Welcome to Year 4 

The Team

Miss Scott 
​Class Teacher
Willow Class
Miss Johnson
Class Teacher
Lime Class
Miss Pearson 
Class LSA
Lime Class Class
Mr Ranger
LSA 
Willow Class

PE Days

Indoor PE

Both classes have Indoor PE on a Friday morning.

Outdoor PE

Both classes have Outdoor PE on a Tuesday afternoon.

Resources

​Key Dates

Monday 22nd April - Year 4 Viking dress up day
Monday 29th April 2024 - Whole School Maths Day.
Monday 6th May 2024 - Bank Holiday (School closed).
Monday 13th May 2024 - Home learning due in.
Thursday 23rd May 2024 - Home Learning Gallery in the hall at 2.45pm (All families welcome). 
Friday 24th May 2024 - Last day of term.

Term 5

 Project - Vikings 

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​· Understand the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor.
  • Use knowledge to compare Vikings with other historical invaders.
     

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:
  • Build a Viking boat from scrap.
  • Create a mosaic of a shield.

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 the White Rose website 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.
  • Use a range of data sources and digital tools to record and measure information about the weather.
  • Use online tools to plot weather patterns.
  • Understand how computers can be used to predict the weather.
To support your child at home you could:

  • Look at different weather patterns around the world.
  • Look at different weather station websites and compare the data they record.

Science

This half term we will be working scientifically by:
  • understanding that sound travels in waves
  • understanding that sound is made by vibrations
  • measuring sound in decibels

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Make a paper cup and string telephone.

Art and Design


 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Draw in a style that appears 3D
  • Use a range of tools to create a soap model
  • Work with different mediums such as wire to create sculptures

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 - South America: Carnival

This half term we will be learning to: 
  • Explain what samba music is and that it is mainly percussion instruments used in celebrations such as Carnival in Brazil.
  • Name some percussion instruments used in Samba.
  • Clap on the off beat (the and of each beat) and be able to play a syncopated rhythm.
  • Play  rhythms in time within a group 
  • Play a musical break in time with a group and play in the correct place in the piece.
  • Play in time and with confidence with accuracy.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:​
  • Listen to different genres of Samba Music
  • Watch Videos about Samba (use buttons below)
  • Use Chrome Music Lab - Rhythms to compose different rhythms.
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PE


 
Indoor PE:  Indoor Fitness
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand what our core muscles are and how they are needed for balance and strength.
  • Design a fitness circuit using set activities.
  • Understand that HIIT is a good way to strengthen our heart and lungs.
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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.
  • Try some online fitness classes which are suitable for children, such as PE with Joe Wicks.
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 items from our pencil case in French.
  • Name items from our school bags in French.
  • Name common classroom items in French.
  • Use the correct determiner (a or my) in French when referring to our own belongings.
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.