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 Class- Wednesday Dance
Willow Class- Wednesday Swimming

Outdoor PE

Lime and Willow-Thursday Netball

Resources

​Key Dates

Wednesday 5th January - Return to school
Thursday 27th January - Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime
Monday 7th February - Home learning due in
Friday 18th February - Last day of term.

This Half Term

 Project - Vikings

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​Name the raids and invasions that the Vikings led.
  • How the Anglo- Saxons resisted the Viking invasions with a focus on Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder and Athelstan. 
  • Understand what laws where implemented under the Vikings and understand their justice system.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:
  • Use the link below to create and play your own board game which was played by Vikings.
  • Create your own 'fact file' about famous Vikings.
  • Visit the British museum which has a vast selection of Viking artefacts. 
  • Visit the Jorvick Centre in York.

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a comparative explanation text
  • Use simple organisational devices
  • 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:
  • Work out the length of an object
  • Work out the perimeter of a shape
  • Be able to count in multiples of 7, 8 and 9.
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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:
  • creating media audio editing
  • identify that sound can be digitally recorded
  • use a digital device to record a sound
  • explain how a digital recording can be used to hold a file.
  • understand how audio can be changed by editing
  • show how different types of audio can be combined together
  • evaluate audio editing choices
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 learning to:
  • ​​Ask relevant questions and use different types of scientific enquiries to answer them.
  • Set up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.
  • Make systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, take accurate measurements using standard units, using a range of equipment, including thermometers and data loggers.
  • Gather, record, classify and present data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions.
  • Record findings using simple scientific language, drawings, labelled diagrams, keys, bar charts and tables.
  • Report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations, displays or presentations of results and conclusions.
  • Use results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions.
  • Identify differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientific ideas and processes.
  • Use straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support our findings.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​​visit a local bridge and talk about how it is designed.
  • discuss why you think bridges are important.
  • Visit a nearby 'tower' - discuss how you think it has been built.
  • Research some famous towers and bridges.

Art and Design


 This half term we will be learning to:​​
  • Identify and draw the effect of light (shadows) on a surface, on objects and people.
  • Introduce the concepts of scale and proportion.
  • Encourage more accurate drawings of whole people, building on their work on facial features to include proportion, placement and shape of body.

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: 
  • Use our local area to compose our own piece of music 'Soundscape'.
  • Create melodic and rhythmic phrases and combine them using the pentatonic scale/drone/ostinato
  • Organise sounds into simple structures (AB/ABA)
  • Layer, combine, select timbre duration and pitch of sound
  • Create and notate melodic questions and answer phrases and combine them with drones/ostinati
  • Explore sounds within a scale or restricted set of notes e.g. BAG or CEG or DEGAB with the addition of some accidentals
  • Improvise rhythmic patterns more confidently with use of more time values and rests and  some syncopation
  • Suggest ways in which music might be improved by referring to pitch, pace and dynamics plus the selection of sounds (timbre), their combination (texture) and their organisation (structure)
  • Use timbre to select, sequence, combine and organise sounds into simple graphic scores
  • Become familiar with the timbre of percussion (tuned and un-tuned) and orchestral/world/electronic instruments and use these to inform listening e.g. genre/character/mood and composition​​.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • Get your teacher to set a 2Do on Purple Mash
  • 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: Football 
This half term we will be learning to:
  • Pass the ball in various way
  • Understand why movement off the ball is important and how this can help you in other sports

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:
  • Tell the difference between dreams and goals.
  • Understand that in order to reach targets we need to work hard to achieve them.
  • Understand that it is okay to dream big.

RE

This half term we will be learning to: 
  • All about prayer and worship.​
  • Special places of worship for religions; Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
  • How going to church is important to Christians
  • How people live their lives day by day in their religion and worship.
  • How religious choices are made from teachings from their religion.
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.