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Year 4

Year Four

Welcome to Year 4- with Mrs Plant, Mrs Muller and Miss Nadeem

Summer Term

Our Class Saint - St Mark

St Mark is the Saint the children chose to be our class saint during our Transition days.

 

This half term our value and virtue is Eloquent and Truthful.

 

We will be eloquent and truthful in what we say of ourselves, the relationships we have with us, and the world.

 

We will be helping the children to grow by developing an eloquent language which we can use to understand and articulate our emotions and beliefs. We will be

truthful in the way we represent ourselves and speak about the world.

 

As a Gospel writer Saint Mark was very eloquent and truthful by ensuring that the word of God was written and could be shared with everyone for many years to come.

Feast Day: 25th April

Curriculum Information

Guided Reading

 

Rumblestar by Abi Elphinstone

We will use this text to explore key reading skills whilst also enjoying this well-loved story.

We will focus our reading skills around:

  • Explaining the meaning of words in context
  • Summarising ideas from the chapters
  • Making inferences using evidence to support ideas

Predicting what might happen from details stated and implied

English

Key text – Charlotte’s Web by E H White

We will be using this text as a stimulus to help us write character and setting descriptions.

 

After that we will be writing newspapers linking their theme to our class text.

 

As we get further through the book we will begin to write recounts about our story. 

Maths

Decimals

The children will be

  • Making a whole
  • Writing decimals
  • Comparing and ordering decimals
  • Rounding decimals
  • Recognising decimals as halves and quarters.

 

Money

The children will be

  • Converting pounds and pence
  • Ordering money
  • Estimating money
  • Using the four operations to answer questions involving money.

 

Time

The children will be

  • Converting hours, minutes and seconds.
  • Recognising years, months, weeks and days.
  • Converting analogue to digital – 12 and 24 hour.

 

RE

Easter

Children will know that the four Gospels contain accounts of the Resurrection of Christ. They will be able to understand the transforming effect this had upon the disciples. The children will know that the Ascension reminds Christians of the promise of Christ to remain always with them.

Pentecost

Children will know the story of Pentecost from the Acts of the Apostles.

They will understand that the gift of the Holy Spirit transformed the lives of the Apostles and enabled them to proclaim the Good News. They will be able to identify the presence of the Holy Spirit in some of the Sacraments of the Church.

Science

Animals including Humans

  • describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans
  • identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions
  • construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey

Geography

 

Journeys

The children will

  • Journeys

    The children will

    • Understand how to get from one place to another and that there is more than one way to get from one place to another – why people choose certain modes of transport.
    • 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 to get to villages.
    • Understand how some geographical aspects of the local area & the locality of the school has changed over time.
    • Use fieldwork to observe and record the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods including sketch maps, plans and graphs and digital technologies.
    • Build on knowledge and understanding of how to use the eight points of a compass, four-figure grid references, symbols and keys to communicate knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world.
    • Know that England is made up of different places. Locate a town, village and city on a map.
    • Plan a journey from Stoke on Trent to another place in England. Know where Stoke on Trent is on a map
    • Trip through the towns of Stoke on Trent and then into a village.
    • Discuss the differences between a town, city and village.
    • Compare and contrast Stoke on Trent, Leek and Longnor.
    • Compare and contrast a village and town which the children visited.
    • Include human and physical features

     

History - we are not completing History this half term 

 

Computing

We are artists

-To experiment with variables to control models

- I give an on screen robot specific instructions that takes them from A to B

- I can debug a program

- To recognise acceptable and unacceptable behaviour using technology

-To make an accurate prediction and explain why I believe something will happen (linked to programming)

 

French

The children will be learning about

  • French transport
  • A circle of life in French

We will start a unit all about clothes and getting dressed in France.

          

 

Music

 

Music will be taught by Mrs Wallace every Wednesday

Pop Music.

Children will learn to identify characteristics of the style of music, listen to a range of pieces of pop music and use this and prior learning to appraise them. They will begin to learn how to read and write sheet music and use their skills to compose their own 8 bar piece of music. Children will continue to develop their ukelele skills by learning 3 new chords and learning a new strumming style - down, up.

PSHE

Healthy Me

  • My Friends and Me
  • Smoking
  • Alcohol

Relationships

  • Jealousy
  • Love and Loss

 

TEN TEN

  • I am thankful

Life Cycles

 

                              

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.

Multiplication Tables Check 

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

End of Y4 Expectations

Please click on the link below for recommended books for Year 4.

Year 4 Book list.pdf