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Year 4

Welcome to our Year 4 page. We will keep this page updated with key news and information about our curriculum.

Core notices:

-Miss Smyton's class are swimming this term. 4DH to continue to bring indoor PE kit wed and 4BS to bring swimming kits and towels. 

-Ukuleles lessons every Monday as it was last term. 

 

It is really important that every child has a pair of indoor shoes that they are able to change into when in the classroom. With the cold, wet weather, the playground and outdoor spaces are much wetter and muddier this time of year. Having a pair of indoor shoes will ensure that the classrooms stay clean and comfortable environments for the children to learn in.

Key Documents

Overview of year- click

If you missed the curriculum evening, please have a look through the ppt by clicking here. Feel free to arrange a chat if there is anything you wish to discuss further. 

Spelling:

Below is an overview of the core spellings we learn this year:

Autumn Term 1

Autumn Term 2

Spring Term 1

Spring Term 2

Summer Term 1

Summer Term 2

PE and Swimming:

Our day for indoor PE is Wednesday. On this day, children need to bring their indoor PE kit to school in a bag. Mr Healey's class is going swimming in the Autumn term and so will need their swimming kits in school on Wednesday instead of their indoor PE kit.

Our day for outdoor PE is Friday. On this day, children can come to school wearing their outdoor PE kit and remain in their kit for the day.

Homework and Spellings

Homework will be set on a Friday and will be due in on the following Friday.

Spellings will also be set on a Friday and will be tested on the following Friday. 

Reading Diaries

Children are encouraged to read at least three times a week with an adult. Teachers will check reading diaries weekly in order to check that children are reading regularly. Reading diaries will be checked on a Monday.

Timestables Practise 

We encourage weekly practise of timetables. There are regular tournaments and challenges which we set the children through the Times Tables Rockstars website -Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com)Children will take home a letter explaining this website and have their own usernames and passwords. Teachers can use this website to set individualised timetables for each child to practise based on their performance in weekly class assessments. 

R.E. and P.S.H.E

This half-term, in R.E. lessons, children will be studying a unit of work on Hinduism. In P.S.H.E. lessons, children will be covering topics regarding staying safe in the wider world and dealing with increased responsibility as they get older.

 

Literacy: 

 

This week we will be completing our unit on 'The Boy who Biked the World'. We will be looking at features of a persuasive advert before creating one our self.  

Towards the end of the week, we will begin our new unit on nonsense poems. We will be exploring imagery, onomatopoeia and rhyming words.  

 

Week beginning: Monday 18th March 2024

Literacy: 

This week we will begin our new unit based on the book called: "Until I met Dudley" 

In this book a techno wizard explains how everyday inventions work. We will be using this as a platform to work on different aspects of our writing. 

 

This week will be focussing on causal conjunctions. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maths:  

This week will look at adding and subtracting fractions. As the week progresses, these lessons will become more difficult looking at adding improper and mixed number fractions. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History: We will conclude the Saxon topic by analysing what type of king, King Alfred was.  

ICT: We will be continuing our topic on coding microbits. These can be purchased on amazon if children want to continue to work on these as a hobby. Tutorials are available online:

Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit (microbit.org)

PE: Miss Smyton's class will have their last lesson in swimming. 

Mr Healey's class will continue indoor PE on gymnastics. 

Outdoor PE = continue the unit on orienteering. 

DT: This week, we will be doing CAD designs and building our prototypes.  

Science: We will continue our topic looking at the impact of humans. 

 

Week beginning 11th March

Literacy: 

We will finish our digestive system write this week. We have been writing a first person, present tense narrative, imagining that we are a piece of sweetcorn travelling through the digestive system. 

 

 

 

 

Maths: We will be continuing with our fractions topic looking at how to convert mixed number fractions to improper fractions and vice versa. We will also be exploring equivalent fractions. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History: We will begin to look at the Anglo-Saxon threat from the Vikings. 

ICT: We will continue coding our microbits to do different purposes. 

Science: We are starting our new topic this week on Human Impact. We will explore the positive and negative impacts on the environment of new housing developments. 

DT: We are continuing our unit on shell structures. This week we will be designing a CAD design for a cuboid. 

PE: Indoor PE: Gymnastics/ Swimming

Outdoor PE: orienteering 


 

 

Take a look at our curriculum in action.

 

Romans 

We had an amazing Roman day at Lunt Fort. We learnt about the life of a Roman Legionary and even had a go at different shield formations.

Making Roman heads of Caesar and sketching faces.