YEAR 4

Welcome to Year 4!

Below is information about Year 4 to guide you. If you have any queries you are welcome to arrange an appointment, in person or over the phone. To do this please speak to a teacher at pick up time, or email the school office.

Year 4 Curriculum Overview

Here is an outline of a typical day

in Year 4!

8:45-8:55 We will open the doors  to welcome children in and begin handwashing and settling into morning activities. Please make sure your child is ready to start the day at that time with everything they need! Zebras children can enter through the garden gate, Giraffes through the main doors and Rhinos through their external class door.

Early Morning Activities

Writing

Reading lesson

BREAK 10:45 - 11:00

Maths

Times Table Rockstars

Sounds Write

LUNCH 12:30-1:30

Science, Geography, History, DT, RE, Art, Computing, Music, French, PSHE, PE, The Mile

Please ensure your child has their trainers in school every day so they can run the The Mile – we will be encouraging Year 4 to see how many laps they can run in the time they are given.

PE 

Thursday is outdoor for all classes. Indoor PE is Wednesday. Please send your children to school on these days wearing their PE kit - please see school website for new PE uniform guidelines.

END OF DAY 3:15

Homework

Every week, children must read at least 3 times at home. This can be a balance of independent and reading to someone. They should also practise their times tables regularly, we recommend using their login for TTRS, Hit the Button or urbrainy.com/mtc.

Other homework opportunities are provided on the Over and Above page. These can be done when suits you over the term and will be celebrated in school if brought in. They are not compulsory.

Reading

We love reading in Year 4 and want to see your child enjoy reading as much as we as staff do! Please ensure your child is reading at least 3 times per week at home. Reading diaries will be checked regularly in school. Each time a child reads three times, they will add a tick to our Read to Succeed chart; once we reach 200 ticks, the class will receive a class reward. Which Year 4 class will get their reward first?!

Please follow the link below for guidance on books to read by the end of Year 4.

Each class has a book corner, and we can visit our amazing school library at least once a fortnight.

Thame library - this is a really great way to access many new books!
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-lists-for-ks2-school-pupils/suggested-reading-list-for-year-4-pupils-ks2-age-8-9/ 

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-4

Best Books for Year 4 | Ages 8-9 | The Reader Teacher

Equipment in school

• A named water bottle
• A named lunch box (unless your child is having school dinner)
• A small pencil case (that can fit in a drawer!) containing:

Writing pencils x 3

A pencil sharpener

A rubber

Colouring pencils 

A small ruler that will fit inside their pencil case

1 or 2 glue sticks

Safety scissors

To help your child at home...

If you wish to support your child with some of the key aspects of learning in Year 4, we recommend trying these activities and lessons. This does not need to be handed to your child's teacher for marking, but you may wish to discuss with them how this home learning went.

Oak Academy - online lessons

English

To explore word class (thenational.academy)

To explore expanded noun phrases (thenational.academy)

To explore pronouns (thenational.academy)

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-the-function-of-apostrophes-70up2d

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-punctuating-speech-first-c9j30c

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-revise-speech-punctuation-cngp8t

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-practise-using-simple-past-present-and-future-tense-c5hp2c

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-revise-simple-compound-and-complex-sentences-6tgp2d

Hansel and Gretel - writing unit

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-engage-with-a-text-c8t34t

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-answer-questions-on-the-text-71jk4r

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-answer-questions-on-the-text-cnj6cr

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-analyse-a-character-6crkct

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-genre-6rw3gd

Maths

Recognising the place value of each digit in a 4-digit number (thenational.academy)

Ordering and comparing numbers beyond 1000 (thenational.academy)

Ordering and comparing a set of numbers beyond 1000 (thenational.academy)

Finding 10, 100 or 1000 more than a given number (thenational.academy)

Finding 10, 100 or 1000 less than a given number (thenational.academy)

Rounding numbers to the nearest 1000 (thenational.academy)

Finding the odd one out (thenational.academy)

Applying and consolidating: Reasoning with 4-digit numbers (thenational.academy)

Deriving new facts from multiplication facts (thenational.academy)

Recalling the 3 times table (thenational.academy)

Recalling the 4 times table (thenational.academy)

Using arrays to represent the 3 and 4 times tables (thenational.academy)

Understanding multiplication can be completed in any order (thenational.academy)https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/commutativity-between-multiplication-and-division-61gk4e

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/use-known-multiplication-facts-to-derive-our-6-times-table-6cup4e

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/use-known-multiplication-facts-to-derive-our-8-times-table-6xgk0c

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/multiply-2-digit-numbers-by-8-using-the-partitioning-method-6nj3at

Handwriting and Spelling