Welcome to Year 4!
Welcome to our Year 4's class page!
Here you will find information about our learning, experiences, class information and any other news
Our Year 4 team
Staff contact details:
4H
Mr Hicks: chicks@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
4C
Miss Corradine: acorradine@cranborne.herts.sch.uk
We are looking forward to welcoming you all to the new academic year and are excited to share the fun things we have planned.
Key Dates and Reminders:
Wednesday 3rd September - Inset day - No children please
Thursday 4th September - First day for all children
Friday 26th September - First swimming lesson (this will continue weekly from this date)
Monday 22nd - Friday 31st October - Half term
November - (date to be confirmed) - History off the page Egypt Day
Friday 28th November - Inset day - No children please
Monday 1st September - Occasional day (school closed)
Friday 19th December - Last day of term (School finishes 1:15pm)
Music
Create and notate
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Singing and Traditions
How does music shape our way of life?
How does music connect us with the enviroment?
Design and Technology
During this term, we will be looking at and creating our very own money container.
Art
During this term, we will be modelling and shaping clay, taking inspiration from our history topic of Egypt.
PE
This term, our PE session will be on Tuesday morning. Please ensure your children come to school in their PE kits.
The children will commence swimming on the 26th September. Swimming will continue on Friday mornings up to the 12th December 2025. 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
Purple mash is a great resource with lots of resources to explore.
Times Table Rockstarshttps://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/29172
Please find your child's log in details in their reading records.
Times Table Rockstars is a fun and engaging way for children to practice their times tables.
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| 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:
- Place value - Order and Compare Numbers Beyond 1000, rounding, Estimation and Magnitude
- Mental addition and subtraction
- Formal written addition and subtraction
- Counting in multiples 6, 7, 9, 25, 1000
- Multiplication and division facts
- Factor Pairs, Integer Scaling and Correspondence Problems
- Problem Solving Including Measures to Apply Place Value, Mental Strategies and
Arithmetic Laws - Multiply and Divide a One or Two-digit Number by 10 and 100
- Measure – Conversion of Units
- Measures – Compare, Estimate and Calculate
- Discrete and Continuous Data (Time Graphs), Including Application of Scales and
Division - Perimeter
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
Maths topics this year
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 looking at States of matter. We will be.....
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• recognise everyday substances as mixtures of solids, liquids and/or gases • recognise that air is a material and that it is one of a range of gases which have important uses • recognise that gases flow from place to place • know that gases can be easily compressed • describe the differences between solids and liquids • compare simple solids and liquids (e.g. in terms of ease of squashing or pouring) • compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases • make clear distinctions between the properties of solids, liquids and gases • identify a wide range of contexts in which changes of state take place • describe a few examples where these changes occur • recognise that for a substance to be detected by smell, some of it must be in the gas state • observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) • describe how when ice melts it turns to liquid and how when water freezes it becomes ice • describe how these processes can be reversed • describe how liquids evaporate to form gases and how gases condense to form liquids • sequence the changes that happen in the water cycle • describe the water cycle in terms of these processes • explain the relationship between liquids and solids in terms of melting and freezing • explain the relationship between liquids and gases in terms of evaporation and condensation • identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature • know that temperature can affect the rate of evaporation or condensation • describe the effect of temperature on evaporation • explain how changing conditions affects processes such as evaporation and condensation identify a range of contexts in which changes take place (e.g. evaporation of puddles in the school playground or from clothes on the washing line, condensation in the bathroom) |
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Extension
TIMES TABLE PRACTISE SHEETS
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| 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 wishes to do some work at home, please see below for some work they may wish to complete.
We suggest 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 'The Tin Forest'. We will be doing lots of writing. Our grammar focus will be:
- noun phrases
- punctuation
- subordinating conjunctions
- Coordinating conjunctions
- prepositions
- 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.