Year 4

Year 4 team:

Ms Burns (Head of Year)– Head of Year 4

Ms Burns - Amazon class

Miss Biring-Rai – Danube class

Miss Knight– Nile class

Mr Wakeman - Thames class

Overview of the year:

Subject	Aut 1	Aut 2	Spr 1	Spr 2	Sum 1	Sum 2
Science	States of matter	Animals, including humans	Electricity	Sounds	Living things and their habitats	Revision
Geog		Our European neighbours		Village settlers		Earning a living
History	Ancient Greece		Romans		*Anglo-Saxons, Scots and Vikings*
Art	Perspective and view point		Mosaic and Paper-Mache		Landscape and city scape
DT		Bridges and pulley focus		Lighting designers		Making pancakes
Music	Music and styles of the 70s and 80s Analysing performance Composing	Learning basic instrument skills Glockenspiel Christmas songs	Composition Grime, classical, Anti-Bullying songs.	Gospel Different choirs Analysing performance	Blackbird	Reflect, rewind, replay Western Classical
RE	Christianity	Celebrations	Islam	Christianity	Islam	Concepts unit
RSHE
PE Classes on rotation	OAA*	Rugby	Gym	Dance	Athletics	Cricket
Computing	Software developers	Toy designer	meteorologists	Co-authors	HTMl editors	Musicians
MfL (KS2)	Learn facts about the country Revise greetings, numbers to 10, colours Teach 2 digit numbers and days of the week and months of the year	Talking about myself – name, age, where I live Christmas	Revision of family Pets	Describing people	School objects	Project to be chosen by teacher French Day

*OAA= Outdoor Adventurous Activities

Physical Education

Children are expected to wear their PE kit to school on their PE days. If your child cannot take part in PE, we need a signed letter confirming the reason/reasons why. Please make ensure your child has the appropriate PE kit.

Home learning:

We firmly believe that the partnership between home and school is paramount in enabling your child/ren to fulfil their potential and we ask our families to support their child’s learning through the completion of home learning tasks.

Home learning is set in order to encourage pupils to develop the skills, motivation, self-discipline and confidence required to study effectively as independent and life-long learners. Home learning also provides opportunities for the involvement of parents/carers in their child’s education, keeping them informed about their children’s learning at school.

We also firmly believe that family time is invaluable, and that children’s learning goes way beyond the school gates. With this in mind, we have reviewed our home learning expectations and an updated policy can be found on the school websites.

Achieving the right balance of home learning set is difficult as families have their own expectations for what they deem an acceptable amount. To overcome this and continue to ensure our high expectations for the children’s attainment, we have adapted our home learning policy as follows:

Children will be expected to complete the following core home learning activities:

Key Stage Two Core activities (years 3 – 6):

Learn a set of spellings for a weekly test
Read daily from a selection of books
Learn their times tables

For families who wish to complete additional learning activities with their child, the following optional activities will be available:

KS2 Optional additional activities:

Times Table and Vocab Apps- information and logins for these will be sent out separately
developing your child’s experiences and life skills through visits to museums and places of interest, researching school topics or topics of interest, visiting the library, making models and games, playing board games, drawing maps and plans, taking photographs etc.

The optional additional activities will provide open access to these educational programs for children to access as many activities as they would like. Home learning will not be provided for children who miss schooling due to a holiday. Parents/ Carers may wish to ask their child/ren to complete a holiday diary should they wish to.

During school holidays, children are expected to continue with the core homework tasks and can access the optional tasks at their choice. No additional home learning tasks will be set for school holidays.

Home learning activities should be an enjoyable experience for families. If you have any queries or concerns regarding your child completing the core home learning tasks, please speak to your child’s class teacher.

Spelling

For spellings children will be given a spelling sheet at the start of each half term – spellings will need to be learnt weekly and will be tested on the Friday of each week. Children can practice their spellings online at home at: https://spellingframe.co.uk/ all they need is the rule for that week (stated on their spelling sheet) and they can find the games to play.

Reading

Your child will bring home a reading book every school night based on our Accelerated Reader scheme. Please encourage your child to read at home as much as they can. Please could you listen to your child read, discuss the book with them as well as ask questions to help build their comprehension skills. Please indicate in their reading record when they have read.

Children are asked to read at home 5 times a week. They receive a certificate each week if they read at least 4 times! An adult will check and initial their reading record every day but the children are encouraged to change their book themselves. Any parent notes can also be written into the diary and the teacher will be able to read and respond to these.

Below is a suggested reading list to support you and your child’s decision on what books to read. We encourage children to read a range of text and promote enjoyment of reading.

Reading at home – Questions to ask which support the development of comprehension skills

Below is a suggested reading list to support you and your child’s decision on what books to read. We encourage children to read a range of text and promote enjoyment of reading.

Below you will find the calculation policy and the assessment statements from Target Tracker:

Useful websites for year 4

Maths

English

Working together

At the Bedonwell Federation we are passionate about working as a team with parents and carers to support the learning and wellbeing of every child. If you have any questions, queries or information that you wish to discuss with us, please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s class teacher or the Head of Year. You can leave a message at the school office, write a note in your child’s reading journal or speak to the member of staff at the end of the school day.

We look forward to working with you and your child this year.

The year 4 Team