Cranborne Primary School
Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome to our Year 4's class page!
Here you will find information about our learning, experiences, class information, homework and any other news
Our Year 4 team
Staff contact details:
4c:
Mrs Christoforou: rchristoforou@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
4H
Mr Hicks: chicks@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
Wow! The summer term! What a journey so far! We hope you all had a fantastic break at home with your families and we can not wait to see you all again!
Key Dates
Monday 15th April - INSET day (no children)
Tuesday 16th April - children return
Monday 6th May - Bank Holiday
Tuesday 4th June - Verulamium Trip
Thursday 13th June - 3D Assembly
Tuesday 18th June - Sports Day
Monday 24th June - INSET day (no children)
Tuesday 25th June - Exhibition Evening 5-7pm
Thursday 11th July - Transition Day
Tuesday 23rd July - Last day of term 1.15pm finish
Music
Developing Pulse & Groove Through Improvisation
How does music improve our world?
Art
We are going to be practising our sketching techniques. Our final piece will be a butterfly.
PE
This half term, our outdoor PE session will be on Monday afternoon. Please ensure your children come to school in their PE kits.
The children will continue to swim every Friday morning. Please ensure your child comes to school 'swim ready', with their swim wear worn underneath their PE kits and their changing bags ready. Thank you.
Useful Websites
Mathletics
Purple Mash
https://www.purplemash.com/cranborneen6 can
Please find your child's log in details in their reading record
| Name | Format | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Files | |||
| EYE Year 4 Writing in more detail.pdf.pdf | |||
| EYE Year 4 Reading WritingEYE Year 4 Reading Writing | EYE Year 4 Reading Writing |
Maths
This half term we will be learning about the following:
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Application and Problem Solving
Time – Read, Write Calculate and Convert Time on Analogue and Digital 12- and 24-Hour Clocks
Statistics – Interpret and Present Continuous and Discrete Data, Solve Problems incorporating Measures
Roman Numerals
Negative Numbers
Geometry – Angles,
Properties of Triangles,
Coordinates and Translations
Position and Direction
Multiplication and Division
Area
Fractions
Each morning, your child will continue to complete their 'Early Morning Work' to consolidate their skills and build mental fluency.
How can I help my child?
Ask your child to explain to you what they have done during the school day. Ask your children to pretend to be the teacher and explain the methods that they have learnt in class. Please look on Purple Mash and Mathletics for tasks that will support your child's learning.
Mental fluency
Helping your child with their mental fluency is the most effective way to improve your children's skills.
Please ensure you are helping your child by asking them questions on the following topics:
- Times tables (up to 12 x 12)
- Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
- Halving numbers - even tricky ones such as 72
- Doubling numbers
- Adding
- Subtracting
- Telling the time
Times tables
Each week, we will be testing children on their table knowledge using Purple Mash. Children will be tested weekly using Ipads. There will be 6 seconds in between each question. Each week we will record a score out of 25.
In June, all children in the UK will be sitting a government timetable test. They will be expected the know all their multiplication facts ( times tables) up to 12 x 12 and recall these at speed. The test will be on the iPads and they will have 5 seconds to answer the questions.
Please continue to support your child by practicing regularly home. Each week we will be revisiting a different multiplication table and every Friday the children will be doing a test based on their tables they have learnt so far.
TIMESTABLES ROCKSTARS: This is a brilliant resource to use to assist children with their times table knowledge.
Every child has their log in details in their reading record.
Science
. This term we will be learning about Electricity. We will be.....
- identifying common appliances
that run on electricity
- constructing a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers
- identifying whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery
- recognising that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or
not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
- recognising some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
Extension
TIMES TABLE PRACTISE SHEETS
| Name | Format | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Files | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 17.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 18.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 19.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 20.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 21.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 22.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 23.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 24.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 25.pdf.pdf | |||
| Ultimate Times Table Daily Practice Booklet 26.pdf.pdf |
GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATION ACTIVITY SHEETS
Working from home
If your child is isolating at home, but well enough to complete work, please see below for their work to complete at home.
We suggest that each day your child should complete the following:
Maths (White Rose), English (Oak academy or Bitesize), Independent reading and a Science task..
Maths
Choose one of the following
Click on the link for lessons
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-1/
Use the BBC link to pick your lesson from the day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfch7yc
You may like to explore these lessons from Oak Academy.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/place-value-00b7
English
Click on the link to a sequence based on the book 'Hansel and Gretel', by Anthony Brown.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/hansel-and-gretel-by-anthony-browne-e2f3
English
This half term we will be studying 'Beowulf' and will be writing a narrative piece .Our grammar focus will be:
- noun phrases
- punctuation
- subordinating conjunctions
- co-ordinating conjunction
- ambitious vocabulary
Throughout Year 4, the children will be working towards achieving their pen licences. We will continuously work on their handwriting ensuring it is joined up and neat.
Each week, we will continue to teach reading comprehension skills through a scheme called 'Cracking Comprehension'.
Oxford owl:
For extra spelling resources and ebooks please follow this link:
Username: cranborne
Password: school 1
Reading
Helping children to develop a love of reading is our passion at Cranborne. In order to develop their fluency and comprehension skills, pupils are expected to read everyday for at least 10 minutes (from a variety of texts) and have their reading record signed. These will be checked regularly.
We will continue to use the Accelerate Reader programme and quizzes in school. Please do speak to your class teacher if you have any questions.
Reminders
Homework
We expect the children to be reading and practising their timetable 5 times per week.
School closure
In the event of school closure, all work will be set via the school webpage.
If your child is required to self isolate, please inform your child's class teacher and we will provide work for them to complete.
Curriculum Overview
See below for an overview of the curriculum subjects we will be teaching this year.