Welcome to Year 4
at St Anne’s Primary School
Hello and Welcome to Year 4!!
Teacher: Miss Dobson
TA: Mrs Humphreys
In Writing….
We will begin by creating a description of a beach. We will use our senses of sight, tough and hearing to create word banks, turning these into simple descriptive sentences. We will then explore noun phrases, expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials to create a detailed description of the sand, water/ waves and the sun.
We will then focus on our Pathways to Write book of Gorilla by Anthony Brown. In this book, a young girl called Hannah, who loves gorillas, receives a toy gorilla for her birthday because her father is always too busy to take her to the zoo. That night, the toy mysteriously comes to life and takes her on a magical adventure, including a visit to the zoo, to the cinema, and to a restaurant.
We will use our skills previously addressed to included inverted commas and direct speech to create our own fantasy narrative.
In maths…
We will begin our Year 4 journey by exploring numbers through puzzles. Working backwards, creating tables, finding the most efficient way to solve a problem and applying our times tables through games, songs and in class competitions.
We will then focus on place value. We will explore the value and worth of each digit in a 4-digit number, embed how many ones are in 1 ten, tens are in 1 hundred and how many hundreds are in 1 thousand. Children will challenge themselves to create the largest possible 4-digit number given certain constraints, round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.
In RE…
In RE we will begin with our topic on ‘Creation and Covenant’ where we will learn about Abram and Sarai, the sacrifices they made and how they became Abraham and Sarah. We will explore how dedicated they are to God and how their responses are sealed by a series of covenants. These covenants begin to restore the relationship with God, which, for Christians, is fulfilled in Jesus.
Other subjects….
Science: Animals including Humans - Focusing on digestion
History: Anglo-Saxons, Picts and Scots
Computing: Word processing and typing
Spanish: Greetings, Numbers 1-20
DT: Fashion design
PE: Keeping possession - Basketball
Our PE day will be a Thursday. Please make sure children have the correct PE kits, sensible shoes and a water bottle - weather dependant, children will be outside.
Times tables…
By the end of Year 4, children are expected to know their times tables up to 12 x 12. To help children learn and embed their times tables, we will be regularly practising their times tables through games, songs, chanting and quick fire questions. Within class, we will be using Percy Parker songs to learn learn our times tables.