Welcome to Year 4 – Spring Term
The Year 4 Classes are taught by Mr Pullen (Jade) & Mr Squires (Sapphire) and our TAs Ms. Wojciechowska, Ms. Hamidouch, Ms Coxall & Mr Geen. Our PPA cover teachers are Ms. Simpson & Ms. Edgeworth.
This term we are focusing on the Anglo Saxons. Our learning begins with learning why the Anglo Saxons arrived in Britain and where they settled. In history, we learn how to have a historical debate and about how versions of events differ about Alfred the Great. During our English lessons, we are reading and writing texts based on stories with historical settings. We will focus on the text ‘Beowulf’, retold by Michael Morpurgo, learning to use fronted adverbials and other powerful descriptive words to write in role and create our own chapter for the book. In maths, we are continuing our work on multiplication, focusing on the seven times table, and then working on multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. In Art, we will be learning about art from the Anglo Saxon times, developing our drawing skills by experimenting with line and colour, so that we can create our own illuminated letter.
As mathematicians we will be continuing our focus on times tables. We will be moving on to our sevens. Once we have finished this our final topic in Maths in this half term will be understanding and manipulating multiplicative relationships which is how to multiply and multiplying using different numbers and representing this in our books or using manipulatives to help our understanding to visualise the multiplication.
As historians we will be seeing if we have what it takes to be an Anglo Saxon. We will be doing this by adding the Anglo Saxons to previously learnt chronological events on a timeline. We will learn the names of the Kings and other influential Anglo Saxons. We will learn why the Anglo Saxons invaded Britain and have the opportunity to investigate and present reasoned explanations to support a historical argument.
Homework
Homework tasks are provided on a Friday, where appropriate and should be completed by the following Friday.
Outdoor PE is on a Tuesday for both Jade and Sapphire. Please send your child to school in their normal clothes and they will get changed into their kit before PE.
Indoor PE is on a Thursday for both Jade and Sapphire. Please send your child to school in their PE kit and they will get changed into their normal clothes after PE.
Forest school is on a Wednesday.
Copy of Y4 Long Term Plan Overview 2024-25
Curriculum information for parents
Forest School Curriculum information Summer 2
Year 4 Reading Assessment Statements
Year 4 Writing Assessment Statements
Year 4 Maths Assessment Statements
Year 4 Science Assessment Statements