Welcome to Year 4 

The Team

Miss Scott
Class Teacher
​Willow Class
Miss Johnson
Class Teacher
​Lime Class
Mr Ranger
Class LSA 
​Willow Class
Miss Pearson
Class LSA
​Lime Class
Mrs Shahid 
Class LSA
​Lime 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.
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Note: Swimming lessons have now finished for all children.

Resources

​Key Dates

Monday 8th January - return to school.
Friday 16th February - last day before half term break.

This Half Term

 Project - Anglo Saxons

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Understand the changes over time of religious beliefs during the Anglo-Saxon period
  • Understand the links between the names of British villages and towns and the first Anglo-Saxon settlers 
  • Understand how artefacts, such as Sutton Hoo, can tell us about the past.
  • Discover how the Anglo-Saxons settled in Britain.

Suggested Activities to Support Learning


To support your child at home you could:
  • Use the guide to create a fact file about the Anglo-Saxons
  • Research Anglo-Saxon food and create a feast at home
  • Look at Anglo-Saxon buildings and compare them to buildings today
  • Create a model Anglo-Saxon hut using resources from nature

Writing

This half term we will be learning to:
  • Write a 'defeat the monster' tale.
  • Write a letter in role as a character.
  • Use simple organisational devices
  • Extend a 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:
  • Develop fluency with all of our times tables.
  • Identify factor pairs.
  • Multiply and divide by 10 and 100.
  • Solve multiplication and division problems using a formal written method. 
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Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​Use Times Tables Rockstars to practise your times tables​
  • ​Practise times tables under timed conditions at home using paper and a timer
  • 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:
  • Understand that computer programmes are written in code.
  • Use HTML to add text between heading and paragraph tags.
  • Alter HTML code to change the colour or size of text.
  • Alter HTML to replace an image.
  • Investigate the HTML code of a webpage.
To support your child at home you could:

  • Watch Youtube videos about HTML coding.
  • Refresh your understanding of coding by using Scratch.

Science

This half term we will be learning to:
  • ​​Create an electrical circuit safely with no breaks
  • Use buzzers, batteries and bulbs within a circuit
  • 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

Suggested Activities to Support Learning

To support your child at home you could:
  • ​​Discuss safe electricity use within the home
  • Create electric circuit diagrams at home which show a complete circuit
  • Use household objects to create a model circuit 

Art and Design


 This half term we will be learning to:​​
  • Describe the difference between a tint and a shade.
  • Mix tints and shades by adding black or white paint.
  • Use tints and shades to paint an object in 3D.
  • Produce a clear sketch.
  • Create a final painting that demonstrates how colour can be used to suggest shadows, creating the effect of a 3D image.

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 painting project as a family, painting items from the home and outside
  • Take a virtual visit to 'The National Gallery'

Music - The Romans

This half term we will be learning to: ​
  •  sing in time and in tune while following the lyrics.
  • Identify motifs aurally and play a repeated pattern on a tuned instrument.
  • Create and perform a motif, notating it with reasonable accuracy.
  • Transpose their motif, using sharp or flat notes where necessary and change the rhythm.
  • Combine different versions of a musical motif and perform as a group using musical notation..

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.
  • Talk about why songs are 'memorable' and what parts of songs that they remember the most.
  • Use Chrome Music Lab to create your own motif'
  • Learn some new songs together and identify verse and chorus'.

PE


 
Indoor PE:  Gymnastics
This half term we will be learning to:
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​Outdoor PE: 
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 football 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
  • Recap our systems to prevent bullying
  • Go over our safe hands and how to use them effectively 

RE

This half term we will be learning to: 
  • About prayer and worship​
  • Where there are special places of worship for different religions; Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam
  • Understand how people live their lives day by day in their religion and worship
  • Understand that 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
  • ​Take a look around your local area for places of worship close by and create a list of how many you have within walking distance from home

French

 This half term we will be learning to:
  • Name family members in French.
  • Introduce our family members.
  • Understand the female and male articles in French.


​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