Year 4 2024 - 2025

Mr Etherington

Mrs Flynn

WELCOME TO CLASS 4!

Please find information below about the current learning in Year 4.

Spring 1

Homework

English 10 minute weekly workout
Maths 10 minute weekly workout
Daily timestables practice using TTRockstars. Weekly test on a Thursday in preparation for the National Year 4 Mutliplication Check. Children should be able to recall timestables up to and including 12x12 within 5 seconds.
Spelling Shed (Weekly spellings and test given on a Wednesday)
Daily Reading (Diary signed at least 4 times per week)

Our Week

Monday: PE Kit

Tuesday: N/A

Wednesday: N/A

Thursday: (Mrs Flynn)

Times-table test

Friday: Swimming

Homework

Reading diaries checked

Change levelled reading book

Equipment

PE kit - Monday

Swimming kit - Friday

Stationery is provided by school but children are welcome to bring their own pencil cases. We may have 'pencil case lessons' and 'non-pencil case lessons' where appropriate.

Maths - Multiplication and Division

Writing - Inspired by the book, 'The Lost Happy Endings', children will write a list poem and a persuasive letter.

Reading - Learning to understand new vocabulary, make predictions and infer; explain, retreive information; sequence and summarise what has been read.

Science - Classifications and changing habitats, States of Matter

RE: How have people (Muslims) contributed to local & global society?

History- How have children's lives changed through time?

Computing - Intorduction to learning-based software such as Word and Powerpoint

Design and Technology- Mechanical cars

Music - Blue bin drumming with a focus on rhythm, ensemble performance, instrumentation, and techinque.

PSHE and Wellbeing - Health and Wellbeing

Useful links

Timestable Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/

Hit the Button (timestables): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Spelling Shed: https://www.edshed.com/en-gb/spellingshed

Dictionary/Thesaurus.com: https://www.dictionary.com/