Year 4

Autumn Term 2

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.

Autumn Term 2

Reading

Our class text, on which our daily reading sessions are based, is ‘Skysong’ by Abi Elphinstone. 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 weekly and use our skills to retrieve information from it. This half term, our non fiction text is  ‘Who are refugees and migrants?’ by Micheal Rosen and Anne Marie Young.

 

English

In English, the children will be introduced to the charity ‘Samaritan’s Purse’. Then they will write formal, persuasive letters to you to ask for a small monetary donation to help us buy the presents to fill the boxes. The children will then be working in teams to put together two ‘Christmas shoeboxes’ for the charity. This is called ‘Operation Christmas Child’ and information can be found on the Samaritan’s purse website. The project is intended as a compassionate act for another child whom our children will never meet but who are a great deal less fortunate. Please support them by donating, if you are able to.

Next, we will write a narrative based on ‘Skysong’, our class text.

Maths

We will be learning about area and perimeter and consolidating our multiplication and division skills, including written methods. We practise our times tables regularly and recap on previous learning at the beginning of lessons. In June, year 4 children take a compulsory times table check of 25 questions. See a simulated version here:

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

Science

We’ll be learning about electricity, including electrical safety and circuits with bulbs, buzzers and switches. This will include learning to identify common appliances that run on electricity, constructing a simple series circuit, identifying/naming its basic parts, including cell, wire, bulb, switch and buzzer, identifying whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery, recognising that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit and recognising some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors.

Geography

Our non fiction book will teach us about who immigrants and refugees are and where they travel from and to. We will also learn to name and identify the geographical regions in the UK and study physical and human Geography in the UK. We’ll also learn about the most populated cities in the UK and plot a route for Father Christmas between them.

Computing

We use Cornwall Digital Learning resources and will also learn more about staying safe online.

DT

We will be designing and making Christmas Stockings.

PE

Each week, we will be enjoying 2 PE sessions: handball on Wednesdays and dance on Thursdays. Please send your child in a school PE kit, along with a warm jumper/tracksuit bottoms, on these days.

Music

We will be learning how to play glockenspiels.

RE

We will be asking…..What do Hindus believe that God is like?

MFL

We will be learning the French way to ask for snacks; say numbers to 31 and say dates and months.

PSHE

We will be learning about keeping our bodies safe, sleep, screen time, autism and asking, ‘What’s love?’

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.