Welcome to Year 4 

The Team

Miss Scott
Class Teacher
​Willow Class
Miss Johnson
Class Teacher
​Lime Class
Codie
​LSA
Liliana
​LSA
Thoura
​LSA
Kev
​LSA
PE Days:
Both classes will have outdoor PE on a Friday​.
Children come to school in PE kit on PE days. If your child cannot remove earrings themselves, please ensure they are not worn on PE days.

Swimming
Swimming takes place on a Wednesday afternoon for both classes. We walk to the swimming pool so please ensure your child has suitable clothing and shoes to keep them warm and comfortable.

Resources

Key Dates
  • 4th September - Return to school (ROOTS week)
  • 11th September - After School Clubs start​
  • 11th September 3.30pm - Year 4 Parent Curriculum Meeting​
  • 26th September - Individual Photos
  • 20th October - Last day of Term 1
  • 1st November - First day back in Term 2

During Term 1

 Project - Europe- Romans

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​Locate European Countries.
  • Use maps.
  • Identify key physical and human characteristics of different European countries and major cities.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:​
  • Use a map to study Europe.
  • Create your own 'factfile' about Europe or a European country - what major cities are there? Do they use different currencies? What are their buildings like?

Writing

Boy Giant by Michael Morpurgo
This half term we will be learning to (using Europe and Boy Giant for inspiration):
  • Write a persuasive advert.
  • Write a setting description.
  • Use fronted adverbials in our writing.
  • Place  possessive apostrophes accurately in words with regular plurals .
  • Planning and writing our own poem.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


​To support your child at home you could:​​
  • Use Spelling Frame to learn your weekly spellings
  • Practise writing in cursive handwriting at home and use words around the house to copy into cursive.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Round any numbers to 10, 100 and 1000
  • Recognise the place value of each digit in a four-digit number (thousands, hundreds, tens, and ones)Identify, represent and estimate numbers using different representations
  • Solve number and practical problems that involve increasingly large positive numbers
  • Order and compare numbers beyond 1,000
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Use Times Tables Rockstars to practice times tables​
  • Practise your weekly maths fluency facts at home.
  • Whilst shopping, mentally calculate some of the items in your trolley

Reading

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Identify and select key vocabulary from within a text
  • Use inference to discuss and understand character feelings
  • Summarise the main ideas from more than one paragraph within a text
To support your child at home you could:​
  • Take a look at a map of Afghanistan. Can you work out how far this would be to travel? 
  • Draw out yourself as a giant and create a thought bubble for how you may feel if you were a giant in your home. 

Science - Living Things

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Group animals in different ways
  • Identify vertebrates and invertebrates
  • Use classification keys
  • Group plants in different ways
  • Collect data about our local area for a long term study.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​​
  • Go on a walk and identify vertebrates and invertebrates that you spot.
  • Group different types of plants in your garden or local park into trees, flowering plants, ferns and mosses.
  • Take part in a long term study by sketching the same deciduous tree over the whole term to spot how it changes throughout the autumn season.

Art and Design


 This half term we will be learning to:​​
  • Make the colours shown on a commercial colour chart. Understand tertiary colours.
  • Work with one colour against a variety of backgrounds.
  • Question suitable equipment for the task e.g. size of paintbrush or paper needed.
  • Use colour to reflect mood
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:
  • Create your own water colour painting of European landmarks.
  • Research artists such as Wasily Kandinsky ​

Music


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This half term we will be learning to: 
  • Play and perform in solo and ensemble contexts, using their voices and playing musical instruments with increasing accuracy, fluency, control and expression
  • Improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the inter-related dimensions of music
  • Listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory


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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Listen to 'O Fortuna' (see BBC Ten Pieces below) and discuss the music or complete some art to help show how the music makes you feel.
  • Have a go at singing some 'warm ups'
  • Have a go at writing the lyrics for your own song/rap.
  • Use Incredibox to play around with 'acapella' sounds.
  • Use 'Songmaker' on Chrome Music Lab to experiment with different types of sounds in a sequence.

PE

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Swimming: Children will be swimming on a Wednesday afternoon
 
Indoor PE:  Dance
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Create and perform a dance individually, with a partner or a small group, based on the idea of ‘cold places’.
  • Children to use changes in speed, strength, level, direction and space in their dance.

​Outdoor PE: Hockey
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Develop a broad range of skills, learning how to link them to make actions and link sequences of movement
  • To understand the importance of movement when not in possession of a ball.
  • To be able to demonstrate control of a stick and/or ball.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss the benefits of physical exercise and the effect that it has on our bodies.
  • ​Take your child swimming.
PSHE
This half term: Being Me In My World

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss what democracy means
  • Discuss what communities you are a part of as a family.
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Show how attitudes and actions make a difference to the class team 
  • Use my Jigsaw Journal 
  • Discuss how good it feels to be included in a group and understand how it feels to be excluded try to make people feel welcome and valued

RE

This half term we will be learning to: 
  • express our opinion on what makes people happy and sad
  • who Siddhartha is and what he did to make people happy
  • show an understanding of what being happy means to Buddhists
To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss and explore the idea of respect.
  • Explore the notion of faith.
  • Try watching the clip below and using it to create a discussion or debate.

Computing 

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​Use robotics to create a two wheeled vehicle 
  • Use programming to code a two step sequence for a vehicle 
  • Create our own robots following step by step instructions
The support your child at home your could:
  • Look at robots online and discuss their uses​
  • Look out for the delivery robots around the local area and talk about their uses

French

This half term we will be learning to:
  • recognise the ​names of different fruits
  • count in numbers up to ten
Suggested Activities to Support Learning
To support your child at home you could:
  • Practise some of the phrases we have been using at school.
  • Listen to French songs.