Mr Keise
assisted by Debbie & Yasmine
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 4 overview
MR KEISE'S KEYS TO SUCCESS
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Have a positive attitude to learning
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Follow the school rules
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Be kind to everyone
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Read everyday
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Practise your times tables every day
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Remember learning should be challenging and fun
READING
For guided reading lessons this term we will be using the book Norse myths building on what we learnt in Viking Voyagers. We will once again look at Viking civilisation and links well with our theme of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. As well as the book Skygazing which is all about airborne wildlife, weird weather, aircrafts, stars and constellations, and their mythology.
HOMEWORK
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Daily reading with children making a response in their reading journal every day and parents making one comment a week.
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One SPaG Task – a separate book will be given for this.
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Ten spelling words with one or two tasks set based on the spelling grid in the front of the homework books.
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Practise of times tables through Times Tables Rock Stars (minimum of 25 minutes spent each week).
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One comment to be posted on Google Classroom in response to The Junior Weekly Article.
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All homework needs to be completed for the following Wednesday morning. Please upload the spelling tasks to Google Classroom for me to mark. The SPaG book should be brought into school for Wednesday to be marked in class. Children will be tested on their spellings each Wednesday and their score will be recorded in their reading journal.
BOOK LIST
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ENGLISH
This half term we will start to read Varmints which is a fantastic book looking at habitat change and the impact it has on living things. We will then move onto Weslandia that also looks at habitat change and civilisation. This will also tie into our science topics for this term. We will continue to work on our different writing skills as well as solidify our previous learning.
SERVICES
This term we will continue with our theme – faith, family and fascination. We will be looking at Christians in the past and Christians alive today and how they live out these values. You are welcome every Friday (check the worship page on the website for service dates) but it would be particularly wonderful to see you when Year 4 are leading service.
Our service dates are as follows:
Friday 9th May (Resurrection)
Friday 20th June (Kwame “Youth Leader at City Hope Church”)
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. The Curriculum map can be found on the school website. During the summer term the topics being covered across the school are: ‘Relationships’ and ‘Changing Me’. In these units, children think about their dreams and what they want for the future as well as how they can live a healthy life.
SCIENCE
Our topics for the summer term are Animals including Humans and Scientists and Inventors. We will learn more about the different types of animals as well as the human body. We will also focus on important figures in scientific history like Lewis Howard Latimer and Thomas Edison.
R.E
This term we will be learning more about Hinduism. The question we’ll be answering this term will be: Why should Hindus live a good life? To answer this, we’ll consider how Hindus understand God, how they might show their faith, and consider festivals and rituals they partake in. We will also look at how faith guides people to make the world a fairer place.
THEME
Our theme for this term is migration as well as building our knowledge of hemispheres and tropics. We will be looking at different settlements and how they are created and grow. We will also study how migration affects people and civilization.
MATHS
Please support your children to keep their times tables knowledge running smoothly! We rely more and more on quick recall of mental maths facts to underpin our learning. Time spent practising on Times Tables Rock Stars forms part of their weekly homework. There will be a national times tables test for Year 4 on their times tables knowledge.
Click here for Year 4 Maths
Methods Handbook.
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 summer term, we will be working through the ‘Physical’ and ‘Fitness’ cogs in our weekly PE lessons.
Our PE day is: Thursday
On this day, children should come to school wearing PE kit and do not need school uniform.
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
COMPUTING
We will use code.org to teach the computing curriculum. Each child will have their own login and will have one session weekly.
MUSIC
Year Four will be learning drumming with a weekly lesson every Wednesday.
FRENCH
At Boutcher we will now 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.