Class 4

My name is Mr Moore and this will be my Twelfth year teaching at Consett Junior School, but my first teaching in Year 4, but have also spent time teaching across the school.

I have really enjoyed working at Consett Junior School, we place a massive importance in developing their knowledge, we place an equal, if not greater importance in the children having a wide range of exciting and unique experiences.

In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my friends and family and taking my son, Seb, to play on the beach and in the sea, anytime of year and whatever the weather!

I am really looking forward spending this year with the children in the class, we have a lot of exciting topics planned for the year and they are highlighted below, we will have trips that will enhance the topics and the children understanding in them.

In English, our work will be based on books films and images. We are excited to introduce the children to these exciting mediums, and hopefully they will inspire the class and help them to create some amazing pieces of writing.  Our class reading book for the first term will be ‘Who let the Gods out?’

There will be a weekly spelling list sent out and it will be tested on a Friday, the children will also be able to practise these words using spelling shed.

In Maths, we will be following the White Rose Maths scheme. Our daily lessons will incorporate a variety of fluency, reason and problem-solving questions. In our basic skills sessions we will focus on developing our arithmetic skills and our recall of the times tables up to 12×12, leading up to the multiplication check later in the year.

History: Ancient Greeks, The Romans and Anglo – Saxons and Scots.

Geography: What can we discover about Europe?, Why does Italy shake, rattle and roar?  and When the land meets the seas.

Computing: Coding, Online Safety, Spreadsheets, writing for different audiences, logo and animation.

Jigsaw: New beginnings, Say No to bullying(Getting on and falling out), Going for goals, It’s good to be Me, Relationships and Changing Me.

Science: The topics we cover in year 4 science are: States of matter, electricity, sound, living things and their habitats and animals including humans.

P.E.: The children will begin swimming this year and this will take place in the autumn term.  All swimming abilities are catered for by the swimming teachers at Consett Leisure Centre.  We will also do a wide variety of activities throughout the year.