Welcome to Summer Term.

In English we use quality reading texts as a learning framework.  Through these quality texts we will use key VIPERS skills to develop  our reading (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explanations, retrieval and summarising).  We use our texts as an inspiration for our writing opportunities. This year we will be writing; dairies, instructions, stories, letters, reports, play scripts, explanations and a selection of poems such as - limericks, concrete, nonsense and narrative.

The books we will be enjoying this year are; The Matchbox Diary, Dare To Care, Cinderella On The Nile, Young Gifted And Black, The Paper Bag Prince, Great Women Who Changed The World, Escape From Pompeii, Selection Of Beatrix Potter stories, A Mid Summer Night's Dream, The Wonder Garden, Anthology of Intriguing Animals, Iron Man and What The Romans Did For Us.

We will reading a wide and varied selection of poetry; for example - Loopy Limericks, The Jumblies, Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes and many more.

Our Maths curriculum follows The White Rose learning where the children have opportunities to reflect on previous learning, practice new learning and apply their skills to problem solving opportunities. This yer our maths focus will be on - place value, addition ad subtraction, multiplication, division, area, length and perimeter, fraction and decimals, money, time, shape, stats, position and direction.

Multiplications Tables Check

In Year 4 the children will take an online Government multiplication tables check in June. This consists of 25 random multiplication questions with a six second window to answer the question.  To help prepare the children for this we be continually learning all our times tables up to 12 x 12 and will be encouraging the children to continue their times tables learning at home too.

Spellings

We will have a weekly spelling focus with a weekly spelling test on the Monday. Remember to encourage your children to learn their spellings at home.

Geography focus...

Europe 

Mountains 

Biomes

History focus...

Ancient Egyptians

Crime and Punishment

The Romans

PHSE focus...

Being me in my world

Celebrating Differences

Dreams and Goals

Healthy Me

Relationships

Changing Me

Spanish focus...

Presenting myself

Dates

At The Cafe

Art / DT focus...

Drawing power prints

Fasteners for book covers

Sculpture 

Pavillions

Painting and mixed media

Cooking and nutrition

Science focus...

Group and classify living things

States of matter

Sound

Electricity

Habitats

The digestive system

Food chains

Computing...

Photo editing

Computing systems and networks - The Internet

Data and Information - data logging

Music (Charanga)...

Mamma Mia

Lean on me

Blackbird