Year 4 Teaching Staff
Throughout the Spring term, Year 4 Maths will comprise of multiplication and division, fractions and decimals.
In English, they will begin the term by writing recounts of dreams based on Roald Dahl’s ‘The BFG’. They will also be writing their own story based on The Chocoplot by Chris Callaghan. Following this, Year 4 will also be writing persuasive letters to their favourite authors, trying to convince them to visit our school!
As we have been studying Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as well as a chocolate-themed text in English, the Year 4s will also be taking an exciting trip to Cadbury World later in the term to understand how chocolate is made and experience the journey it makes from “Bean to Bar”.
In Science, children will focus on Biology this term. This will comprise of learning about the digestive system of animals and humans. Children will also be learning about food chains as part of this topic and will even create their own.
In Geography, we will explore the terms ‘longitude’ and ‘latitude’ and we will use map skills to explore these terms further. We will also be learning about the water cycle.
Our History topic this term is the Vikings, which we start in the second half of the term, and children learn about why they really have such a bad reputation!
In Religious Education, Year 4 are considering the question ‘How and why do people show commitments during the journey of life?’. We will be visiting the church to experience a pretend baptism, with our very own “parents” and “Godparents”. Children will also spend a day looking at the Easter story and diving deep into this important event in the Christian calendar.
In Music, we will spend our first half term exploring our voice through a variety of singing exercises. The next half term will be Creating Simple Melodies Together with the key question being “How does music teach us about our community?”
In PE, Year 4 will continue to work on their agility, balance and coordination skills in a range of game contexts using Real PE. The focus will be on the Creative and Cognitive cogs.
Design Technology this term will focus on Food and Nutrition, with children exploring the question, “What’s really in our food?” through creating and evaluating a variety of dishes. In the second term, Year 4s will learn about Mechanisms and explore the different ways of opening a door through practical learning.
In Computing this term, children will be creating media as well as learning about data and the storing of information.
In French, children will be studying “Rooms of the House” followed by “At the Café”.
een signed by their teacher. This should be countersigned by the parent/carer and returned to school again on Monday morning. Children will receive a merit for planners that have been signed when returned on Monday.
Our Classroom Rules:
- Be respectful.
- Maintain a clean learning environment.
- Follow any teachers’ directions the first time.
- Take responsibility for yourself
Year 4 Home Learning
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Year 4 Curriculum
