Important points in our timetable:

• PE is on a Tuesday and Wednesday
• Library on Friday
  
• Times table tests regularly
  
• Reading records checked Friday
  
• Homework on Friday, due back Wednesday

Don't forget!

Our timetable is always subject to change.

PE

PE is on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. 

We will be developing a range of skills in different summer team games and improve our athletic skills also. 

PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR PE KITS-School PE T-shirt, dark bottoms suitable for the weather, socks and trainers. 

RE

We will be completing work around the questions ‘Did Jesus really do miracles?’ and ‘Does prayer change things?’.

Music

Beatles are our musical influence for Summer 1, learning the to sing the song ‘Blackbird’ and play our instruments alongside it. We will then do a review of the whole year for Summer 2, comparing the different genres.

French

We are lucky enough to have Mrs Barnes teach our French this term! 

Click below for the Viking Knowledge Organiser

History/Geography

Following on from last term’s topic, the Vikings are the next to invade. We will be using our history time to find out about who they were, why they invaded and significant people on that time period.

Our geography focus will be on comparing the UK with North America and Oceania, finding out the differences and similarities between all 3.  

Computing

Finding out about how the internet works and creating a web page, along with using a program to compose music, will be our topics for the Summer Term.

PSHE

We will be discussing the topics 'Relationships' and 'Changes'. 

Art/DT

We will be making torches in DT this term, using what we learn about Electrical circuits in our Science.  

Our focus is on the artists Banksy and Leslie Olver (who is a more local artists). We will find out about both artists and create our own pictures in their style.

Science

Our science topics are Sound and Electricity. We will look at how we hear and how change the pitch and volume of sound. As part of our Electricity topic we will look at circuits and electrical conductors and insulators.

  Class News

Maths at school!

In mathematics, we will be focusing on decimals, money and time in the first half and then statistics (graphs and tables), shapes and position and direction for Summer 2.

Maths at home!

Learning times tables would significantly support your children's learning at school. Reciting the times tables before breakfast or asking a few questions on the walk or drive to school will make a huge difference.

We have the national multiplication test taking place in June.

Thank you for your continued support. 

The links below can support your children's learning.

Times tables:

60 times tables grid                   ~          Answer Sheet

Mixed 144 times tables grid      ~          Answer Sheet

144 division grid                        ~          Answer Sheet

General:

Sumdog

Cool maths

Maths shed

Crickweb

BBC bitesize

Maths games

Fraction games

Fractions

English!

Over the Summer term, Year 4 will be writing their own ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ mission, a brochure for North America, Oceania or the UK and a report on Ufton Court.

English at home!

Spelling and grammar are also a very big focus in Year 4, so please keep learning these daily.

Spellings:

All children are expected to know what all of these statutory words mean and how to spell them by the end of the year in preparation for upper KS2.

Click here for the statutory spelling list.

Please support your children to learn their spellings. Here are some inspiring ways to help learn them.

We will also be looking at different words from the Year 4 curriculum throughout the year and across all of our lessons. 

Adding suffixes (ation, ly, ous 

y as the i sound-gym, hymn

ou as the u sound-touch, young

adding prefixes (in, un, dis, mis,  il, re, sub, inter, super, auto)

sure/ture-measure and creature

sion/ssion/tion or cian-invasion, station, magician, expression

ch as a k sound-scheme, chemistry

ch as a sh sound-chef, brochure

gue as g sound-league, tongue

que as K sound-technique, antique

sc as s sound-science, scene

ei, eigh or ey as 'ay' sound-vein, neigh or grey

homophones

and all about the possessive apostrophe with plurals

Grammar:

Please use the links below to access different grammar sites that can support your children's learning.

The areas we are covering this term are; pronouns, sentence structure, tenses, word families, determiners

Topmarks

BBC bitesize

Crickweb

Reading:

Our class text for this term is 'How to Train Your Dragon' by Cressida Cowell

Each pupil has their reading diary which should be filled in as many times as possible over the week. These are checked regularly by the pupils and then I check them every Friday, giving a sticker to those who have at least 2 entries.  

A large proportion of the Year 4 reading curriculum looks at children understanding what they have read, predicting what will happen and the children being able to ask and answer questions about the text.

Please find below some questions that might be useful as a starting point when discussing what you have been reading with your child.

• What do you think will happen next and why?
• Who is the main character and how do you know?
• What are the main points in the text? Summarise what you have just read.
• How does this character show their thoughts and feelings?
• How has the author used a variety of sentence structures for effect?
• Why has the author chosen this word? What effect does it have on the reader? Can you think of a better one?
• What does this word mean? How can you find out?
• Why has the author used a heading, bullet points and images?
• What would you like to find out from this book? What questions would you like to ask?