Otters (Year 4)
Welcome to Year 4 class
Our class name for this year will be 'Otters’.
By naming our class ‘Otters’, we want to raise awareness of conservation campaigns to protect the wildlife and wetland areas of Norfolk and awareness of the importance of keeping our rivers and waterways free from pollution. Otters declined catastrophically throughout England in the late 1950s as a result of pesticide poisoning, loss of habitat and hunting. In Norfolk by the 1970s, most traditional otter sites were deserted and whole river systems no longer supported any otters. The Otter Trust in Norfolk released otters between 1984 and 1997 and this release programme helped to speed up their natural re-colonisation of Norfolk. This conservation success story is the result of both better legal protection for otters and the banning of the pesticides, which poisoned them. Otters now live in many of Norfolk’s rivers including the Wensum, Bure and the Yare as well as in the Norfolk’s Broads such as NWT Ranworth Broad and NWT Barton Broad. Otters are now protected under the UK Wildlife & Countryside Act and they are a European protected species.Charity: the Otter Trust THE OTTER TRUST - Home
Class information
Our PE days are: Thursday and Friday.
On our class PE days, please can your child come into school in their PE kit. Please ensure they still have a jumper/hoodie/sweatshirt as well.
Our curriculum newsletter for this term is:/docs/Year_4_Autumn_Curriculum_Letter_2024.pdf
Our curriculum overview for the year is: