Year 4 Year 4 Curriculum ShareCurriculum Share

Meeting Meeting

Year 4 Year 4 Curriculum ShareCurriculum Share

Meeting Meeting

Expectations and Routines

* Homework is set each week on a Thursday and consists of one literacy task and a piece of mathematics work. Homework is then due in by the following Tuesday.

* Spellings are set weekly.* We encourage the children to read to an adult

at least 3-4 times a week and record this in their reading record; reading records will be checked on a Monday morning.

Being prepared

Children should come to all lessons prepared, which means having the correct equipment. A small pencil case is allowed including a pencil, ruler and rubber. Handwriting pens will be issued when the children receive their pen licence.

Children should have their reading records in

school every day as they are a useful method of communication between home and school.

Literacy

Literacy is taught in classes; at Buttsbury our curriculum covers a range of narrative, non-fiction and poetry genres.

Each text type lasts between 2 – 3 weeks including reading of the text type, spoken language opportunities, grammar, punctuation and written tasks.

Literacy

Guided reading is taught separately to literacy, although this session is based around the text type that is being studied.

Spelling and handwriting skills are also taught separately to the main literacy lesson, although opportunities for the skills to be transferred are included.

MathsThere are 4 Maths sets taught in Year 4;

• Set 1 will be taught by Mr Davis• Set 2 will be taught by Miss Taylor• Set 3a will be taught by Mrs Mara• Set 3b will be taught by Mrs Hampton and

Mrs Long

Pupils may change sets throughout the year depending on their individual progress.

ScienceThere are five core units of Science studied in Year 4:

•Electricity•Sound•Animals (including humans) •Living things and habitats•States of matter

History/GeographyHistory is taught in the Autumn and Summer terms.

Year 4 will be learning about:• The Romans• The Ancient Greeks

Geography is taught in the Spring and Summer terms.

Year 4 will be learning about:

• Scotland• The Water Cycle

Design Technology/ArtDT and Art are taught in rotation, with each unit

lasting one half-term.

DT:• Designing and making clocks• Cooking: bread making• Sewing: Money containersArt:• Emotions and feelings - surrealism• Plants - colour mixing• Portraits and figure drawing

P.E. Children have 2 P.E. lessons a week. From next

February pupils in Year 4 will also have swimming lessons.

Indoor P.E. is taught by Winger Sports coaches, who teach curricular units including gymnastics, dance and dodgeball.

Outdoor P.E. includes netball, football, hockey, tag rugby, rounders and Kwik cricket.

In the summer, all P.E. takes place outdoors and also includes athletics.

Languages Children will continue their French tuition

focusing on three main areas:

• My family - family members and describing people

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar – food and days of the week

• At the zoo – animals and further descriptive language

Computing Children will cover 6 core topics, each lasting a

half-term. Other opportunities are made for children to use computing in other curriculum subjects such as through the use of the iPads.

• Developing an educational game• Producing digital music• Producing a wiki• Presenting the weather• Prototyping an interactive toy• Editing and writing HTML

R.E. The R.E. curriculum continues to follow the

Essex-agreed Syllabus. In Year 4 pupil will learn about;

• Islam• Christianity• Sacred Writings for different religions

PSHE PSHE is taught fortnightly. In Year 4 pupils will

learn about the following areas;

• Feelings, friends and friendships• Me and my relationships• Anti-bullying• Separation and relationships• Lifestyles and culture• Personal safety

*Music*

Music is taught fortnightly by Mrs Cripps following the Music Express scheme.

Children continue their recorder tuition, as well as developing opportunities to perform together.

Important dates• Thursday 10th September: Individual photographs• Friday 18th September: ‘Jeans for Genes’ day• Friday 2nd October: Harvest Festival (9.30am)• Tuesday 6th October: Visit to Colchester Castle• Monday 19th October: Year 4 Test Week• Tuesday 10th / Thursday 12th November: Parents’ Evenings• Monday 23rd November: Maths Parents’ Evening ‘drop-

ins’• Thursday 17th December: Carol Service (9.30am)

Further dates/information will be sent home via Parentmail

Thank you for coming!

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