Year 4
Find out what your child will be learning this year in Year 4
Year 4
Find out what your child will be learning this year in Year 4
Welcome to Year 4! On this page you can see our curriculum focuses for the term, as well as keep up to date with pictures and posts of what we have been up to.
Summer 2022
RE:
This term, the Come and See topics for RE are:
- New Life
Learning about Pentecost and the power of the Holy Spirit - Building Bridges
A close at how Christians become closer to God through the sacrament of Reconciliation - God’s People
A about the Universal Church through the prism CAFOD
English:
Children have been enjoying reading a wide variety of texts and learning to write in a wide range of genres. This will continue, but the summer focus will be on revising and learning important aspects of grammar.
Writing
Children will use the above texts to inspire their writing for a variety of purposes: playscripts, diary writing, letter writing, newspaper reports, chronological and non-chronological reports, narrative prose, poetry composition and performance.
The model texts help children to identify the key structures/features that may be used within a particular piece of writing. Key writing techniques are then explored to ensure pupils develop a strong understanding of these before creating extended pieces of writing that aims to include these.
Reading:
We aim to continue the school-wide “Destination Reader” programme, in which daily lessons are taught to explicitly study each of the necessary skills for reading and comprehension of texts. Pupils also learn about each of the learning behaviours required for reading and will discuss texts with their partners and small groups. Children will also continue to answer “Big Picture” questions as a written comprehension skill that they need to master in preparation for Years 5 & 6.
Key skills: prediction, questioning, clarifying, summarising, inferring, evaluating and making connections.
Grammar:
Grammar is taught alongside the teaching of writing.
Key skills for transition into year 5: conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions, fronted adverbials, punctuating direct speech and possessive and contractive apostrophes, present tenses, standard English usage, pronouns, determiners.
Spelling:
Spellings are taught via a weekly list of words which are introduced to pupils in class, then set as activities on the Spelling Shed website.
Maths:
In year 4, we will continue to use the White Rose scheme of learning which aims to provide pupils with key mathematical skills and knowledge using a mastery approach. The autumn term is a focus on fundamental skills for year 4 as well as recapping on the key learning from Year 3. Using the CPA (concrete, pictorial, abstract) approach ALL children are encouraged to use equipment and visual representations in maths lessons and to learn conceptual and procedural variation to tackle problem solving and reasoning questions.
Key skills this term include: area, perimeter, time, shape and data. We also continue to visit foundational aspects of maths through the four operations (adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying) and working with non-integer numbers (fractions and decimals).
There is a statutory times-tables test in June, whereby children are expected to know all multiplication facts up to 12 x 12.
Science
- Sound
Investigating how sound is made and aspects of its perception - Electrical Circuits
Investigating electricity, circuits, conductivity and insulation
Children will develop an understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that will help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them. They will be equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future. We will achieve this through practical investigations – working scientifically – as well as knowledge-based lessons.
Computing:
Children will use Chrome Books and iPads to develop their computing skills. E-safety is taught explicitly and is at the heart of all computing lessons. Alongside this, pupils are expected to use technology responsibly.
Pupils will build on skills and topics taught in Year 3: to use computing to communicate, problem solve, research and code.
History
- Roman Britain
We will expand upon our topics studied in Year 3 to enable children to become more History-literate. Our exploration of The Romans involves looking closing at: The Roman Republic, The Roman Empire and Roman Britain.
Geography
- Population
- Pupils will learn about human geography by studying aspects of the UK. They will also look at how geographers use data as well as learning about the ethnic, religious and linguistic make-up of these isles. They will be able to learn geographical skills by collecting, analysing and communicating with a range of data that deepen their understanding. This scheme of learning was developed through the Haringey Education Partnership.
PE
Year 4s take part in an LFA coach-led PE lesson every Thursday afternoon as well as Swimming at Park Road every Friday. Sports coaches will focus on games and team sports such as: football, tennis, cricket and athletics.
Art & Design
Art and design focuses on linking to our humanities topics as well as cross-curricula links with other subjects. Children will use a variety of media including chalk, pastels and water-colours in their art. In addition to weekly lessons, we try to incorporate art and creativity into as many other curriculum subjects as possible.
MFL
Children will resume Spanish lessons this term with Miss Barratt.
Music
Children will take part in Music lessons once a week with Miss Swift. Singing, instruments, appreciation and composition.