Year 4
What's going on in Year 4?Introduction to Year 4
Welcome to year 4. There are 2 classes: 4B & 4R. The teachers are: Miss Berko, Miss Rawlinson, Miss Coral and Ms Veasey.
In the Autumn Term we will be learning about:
Geography/History – Cities in the United Kingdom (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)Â 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: Judaism (Term 1)Â Paganism (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 – Rivers (Term 1)  The Kingdom of Kush (Term 2)
Science: Food Chains – Animal Diet (Term 1) Consolidation of Prior Learning (Term 2)
RE: Christianity – Easter (Term 1)Â 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: The Viewer – Shaun Tan, Anglo Saxons – Jane Bingham
Term 2: Haiku Poems, Horrible History Texts (e.g. the Angry Aztecs)
Term 3: Newspaper Reports re: the River Thames, Non-fiction Texts re: the Kingdom of Kush
Our expectations on home-learning are:
- Weekly Mathletics to be completed – activities are set on Fridays and the deadline for completion is every Thursday.
- Children to practise spellings for test every Friday.
- Children to practise their times tables for regular testing
- Children to read daily, ideally with an adult.
Any other relevant information:
PE and Art on Wednesdays – children to wear their PE kit on this day.