Year 4
Welcome to Year 4's Class Page
Teacher: Mrs Stringer
Support staff: Miss Lindley (Mrs Roxby- PPA cover)
Our Routines
Children will choose a reading book from our reading area to read in school and at home. Children are encouraged to read at home at least three times per week to develop fluency and comprehension skills. Please also ensure your child has their reading book and record with them each day as the adults in class will read with the children throughout the week.
Our PE days are Monday afternoon where we will be focusing on Dance this half term. Please ensure your child has the correct PE kit with them. Earrings need to be removed for our sessions; if they are newly pierced then please provide tape for your child so that they can cover their earrings safely. Additionally, we will be having Forest School sessions on a Wednesday afternoon. Please make sure the children bring old clothes and waterproofs with them!
Homework
Reading at least three times a week
Reflex - children to access this at home as much as possible please
UR Brainy MTC - this is another great website for the children to practise their timestables
Any opportunities the children can have to use maths in their everyday life, for example telling the times, adding up items at the local shop and working out their change etc will all be really beneficial for them as we progress through Year 4.
You may find the following document helpful to you in supporting your child's reading: there are content domain specific question stems that will help promote discussion helping to improve their understanding of vocabulary, retrieving, summarising, inferring, predicting, explaining and comparing.
Reading
Our core texts for Year 4 are:
Autumn - How to Train your Dragon - Cressida Cowell
Spring - Varjak Paw - S. F. Said
Summer - The Boy at the back of the class - Onjali Q. Rauf
Geography
In Spring term, we are going to be looking at counties and regions with in the UK. We will be learning how the United Kingdom is divided into counties and learning about them. We will also be considering what food can be locally sourced as well as what we need to import. Finally, we will be studying cities and discovering what makes somewhere a city.
History
Welcome to our journey back in time as we discover what happened when the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain. Why did they come? How did their arrival change Britain? We will also be looking for evidence of them in todays world.
Why did the Anglo-Saxons come to Britain?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxsbcdm/articles/z23br82#zst3bqt
Science
Our topic this half term is Human Impact on the Environment. We will be taking a trip to the local park to see how much litter is there and will think about what could be done with this instead. We will be doing some investigations into microplastics and considering how we, as humans, impact the environment and who or what this effects.
Computing
This term we will be using Purple Mash to learn all about programming. We will be creating lour own algorithms and debugging existing ones. We will also be doing lots of work on how to stay safe on line.
Return to School Presentation
Recommended Reading List LKS2
Maths - Quick Recall Facts
Helping your child at home:
Year 4 Fun Curriculum Games
https://urbrainy.com/mtc
www.ttrockstars.co.uk
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-2.html
https://primarygamesarena.com/Years/Year-4
Fabulous websites!
We really enjoyed looking at Top Marks Daily 10, and learning how to improve our arithmetic skills. So many of the class wanted the link putting on the web site, so here it is - click on the image of the clock!
You also might want to try some of the other learning games on the Top Marks web site - click on the logo below to go to the menu page.
