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Welcome to Year 4!

Mrs Underwood - 4U Teacher

Miss Bousbia - 4U

Miss Oliveira - 4O Teacher

Miss Butlin - 4O TA

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Welcome to Year 4! Your class teachers are Mrs Underwood and Miss Oliveira.

In 4U, our PE days are Tuesday and Friday. In 4O, our PE days are Wednesday and Friday. We do ask that children keep their PE kits at school during term time and take them home for a wash at the end of each half term.

Homework books will go home every Friday and we ask that every child selects one piece to complete from the menu each week. Please return the homework books by Wednesday so that your class teacher has time to see the amazing homework that has been completed before the books get sent home again on the following Friday.

Times table tests will happen every Wednesday. We will be sitting our MTC this summer so please do practice your times tables often. We really recommend playing on Times Table Rockstars as this is the most similar format to the MTC.

Spellings will now be self-assessed by the children as they use the words in their writing. There will be home learning tasks sent home twice a half term. These tasks are aimed to help children understand the meaning and context of the new vocabulary they are learning.

To link to our topic of Different Places, Similar Lives, our trip this half term is to Bett’s Park where we will be exploring the geography of our local area. This will be on Friday 1^st March 2024 and we would really appreciate some parent volunteers to help us on the day.

Please note: This trip is outside so please send your children in appropriate outdoor footwear. Children will need to wear full school uniform and if the forecast looks rainy, please do send your child with a waterproof coat on the day.

Y4 - Curriculum Meeting.pptx

English

In English, we’ll be considering the structure of an adventure story, incorporating dialogue to convey character and develop the narrative. We will then explore the features of, and write our own, persuasive adverts using superlatives and powerful vocabulary. Lastly, we will be writing explanatory texts, using conjunctions and adverbs to express time and cause. In our Reading lessons, we’ll be diving into The Boy at the Back of the Class and studying the core text with different focuses at a time.

Maths

In Maths, we’ll be continuing to develop and strengthen our knowledge of fractions. We will be learning to convert improper fractions into mixed numbers, and vice versa and how to add and subtract fractions. We will also be learning about decimals and rounding them to the nearest whole number. We will be completing practical lessons as well as looking at word based problems to improve our reasoning skills.

History and Geography

This term we exploring our new IPC topic of ‘Different Places, Similar Lives’. This will be a geography and history based topic and so we will be learning about the similarities and differences between how people lead their lives in different countries throughout the world. Firstly, in Geography we’ll be interpreting maps of familiar and unfamiliar places, including digital maps as well as learning how to describe geographical features of our locality and continent. We will also be understanding how people's quality of life is impacted by local geographical features. In History, we will be selecting and recording relevant information from multiple sources. We will use this information to suggest reasons for particular events and changes and describe results and consequences of historical events.

Science

In Science, we’ll be identifying how water animals have evolved to survive in their habitats and exploring how habitats affect living things. We will then be able to put our new learning to use when we visit the Horniman Museum.