Our Guided reading this term is Annie Lumsden: The girl from the Sea by David Almond. This is a magical fiction tale that will inspire the children to develop their skills including retrieving, inferring, summarising and identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning. The text that Year 4 will read that will support their writing is Manfish by Jennifer Berne. Through this fiction/biography, the children will build on previous learning, including fronted adverbials and speech punctuation, and produce their own recount of Jacques Cousteau.

This term, the children in Year 4 will be covering measures, multiplication and division, and fractions. The children will investigate division and grouping as a fractional element e.g. 31÷ 5 can be represented as 31/5 and that it can be solved by grouping 31 into units of 5. They will also look at the area of different rectilinear shapes and work these out by counting the number of squares within it. The children will be solving problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number.

This half term in Science, the children will be carrying on their investigations into sound, looking at pitch and volume. This will then be linked to their DT lessons, wherethe children will design and make their own musical instrument. In Geography, Year 4 will learn about ‘Our European Neighbours’. They will be identifying countries and their capitals, and learning facts about the United Kingdom, the British Isles, Britain and tThis term, Year 4 will be considering the question ‘How can we manage risks in different places? They will be thinking carefully and discussing topics such as, sun exposure, how to keep themselves safe in real life and online and, rules and laws. The children will also be reflecting on situations when they felt they needed help, and how they went about getting this.

Year 4 will be using the glockenspiels to compose simple melodies, considering what sort of world a Humanist believes we should live in and, learn the names of some colours in Spanish.

Children must wear long-sleeved top and trousers in our woodland area. If it is wet weather, they should also have wellies to change into. If the weather is dry, they can bring other appropriate shoes to change into. They will not be allowed into the woodland area in school shoes.

This term, Year 4 will be doing Athletics and Rounders as well as practising their Sports day skills.

Class Dojo will continue to be used this year. It is a great space where you can view photos, videos and information about what is happening in Year 4 and across the school. If you require another invitation to join, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Each half-term a new homework menu containing six activities will be given out. Your child will need to complete a minimum of 5 activities each half-term, by submitting this on their Class Dojo profile by Friday each week. 

Please can you ensure that all belongings and named (PE Kits – Wellies – School Uniform – Bags – Coats – Water bottles etc).