Year 4
Year Four
Welcome to Year 4- with Mrs Belford, Mrs Parton and Mrs Khan
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Mrs C Parton Class Teacher |
Mrs V Belford Class Teacher |
Mrs R Khan Teaching Assistant |
Our Class Saint - St Mark
During our transition days, the children choose St Mark to be our class Saint.
Feast Day: 25th April
This half-term our values and virtues are Compassionate and Loving.
Swimming
Our swimming lessons will begin on Tuesday 22nd September. All children entering the pool need to wear swimming caps (both boys and girls). Girls should wear a one piece swim suit and boys swim shorts/trunks.
Curriculum Information
RE
Branch 2: Prophecy and Promise
Children will deepen their understanding of prophecy by studying key prophetic figures such as Isaiah, Elijah, and John the Baptist. Children will learn that prophets call people back to faithfulness, challenge injustice, and prepare the way for God's saving work. Children will explore how prophecy is linked to covenant, trust, and response, and how God remains faithful even when people turn away.
English
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This half-term we will use Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We will look at various types of grammar and techniques to write our fantasy story and then we will move on to persuasive writing.
We will also be reading this text in full in our reading for pleasure sessions.
Maths
In maths we will focus on multiplication, division and area.
The children will
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learn what area means, find area by counting squares and draw shapes with different area,
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Multiply and divide by 0 and 1, learn all the timetables from 1 to 12
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Understand related multiplication and division facts, multiply 3 digit numbers
Science
The focus this half-term is States of Matter.
Children will:
- Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases.
- Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C).
- Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.
Geography
Settlements/Local Area
Children will:
- Understand how we have different types of roads and their purpose; (that motorways tend to go past cities and we would need to travel on smaller roads/country lanes to get to villages)
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Locate a village, town and city on the map.
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Know where Stoke on Trent is on a Map-
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Plan a route to a town and village (what roads will we travel along?)
Design and Technology
Mechanisms: Pneumatic toys
Children will design a toy which uses a pneumatic system (an animal that opens it’s mouth, or waves a hand/raises it’s tail)
They will achieve this by:
- developing design criteria from a design brief
- Generating ideas using thumbnail sketches and exploded diagrams
- Creating a pneumatic system to create a desired motion
Computing
In this unit, children will learn to:
● use Microsoft word including
- editing skills
- undo and redo
- select and format text
- bulleting and numbering
French
We will continue our French lessons Mrs Lloyd.
Useful Websites
Here are some websites that you might find useful in supporting your child’s curiosity at home. Find more websites and resources on the Kids zone section of the website.
Useful websites
https://classroom.thenational.academy/year-groups/year-4
http://royalsociety.org/summerscience
https://www.childrensuniversity.co.uk/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Spelling with Emile – Improve Spelling in your school (emile-education.com)
In Year 4, children take part in a National Multiplication Tables check. You may find the following links as useful tools in ensuring their success with the check.
Online Times Tables Tests – TimesTables.me.uk
Multiplication Tables Check – Mathsframe
End of Year Expectations in full
Please click on the link below for recommended books for Year 4.