Year 4

Pupils in Year 4 continue to follow the Key Stage 2 curriculum.

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Autumn Term 1 and Term 2

Welcome from Chestnut, Lime and Willow,

Pupils across Years 3 and 4 have had a great start to the year and are looking forward to the year ahead. It has been a pleasure to see how motivated they all are to learn. We are focused on our value of aspiration in our pursuit to be masters of our learning. This term we will continue to develop our understanding of place value, addition and subtraction strategies, times table and writing and literary devices whilst also exploring the topic ‘Potions’. Thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Mr Allmark, Ms Ffolkes and Mr Pinheiro

Our topic for this term is Potions

Grab your lab coats– we are going to become scientists!

During this half term, we will be learning about states of matter and conducting experiments to gain a better understanding of the topic. We will also be visiting HAKA to use their lab and equipment to learn about how ‘potions’ are created.

At the end of our project we will be creating a poster or a PowerPoint presentation, to illustrate all of the things we have learnt.

Our learning this term
Maths	Place value; addition; subtraction, times tables and problem solving
English	Instructions, Letter writing and diary entries
Science	States of matter
History	Historic use of potions (medicine)
Geography	Geographical Skills
Computing	Presenting skills
RE	Peace
Art and design	Product development
PE	Invasion games/Dance
Music	Learning to play the ukulele

Our memorable event this term is…a visit to the science lab at HAKA to make potions.

Click here to view Year 3 and 4 HAKA Science Trip Letter

Spring Term 1

In maths we will be focusing on multiplication, division, fractions and problem solving in our pursuit to be masters of our learning. This term we will continue to develop our understanding of mathematical strategies and times tables. In English we will be developing our writing skills and looking at different literary devices to improve our narrative retellings. We will then move onto learning about play scripts through the story of ‘street child’. In our wider curriculum lessons we will be focusing on our new topic ‘Victorians’ which will link with our English texts.

Our topic for this term is The Victorians

‘Please Sir, can I have some more?’ This term we will be learning all about life in Victorian England.

To immerse the children in our topic we plan to take them on a trip to Southwark Cathedral where they will be transported back in time into Victorian England. They will get to dress up as Victorian children and get a chance to experience a lesson in a Victorian classroom. At the end of our project we will be create our own ‘Great Exhibition’ of Victorian and modern artefacts.

Our learning this term
Maths	Multiplication and division, fractions and times tables and problem solving.
English	Narrative retelling- Oliver Twist. Play scripts- Street Child.
Science	Continuing with animals and habitats.
History	Victorian class system, children in Victorian England, the British Empire and the great exhibition.
Geography	Locating commonwealth countries around the globe.
Computing	Presenting skills.
RE	Sikhism.
Art and design	William Morris sketching and printing.
PE	Gymnastics and Rounders.
Music	Three little birds- pulse, rhythm and pitch.

Our memorable event is…a visit to Southwark Cathedral for a Victorian day.

Spring Term 2

In maths we will be focusing on fractions, measurements, money, times tables and problem solving
in our pursuit to be masters of our learning. This term we will continue to develop our understanding of mathematical strategies and times tables. In English we will be developing our reading comprehension, grammar and writing skills. Our writing genres will be biography and diary writing through the story of ‘Shark Lady ’and `Oliver and the Seawigs` respectively. In our wider curriculum lessons we will be focusing on our new topic ‘World Explorers’ which will link with our English texts.

Our topic for this term is World Explorers

To infinity and beyond…… This term we will be learning all about the exploits of World Explorers.

Our learning this term
Maths	Fractions, measurements, money, times tables and problem solving
English	Biographies Shark Lady. Diary writing Oliver and the Seawigs
Science	Sound
History	Explorers and their discoveries from around the world
Geography	Mapping skills
Computing	PowerPoint and presenting skills
RE	Christianity – what does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus?
Art and design	Create a penguin design based on Art from the Americas
PE	Dance (Tudor) (Salsa) Short tennis
Music	The Dragon Song and Lean on Me

Our memorable event is…a visit to the Tate Britain to look at the Steve McQueen Art Exhibition which includes artwork from Year 3 2019.

PE reminders

Lime class have PE (Monday and Friday), Willow (Tuesday and Wednesday) and Chestnut (Tuesday and Wednesday). This term we will be doing gymnastics and basketball. Please remember that a full PE kit should come into school every Monday.

Home learning

Information about home learning is sent with this newsletter. In addition to this, please read with your child for at least 20 minutes per day and practise their handwriting and times tables.

Click here to view Home Learning Information Autumn Term 1

Click here to view Home Learning Information Autumn Term 2

Click here to view Home Learning Information Spring Term 1

Click here to view Home Learning Information Spring Term 2

Key dates for your diary

Trip to Tate Britain
Chestnut class (Year 4)	Monday 24^th March 11:15 - 2:30pm
Willow class (Year 3/4)
Lime class (Year 3)

How you can help us

Read with your child every day.
Practise the times table.