Year 4

Summer Term 1

Year 4 is taught by Mrs Walters on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Mrs Dinham, our school SENDCo, teaches the class on a Monday. Our class TA is Miss Edwards.

This half term, we are reading ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ by Emma Carroll and will be travelling back to Ancient Egypt….

Reading

Our class text, on which our daily reading sessions are based, is ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ by Emma Carroll. We begin each week by learning the definitions of new vocabulary coming up in the text and recap on these each day. We then read the text together and work on a range of tasks focussing on author choice, vocabulary, compare, contrast and comment, retrieval, inference, summary and prediction. We also read a non fiction text each Friday and work on our retrieval skills to write P.E paragraphs. This half term we are reading The Story of Tutankhamun by Patricia Cleveland-Peck.

English

We will be writing an Ancient Egyptian Myth and an explanation of how the Ancient Egyptians mummified their dead.

Spelling

We have a daily spelling lesson. On Mondays, the focus is on words taken from the Year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list. Tuesday to Friday, we work on a chosen sound or spelling taken from the Sounds and Syllables spelling scheme.

Handwriting and dictation

We practise handwriting and dictation regularly through the week. Most children are expected to use cursive joins in Year 4.

Maths

We will continue to learn about decimals and then relate this to money. We will recap on telling the time and learn how to tell the time to the minute on digital and analogue clocks.

History

We will be learning key facts about the Ancient Egyptians and learning about their achievements, which still influence us today.

Computing

We will be continuing to learn about internet safety and also how to edit photos.

Art

We will be creating Ancient Egyptian style portraits and studying the artist Gustav Klimt.

Science

We’ll be learning about how sound is made.

PE

Each week, we will be enjoying 2 PE sessions: Tennis on Wednesdays and Throwing and Jumping practise on Fridays. Please make sure your child comes to school wearing the school PE kit on these days.

RE

We will be asking when Jesus left, what was the impact of the Pentecost?

 MFL

Our French unit this half term is naming shapes and recalling numbers.

Music

We’ll be listening to and comparing music by the The Beatles and learning to sing ‘Blackbird’.

It is our aim that every child in Year 4 has a great year. Please come and see us if you have any questions or concerns.

How you can help

Read at home daily with your child for at least 15 minutes, sign their diary and send both book and diary in each day. Thank you.

 

Learning at home

It is expected that all children read every day for at least 15 minutes. Please sign your child’s diary to confirm that they have read, even if they read independently. Thank you.

Times tables are set on Times Tables Rock Stars for your child to practise regularly. Again, the best way to really embed these key number facts is, little and often. It is essential that children are working on these often as there is a compulsory times tables assessment at the end of year 4.