Year 4

we hope you had an enjoyable break. Year 4 continue to amaze us with their hard work, humour and kindness. This was especially evident during our poetry reading competition where they confidently shared poems they had learnt from memory. Well done to everyone who took part and thank you to parents and carers who helped their child rehearse. This term, our focus in History is the Romans. Read on to find out what else we will be learning.

In English we will be writing ‘Portal Stories’ where the main characters transport from one place to another. To fuel our imaginations, we will be reading a short story called ‘Leon and the Place Between’ along with other extracts. We will also be writing detailed instructions on how to prepare a Roman feast linking to our Food Technology and History lessons.

In Maths : we will be learning about the area of shapes, angles, and the properties of 2D shapes. We will be spending time every day practising times tables ready for the Multiplication Check ( June 2 nd 5 th ) and to support with using formal methods for multiplication and division. If your child is already confident with times tables up to 12x12, they will be exploring investigations and reasoning problems linked to multiplication.

Our Science topic is ‘Sound’. We will be exploring how vibrations produce sound, how the strength of a vibration
affects a sound, which materials sound can travel through and how different pitches of sound are produced.

In Humanities we will learn about how life in Britain was impacted by the Romans, about notable figures such as
Septimus Severus and visiting the British Museum.

In PE we will be doing Football for Outdoor PE. We will be building on the skills we developed last term and putting them into practice in a variety of exciting competitive matches. In Indoor PE we will be learning Badminton where we will focus on our serving and striking techniques.

In RE our focus will be on Islam, with particular attention to Hajj pilgrimage.

If you have any further questions about the content of the Year 4 curriculum please contact the Year 4 Team Leader, Mr Cartildge, who will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

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