. In year 4, we will learn about greenhouse gas emissions and how they have an impact on the climate and the world around us. We will learn what is meant by climate change and learn about its effect. The children will begin to notice the relationship between the changing climate and natural disasters that happen across the world, including floods and forest fires.

English

This half term, the children will study The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe. After reading and exploring the text through a variety of discussion, drama and writing opportunities, the children will write their very own adventure narrative. The children will learn how to vary their sentence types to engage the reader and create suspense. This half term we have a proofreading and editing focus, where children will practise reading their work carefully for effectiveness, before making the necessary revisions. In our guided reading lessons, the children will focus on inference skills, prediction, summarising and sequencing.

Maths

In this final half term, we will be looking at the different metric measures for mass and capacity, as well as extending our understanding of converting and comparing different measures for money and time. We will also be consolidating our times tables knowledge to help us multiply 2 and 3 digit numbers by a single digit, using the formal written method. We will identify and compare acute and obtuse angles and learn to read discrete and continuous data, solving comparison, sum and difference problems in bar charts, pictograms, tables and line graphs.

Science

In science we will be studying living things and their habitats. We will begin by recognising that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways according to their features. We will explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment. Finally, we aim to recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose danger to living things.

Other Curriculum Areas

RE – We will be asking the question, ‘Why do some people think that life is a journey?’ In which we will be looking at how different religions hold significant ceremonies to celebrate key moments in our lives.
Art- ‘Sculpture, structure, inventiveness and determination’ – discovering what artists learn from nature, drawing from objects from like natural world like bird’s nests.
Music – ‘Reflect, Rewind and Replay’ – We will be using music software Charanga to revisit and consolidate the learning that has taken place over the year.
PE – Our swimming lessons will continue, along with tennis sessions with the coach
PSHCE – A focus on transition into year 5
Computing – Using loops to create repetition in games on Scratch programming software
French – Chez Moi – children will name rooms of the house as well as where they live

Behaviour and Attitudes

This half term we have a school-wide focus on transition. Through discussion and collaboration, the children will have the opportunity to share any questions or worries they may have about transition into year 5, as well as looking forward to the next part of their primary education and the new and exciting challenges ahead. We will discuss the expectations and responsibilities of being in year 5 and the importance of mental well-being and mindset.

UN Convention of the Rights of the Child

This half term we have our Gold accreditation visit. The Gold accreditation is the highest recognition from UNICEF UK, and it reflects a long-term commitment to ensuring that children’s rights are understood, respected, and promoted by everyone in our school community – staff, pupils, and families alike.
During the visit, UNICEF assessors will speak with pupils, staff, and members of the school community to find out how well children’s rights are understood and how they influence school life. They will be looking at how our pupils:

• Are aware of their rights and respect the rights of others
• Feel listened to and involved in decisions that affect them
• Act as active, responsible citizens both in school and in the wider world

As well as going for gold, we will be continuing our Rights focus with Articles of the Week.
Our councillors will be completing outstanding actions on their action plan, which is available on our website. This will include a school book swap; a litter pick and a collection for a Manchester food bank before the Summer holiday.

Important Dates

• WC 02/06/25 and 9/06/25 MTC assessment window
• 11th June No Swimming
• 19th June Inclusion coffee morning
• 23rd June 7-8pm Online and Digital safety parent workshop
• 27th June PTA summer fair
• 1st July LKS2 sports day (reserve 4th)
• 2nd July Virtual SEND review parent meetings/ additional transition support
• 9th July Transition morning/ open classroom
• 9th July Music evening (5-6:15pm)
• 11th July: Reports sent out/ Year group handbooks
• 18th July: Term ends 2pm

Brookburn
Primary
School

Year 4