Year 4

What’s going on in Year 4?

Introduction to Year 4

Welcome to year 4. There are 2 classes: 4P & 4R. The teachers are: Mr Powell and Miss Rawlinson.

In the Autumn Term we will be learning about:

Geography/History – Rivers (Term 1) Anglo Saxons (Term 2)

Science: States of Matter (Term 1) Sound (Term 2)

RE: Islam (Term 1) Christianity – Christmas (Term 2)

Maths: Place Value (Term 1) Addition and Subtraction, Length and Perimeter, Multiplication and Division (Term 2)

In the Spring Term we will be learning about:

Geography/History – Uganda (Term 1) Mayans (Term 2)

Science: Electricity (Term 1)  Animals and Humans – Teeth and Eating (Term 2)

RE: Christianity – Easter (Term 1) The Circle of Life (Term 2)

Maths: Multiplication and Division, Area  (Term 1) Fractions and Decimals (Term 2)

In the Summer Term we will be learning about:

Geography/History – Cities in the United Kingdom (Term 1) Vikings (Term 2)

Science: Living Things and Their Habitats (Term 1)  Consolidation of Prior Learning (Term 2)

RE: Christianity – Easter (Term 1)  The Circle of Life (Term 2)

Maths: Decimals, Money and Time  (Term 1) Statistics, Properties of Shape and Positions and Direction (Term 2)

The books/texts we will be using in our English this year are:

Term 1: Newspaper Reports re: the River Thames, Anglo Saxons – Jane Bingham

Term 2: Haiku Poems, Horrible History Texts (e.g. the Angry Aztecs)

Term 3: The Viewer – Shaun Tan, Non-fiction Texts: (e.g. Eric the Viking)

Our expectations of home-learning are:

• Weekly Mathletics to be completed – activities are set on Thursday and the deadline for completion is every Thursday.
• Children to practise spellings for test every Friday.
• Children to practise their times tables in preparation for the Multiplication Tables check.
• Children to read daily, ideally with an adult.

Any other relevant information:

PE on Thursdays – Please remember to send your child into school that day wearing their PE kit.