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Dear Parents/Carers,

Please find below a summary of the work your child will be undertaking during this term. Should you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.

Miss Bulleyment and Mrs Andrews

Numeracy

 

Children will learn:

• To order, partition and round 4 digit numbers; positive & negative numbers.

   

• To solve 1 and 2 step word problems involving numbers, money or measures.

   

• To explain methods, reasoning, orally & on paper, using words, diagrams and symbols.

   

• To multiply & divide by 10 or 100.

   

• Written methods: TU x U, TU ÷ U; rounding remainders.

   

• To use a calculator.

   

• Addition & subtraction – mental methods; pairs of 2 digit numbers; written methods 2 & 3 digit numbers, £.p

   

Literacy

 

Children will learn:

• To analyse the features of different types of text.

   

• To plan & write their own stories set in imaginary worlds.

   

• To use settings & characterisation to engage the reader.

   

• To show how imagination through language is used to create emphasis, humour, atmosphere or suspense.

   

• To read & respond to a range of poems & prose extracts that use similes & other simple images to create a vivid picture for a reader.

   

• To explore & create similes. Write poems experimenting with the use of simile.

   

Science

 

Science this term will focus on Moving & Growing. 

Key skills will be:

• To use scientific vocabulary in explanations. (Communication skills)

   

• To make careful observations & measure length.

   

• To look for patterns in recorded measurements & try to explain them. (Application of mathematics)

   

• To work with others to plan, think of questions & find equipment to carry out investigations.

   

(Working with others)

• To review learning & compare predictions with results. (Improving own learning & performance)

   

History 

History this term will focus on Celtic Britain.

Key skills will be:

• To understand why people leave their home lands & settle in another country. (Improving own learning)

   

• To understand that some evidence gives us limited information & that this might result in different interpretations (Improving own learning)

   

• To look at different points of view to find out about different versions of historical events/characters. (Working with others)

   

• To choose aspects of historical information to organise, summarise & present. (Communication skills)

   

Art & Design Technology

 

Key skills will be:

• Drawing, painting & sculpture helping the children to communicate their ideas, using: colour, texture, shape & form. (communication skills)

   

• To describe & explain art from other cultures & know how artefacts came to be in museums. (working with others)

   

• To use the computer to alter images & combine them with other images. (Information Technology)

   

ICT

 

Wherever appropriate ICT will be included in every curriculum area, but the main focus for this term will be the use of graphics packages to produce varying visual images, including repeating patterns.

The children’s use of the Internet will be carefully monitored and all sites that they are allowed to visit will have been previously scrutinised for content by a teacher

Homework Schedule

 

Maths homework will be set on Tuesdays and/or Fridays and spellings on Fridays. Children should practise their recall of mental maths including their multiplication tables. Each child is aiming to be able to recall their times tables in a random order.

It is also very helpful to discuss your child’s reading with them, encouraging them to predict what might happen next and describe what they have read.

From time to time Literacy or other learning may be sent home.

Parents or carers are warmly welcomed to help with activities during the school day, such as art, reading etc. If you could spare any time to help in Year 4 please contact a member of staff.

Thank You