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) 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) 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) 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.