Welcome to Year 4’s Class Page!

We are looking forward to a good start to the summer term in Year 4 and are excited about the upcoming areas of study. The children will be learning about many topics in History and Science, such as The First World War and Sound. We also look forward to some exciting trips happening this term and swimming happening for both classes on alternate Fridays this term.

English:

In English, we will continue to practice the Year 4 grammatical terminology and apply this within our writing. At this point of the year, the Year 3 and 4 common exception words have been embedded within our curriculum and the children will now need to continue with revising these in preparation for Year 5. ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ is our new text for this term, which will provide the children with a range of opportunities to develop their writing for different text types including character descriptions and newspaper reports. The pupils will have lots of writing opportunities based on our Power of Reading text, ‘Charlotte’s Web’. We will also continue to support children to develop their reading comprehension skills by completing daily guided comprehensions in class and within homework tasks. 

Handwriting – Pupils will be following the Penpals Handwriting programme and focusing on joining letters in all written work.

Editing and Evaluating work – Pupils will continue to develop their skills to check and edit their work to improve accuracy and spelling after their ‘Big Writes’.

Comprehension- Pupils will be completing multiple comprehension tasks in order to improve their understanding of different text types. The key reading skills are as follows:

• Predicting

• Retrieving

• Summarising

• Inferring using clues

• Making connections to background knowledge.

Maths:

In the Summer Term, we will be beginning with Decimals. Summer Block 1 small steps will include: recognising and writing decimal equivalents of any number of tenths and hundredths, finding the effects of dividing a one and two-digit number by 10 or 100, solving problems involving fractions and decimals to two decimal places. 

Summer Block 2 (Money) small steps will include: estimating, comparing and calculating different measures of money, solving simple measures and money problems.

Summer Block 3 (Time) small steps will include: reading, writing and converting time between analogue and digital 12 and 24-hour clocks, converting time from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.

Summer Block 4 (Properties of Shape) small steps will include: identifying acute and obtuse angles, comparing and classifying geometric shapes, identifying lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes, completing a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry.

Summer Block 5 (Statistics) small steps will include: interpreting and presenting discrete and continuous data, solving comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented on bar charts, pictograms and other graphs.

Summer Block 6 (Position & Direction) small steps will include: reading an axis correctly and positioning co-ordinates on a grid.

History & Geography:

The children will be learning about the First World War. During the topic, we will explore the causes of the war, the nature of the war and how it has affected Europe since. We will also relate the War with that of the experience of the people of Hounslow and spot local landmarks commemorating of involved in the War.

Science:

We will be starting our exciting new topic of ‘Sound’ in Science. The children will identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating. They will recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear and find patterns between the pitch and volume of a sound and the features of the object that produced it. They will be using the results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values, suggest improvements and raise further questions. Finally, they will be using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings. 

Expectations:

We encourage all children to demonstrate a high standard of behaviour at all times in order to create a safe, respectful and happy learning environment. Each class has participated in the process of making a set of ‘Golden Rules.’ The children have agreed to follow the rules as they understand that this will help their learning. Respecting each other and all members of staff is expected and reflects the ethos of our school.

The children are required to listen carefully and to develop their self-control and concentration in class and in the playground. Working together with parents and guardians plays a big part in establishing good relationships and standards of behaviour.

Homework

Subject	Day given	Day due
RE	Friday	Friday
Spellings	Friday	Friday
Handwriting	Friday	Tuesday
Maths (Topic-related questions)	Friday	Tuesday
English (Reading comprehension)	Friday	Tuesday
Reading daily (30 mins minimum) Times tables (x1 –x12) Diary check & signed (Friday)

Pen Licences - If your child is awarded a pen licence, the class teacher will provide your child with a pen and his/her pen licence. Once this pen has run out, it is then the children’s responsibility to then bring in their own blue pen to use.

Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to the term ahead!

The year 4 team

Mrs Sheikh, Mr Marston, Mrs Pinto and Mrs Slobodianyk