We start this Term with our Year 4 Residential Trip – what a great way to start Term 5! Big zipper, high ropes, orienteering to name but a few of the exciting activities we will be participating in. I hope you are all ready and packed - I am, and I can’t wait!

In English this term, we will explore descriptive poetry being inspired by Roald Dahl's Dirty Beasts, we will create an descriptive poem of our own based on a beast of our choosing, We will also be looking at Edward Lear's poem the Owl and the Pussy Cat and attempting to learn a poem to heart. In Design and Technology the Ospreys will use our knowledge of levers and linkages to design and make an interactive version of the beasts from our poems to use as a visual aid to some younger children as we share our poems with them.

In Maths the Ospreys will be learning more about decimals. They will find links between tenths and hundredths; compare and order decimals, round decimals and find equivalent decimal fractions. Decimals, decimals and more decimals! We will also be having a big push on learning our times tables, there is strong evidence to suggests being secure with times table facts by end of year four really helps children to succeed in maths later on, there will be lots of different practise we are doing this term and any support you can offer at home will really help the children succeed. 

In RE they will continue exploring ‘How and why do people show their commitments during the journey of life?’ This unit enables the Ospreys to learn from different religious and spiritual ways of life, relating to milestones on the journey of life. Through exploring baptism, Amrit Sanskar and marriage, they will learn how and why people show their commitments during their journey. 

The Ospreys will have PE on Monday and Wednesday this term. They will be doing Athletics where they will learn a variety of running, jumping and throwing techniques ready for our sporting outing to Corby Athletics. In Science the Ospreys will investigate living things and their habitats. They will learn about wildlife and their habitats - how their environments have changed and what we can do to help them.

As well as this we will also have two outings this term, one to the Sculpture Park at Burley in preparation for an Art project next term and two we will be taking a trip up to the farm to speak to Farmer Payne about seasonal growing and where our veg comes from. 

It’s going to be another fun packed Term! 😊