Miss Klair
assisted by Cathy
CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW
Click here for Year 4 overview
READING
During Guided Reading lessons, children will continue to build on the eight reading comprehension skills (a copy of which can be found in your child’s reading record) through discussion, key questioning and follow-up tasks. We will begin this half-term with Zombierella by Joseph Coelho. A yellow moon hangs in a satin sky the night Cinderella, barefoot and in hand-me-downs, slips at the top of the stairs ... and dies. But not for long. The Shadow of Death arrives to breathe life back into her bones and, for three nights only, Cinderella goes forth as ZOMBIERELLA.
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 Shackleton’s Journey written by William Grill. The class will children begin by discovering an advert asking for volunteers to join a ‘hazardous journey’. They then apply for one of the many roles on Shackleton’s expedition. Children go on to use William Grill’s text to find out about the perilous adventure whilst creating interviews in role, writing both formal and informal letters and finally creating their own newspaper report about the events of Shackleton’s famous journey.
R.E
The next RE topic for this term answers the question ‘What do Sikhs believe?’
MATHS
During this half term, we’ll be looking at Multiplication and Division. If your child doesn’t already know their times tables (up to 12), please keep practising with them. All children are expected to be able to recall all of these multiplication facts by the end of Year Four. We will then be looking at Graphs and Fractions.
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 Dreams and Goals. In this unit, children will think about their aspirations, how to achieve goals and develop their understanding of the emotions that go with this.
SCIENCE
Our topic this half term is Sound. Children will learn about where sound comes from and how we hear sounds. They will take part in practical activities and experiments to learn more about how vibrations are the root of all sounds.
After half term, the next topic in our science curriculum will be Living Things and their Habitats. Children learn how living things can be grouped in different ways, including plants, animals, and microorganisms. They explore how environments can change and how these changes can pose dangers to living things. Pupils also learn to use classification keys to help identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environments.
HUMANITIES
In Geography, we will be studying ‘Where Does Our Food Come From?’ where we explore how food is produced, processed, and reaches us from farm to fork.
In History, we will be studying ‘How hard was it to invade and settle in Britain?’ where we learn about the challenges faced by different groups invading and settling in Britain, particularly during the Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Viking periods.
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 ‘cognitive’ and ‘creative’ 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
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.