Year 4 2024 - 2025

Mr Etherington

Mrs Flynn

WELCOME TO CLASS 4!

Please find information below about the current learning in Year 4.

Autumn 1

Homework

English 10 minute weekly workout
Maths 10 minute weekly workout
Daily timestables practice using TTRockstars. Weekly test on a Thursday in preparation for the National Year 4 Mutliplication Check. Children should be able to recall timestables up to and including 12x12 within 5 seconds.
Spelling Shed (Weekly spellings and test given on a Wednesday)
Daily Reading (Diary signed at least 4 times per week)

Our Week

Monday: PE Kit

Tuesday: N/A

Wednesday: N/A

Thursday: (Mrs Flynn)

Times-table test

Friday: Swimming

Homework

Reading diaries checked

Change levelled reading book

Equipment

PE kit - Monday

Swimming kit - Friday

Stationery is provided by school but children are welcome to bring their own pencil cases. We may have 'pencil case lessons' and 'non-pencil case lessons' where appropriate.

Maths - Place value; Addition and subtraction

Writing - Inspired by the book, 'The Whale', children will write a setting narrative with a grammar focus on sentence demarcation, fronted advebrials, and conjunctions.

Reading - Learning to makde predictiosn and infer; retreive information from a text; and summarise what has been read.

Science - Classifying Animals

RE: How do beliefs shape people’s lives? How do they differ?

Geography - Rainforests

Computing - Computing systems and networks

Art- Fabric of Nature- children will design a printing press inspired by the rainforest

Wellbeing - Resilience

Music - Samba drumming with a focus on rhythm, ensemble performance, instrumentation, and techinque.

PSHE - Families and relationships

Useful links

Timestable Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/

Hit the Button (timestables): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button