St Matthew’s C of E Primary School – Year 4
Every week you must:
Weekly home learning
1. Learn spellings: See year group list at the back of your homelearning book. A selection of these will be tested
every week.
2. Read at home every night and write in your reading record book.
3. Times Table Practice: By the end of Year 4 ALL children are expected to know their tables to 12 x 12.
InadditiontotheabovechooseONEoftheselearningactivitieseachweek(atleastonefromeachrowoverthehalfterm.)
Suggestedtimetospendonalearningactivity=45mins
Literacy & Communication
(Speaking and listening,
language and literacy)
Maths & Problem Solving
(Maths, thinking skills, logic,
problem solving)
Science & Outside
Environment
(Science, PE, Healthy
lifestyles, Eco issues and
investigations)
Humanities & Citizenship
(RE, History, Geography,
Moral & Social and
Economic awareness)
Creative Arts
(Art, Design & technology,
Music, drama and dance)
For your home learning this term EVERYONE is going to focus on story settings and narrative poetry .
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Read the introduction to David Walliams latest book ‘The Midnight Gang ‘ List possible advantages and then disadvantages for a story
to be set in a Hospital . Condider the fact that a ward for the children is at the highest point of the Hospital.
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Descibe your favourite story setting and what contributes to making it your favourite.
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Read the poem’ The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes and list all the lines that refer to where the poem is set and describe who the
Highwayman is visiting.
Using squared paper create a
Draw a net for a cuboid and assemble the net . Estimate and then measure the perimeter of your
symmetrical image of a food container
Decorate with maths vocabulary linked to 3d
kitchen at home.
(eg.bottle of sauce , tin of soup , pkt)no
shapes .
smaller that 12 cm in length and with a
design label on the container that is also
symmetrical .
Design and draw a poster to promote
Consider the grounds around our school – The
Would you rather spend time in a Polar or Desert
recycling in your own home.
garden area , field , meadow , car park .
setting ? Explain how you would need to adapt
Decribe and draw how you would create and
to each habitat.
promote one of these areas to further
encourage wildlife to flourish.
Write a page as if you are a Travel writer
Design a 3D water cycle model and annotate
If you were to give a Sermon from a high
and promoting France as a country to
the stages of the Water cycle
geographical location in Europe -which location
visit and spend time.
would you chose and why?
Outline the focus of your sermon to the people.
Look at Kandinsky’s piece of art –
Chose a known piece of music that you would
Using just pencil and plain white paper -sketch a
‘Squares with concentric circles’ recreate choose to accompany the opening of the story scene from The poem ‘The Highwayman’
a similar design but on the computer .
‘Hansel and Gretel ‘set in the forest . Explain
why this music suits the story setting .
Remember!
- Use a pencil for Maths home learning and a blue or black pen or pencil for written work
- Use a ruler to draw straight lines
- Write up to the margin
- If home learning is not completed or not completed to the expectations of the class teacher Homework will be done
during lunch times.
- Any work using ICT must be printed out. We cannot accept work by email or a USB.
Pleasehandinyourhomelearning
everyWednesday.