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Welcome back 4H!
We are excited to start your child’s Year Four journey with them. The class teacher will be Miss Holman supported by Miss Lewis.
Throughout the year, we will be covering some fantastic topics, starting with the Roman Empire, where we will be visiting Lunt Roman Fort, and sampling the food the Romans ate. Later in the school year, we will be exploring Falling Forests and then Rolling Rivers, where we will be participating in lots of exciting activities to deepen our knowledge in history, geography, and arts and design.
The expectation in Year Four is that your child reads to an adult at least four times per week. Please sign the diary and return it to school every day. Reading books will be changed once a week. You can read other books as well as the ones we send home; it is important your child reads a variety of texts.
Our homework will be for the children to learn their spellings each week, (they will be stuck in their reading record on a Monday after their spelling lesson and tested on a Friday) TTRS to be completed as often as possible – we look forward to seeing who our TTRS rockstar will be each week! In addition to this, a homework project will be set each half term to encourage the children to be creative!.
Year Four is an important year for times tables. At the end of this year, we will be taking our times tables fluency tests and throughout the year children will be completing a range of activities to help them to be fluent with their x tables.. It is important that your child practises their tables at home as often as possible. They need to be fluent in 0x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, 10x, 11x and 12x tables.
Our PE day this term is a Thursday, this is their swimming day. Please ensure they have their Corpus PE kit on and their swimming kit in a bag.
We are really looking forward to the year ahead and working with your children, they have all settled in beautifully. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. We hope the children have a great time learning with us and thrive within our school setting.
Miss Holman and Miss Lewis.
Curriculum Overview
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Curriculum Intent
At Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School, we intend that our curriculum nurtures and develops the whole child so that each unique individual grows constantly in confidence, and has the skills and knowledge to achieve their true God-given potential. All children will access a rich, ambitious, challenging curriculum that fosters curiosity, creativity and a life-long love of learning. It is designed to provide the children in our care with experiences that will prepare them well academically whilst also enabling them to contribute to creating a better world. Our curriculum is designed to go beyond the statutory content and deliver experiences that take into consideration our children’s varied background and cultures, expanding their life experiences. Driven by this, we have developed, as part of The Romero Catholic Academy, a Romero Child Charter. This charter underpins our hopes and desires for the children in our school, as we seek to give them rich experiences and opportunities that will foster a lifelong love of learning. This is realised through six strands:
The Romero Charter (click here)
This charter goes beyond the requirements of the National Curriculum, as at Corpus Christi we seek to create a narrative that is meaningful to the children. Alongside this, we have developed, as part of The Romero Catholic Academy, a carefully-crafted curriculum to expand the children’s skills and knowledge. High-quality visits and visitors into Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School are also well-designed to enhance our curriculum.
Our curriculum is implemented through quality teaching of knowledge, skills and vocabulary across core and foundation subjects; all children at Corpus Christi will be challenged to be inquisitive, compassionate, courageous and creative learners. They will have opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge through age-appropriate and progressive themes and topics. The aim of the Key Stage One theme curriculum is to develop and enhance children’s basic skills within Geography, History, Art and Design Technology. The theme curriculum will build on the children’s learning and experiences from early years and equip them with the essential knowledge and skills to thrive within Key Stage Two.
In Key Stage One, our theme curriculum has been carefully sequenced to ensure that the children receive several opportunities to secure and embed the knowledge and skills which they are taught. Throughout their Key Stage One journey, the children will be provided with a sequence of work which gradually builds on their understanding and knowledge of the world they live in, while developing their creative and innovative thinking.
In Key Stage Two, themes will run for a term in order to allow sufficient time for children to explore subjects in detail and to give the scope for our more able children to showcase their higher order thinking skills. Explicit drivers have been established for each theme to ensure that the sense of purpose remains clear throughout. Each year group will follow the same central driver so that wider school opportunities can be taken to reinforce learning and for more effective subject leader monitoring. The main drivers are History and Geography -because of their importance in children understanding the world around them- and STEM -due to the ever-changing nature of the world we live. Other subjects will be mapped out to supplement these throughout. These core areas will also be revisited at outlined opportunities throughout the year as best practice of spiraling curricula.
Our aim is for the curriculum to extend beyond academic achievements: we want children at Corpus Christi to go out into the world and make a difference in their own lives and to the lives of others. Through our curriculum, we aspire to prepare our children for the next stage in their lives academically, spiritually and morally.
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