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

Monday 25th April - Return to school
Monday 2nd May- Bank Holiday
Thursday 26th May- Last day of school

This Half Term

 Project - Romans

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​Compare the geography of Britain and Italy.
  • Name the Roman gods.
  • Explain the importance of Julius Ceasar.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:
  • Visit the Roman Villa at Bancroft.
  • Visit the Piddington Roman museum.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a legend story.
  • Use a determiners and pronouns.
  • 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:
  • Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator. 
  • Recognise and write decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths.
  • Solve simple measure and money problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimals.
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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:
  • work with various forms of input.
  • Select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to design and create a range of programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data information.
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:
  • ​​identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses
  • identifying differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​​Visit different bridges and look how they are held together.
  • Research different types of structures.

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:
  •  Children can understand feelings associated with jealousy and suggest strategies to problem-solve when this happens

  • To understand the importance of relationships and know how to maintain them
  • ​Recognise peer pressure and its feelings.

RE

This half term we will be learning to: 
  • Understand what festivals are studied by Buddhists.
  • Understand what messages we can learn from Buddhism. 
To support your child at home you could:
  • discuss how different religions might worship and pray.​
  • think about why worship and prayer might be important to different religions.

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.