Miss Klair
assisted by Cathy
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 4 overview
READING
We will begin this half-term with Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. This famously imaginative nonsense poem follows a young hero who sets out on a quest to confront the fearsome Jabberwock, encountering strange creatures and pseudo words along the way. Through its playful language and vivid imagery, children will explore how meaning can be created even when words are unfamiliar, developing inference skills, vocabulary understanding and confidence in discussing texts in detail.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
RECOMMENDED READS
Click here for Year 4 book list
USEFUL NOTICES
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Reading records must be in school every day.
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Bring a water bottle to school each day
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PE is still on a Thursday and you are to come to school wearing your kit.
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Our library session is still on a Tuesday so please have your library book in school to renew or change.
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Homework is still set on a Wednesday and must be uploaded on Google Classroom by the following Wednesday.
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Spelling tests will still take place each Wednesday and results recorded in reading records.
HOMEWORK
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Weekly homework is set. Please see the expectation for Year Four on the Home Learning Overview for more information.
ENGLISH
We will start this half term with the book The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. The children will begin by discovering the mysterious arrival of a robot on a remote island and will explore how it learns to survive in an unfamiliar environment. Using the text, pupils will take part in a range of engaging activities, including writing in role, creating diary entries, and composing both formal and informal pieces. They will also explore the characters and key events in depth, before finishing the unit by producing their own narrative or report inspired by Roz’s journey.
R.E
The next RE topic for this term answers the question ‘Why should Hindus live a good life?’
MATHS
During this half term, we’ll be looking at Decimals and Area and Perimeter. The children will be learning to recognise, compare, and work with tenths and hundredths, and apply this knowledge to solve a range of problems. They will also explore area and perimeter, learning how to measure and calculate the perimeter of shapes and find the area of rectilinear figures.
Click here for Year 4 Maths Methods Handbook.
PSHE
At Boutcher School, we teach Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE) and relationships as a whole-school approach to underpin children’s development as people and because we believe that this also supports their learning capacity. We use the Jigsaw Programme which offers us a comprehensive, carefully thought-through Scheme of Work which brings consistency and progression to our children’s learning in this vital curriculum area.This term, the topic being covered across the school is Relationships. In this unit, children will learn about building positive relationships with others, understanding friendships and family connections, and developing skills such as communication, empathy, and respect.
SCIENCE
Our topic this half term is Animals, including Humans. Children will learn about how humans and other animals grow, survive, and stay healthy. They will explore different body systems, how animals need food and water to live, and how humans change as they grow. Pupils will take part in practical activities and investigations to help them understand how the human body works and how animals adapt to their environments.
After half term, the next topic in our science curriculum will be Science and Inventors. Children will learn about important scientists and inventors and how their discoveries and inventions have changed the world. They will explore how scientific ideas develop over time and how new inventions solve real-life problems. Pupils will take part in enquiry-based activities and simple experiments to understand how science is used in everyday life.
PE
At Boutcher, we follow the ‘Real PE’ approach. Real PE is a unique, child-centred approach that engages and challenges children in their PE lessons. It focuses on the development of agility, balance and coordination, healthy competition and cooperative learning. Real PE focuses on six key cogs, these are: Creative, Cognitive, Health and Fitness, Personal, Physical and Social.
In the spring term, we will be working through the ‘physical’ and ‘fitness’ cogs in our weekly PE lessons.
Our PE day is: Thursday
PE kit is as follows:
- plain white t-shirt or polo top
- navy blue jogging bottoms, leggings or shorts (no logos)
- school navy blue jumper or cardigan
- suitable trainers for PE
HUMANITIES
In Geography, we will be studying ‘What are rivers and how are they used?’ where we explore what rivers are, how they are formed, and the ways in which people use rivers for transport, farming, trade, and leisure.
In History, we will be studying ‘How did the ancient Maya impact their society and beyond?’ where we learn about the achievements of the ancient Maya civilisation, including their beliefs, inventions, and way of life, and how their legacy has influenced the world today.
FRENCH
At Boutcher we will still be teaching French in our Modern Foreign Language lessons. French will be taught by Miss Simmons once a week and children will practise French throughout the week with their class teacher through daily greetings and classroom instructions.