Summer 2017
CLASS NEWS
Year Four is taught by Miss Johnson.
Our learning is supported by Mrs Bennett and Mrs Rizwan.
Mathematics
We are starting off this half term
focusing on data handling.
Therefore, we are learning to
collect data by surveying people;
drawing a variety of our own
graphs and charts and then moving
onto interpreting them.
Also, we will continue to work on
telling the time and reading
timetables, particularly looking at
explaining how long a journey
takes and calculating time across
the next hour.
Formal strategies for answering
addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division tasks will be
continually reinforced and can be
found in the maths calculations
policy. Children will be able to
further their skills by applying this
knowledge to answer 2-step
worded problems and applying it to
'real-life' concepts.
We still have a massive focus on
timetables, especially division, so
please continue to support your
children.
Main Topics for this Term
We will be studying:
Science - We're going to need to listen carefully this half term
as it's all about sound, how sound travels and how we can make
sounds! Some ear defenders may be required! Or maybe they
could be made? Later on, we will be exploring electricity and
electrical circuits.
PE – This half term we will be focusing on
Rounders and Athletics in preparation for sports
day. Then we will be moving on to some cricket
and tennis skills.
DON'T FORGET YOUR PE KITS!
RE – We will be focusing on two main questions this term.
1. Does Jesus have authority for everyone?
2. Can made up stories tell the truth?
Music – As well as developing our glockenspiel work further with
different songs and more notes, we will also be learning our 'KS2
play' songs.
French – In French there is going to be lots of new vocabulary to
write in our French dictionaries as we will be exploring; pets,
weather, seasons, families, transport and food!
History – After that, we'll take a look at the Vikings and their
settlement patterns before linking all our topic work for the half
term into designing the best Viking settlement and plotting this on
an OS map using appropriate symbols.
Geography – We are continuing to learn
about the EU and more specifically we will be
comparing England and France. Also, we will
learn to read a variety of scaled maps, identify
OS symbols and settlements as well as other
uses for the land around the school site.
PSHE – Maintaining friendships, working as a team, developing
strategies for learning and transitioning to Year 5 will be our
focuses this term in PSHE.
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Summer 2017
English
In English, we are learning to write
newspaper articles, explanation
texts, information texts and shape
poems. These will be linked to a
variety of our other lessons.
We are starting with newspaper
articles and have found some
unusual happenings going on one
Tuesday evening... toads flying,
controlling TVs and scaring birds! It
sounds like we need some
detectives and news reporters to get
to the bottom of all this!
Spelling and grammar are also a
very big focus in Year 4, so please
keep learning these daily.
Spellings:
Please support your children to learn
their spellings each week.
All children are expected to know
what all the statutory words mean
and how to spell them by the end of
the year in preparation for upper
KS2. These can be found on our class
webpage.
Computing – We will be starting off this half term researching
using the internet whilst ensuring that we are using the internet
safely and sensibly. The research will link closely to our
Geography topic and finding out lots of information about France
and England. Later on, we will be designing our own animations
through different computer programmes.
Art/DT – First of all, we will take a look at Claude Monet and
how he developed his landscape images. Then we will be
imitating/magpie-ing some of his great ideas and trying them
out for ourselves. After that, we will be using these methods to
great our Minpin backgrounds to pull all our work together.
During our Food Technology module, we
will be designing and making food for a
picnic later in the term. When we start to
look at the Vikings, we will be researching
about Viking long boats and then designing
and making group ones to test in water.
How many will stay afloat?
DON'T FORGET YOUR ART SHIRTS AND COOKING
APRONS/SHIRTS!
All about our class
During a typical day we...
Reading:
Please read with an adult and ask
them to sign your reading diary 4
times each week.
What we need...
A NAMED refillable water bottle in school every day.
A small-ish, fully labelled pencil case.
A named PE kit with navy socks.
School Visits: We are in the process of arranging visitors
into school to complete some computer animation activities this
term. More details to follow. We will also be outside more this
term during our Geography, PSHE and DT topics as well as PE.
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