A Parent Guide to Year 4
Mexico City - your teacher is Mrs Lawrie
Rio De Janeiro - your teacher is Miss Smith
Our teaching assistants are Miss Bateman and Mrs Valente
Our PE days are Thursday and Friday.
REMINDER: Please bring your musical instrument every Wednesday
Year 4 Weekly Timetable
English Writing
Summer 1 – Where the Forest Meets the Sea (by Jeannie Baker) & 100 Facts Rainforests (By Miles Kelly)
Writing outcome: To make a zoo information board for a rainforest exhibit
Summer 2 – Blue John (by Berlie Doherty)
Writing outcome: Write a letter in role as an expert containing an explanation about cave formation
Greater depth writing outcome: Include a persuasive paragraph about Treak Cliff Caverns as a tourist destination
Reading
Summer 1 – Fantastically Great Women who Saved the Planet (by Kate Pankhurst)
Summer 2 – A Myth-Hunters Travel Guide (by Literacy Company)
Maths –
Throughout the Summer term, we will be covering the following:
Decimals
- Make a whole with tenths
- Make a whole with hundredths
- Partition decimals
- Flexibly partition decimals
- Compare and order decimals
- Round to the nearest whole number
- Halves and quarters as decimals
Money
- Write money using decimals
- Convert between pounds and pence
- Compare amounts of money
- Estimate with money
- Calculate with money
- Solve problems with money
Time
- Years, months, weeks and days
- Hours, minutes and seconds
- Convert between analogue and digital times
- Convert to the 24-hour clock
- Convert from the 24-hour clock
Shape
- Understand angles as turns
- Identify angles
- Compare and order angles
- Triangles
- Quadrilaterals
- Polygons
- Lines of symmetry
- Complete a symmetric figure
Statistics
- Interpret charts
- Comparison, sum and difference
- Interpret line graphs
- Draw line graphs
Position and Direction
- Describe position using co-ordinates
- Plot co-ordinates
- Draw 2D shapes on a grid
- Translate on a grid
- Describe translation on a grid
Art –Festival Feasts
In Art, we will be exploring the work of artists who are inspired by food. We will be using still life and real-life drawing to consider the line, shape and colour of food. As the unit progresses, we will create 3D sculptures of different foods to understand how it looks from different viewpoints.
DT –Textiles
In DT, we will be working towards creating fabric book covers with a fastening. Initially, we will analyse and evaluate a range of existing fastenings, then devise a list of design criteria to design our own cover. Following this, we will generate templates and make a fabric book sleeve.
Geography –Extreme Earth
In this unit, we will be learning about volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters in more detail. We will have the opportunity to look at the causes and effects of flooding, what causes tsunamis and tornadoes and how they affect people's lives.
History –Mayans
As part of our history work, we will be learning about the Mayan civilisation and where they came from. We will focus on their use of writing and numbers, lifestyle and living conditions, taking into consideration how this compares to the present day.
PE
Summer 1 – Fair, Share, Dare
During this unit we will be playing games following given rules, supporting others to play fairly and resolving disputes within games. We will be working to score points within challenges, implementing strategies and working together to share ideas in our teams.
Summer 2 – Invade, Evade, Capture
During this unit we will be working to evade opponents using different movements working on speed, agility and co-ordination. We will be setting challenges for ourselves, using appropriate tactics to invade and collaborating and communicating with teammates. We will also be working to improve confidence during games.
PSHE –Relationships & Changing Me
This term, we will be focusing on the different relationships that we form. We will look at a range of emotions and how these can affect our relationships with others. We will also learn about how our bodies change as we get older.
RE –
Summer 1 - Why is the Bible the bestselling book of all time?
In Summer 1, we will be understanding how the Christian bible came to exist, exploring the contents of the Bible, evaluating the impact of people and events on the modern-day Christian Bible, explaining the importance of Bible interpretation to many Christians, comparing the use of the Bible in different churches and exploring the ways in which the Christian Bible is relevant to people today.
Summer 2 – Does the Language of Scripture matter?
In Summer 2, we will be investigating the transition from oral tradition to written scripture, understanding the importance of religious and cultural languages, exploring the importance of classic Arabic in Muslim beliefs and practices, looking at why people learning the language of their scriptures, understanding the role of translations and investigating the use of Art.
Science –Living things and their habitats
In Science, we will be looking at grouping living things (animals then plants), classifying vertebrates, identifying invertebrates, creating our own classification key, considering the positive and negative changes to our local environment, describing environmental dangers to endangered species and recognising threats to food chains. Finally, we will be looking at the structure of the rainforest and how this affects the animals that are found there. We will also learn about oils in our food and the effect this has on our rainforests.