Birchwood Grove CP School

Spring Term 2025

Please click here for the Spring Term overview.

Our concept

For the Spring term, our concept is Belonging and Diversity and our concept subject is the arts.
Our concept question is 'How can you create a sense of belonging in a diverse community?'

Key Text

In English, we will be reading The Ancient Egypt Sleepover, which will provide fantastic inspiration for our writing. To develop our reading skills further, we will be reading Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx and a range of non-fiction texts.
Blurb:
Mo has won a very special prize: an Ancient Egypt sleepover in a museum. However, he has no clue how dangerous it will turn out to be. With a mystery to solve, hieroglyphic codes to crack and priceless treasure to save, one thing is for sure: Mo will not be getting any sleep tonight!”.

Trip

Year 4 have an opportunity to go the Brighton Museum to complete a mummification workshop. We will travel to Brighton by train, walk down to the museum, complete the workshop, learning about a local Egyptologist and explore the other exhibitions.

 

Autumn Term 2024

Welcome back to school and into year 4. 

We start off the year with a growth mindset key text. This year we are using Flight School by Lita Judge to support our learning and create a sequel of this book in English. 

 We then continue our learning about the Vikings using Loki and the bad god's guide to being good by Louie Stowell. We will use this to support our history focus this term with many exciting things to learn. We will also be looking at Arthur and the Golden Rope during reciprocol reading sessions to further our learning and develop our comprehension and reading skills. 

               

Year 4 will also be having forest school sessions throughout this term, Robin class will be before half term and Doves is split into two halves (an email has been sent to those parents with more information.) 

We are holding a 'Meet the Teacher' session on Tuesday 10th September @2:45pm. If you are unable to make the session the slides and information can be found by clicking here

Yearly Overview 

  Please click here for an overview of the learning coming up over the year. 

Homework

We will be setting homework each week:

Homework will be set on a Friday and will be due in on Wednesday. Homework club will be on Fridays after school- contact the school office if your child would like to join. Please let us know if you are having trouble with any logins. 

 

Reading

This year we are challenging the members of Year 4 to complete the 100 book challenge!

 

Help at home

 Homework expectations in Year 4: 

- Times Table Rockstars 

-Mymaths

- Spellingshed spelling activities 

Homework is set each week on a Friday, and is due to be completed by the end of school on a Wednesday. 

Birchwood Grove run a Homework club on a Friday after school. Please enquire with your child's teacher for further details. 

 Maths Fluency Sheets

Bronze 

Silver

Gold

Platinum 

Grammar, Spelling and punctuation

Year 3 and 4 Spelling words

Click here to play spelling games and quizzes.

Click here for spelling and grammar games.

Please encourage your child to go onto spelling shed to practice spellings, they have been given a login, if you would like a copy of your child's login please see your child's teacher.