Year 4
Year 4 - Summer 2
Key Times
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Homework |
Each week, children are expected to learn their spellings which will be sent home on a Friday. The spelling test will then be the following Friday. In addition to this, children are expected to read and complete their Read the Rainbow bookmark and log in to Times Table Rockstars to complete Times Table practise daily. |
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PE |
In year 4, the PE days are Monday and Friday for both classes. Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing school uniform and they will then change in school. |
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Trips |
In the Summer term children in Manatee class will be taking a school trip to pizza express and learning about how food is safely prepared. This ties in with our DT unit on healthy lunches. Takin farm will be taking a trip to Mote farm, where they will learn all about how food is grown and how animals are reared. This fits in with our science topic living things and their habitat. |
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Key Times |
For Year 4, the school day will begin at 8.30, and end at 3.30. Please ensure your child is on time as we complete morning revision each day. |
What are we learning?
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English |
In English, we will be reading 'The Girl Who Stole an Elephant’ Nizrana Farook. We will use this book to support our writing where we will be creating a narrative, writing a newspaper article and writing instructions. |
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Maths |
In Maths we will start off the term with shape, before moving onto statistics and finally finishing with position and direction. |
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Science |
In Science, we are looking at living things and their habitats, with a focus on the effects of climate change and biodiversity. |
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Geography |
We will be learning about the water cycle with a particular focus on the different uses of water in the UK. |
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History |
We will continue looking at the Kingdom of Benin, focusing on its relationship with other parts of the world including the British Empire. |
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RE |
In RE we will focus on Christianity. We will learn about the Ten Commandments and how Christians show their commitment to God. |
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Computing |
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Art |
In Art, we will be completing a topic on textiles. Our artist this half term is Lisa Walton. We will be developing stitching techniques and explore how she uses them to create decorative pieces. |
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Mandarin |
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PSHE |
In PSHE, we will be learning about ourselves, growing, and changing. We will be thinking about how we can change negative thoughts into positive ones, why hygiene is important, what the reproductive organs are and how our body changes during puberty. |
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PE |
We will be learning about cricket. We will focus on how to throw the ball with power and accuracy. We will learn about bowling and fielding. In addition to this we will be learning about Hip-Hop. We will learn a motif in the style of Hip-Hop and combine two motifs together. |
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Music |
We will be investigating styles of music. After that, we will learn different instruments and ways to use body percussion to perform songs. |
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DT |
In Spring term, children will continue to design and create an alarm for a vehicle. This topic will incorporate coding and the children will work with Crumble kits to create their alarm. |
