Year 4
Team
Latest News for Year 4
- Year 4 have PE every Friday - - please ensure your child comes to school in the correct PE kit and footwear. If you are unsure on the PE uniform, it can be found on the tab 'Uniform'.
- If you were unable to make it to our curriculum meeting, please click on the link at the side to access the presentation use
Important Dates
Monday 12th October - Parent's Evening 4-6pm
Tuesday 13th October - Parent's Evening 4-6pm
Wednesday 21st October – Whole school photos
Friday 23rd October - Break up for Half Term
Monday 26th October - Friday 30th October - Half Term
Monday 2nd November - Inset Day
Tuesday 3rd November - Children return to school
Monday 23rd November - Forest School
Monday 30th November - Forest School
Monday 7th December - Forest School
Monday 14th December - Forest School
AUTUMN
English
During our English lessons throughout the Autumn term, Year Four will be writing autobiographies about themselves, using Mary Enning as inspiration. They will be focusing on setting and character descriptions to write a fantasy story about discovering a fantasy creature using a tale about a dragon as a stimulus. Following this, the children will be writing a non-chronological report based on an animal. They will be creating their own animal by merging multiple animals together and writing about its features, habitat and diet. Finally, they will be creating poetry with a focus on Clerihew poems.
Throughout all lessons, we will continue to reinforce and develop the use of writing structure, accurate punctuation and grammar alongside a focus upon the Year 3/4 statutory spelling list (which can be found in the documents).
Reading
During the Autumn term, Year Three will study the texts ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl and ‘Varjak Paw’ by S.F. Said. Throughout both texts, we will focus upon the core reading skills of vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanation, retrieval, sequence and summary.
The children will also take home their own reading book from school based upon their ZPD level. We encourage the children to read every day, whether this be independently or through shared experiences, across a range of text types to support their confidence, fluency and exposure to vocabulary.
Maths
As a school, we follow the Power Maths scheme and the units we cover are outlined in our curriculum overview. These units support the children in developing problem solving and reasoning skills as well as the ability to explain and justify their answers using manipulatives where necessary. In addition to this, we complete a daily 5 in 5 (five questions to test the retrieval of mathematical learning) and TTRockstars to help build confidence, fluency and accuracy within the subject.
In the Autumn term the focus units are: Place Value 4 Digit numbers, Addition and Subtraction, Measure – Area and Multiplication and Division.
Curriculum
During the autumn term, the children will study a variety of interesting units in our wider curriculum which are outlined in our curriculum overview.
Art – MC Escher Observation Drawings
History – Anglo Saxons & Vikings
Geography – Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Design and Technology - Shell Structures
Science - Grouping and Classification. Living things and States of matter.
PSHE - Families and friendships, Safe relationships and Respecting each other and ourselves
RE – What kind of world did Jesus want? / Humanists and Christians.
Computing – Unpacking hardware and software / Logos/ Animations.
Spanish – Phonics and verbs
Music – Mamma mia and Glockenspiels.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Please read with your child daily if you can, if not at least 3 times a week.
Please take time to help your child learn the spellings that are sent home weekly.
Please encourage your child to complete TT Rockstars daily in preparation for the national multiplication check, which they will complete in June.
