Welcome to Gauguin - Year 4!

In Gauguin, we are imagining the impossible,

never giving in and never giving up

and having faith bigger than our dreams.

In our calm and thoughtful classroom, we have Miss Kent as our teacher 

as well as Mrs King, who will support the learning of all the children in the class.

We also have the support of Mrs Bates, Mrs Nevitt and Mrs Sewell.

The children in Year 4 will develop:

Love for themselves and others.

Courage to give things a go and never give up!

Hope for the future;

and faith in who they are through the School's Christian Values. 

Our key concepts this term are Wisdom and Courage, this half term being Wisdom. We will be discussing how wisdom meanders through our curriculum at every opportunity. Each half term we have a new class reader which links directly to our concept. Our current class reader is: Call me Lion by Camilla Chester and after half term will be Viking Boy by Tony Bradman which will link with our new history unit. 

In the first half of term we will introduce the concept of ‘Wisdom’ with a Philosophy for Children (P4C) session where children will discuss the new concept and what it means to them. We will use The Pot of Wisdom: Ananse stories book as a stimulus for the P4C session. This will begin the integration of the concept of wisdom which will meander our learning journeys throughout the term.

In the second half of term we will ask ourselves What is courage and how do courage, bravery and resilience link? We will think about how our ideas about courage have changed since our P4C discussions around this concept in year 2. We will explore what we can do to show courage and how we can help our wider community by using ‘Saving the butterfly’ by Helen Cooper as our inspiration. The themes within the book are hope, the power of human spirit and courage built around the story of refugees. We will look at what refugees take in their bags when they move and think about how we can show courage to help.

Our R.E. sessions will focus on Jewish Traditions answering the question- “Are sacred books wise?”. We will then learn about Buddhist Traditions and The Buddha Rupa with a focus on the concept of  peace. Our PE sessions this half term will be inside and outside, please ensure a full PE kit is in school all week to allow for timetable changes.. Our units are invasion games including football and dodgeball and dance themed around electricity which will be supported by Hannah from Gremlin dance.  After half term our units will be Cricket and Gymnastics- Bridges. The sessions will be on Mondays and Thursdays (but can change due to weather, timetabling and space availability around school).

 Our Spring Newsletter and overviews will give you more information about the curriculum in Gauguin this term.

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