hazel CLASS
Year 4 and 5
mRs Armstrong-McCLean
2025-26
Spring Term
Welcome to Hazel Class (Year 4 and 5) and our class page! On our class page we have details of our topics for this term as well as other useful information about Year 4 and 5 and websites that we use to help our learning. We love to share what we learn in school every day via our School Facebook page, so please follow us to see what we get up to.
Mrs Armstrong-McClean
What will we be learning about this term?
English
1st half term- A Midsummer Nights’ Dream and Anglo Saxon Boy-Tony Bradman, Pandora
2nd half term- The Firework Maker’s Daughter-Phillip Pullman, The Piano
Maths-Multiplication and Division, Fractions, Decimals, Statistics, Times tables
R.E.
1st half term- What do Hindu’s believe God is like?
2nd half term-Why do Christians call the day Jesus died ‘Good Friday’?
Science
1st half term- Living in environments
2nd half term- Eating and Digestion
History - 1st half term
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots.
Geography - 2nd half term
Earning a living.
Art - 1st half term
Seurat and Pointillism
DT - 2nd half term
Food – Healthy and varied diet – salad snack pot
P.E.
1st half term- Dance and Basketball
2nd half term- Gymnastics and Swimming
Music – Ukelele
PSHE / RSE –
1st half term- Dreams and Goals
2nd half term- Healthy Me
Computing
1st half term- Sounds Stories
Effective searching
2nd half term- composing beats
Key information
Arrival/collection
Our arrival time each morning is 8.45-9.00am and we leave at 3.15pm.
What to bring to school
The children should bring in a water bottle which they will take home each day as well as their packed lunch (if they do not receive a school lunch). They do not need any other equipment such as pencil cases, stationary etc as they will have everything they need at their own desk.
PE days
Our PE day is a Tuesday- On this day, the children should come into school wearing their PE kit. They do not need to bring in their normal school uniform to get changed into, they will just stay in their PE kit all day. PE kit is: trainers, white PE t-shirt, purple shorts or plain black tracksuit bottoms, purple hoodie or purple school jumper.
Friday- Swimming- For swimming lessons, the children come into school wearing their school uniform and bring a backpack holding their towel, swimming costume/trunks and goggles.
Homework
Homework
Spellings
Spellings will be posted on Class Dojo and children will have the same list for 1 week beginning 8.9.2025 . It would be great if the children completed fun activities at home and we will be learning these spellings in class throughout the week.
www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html
www.ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling
Reading
The children are encouraged to read a variety of texts at home and share a love of reading with parents. Try to read Accelerated Reader Book at least 3x per week. Remember to bring your Accelerated Reader book back into school each day. There will be an opportunity to change library books every Thursday.
Times tables
Try to practise your times tables 3x per week. Suggested websites and apps to help to practise times tables include:
Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)
Useful websites
Visit these websites for some games to practise your English skills.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html
Visit these websites for some games to practise your Maths skills.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers
Maths Zone Cool Learning Games – Maths Games and Learning Activties for Fun
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html
This is a useful website to practise a range of different subject areas.
https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/
