Welcome to Year 4 

The Team

Mr. Shipton
​Class Teacher
Lime Class
Miss York
Class Teacher
​Willow Class
Miss Chaulk
Class LSA 
​Willow Class
Mrs Mutchell
Class LSA
​Willow Class
Ms Pollitt
Class LSA
​Lime Class

PE Days

Indoor PE

Lime and Willow- Monday Swimming 

Outdoor PE

Lime and Willow-Friday Athletics

Resources

​Key Dates

Tuesday 7th June - Return to school
Wednesday 8th June- Class photo
Thursday 16th June- Sports day
Thursday 7th July- School disco
Thursday 21st July- Last day of school

This Half Term

 Project - Romans

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​Understand how the canals support the infrastructure of Milton Keynes.
  • Plot the nearest canal from Great Linford Primary School.
  • Explain the purpose of a lock.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:
  • Go for a walk down the canal.
  • Visit the museum at Stoke Bruerne.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use temporal connectives. 
  • Use brackets in our writing.
  • Extend the range of sentences with more than one clause by using a wider range of conjunctions

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


​To support your child at home you could:​​
  • Use Spelling Frame to learn your weekly spellings.
  • Practise your handwriting at home using the resources on Google Classroom.

Maths

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Recgonise and order money.
  • Tell the the time to quarter past and half past.
  • Answer times table questions fluently.
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise times tables​
  • Use the workbooks on Google Classroom to aid learning in school

Computing

Suggested Activities to Support Learning
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Design, write and debug programs.
  • Use sequence, selection and repetition in programs.
To support your child at home you could:

  • Take a listen to some podcasts sessions: The Week Junior Podcasts
  • Take a look at Audacity and how it might be able to record audio.

Science

This half term we will be working scientifically by:​

  • 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

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​​Compare different materials at home.

Art and Design


 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products that are fit for a purpose,
  • Generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas through discussion, annotated sketches, cross- sectional and exploded diagrams, prototypes, pattern pieces and computer aided design.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:
  • Take a sketchbook out and walk to a local area and do a 'live sketch'.
  • Share a drawing project as a family, drawing items from the home and your home.
  • Take a virtual visit to 'The National Gallery'.

Music

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

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Talk about what songs are special to them and why.
  • Make your own musical instruments from items around the home.
  • Listen to some soundscapes on BBC.
  • Have a go at creating some of your own 'sound effects'.
  • Go for a walk in your local area and listen to the sounds around you and create your own picture to show your 'soundscape'.

PE


 
Indoor PE:  Swimming
This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​Feel confident in the water.
  • Learn how to keep ourselves safe near water.
  • Begin to learn/refine: Frontcrawl, Back crawl and Breastroke to swim a distance in the pool.
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​Outdoor PE: Athletics 
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Run using different techniques.
  • Throw different objects.
  • Jump using different techniques.

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.
  • Have a look at netball in England
  • Discuss with your child how to be safe near water.
  • ​Take your child swimming
PSHE

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Discuss their dreams and goals and how they can become possible.
  • Discuss what dreams and goals you had as a child and whether or not you achieved them.
This half term we will be learning to:
  •  Know that change happens and is a part of growing up. 
  • To know they can speak to adults who they trust for advice and support about changes that are happening or may happen in the future.

RE

This half term we will be learning to: 
  • Identify what factors contribute to our identity.
  • Understand what diversity means.
To support your child at home you could:
  • discuss what has shaped you identity.​​

French

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name and say 10 vegetables in French.
  • Learn simple vocabulary to facilitate a role play about buying vegetables from a from a market stall.
  • Say if they would like one kilo or a half kilo of a particular vegetable.
Suggested activities to support learning:
  • Watching a video in French with subtitles on to see common words and their spellings. 
  • Orally rehearse simple sentences in French.